Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Marion Parsonnet

1. Gilda (1946)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 35,317

2. Bonanza (1959–1973)

TV-PG | 49 min | Western

The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Stars: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts

Votes: 11,019

3. Cover Girl (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers

Votes: 5,947

4. Maverick (1957–1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Western

Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.

Stars: Jack Kelly, James Garner, Roger Moore, Lane Chandler

Votes: 3,629

5. I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

Directors: William Dieterle, George Cukor | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington

Votes: 2,523

6. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,158

7. Miracles for Sale (1939)

Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Mystery

Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull

Votes: 845

8. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell was often the star, as well as the host.

Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Sande, Denver Pyle, Bill Erwin

Votes: 583

9. Tombstone Territory (1957–1960)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Tough Sheriff Clay Hollister keeps the law in Tombstone, Arizona with the support of his faithful deputies and the editor of the local newspaper.

Stars: Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, Quentin Sondergaard, Bill Catching

Votes: 538

10. Dangerously They Live (1941)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, War

After a traffic accident involving a taxi in New York City, the Jane Doe passenger is brought into the hospital She is physically all right but is suffering from retrograde amnesia from the... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Lee Patrick

Votes: 536

11. These Glamour Girls (1939)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A drunken college boy invites a taxi dancer to spend the weekend at his snobbish school.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson

Votes: 515

12. Live, Love and Learn (1937)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson

Votes: 458

13. Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962)

60 min | Adventure

The adventures of the Tiki III and crew as they sailed from island to island through the South Pacific, carrying cargo and the odd passenger from one drama to another.

Stars: Gardner McKay, James Holden, Lani Kai, Guy Stockwell

Votes: 403

14. The Thirteenth Chair (1937)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama

Inspector Marney of Scotland Yard travels to Calcutta to investigate the murder of Leonard Lee, a generally despised man in these parts. John Wales, who considered Lee his best friend, is a... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elissa Landi

Votes: 329

15. Washington Melodrama (1941)

Passed | 80 min | Drama

A newsman links his fiancee's millionaire father to a chorus girl's murder.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor, Dan Dailey

Votes: 326

16. Gallant Sons (1940)

Approved | 76 min | Mystery

Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds, Gail Patrick

Votes: 300

17. Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, John Beal, Janet Beecher

Votes: 299

18. Love Is a Headache (1938)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 269

19. Dangerous Partners (1945)

Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

After surviving a plane crash, a couple tries to find out why one of the passengers was carrying four wills for a million dollars, with each one naming him as the beneficiary.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter

Votes: 267

20. Between Two Women (1937)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A young surgeon loves a married nurse, then meets and falls for an heiress with appendicitis.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn

Votes: 249

21. The Golden Fleecing (1940)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

After unwittingly selling a life insurance policy to a gangster who receives death threats, a naïve insurance salesman must keep him alive to avoid paying-up the benefits.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Grey

Votes: 242

22. Blonde Inspiration (1941)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: John Shelton, Virginia Grey, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 230

23. Northwest Passage (1958–1959)

25 min | Adventure

Major Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced ... See full summary »

Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Philip Tonge

Votes: 121

24. Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode: Vengeance (1961)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Hoss accidentally kills Willie the town drunk. His remorse may not be enough to stop Willie's hate-filled brother who only wants revenge even though the townspeople know it wasn't Hoss' fault.

Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Votes: 120

25. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime.

Stars: John Bromfield, James Griffith, Robert Brubaker, Buck Young

Votes: 108

26. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Easy Mark (1959)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

Bart, escaping his last poker game due to sore losers, runs into an heir to a railroad in the middle of the desert who just has two concerns: getting to a meeting by Friday and cross pollinating a delicate and rare cactus.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Jack Kelly, Edgar Buchanan, Nita Talbot, Pippa Scott

Votes: 83

27. Uncle Vanya (1957)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »

Directors: John Goetz, Franchot Tone | Stars: Franchot Tone, Clarence Derwent, Dolores Dorn, Shirley Gale

Votes: 69

28. Man Without a Gun (1957–1959)

30 min | Western

The adventures of Adam MacLean, publisher and chief reporter for the "Yellowstone Sentinel" of Yellowstone, Wyoming in the late 19th century.

Stars: Rex Reason, Mort Mills, Harry Harvey, Forrest Taylor

Votes: 41

29. The Doctor (1952–1953)

30 min | Drama

Warner Anderson seldom acted in any of the episodes of this medical anthology, which were mostly concerned with emotional problems; he always presented the stories and provided commentary after their presentation.

Stars: Warner Anderson, Anne Jackson, Edward Binns, Wesley Addy

Votes: 37

30. Tombstone Territory (1957–1960)
Episode: Code for Killers (1960)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Fragment of the Epitaph's are found at the scene of a robbery and on the body of a known killer. Hollister and Claibourne discover a strange code in the help wanted ads. With a planned typographic "error," they smoke out a robbery gang.

Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, Kent Taylor, Chuck Hayward

Votes: 37

31. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: Living Is a Lonesome Thing (1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

A wealthy rancher is trying to monopolize the cattle drives leaving Texas. Small ranchers are trying to put their own drive together. The wealthy rancher hires a man's wayward son to sabotage the effort.

Director: John English | Stars: Michael Rennie, Michael Landon, Walter Sande, Dennis Patrick

Votes: 30

32. Run for the Hills (1953)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy

Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) moves to a cave with his wife (Barbara Payton) and family.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton, John Harmon, Mauritz Hugo

Votes: 27

33. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: A Tale of Two Christmases (1952)

30 min | Drama

The life of a dysfunctional family between Christmas 1951 and Christmas 1952 is told.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Richard McMurray, Janie Alexander, Margaret Hayes, Harry Bannister

Votes: 19

34. Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962)
Episode: Isle of Eden (1960)

49 min | Adventure

On board schooner Tiki, Captain Troy (Gardner McKay) hears a radio message from Lianne (Yvonne de Carlo), a young woman held prisoner on Eden Island by a megalomaniac dictator called Zagreb... See full synopsis »

Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Gardner McKay, Yvonne De Carlo, Hugo Haas, Henry Slate

Votes: 12

35. Steve Randall (1952–1953)

30 min | Drama

Steve Randall, a private detective, is a disbarred lawyer who turned to detective work in the hope that he can become a lawyer again. He investigates murder and blackmail crimes and, in the last episode, is again admitted to the bar.

Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Olive Deering, Neil Fitzgerald, Fred Irving Lewis

Votes: 11

36. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: The Guest (1952)

Drama

A man fleeing a robbery tries to convince a grieving mother that he was the friend of the woman's son who lost his life in Korea.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Beulah Bondi, Charles Bronson, James Brown, Joan Camden

Votes: 10

37. Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962)
Episode: The Death-Divers (1960)

60 min | Adventure

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Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Gardner McKay, Gena Rowlands, Chana Eden, Henry Slate

38. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Jules (1953)

Drama

An old man searches pawnshops for the proper suit for his burial.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Warner Anderson, Tom Ahearne, Eli Mintz, Terese Quadri

39. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: No Story Assignment (1952)

Drama

When a woman sues a newspaper for libel, a reporter is assigned to investigate her.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Wesley Addy, Joan Alexander, Joan Lorring

40. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Take the Odds (1953)

Drama

The son of a washed-up professional boxer tries shield his father from the neighborhood kids ridicule.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Charles Bronson, Ann Summers

41. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: The Dog Tag (1953)

Drama

A German war widow tracks down the American soldier that killed her husband during combat.

Stars: Warner Anderson, Edward Binns, Robert Gallagher, Peg Hillias

42. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: The White Medallion (1952)

Drama

A young man's love almost drives him to crime.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Ludwig Donath, Maudie Prickett

43. Man Without a Gun (1957–1959)
Episode: The Quiet Strangers (1958)

30 min | Western

The widow of a powerful rancher carries on his fight to delay statehood for the Dakota Territory by plotting the assassination of a U.S. Senator who could help those in favor achieve their goal.

Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Rex Reason, Mort Mills, Tom Greenway, Jacqueline deWit

44. Northwest Passage (1958–1959)
Episode: Trial by Fire (1959)

30 min | Adventure

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Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, X Brands, Don Burnett

45. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
Episode: Seventh Stranger (1958)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Marshal Morgan and his men try to protect an escapee from behind the Iron Curtain from communist assassins sent to murder him.

Stars: John Bromfield, Douglas Fowley, Stacy Keach Sr., Dick Kallman

46. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Those Who Wait (1952)

Drama

Four men are trapped in a coal mine disaster resulting in the death of one of the miners. Their wives wait to learn which of their husbands survived the cave-in.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Mary Anderson, Bernadene Hayes

47. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: No Gods to Serve (1952)

Drama

A chaplain struggles with his faith while trapped behind enemy lines with three soldiers.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Dabbs Greer, Robert North, Robert Osterloh, Harlan Warde

48. Steve Randall (1952–1953)
Episode: The Trial (1952)

25 min | Drama

The District Attorney offers to return Steve's license to practice law if he can convince a woman to testify against her crooked boyfriend.

Directors: M. Milton Schwarz, Frederick Stephani | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Olive Deering, Neil Fitzgerald, Steve Gethers

49. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: The Inquisitors (1952)

Drama

Vesley is a mid-level functionary in the Czech Communist Party. He is under intense pressure from his superior to fill his quota of men for the labor camps. His wife and doctor want him to resign. His assistant, however, has a 3rd option.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Whit Bissell, Anne Burr, Ferdi B. Hoffman, Reinhold Schünzel

50. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: The Runaways (1953)

Drama

A new tenant concerns a mailman and his wife.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Warner Anderson, Dorothy Malone, Lee Marvin