Aileen Pringle Movies

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

College co-eds struggle with the moral, societal and human aspects of romance.

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she...

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.

Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American...

King Philip of Spain is jealous of his more popular brother, Don John, and sends him into battle against the Moors, hoping he will not return. Don...

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are...

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival...

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily,...

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Zara is a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes—and proceeds to...

Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...