The Church Mouse (MOD)

The Church Mouse (MOD)Wish fulfillment meets wit in a sassy, sophisticated 1934 comedy that told a girl how to succeed in business in an era when success meant marrying the boss, not nabbing the corner office. Blonde charmer Laura La Plante (in one of her last films in a career that included her reign as one of the silent screen's leading stars) goes dowdy in the title role, playing meek Betty Miller, who's much better at dictation than flirtation. In fact, she's just what

As the very existence of the United States and the Free World is threatened by Germany and Japan

He's cool under fire and convinced he's flying on his own skill and courage

Gloria Henry (Alice Mitchell on TV 's Dennis the Menace) and former child star Scotty Beckett

Dick Powell sets the ebullient tone

Will Theodore transfer her allegiance from Karl Marx to the Brooklyn Dodgers

Ricardo Montalban ("TV 's "Fantasy Island

fact-based drama of a small-town murderer and the alienated kids who protect him

from the Water Torture Cell to other signature feats

because Rafaella has fallen in love with her handsome American hero

the secret lover (Janis Paige)

and the local townspeople decide she must be killed

Hop in for a zippy ride from the director of Private Benjamin and the writer of 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers