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It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 25min. // A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Directed by: René Clair

Writing Credits: Lord Dunsany (play), Hugh Wedlock Jr. (story), Howard Snyder (novel), Dudley Nichols (adaptation), René Clair (adaptation)

Starring: Dick Powell (as Capt. Scott), Linda Darnell (as Catherine Wyatt) and Jack Oakie (as Van Leyden)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Sound, Recording. Jack Whitney.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Robert Stolz.

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You’re In The Navy Now (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 33min. // When a new commander is assigned to a submarine chaser with an experimental engine, he finds the entire crew has as little experience as he does.

Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Writing Credits: John W. Hazard (magazine article), Richard Murphy (screenplay)

Starring: Gary Cooper (as Lt. John W. Harkness), Jane Greer (as Ellie C. Harkness) and Millard Mitchell (as George Larrabee)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Comedy. Richard Murphy.

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A Ticket To Tomahawk (1950)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:15:42 +0000

1h. 30min. // In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies, but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

Directed by: Richard Sale

Writing Credits: Mary Loos (screenplay), Richard Sale (screenplay)

Starring: Dan Dailey (as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces), Anne Baxter (as Kit Dodge Jr.), Rory Calhoun (as Dakota), Walter Brennan (as Terence Sweeny) and Marilyn Monroe (as performer: “Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are” – uncredited)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1951. Best Written American Western. Mary Loos and Richard Sale.

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Royal Wedding (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:27 +0000

1h. 42min. // Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dancers whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding. They both fall in love on their journey towards Europe. Will romance break up their act and dreams of stardom.

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Writing Credits: Alan Jay Lerner (story and screenplay)

Starring: Fred Astaire (as Tom Bowen), Jane Powell (as Ellen Bowen) and Peter Lawford (as Lord John Brindale)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1952. Best Music, Original Song. Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) for the song “Too Late Now”.

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Much Too Shy (1942)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:15:02 +0000

1h. 25min. // An artistic village handyman gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local ladies are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

Directed by: Marcel Varnel

Writing Credits: Ronald Frankau (story), Walter Greenwood (screenplay)

Starring: George Formby (as George Andy), Kathleen Harrison (as Amelia Peabody) and Hilda Bayley (as Lady Driscoll)

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Awards:

WON. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Low-Budget. Samuel Fuller.

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The Affairs Of Susan (1945)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:01 +0000

1h. 45min. // Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancee summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual. Which one is the real Susan?

Directed by: William A. Seiter

Writing Credits: Thomas Monroe (screenplay), László Görög (screenplay)

Starring: Joan Fontaine (as Susan Darell), George Brent (as Roger Berton) and Dennis O’Keefe (as Bill Anthony)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1946. Best Writing, Original Story. Thomas Monroe and László Görög.

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That Wonderful Urge (1948)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:14:39 +0000

1h. 22min. // When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she’s met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they’re married.

Directed by: Robert B. Sinclair

Writing Credits: Jay Dratler (screenplay)

Starring: Tyrone Power (as Thomas Jefferson Tyler), Gene Tierney (as Sara Farley) and Reginald Gardiner (as Count André de Guyon).

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Bambi Awards 1951. Best Actor – International. Tyrone Power.

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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [Silent Movie]

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:14:38 +0000

1h. 10min. // The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father’s crew.

Directed by: Charles Reisner

Writing Credits: Carl Harbaugh (story)

Starring: Buster Keaton (as William Canfield Jr.), Tom McGuire (as J.J. King) and Ernest Torrence (as William ‘Steamboat Bill’ Canfield).

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Awards:

WON. National Film Preservation Board, USA 2016. National Film Preservation Board.

NOMINATED. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2013. Best DVD/Blu-Ray Collection.

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Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:14:20 +0000

1h 22min. // In this sequel of Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Directed by: Vicente Minnelli

Writing Credits: Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frances Goodrich (screenplay)

Starring: Spencer Tracy (as Stanley Banks), Joan Bennett (as Ellie Banks) and Elizabeth Taylor (as Kay Dunstan)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1951. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Vicente Minnelli.

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1952. Best Written American Comedy. Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

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The Front Page (1931)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:48:55 +0000

1h 41min. // Inside the smoky press room of a Chicago criminal court, a pack of hard-bitten newspaper men waits like vultures for the next big story. At the center of the chaos is star reporter Hildy Johnson, who has one foot out the door: he’s engaged, bags are packed, and a respectable life away from the racket of the newsroom is calling. His editor, the wily and manipulative Walter Burns, has other plans. With a condemned man’s execution looming at dawn, Walter is determined to keep his best reporter on the story—and on the payroll—no matter what it takes.

As politicians scheme to turn the hanging into a campaign stunt and reformers clamor for justice, the supposedly open-and-shut case takes a wild turn when the condemned man escapes. In a flurry of overlapping dialogue and rapid-fire wisecracks, Hildy finds himself hiding a fugitive, dodging the police, and juggling his fiancée’s mounting exasperation. The press room becomes a battlefield of typewriters, telephones, and egos as everyone scrambles to control the narrative.

The more outrageous the situation becomes, the more Hildy is drawn back into the intoxicating chaos of the news game. Torn between domestic bliss and the thrill of the scoop, he’s forced to confront what he really wants: a quiet life, or the relentless, exhilarating pressure of chasing headlines. The result is a blisteringly fast, darkly funny portrait of tabloid-era journalism, where truth is negotiable, ethics are flexible, and nothing stands in the way of a front-page story.

For classic film fans, it’s a pre-Code whirlwind of cynicism and charm, packed with overlapping dialogue, razor-sharp insults, and a newsroom full of character actors turning every scene into a verbal brawl. Beneath the laughs, it offers a surprisingly biting look at politics, the death penalty, and the uneasy marriage between the press and power.

Directed by: Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt

Writing Credits: Charles Lederer

Starring: Clark Gable, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Frank McHugh, Lewis Milestone, Matt Moore

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. Category. The Front Page.
NOMINATED. Academy Awards (4th). Best Picture; Best Director (Lewis Milestone); Best Actor (Adolphe Menjou).