In this 1941 film version of Lillian Hellman s 1939 play, Bette Davis takes over the role of a conniving turn-of-the-century Southern aristocrat Regina Hubbard Giddens for Broadway's Tallulah Bankhead. Regina's equally abhorrent brothers (Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid) want 75,000 dollars from her to help them build a cotton mill. Unable to do this without long-estranged husband, Horace (Herbert Marshall), she attempts to make peace with him. Failing to do so pushes her to arrange a wealthy marriage between her daughter, Alexandra (Teresa Wright), and her slimy nephew Leo (Dan Duryea). Leo is coerced by his father (Reid) to steal bonds from the family business, after Horace refuses to give Regina the money. Regina wants a share of the new mill and uses this information as a means of blackmailing her brothers for it. Horace declares that he lent Leo the bonds as a loan, in retaliation, thereby cutting Regina out of the deal. Horace dies from a heart attack when Regina refuses to give him his medication,

The "Countess" (Miriam Hopkins) and the "Baron" (Herbert Marshall) discover each other's games over dinner in Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, 1932.

Director Ernst Lubitsch's fascinating opening sequence from the 1932 romantic comedy Trouble in Paradise, features Herbert Marshall as the thief Gaston Monescu, posing as a Baron.

Madame Colet (Kay Francis) receives a radical (Leonid Kinskey) and the thief Montescu (Herbert Marshall) after advertising for a lost handbag, which Montescu stole, in Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, 1932.

Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the property to the screen as Foreign Correspondent. What emerged was approximately 2 parts Sheehan and 8 parts director Alfred Hitchcock--and what's wrong with that? Joel McCrea stars as an American journalist sent by his newspaper to cover the volatile war scene in Europe in the years 1938 to 1940. He has barely arrived in Holland before he witnesses the assassination of Dutch diplomat Albert Basserman: at least, that's what he thinks he sees. McCrea makes the acquaintance of peace-activist Herbert Marshall, his like-minded daughter Laraine Day, and cheeky British secret agent George Sanders. A wild chase through the streets of Amsterdam, with McCrea dodging bullets, leads to the classic alternating windmills scene, which tips Our Hero to the existence of a formidable subversive organization. McCrea returns to England, where he nearly falls vic

William Wyler's dark and poisonous melodrama, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, features Bette Davis in one of her nastiest roles. The story begins in the shimmering moonlight on a tropical Malayan rubber plantation. Shots ring out and a wounded man, Geoffrey Hammond (David Newell) staggers from a bungalow as Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) coldly follows him, pumping the remaining bullets into his body. She later tells her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) that she shot Geoffrey, a mutual friend, because he was drunk and tried to take advantage of her. Robert, who owns the plantation, believes her story and hires high-powered lawyer Howard Joyce (James Stephenson) to defend her. But then a letter surfaces in which it is revealed that Leslie had invited Geoffrey to the plantation on the night of his murder. When Howard confronts her with the letter, Leslie admits writing it and implies that she and Geoffrey were lovers. Howard, nevertheless, agrees to continue defending her; he explains to Leslie, I won't