Best Romance Movies of 1942

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II.

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper, Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassie, while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.