The film features B-movie actresses boarding a TWA airlines flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona and Boulder City, Nevada. The women don new outfits for every activity when staying at a dude ranch and exploring Native American ruins while a narrator comments on their style. The film presents a detailed description of back-to-school fashion, primarily for female teenagers and college students. It highlights various clothing items and accessories, emphasizing the excitement of new wardrobes for the autumn season. The narrator talks about specific brands and types of clothing, such as women's blouses, Derby sportswear skirts, and Jane Irwell sweaters, and describes how these items are essential for school and extracurricular activities. The film also touches on the importance of accessories like gloves and coats, and the versatility of mixing and matching different pieces to create stylish outfits for various occasions.
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Popular movie trailers from 1940
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1940:
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
