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Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
Character: Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
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Radio Parade (1933)
Character: N/A
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
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Just Smith (1933)
Character: Lord Redwood
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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The Perfect Lady (1931)
Character: Lord Tony Carderay
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Flat No. 9 (1932)
Character: Peter Merridew
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
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A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)
Character: Hugh Rigby
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
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My Old China (1931)
Character: N/A
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Bull Rushes (1931)
Character: N/A
'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Alice in Wonderland (1955)
Character: White Knight
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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No Time at All (1958)
Character: Felix Allardyce
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
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Everybody Sing (1938)
Character: Jerrold Hope
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
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Halls of Montezuma (1951)
Character: Sgt. Randolph Johnson
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
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Back Street (1961)
Character: Dalian
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
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A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Character: Roger Pillby
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Character: John Pierce
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.
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Immortal Sergeant (1943)
Character: Tom Benedict
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
Character: Capt. Grover A. Walsh
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Character: Beverly Carlton
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Character: Simmons
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Character: Dancer at Ball (uncredited)
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
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That Wonderful Urge (1948)
Character: Count André de Guyon
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
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The Night of Nights (1939)
Character: J. Neville Prime
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Do You Love Me (1946)
Character: Herbert Benham
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
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The Great Dictator (1940)
Character: Commander Schultz
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Character: Painter
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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Cluny Brown (1946)
Character: Hilary Ames
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Character: Lentulus
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
Character: Harold Hermann
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Character: Reggie McHugh
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Character: Composer / Archie Dexter
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
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Black Widow (1954)
Character: Brian Mullen
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Claudia (1943)
Character: Jerry Seymour
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Assistant Hotel Manager
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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The Girl Downstairs (1938)
Character: Willie
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
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Born to Dance (1936)
Character: Policeman
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
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Sundown (1941)
Character: Lieutenant Roddy Turner
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Character: Tony, Duke of Breck
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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Dulcy (1940)
Character: Schuyler Van Dyke
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
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Sweethearts (1938)
Character: Norman Trumpett
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
Character: Anatole Piermont Rogers
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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Molly and Me (1945)
Character: Harry Phillips / Peabody, the Butler
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
Character: Charles, Duke of Trippenham
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
Character: Lt. Comm. Talbott
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
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That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Character: Alberto
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...
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Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Wabash Avenue (1950)
Character: English Eddie
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947)
Character: Will Hough
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Character: John Sloan
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
Character: Comte d'Artois
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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A Damsel in Distress (1937)
Character: Keggs
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Elopement (1951)
Character: Roger Evans
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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The Birds and the Bees (1956)
Character: Gerald
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
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The Story of Mankind (1957)
Character: William Shakespeare
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Character: Scrounger Harris (bush pilot)
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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One More Tomorrow (1946)
Character: James 'Jim' Aloysius Fisk
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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The Flying Deuces (1939)
Character: Francois
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
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