Joan Leslie Movies

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout...

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're...

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies....

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a...

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

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with...

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...