The best Frances Rafferty’s movies

Frances Rafferty

Frances Rafferty

16/06/1922- 18/04/2004
Today we present the best Frances Rafferty’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Frances Rafferty’s movies.
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Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Girl getting off bus
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1944
  • Character: Orchid Tan - Lao Ta's Wife
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. And heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Seven Sweethearts

Seven Sweethearts
6.5/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1942
  • Character: George Van Maaster
Little Deft Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.

Mrs. Parkington

Mrs. Parkington
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/10/1944
  • Character: Jane Stilham
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After
5.8/10
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/10/1945
  • Character: Claire Warren
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Fingers at the Window

Fingers at the Window
6.3/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 22/04/1942
  • Character: Clinic Switchboard Operator
Chicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been six murders and six people have been caught, but they are lunatics. Only one person has lived to tell about it, Edwina, who is as dumb as a brick. If it were not for Oliver, she would be number seven. When there is a second attempt on Edwina, Oliver figures that the crimes are not random and that someone is hypnotizing these people to do his bidding, but the police and Edwina are skeptical.

The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story
5.8/10
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

Lost Honeymoon

Lost Honeymoon
5.5/10
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars
6.8/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Showgirl
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy
6.8/10
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs. Hadley
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Sally
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.

Money Madness

Money Madness
5.9/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 15/04/1948
  • Character: Julie Saunders
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.

Curley

Curley
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/08/1947
  • Character: Mildred Johnson
The students of Lakeview Elementary devise ways to torment their new teacher. Comedy.

Swing Shift Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1943
  • Character: Worker (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

Young Ideas

Young Ideas
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/08/1943
  • Character: Co-ed
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

The Hidden Eye

The Hidden Eye
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 31/08/1945
  • Character: Jean Hampton
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.

Lady at Midnight

Lady at Midnight
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 15/08/1948
  • Character: Ellen McPhail Wiggins
A couple's (Richard Denning, Frances Rafferty) adopted daughter (Lora Lee Michel) has an inheritance someone else wants.

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