Homecoming 1948 Stars: Clark Gable Anne Baxter, Lana Turner :movieguy:

Indiscreet 1958 Gary Grant

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him...even though he's already married.

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Double......1944 Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

About Mrs. Leslie (1954) Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan

About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a flashback.

Born on the wrong side of the tracks, Vivien (Booth) escapes her surroundings by becoming a cabaret singer. She meets and falls in love with handsome, secretive George Leslie (Robert Ryan), then becomes his mistress, assuming his last name in the interests of propriety.

Upon Leslie's death, Vivien discovers that her lover was actually a fabulously wealthy industrialist.

Another classic with Shirley Booth is Come Back Little Sheba also starring Burt Lancaster.

From IMDB: An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

If Winter Comes........
 

Stars Walter Pigeon and Angelia Lansbury )1939)

In the small English town of Penny Green events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries some one else.

Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with husband Tony. Mable is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging.

Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.

Flamingo Road.........(1949)Joan Crawford

A small town corrupt sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with an out-of-town carnival dancer.
This synopsis doesn't do justice to the movie nor sound that good, but I really enjoyed it :movieguy:

A Life at Stake (1955) Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion and the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.

My Reputation.........1946 Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent,


A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.

Written on the Wind...............1956

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.

Thelma Jordon (1950) Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly


Assistant district attorney falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.

When Ladies Meet (1933) stars: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy



Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

All the Thin Man movies.

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Dear Heart stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury


Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanizing salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When their paths cross she wonders if this is finally the man for her.

All This And Heaven Too stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn


When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband.

All The King's Men.....(1949) stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland


The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.


Sidebar: There is also a remake of this with Sean Penn.

Anything with Greer Garson, including:

Mrs. Miniver
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Random Harvest

OMG - we share a first name!