Ann Shoemaker Movies

A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.

Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.