 A Damsel in Distress (1937) - Fred Astaire teams with Joan Fontaine instead of Ginger Rogers, while Gracie Allen and George Burns lend a helping hand, in this underrated musical that offers some memorable Gershwin songs, including "A Foggy Day," "Things Are Looking Up," and "Nice Work if You Can get It."
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 Dancing Co-Ed (1939) - Lana Turner was only 18 when she had one of her best roles as a young dancer caught up in a fake talent contest held over 60 years before the first American Idol! This light and breezy entertainment also features Richard Carlson as her love interest, Monty Wooley as a pompous college professor (what else?), Roscoe Karns as her scheming agent, Ann Rutherford as her agent's secretary, and Leon Errol as Turner's vaudevillian father. A big bonus is the music of Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, who pump out some great swing.
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 Dangerous Moonlight (1941) - The Warsaw Concerto is one of the stars of this wartime drama also entitled Suicide Squadron. Anton Walbrook stars as a Polish composer tricked by his friends into fleeing his homeland to avoid imprisonment by the Nazis, who joins a Polish air squadron headquartered in England. Sally Gray is his love interest, an American newswoman.
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 The Dark Angel (1935) - Fredrich March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star in a tearjerker about love and tragic misunderstanding during the years of World War I. Won an Oscar for Best Art Direction. Oberon was nominated for best actress, despite her hairstyle.
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 The Dark Mirror (1946) - Great special effects help Olivia de Havilland play twins, one "good," one "bad." Lew Ayres is a psychologist and Thomas Mitchell a detective who try to prove the bad twin committed a murder which the good twin confesses to. The original story was nominated for an Oscar, and de Havilland is in top form.
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 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) - Aldo Ray and Peter O'Toole are the opponents in this low budget but enjoyable tale of an unlikely IRA plot to rob the Bank of England in the early 20th Century. Probably overshadowed at the time of its release by bigger heist films, especially Oceans Eleven.
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 Desperate (1947) - Early, low-budget noir directed by Anthony Mann stars Raymond Burr as a relentless crime boss and Steve Brodie as a trucker who tries to thwart his hijacking plans and ends up on the run with his wife (Audrey Long) and baby daughter. Jason Robards Sr. plays a cop who also hounds the hero.
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 The Devil's Disciple (1959) - Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star in a more upbeat version of George Bernard Shaw's play about mistaken identity, set during the American Revolution. The third pairing of Lancaster and Douglas is one of their best.
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 The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) - A classic 40s comedy about a tycoon, played by Charles Coburn (Supporting Actor Oscar nomination), who decides to go undercover at a department store to root out disloyal employees. Jean Arthur is at her adorable best, and Robert Cummings turns in a strong leading performance, as well.
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 Devil's Doorway (1950) - This somewhat underrated Anthony Mann western (his first) stars blue-eyed Robert Taylor as a Shoshone Civil War veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor winner who returns home to face injustice and discrimination. Louis Calhern is great as the villain. Overshadowed by Broken Arrow, released the same year and starring Jimmy Stewart and Jeff Chandler, it has its flaws but makes up for it with its sincerity.
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 The Doughgirls (1944) - Rapid-fire gags and a wonderful cast make this one lots of fun to watch. Featuring Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Ann Sheridan, Eve Arden (with a goofy Russian accent), Jack Carson, Charley Ruggles and Alan Mowbray, among others.
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 Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) - Three great performances from three generations of actors make this fairly long film a joy to watch. Lionel Barrymore is a grumpy old sea captain who brings his grandson, played by a young Dean Stockwell, with him on a sea voyage. Richard Widmark, in one of his strongest performances, is the first mate who takes the child under his wing. The good supporting cast includes Gene Lockhart, Cecil Kelloway, Harry Morgan, Harry Davenport, and Jay C. Flippen. The whaling scenes may disturb some.
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 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) - Edward G. Robinson, who should have received an Oscar nomination for this role (he never received one during his career), is outstanding in this biography of Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, a cure for syphilis. Excellent supporting cast, directed by William Dieterle, who was nominated for a directing Oscar two years earlier for The Life of Emile Zola.
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 Dreamboat (1952) - Clifton Webb plays a college professor and single father (Anne Francis is his daughter) who used to be a popular silent screen star. Ginger Rogers is his former costar making a comeback and jeopardizing his cherished anonymity.
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 Easy Living (1949) - Victor Mature stars as a professional football player with a golddigging wife played by Lizabeth Scott. He's at the top of his game, until it all starts to go wrong. (Not to be confused with the Jean Arthur film of the same name.)
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 The Enchanted Cottage (1945) - Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young portray an unattractive woman and a scarred soldier, both lonely, who meet at a cottage and begin a relationship based on mutual need rather than love. They are soon transformed by the cottage's spirit of romance and end up looking beautiful to one another, though nobody else sees them the same way. A fairy tale or an allegory about marriage? Either way, it's a romantic treat.
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 Eskimo (1933) - A melodrama with a documentary feel to it (none of the extras are professional actors), about an Eskimo whose life is destroyed by a white trader who rapes his wife and ultimately causes her death. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Oscar winner for film editing.
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 Evergreen (1934) - Based on a Rodgers and Hart stage musical that was never produced in the U.S., and starring the talented Jessie Matthews, who also originated the stage role, this was one of the best British musicals of the 1930s. The bizarre plot involves a woman impersonating her own late mother, becoming a star, and being blackmailed by her father, while her boyfriend has to pretend to be her son!
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