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The Stooge (1952)
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge – Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill’s jokes. But Ted begins to steal the show. Bill’s girlfriend and his pals tell him to make Ted an equal partner. Complications occur, while Bill sings and Ted gets the laughs.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd’s treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate’s island.
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The Member of the Wedding (1952)
Carson McCullers stage hit brought to the screen by Fred Zinnemann starring Ethel Waters and Julie Harris. Tomboy Julie Harris dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancee away from the Deep South.
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My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton star in this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel. In a reversal of Jane Eyre, it is the hero who arrives at the home of a mysterious woman. Rachel (de Havilland) is the widow of a Cornish man of property (John Sutton), who died in suspicious circumstances. Philip Ashley Burton is the dead man’s cousin, who in probing his relative’s demise immediately suspects Rachel — and goes on suspecting her even after he falls in love with her.
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Ruby Gentry (1952)
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn’t love, but carries a torch for another man.
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No Time for Flowers (1952)
A young girl’s loyalty to the Communist Party is tested in Prague when she falls in love with an attache who has just arrived from the United States.
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger. Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster) and wife Lola (Shirley Booth) had an indiscreet affair, she became pregnant and, compelled to marry her, he gave up his medical studies, forfeited his future and settled down to a life of quiet desperation with the simple, frumpy Lola, who lost the child but has remained Doc’s steadfast if slatternly wife. Now a chiropractor, recovering alcoholic, and active member of his town’s AA chapter, Doc’s sobriety is severely tested when Marie (Terry Moore), a young college student becomes their boarder, bringing new life and long-dormant hostilities to the surface of Doc and Lola’s troubled marriage.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship’s surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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April in Paris (1952)
In search of an emissary to represent the American theater at an arts expo in Paris, a State Department bureaucrat (Ray Bolger) invites Ethel Barrymore to appear — too bad her invitation is sent to chorus girl Ethel “Dynamite” Jackson (Doris Day) instead! Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Miss Jackson hightails it to Paris — with the bureaucrat in pursuit. A plethora of song-and-dance numbers ensues in this Sammy Cahn-scored musical.
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