Movies: Joan Valerie

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. ...

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the...

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on....

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady....

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity....

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit....

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge....

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel....

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!...

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence....

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort....

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success....

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man....

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II....

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of...

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew....

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival....

Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date....

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's fa...