Movies: May McAvoy

  • 1959
    Ben-Hur

    Ben-Hur (1959)

    Ben-Hur

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    In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as...

    Ben-Hur
  • 1952
    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    7.31952HD

    Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, ...

    The Bad and the Beautiful
  • 1925
    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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    Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as...

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  • 1927
    The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer (1927)

    The Jazz Singer

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    A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical....

    The Jazz Singer
  • 1950
    Mystery Street

    Mystery Street (1950)

    Mystery Street

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    When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed he...

    Mystery Street
  • 1944
    Two Girls and a Sailor

    Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

    Two Girls and a Sailor

    5.71944HD

    A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him....

    Two Girls and a Sailor
  • 1941
    Love Crazy

    Love Crazy (1941)

    Love Crazy

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    Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity....

    Love Crazy
  • 1940
    Third Finger, Left Hand

    Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

    Third Finger, Left Hand

    6.81940HD

    Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family hom...

    Third Finger, Left Hand
  • 1921
    A Private Scandal

    A Private Scandal (1921)

    A Private Scandal

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    A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time entangled in the deteriorating marriage of the American couple who rescued her....

    A Private Scandal
  • 1925
    Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    6.81925HD

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved....

    Lady Windermere's Fan
  • 1940
    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    5.51940HD

    This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joa...

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World
  • 1927
    If I Were Single

    If I Were Single (1927)

    If I Were Single

    01927HD

    Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude....

    If I Were Single
  • 1940
    Phantom Raiders

    Phantom Raiders (1940)

    Phantom Raiders

    6.11940HD

    In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner A...

    Phantom Raiders
  • 1923
    Only 38

    Only 38 (1923)

    Only 38

    01923HD

    The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her style of life....

    Only 38
  • 1940
    Dulcy

    Dulcy (1940)

    Dulcy

    5.81940HD

    A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens....

    Dulcy
  • 1942
    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita (1942)

    Rio Rita

    5.81942HD

    Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel....

    Rio Rita
  • 1944
    Movie Pests

    Movie Pests (1944)

    Movie Pests

    5.61944HD

    This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible....

    Movie Pests
  • 1940
    Two Girls on Broadway

    Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

    Two Girls on Broadway

    6.81940HD

    Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the sho...

    Two Girls on Broadway
  • 1921
    Morals

    Morals (1921)

    Morals

    01921HD

    Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is killed, she is left destitute and attaches herself to Sir Marcus Ordeyne and begs his protection. He ...

    Morals
  • 1921
    Sentimental Tommy

    Sentimental Tommy (1921)

    Sentimental Tommy

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    Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. Tommy and his sister come to the town. Tommy is friendly, but Elspeth keeps her distance. When the Pa...

    Sentimental Tommy