Esther Williams

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active...

Documentary about Hollywood.

A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he's...

Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.

Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for...

The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe,...

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the...

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once...

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her...

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head...

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage...

Island girl Mimi plans to leave Tahiti, but maybe she'll have a reason to stay when Mr. Endicott arrives.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to...

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée,...

Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff...

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small...

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star...

A financier decides to take a vacation somewhere where nothing can disturb him. He travels to the south of Spain, to a small village where he lives a...

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

The story of Esther Williams is that of an improbable encounter. That of the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s with a swimming champion. A meeting...

American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and...

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris...

Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the animated cat-and-mouse team, Tom & Jerry, including clips from their animated shorts!

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

Story of Annette Kellerman, the international swimming vaudeville and silent screen star whose life story inspired the MGM classic Million Dollar...

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included....

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the morale of the soldiers in World War II. Hosted...

Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A...