Primrose Path

Primrose Path1940 marked a high point in Ginger Rogers' career: it was the year of Kitty Foyle, which would earn her a Best Actress Academy Award. Rogers made another exceptional drama that year: this overlooked gem that pushed boundaries with its (for the time) frank view of prostitution. Rogers plays dreamer Ellie May Adams, whose mother supports her squalid family by selling herself. Ellie May marries an upstanding man (Joel McCrea) without revealing her

the malady ridden bride who feels herself wilting under the overprotective care of her doting husband

and Laury may be more than she appears

Karl Lang (Eddy) and Maria Lanyi (Stevens) are married to the stage as well as to each other

seven children care for her and one another in a gloomy Victorian house

Applauded by The New York Times' Mordaunt Hall for its "earnest attention to the atmospheric detail

Will Nancy ever get to the altar

Richard Carlson stars in this thrill-fest as a man haunted by a nagging conscience and a dead lover

Their cargo: unstable rocket fuel that may be a single jolt away from fiery catastrophe

taken and shaken with a twist

wolf as Chinook (and Rod) battles a murderous white wolf that bears an uncanny resemblance to Chinook himself

lightweight contender Jimmy Kane (Cangey) falls for Peggy Harmon (Nixon)

"Why do you carry a gun