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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Michael Gordon | Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey | Romance | |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI | Gordon Douglas | Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart | Film Noir | |
| I'll See You in My Dreams | Michael Curtiz | Doris Day | Biographical | Based on life of Gus Kahn |
| Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison | Crane Wilbur | Steve Cochran, David Brian | Drama | Inspired Johnny Cash song |
| Jerry and Jumbo | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animation | |
| Jerry and the Goldfish | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animation | |
| Jim Thorpe -- All-American | Michael Curtiz | Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford | Biographical | star of 1912 Olympic Games |
| Just Ducky | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animation | |
| Kind Lady | John Sturges | Ethel Barrymore, Angela Lansbury | Comedy | |
| The Lady from Boston | Bernard Vorhaus | Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon | Comedy | Co-production with France |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Edwin H. Knopf | Greer Garson, Michael Wilding | Comedy | aka The Law and the Lady |
| The Lemon Drop Kid | Sidney Lanfield | Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley | Comedy | Remake of 1934 film; Introduced the song Silver Bells |
| Let's Make It Legal | Richard Sale | Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey | Comedy | |
| Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler | Science Fiction | |
| Love Nest | Joseph Newman | June Haver, William Lundigan, Marilyn Monroe | Drama | |
| Lullaby of Broadway | David Butler | Doris Day | Musical | |
| M | Joseph Losey | David Wayne, Howard Da Silva | Drama | Remake of 1931 film |
| The Magnificent Yankee | John Sturges | Louis Calhern, Ann Harding | Biographical | Based on life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field | Sci-fi | |
| The Man with My Face | Edward Montagne | Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews | Film Noir | Jack Warden film debut |
| The Man with a Cloak | Fletcher Markle | Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck | Drama | Based on the short story The Gentleman from Paris |
| The Mating Season | Mitchell Leisen | Gene Tierney, John Lund | Comedy | |
| Merry Mavericks | Edward Bernds | Three Stooges | Comedy | |
| The Mob | Robert Parrish | Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler | Film Noir | |
| The Model and the Marriage Broker | George Cukor | Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, Thelma Ritter | Romantic comedy | |
| Mr. Imperium | Don Hartman | Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main | Romance | |
| Mysterious Island | Spencer Gordon Bennett | Richard Crane, Marshall Reed | Serial | Based on the Jules Verne novel |
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