Andrea Leeds – MRQE

Mélodie de la jeunesse

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a New York City street urchin who harbors a love for classical music, finds tickets to a concert by the great violinist Jascha Heifetz. Feeling inspired by the performance, he enrolls at a nearby music academy. The schoolmaster, professor Lawson (Walter Brennan), allows the talented Frankie to sleep in the basement of the troubled school, which is facing bankruptcy. Along with Lawson’s daughter Ann (Andrea Leeds), Frankie organizes a benefit concert to save the school.

Earthbound

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

Swanee River

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

The Real Glory

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.

They Shall Have Music

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.

Youth Takes a Fling

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

The Goldwyn Follies

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be “Miss Humanity” and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Stage Door

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

Come and Get It

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter.