11. Holiday Inn
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel, Louise Beavers
Plot: At a country estate that is open to guests only on the holidays a crooner and a dancer vie for the affections of a new performer.
12. Mrs. Miniver
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Greer Garson, Teresa Wright, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Ney, Dame May Whitty, Henry Wilcoxon
Plot: A middle class family experiences the beginning of World War II as they are invaded by the enemy.
13. The Talk of the Town
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle
14. The Major and the Minor
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn, Edward Fielding
Plot: Susan (Ginger Rogers) saved enough money for the train trip home, only fares have increased. She pretends to be a minor so she can get half-fare, but little does she know how much trouble this will cause.
15. Cat People
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Plot: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
16. Pittsburgh
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Craven, Louise Allbritton, Shemp Howard
Plot: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham burns every bridge on his way to becoming one of the biggest magnates in the steel industry. Unsurprisingly, he finds being at the top is nothing when there is no one around him. A sudden crash gives him a second chance at life.
17. You Were Never Lovelier
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Seiter
Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara
Plot: The rich, Argentine Acunas live by a traditional rule - the daughters must get married in order from oldest to youngest. The oldest follows, but sister #2, Maria, has not found love - even though sisters #3 and 4 have already found their respective future husbands. The patriarch of the family, feeling the modern man isn't romantic enough, creates a "mystery man" to entice his daughter. But when an American dancer enters the picture - it shakes everything up.
18. This Gun for Hire
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Tuttle
Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence
Plot: A hitman with his own code kills a blackmailer for William Gates - who turns traitor by paying him off with marked bills. Seeking revenge, he happens to meet Ellen Graham - girlfriend of a police lieutenant who is on his case and who happens to be investigating Gates for the Senate. The two form an uneasy alliance to take down a common enemy.
19. Tales of Manhattan
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Julien Duvivier
Actors: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson
Plot: A formal coat, "tails" are followed in this film from one owner to next, we see how this item of clothing impacts each person's life.
20. Keeper of the Flame
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven
