69 years ago:
The Miami Story (US)
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
1954-05-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72823
#TheMiamiStory #FredFSears #BarrySullivan #LutherAdler #AdeleJergens #ViolaLawrence #WomenInFilm #Film

67 years ago:
The Eddy Duchin Story (US)
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
1956-05-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43199
#TheEddyDuchinStory #TyronePower #KimNovak #JamesWhitmore #ViolaLawrence #WomenInFilm #Columbia #Movies

94 years ago:
Bulldog Drummond (US)
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really...
1929-05-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/81829
#BulldogDrummond #FRichardJones #RonaldColman #JoanBennett #ViolaLawrence #WomenInFilm #PreCode

83 years ago:
The Doctor Takes a Wife (US)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
1940-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/108200
#TheDoctorTakesaWife #LorettaYoung #RayMilland #EdmundGwenn #ViolaLawrence #WomenInFilm #Columbia #Film

103 years ago:
The Virgin of Stamboul (US)
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
1920-03-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/508313
#TheVirginofStamboul #TodBrowning #WallaceBeery #ViolaLawrence #PreCode #ClassicMovies

70 years ago:
Salome (US)
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for...
1953-03-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/40165
#Salome #RitaHayworth #CharlesLaughton #StewartGranger #ViolaLawrence #Columbia #Movies

79 years ago:
Cover Girl (US)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
1944-03-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21622
#CoverGirl #RitaHayworth #GeneKelly #LeeBowman #ViolaLawrence #Columbia #Film

68 years ago:
Tight Spot (US)
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.
1955-03-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76121
#TightSpot #GingerRogers #EdwardGRobinson #BrianKeith #ViolaLawrence #Columbia #Movies