Thelma Ritter

In Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece, Jimmy Stewart plays a photographer confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg. Bored and stuck in his apartment, he takes to spying on his neighbours. When one goes missing, he thinks murder is afoot....

Burt Lancaster delivers an award-winning performance as a man convicted of murder whose road to redemption starts with him resuscitating a sparrow.

Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, an ageing Broadway star with a penchant for Martinis and bon mots. Starlet Anne Baxter is Eve Harrington, a wide-eyed ingénue who insinuates herself into Margo's life and social circle, with an eye to taking her throne. From writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve scooped the major awards at the 1951 Oscars and BAFTAs. 

Rock Hudson and Doris Day are an accidental match made in heaven in this romantic comedy of misunderstanding and double entendres, which took Best Original Screenplay at the 1960 Academy Awards.

John Huston's (The Maltese Falcon) western romance starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, with a script by legend Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)...