Movies: Ruth Gordon

An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried....

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army....

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved....

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis....

The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom....

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, ...

A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest....

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The...

A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem....

A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond....

One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings....

A lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there after fleeing from a foster home. A young Brooke Shields made her TV acting debut in a small role....

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town....

Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for....

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States....

In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Str...

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane....

Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe....

This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star of the then-current Broadway play, "Life With Father", as a visiting guest expert. Questions involv...

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period...