Mae West Movies

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Richard Carlson

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raquel Welch

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cary Grant

Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Raft

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mickey Rooney

When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is sought to intervene in a political dispute between nations,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Borden

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mae West

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cary Grant

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Oliver Hardy

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laura San Giacomo

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Spencer

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diane Lane

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carl King

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paula Wagner

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mae West

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mae West

A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shirley Jones