Joan Leslie Movies

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies....

A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War.

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of Sergeant York.

In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father...

In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.

A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.

A Fort Lauderdale, Florida Police Captain (Robert Conrad) accidentally kills a youth when he is pursuing some cop killers. The investigation into the...

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

Documentary about American gangster movies.

A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.