Ann SothernFilmography

A Letter to Three Wives

Synopsis: Made for television, A Letter to Three Wives is a modernized version of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name. While on a charity picnic, the wives of three well-to-do men each receive a letter from a fourth woman, a flashy divorcée named Addie (who is never seen). With calculated Read More

The Little Dragons

Actors: Charles Lane, Ann Sothern, Chris Petersen, Pat Petersen, Sally Boyden

Synopsis: Preteen kung-fu masters are on the case when a young girl is kidnapped by hillbillies in this adventure for kids. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Manitou

Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar

Synopsis: Low-budget horror director William Girdler's last film stars Susan Strasberg as Karen Tandy, a San Francisco woman who develops a strange growth on her neck. After an operation fails because the doctor is forced to cut his own hand, Karen seeks out an Indian shaman (Michael Ansara), who tells her Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Crazy Mama

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

Golden Needles

Actors: Alice Fong, Edgar Justice

Synopsis: This martial arts film has an interesting twist. The conflict is over a mythical 30-inch-tall statue with very special properties. Protruding from the sculpture are seven golden needles. If the needles are inserted into a man's body in the precisely right positions, he will become a sexual Read More

The Killing Kind

Actors: John Savage, Ann Sothern, Cindy Williams, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: This genuinely perverse horror film stars John Savage as a young man forced to participate in the beachfront gang rape of Sue Bernard by his nasty friends. After two years in jail, he returns to the boardinghouse run by his mother (Ann Sothern), who does things like kissing him on the mouth and Read More

The Weekend Nun

Synopsis: Weekend Nun was an unsold TV pilot film based on the life and career of Louisiana nun Sister Fabian (real name: Joyce Duco). Joanna Pettet stars as Sister Mary Damien (aka: Marjorie Walker), who on weekdays holds down a job as a probation officer (she even packs a gun). The schism between the Read More

A Death of Innocence

Actors: John Randolph, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Shelly Winters and John Randolph star in Death of Innocence as distraught small-town parents who learn that their estranged daughter is on trial for murder. They journey to New York City and attend the girl's trial, where the mother learns several details of her daughter's recent life that she'd Read More

The Great Man's Whiskers

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, President Lincoln temporarily abandons his inaugural tour to visit a little girl who wrote him a letter asking him to grow a beard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

Synopsis: We know that Bill Bixby plays a swinging bachelor because he wears bell-bottoms. Opening the door of his bachelor pad one evening, Bixby is surprised to meet a personable young man claiming to be his son. He is further surprised that the young man is fully grown, the result of an indiscretion some Read More

Family Affair: A Man's Place

Synopsis: Ann Sothern guests as Florence Cahill, a former flame of Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot). Now widowed, Florence dreams of opening a gourmet restaurant--and she persuades French that being a restauranteur is something that he has always wanted as well. The question: Will French opt to leave the Read More

Chubasco

Actors: Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Chubasco (Christopher Jones) is a wayward youth who is given a choice by the presiding judge. His choices are go to jail or take an honest job on a fishing boat. He chooses to set sail, leaving behind his girl Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and her father Sebastian (Richard Egan), who obviously has it Read More

The Outsider

Synopsis: The Outsider is a refreshingly cynical TV detective drama, starring master cynic Darren McGavin. McGavin plays David Ross, a John MacDonaldesque private eye who virtually lives in his beat-up car and who spends most of his time eluding creditors. An ex-convict, Ross is prohibited from carrying a Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight

Actors: Ann Sothern, Norman Leavitt

Synopsis: Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) fears for his future when an investment in a health farm turns sour. To help Mooney recoup his investment, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and the Countess (Ann Sothern) offer to publicize the farm. Unfortunately, this requires the ladies to undergo a grueling weight-loss regimen--and Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Old Mansion

Actors: Ann Sothern, Lester Matthews, Maida Severn

Synopsis: Returning to town after a four-week (and four-episode) absence, Viv (Vivian Vance) is introduced to Lucy's old school chum Rosie Hannigan (Ann Sothern), now known as the Countess Framboise. No sooner has this happened than Viv is embroiled in a plan concocted by Lucy (Lucille Ball) to help the Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Countess

Actors: Ann Sothern, Carole Cook, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Ann Sothern makes the first of several Lucy Show appearances as the Countess Framboise. Although Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) is enchanted by the notion of royalty in humble Danfield, Lucy (Lucille Ball) easily recognizes the widowed countess as her old school pal Rosie Hannigan. Their friendship Read More

The Lucy Show: My Fair Lucy

Actors: Ann Sothern, Reta Shaw, Byron Foulger, Bob Jellison

Synopsis: Lucy's old school pal Rosie Hannigan (Ann Sothern), now known as the Countess Framboise, would like to open a charm school in Danfield. Unfortunately, despite her lofty title, the Countess is flat broke, thus she conspires with Lucy (Lucille Ball) to entice a pair of wealthy patrons, Mr. and Mr. Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Undercover Agent

Actors: Ann Sothern, Jack Cassidy, Jack Dodson, Parley Baer, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Still under the spell of the James Bond movie they've just seen, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and the countess (Ann Sothern) spot a pair of sinister-looking men at a restaurant. Jumping to the conclusion that the two men are enemy spies, the ladies trail them to a deserted warehouse, with a reluctant Read More

Sylvia

Actors: Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Joanne Dru, Peter Lawford, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: Carroll Baker, the Sharon Stone of the sixties, plays another classy-looking blonde with a sordid background in Sylvia. Millionaire Peter Lawford is about to marry the glamorous but secretive Sylvia (Baker). Before taking the plunge, he hires private eye George Maharis to do a background check on Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest

Actors: Ann Sothern, William Frawley

Synopsis: This episode is not only a reworking of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour featuring Betty Grable and Harry James, but it also represents the first season-four appearance of Ann Sothern as the Countess Framboise, otherwise known as Lucy's old school pal Rosie Hannigan. Showing up at Lucy's doorstep with Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Helps the Countess

Actors: Ann Sothern, Karen Norris

Synopsis: The Countess Framboise (Ann Sothern), aka Lucy's old school chum Rosie Hannigan, is now selling real estate. Lucy (Lucille Ball) tries to help her friend land a big commission by inveigling Mooney (Gale Gordon) into renting an "ultra-modern" apartment. Unfortunately, the apartment's door locks Read More

Lady in a Cage

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sothern, Jeff Corey, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley

Synopsis: Olivia de Havilland stars in this sensationalistic shocker as Mrs. Halyard, a wealthy widow recuperating from a broken hip. Inside her mansion, she becomes trapped between floors in her elevator. She activates an emergency alarm but succeeds only in attracting the attention of the wino (Jeff Read More

The Best Man

Actors: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy

Synopsis: Gore Vidal adapted his biting and bitter political satire from his hit Broadway play. Franklin J. Schaffner directed and Haskell Wexler provided the sharp-edged cinematography. The story concerns the political back-biting and smear politics involved in a presidential election year scramble by Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Water's Edge

Actors: Ann Sothern, John Cassavetes, Rayford Barnes, J.B. Brown, David Fresco

Synopsis: The moment he is sprung from prison, smooth-talking Rusty Connors (John Cassavetes) pays a visit to Helen Krause (Ann Sothern), the dowdy widow of Rusty's late cellmate Miles Krause. It seems that Krause had hidden a huge amount of money before he was arrested, and Rusty hopes to persuade Helen to Read More

Star Gazing

Synopsis: This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from 1931. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Gardenia

Actors: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on Read More

Private Secretary: Season 01

Actors: Ann Sothern, Don Porter

Nancy Goes to Rio

Actors: Jane Powell, Ann Sothern, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed second to Jane Powell, who plays Nancy Barklay. A popular Broadway star, Frances heads to Rio for R&R before starting her next production. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Frances Read More

Shadow on the Wall

Actors: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Nancy Davis, Kristine Miller

Synopsis: A murder is witnessed by the victim's little daughter (Gigi Perreau), who immediately goes into a state of shock. All the girl has seen is the shadow of her mother's killer, but the audience knows that the murderer is Ann Sothern. At first Sothern is secure that the girl will never be able to Read More

A Letter to Three Wives

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis: Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a letter, written by a mutual friend named Addie, informing her that Addie is about to run off with one of their husbands. In flashback, each wife wonders if it is her marriage Read More

The Judge Steps Out

Actors: Alexander Knox, Ann Sothern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett, Florence Bates

Synopsis: The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who also co-scripted the film with director Boris Ingster) plays Bailey, a highly respected Boston magistrate who is fed up to the gills with his workload and his troublesome Read More

Words and Music

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Perry Como, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: The life stories of Broadway tunesmiths Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are prettified for the screen in MGM's Words and Music. Billed fourth, the colorless Tom Drake plays Rodgers, but never mind that: the film belongs to Mickey Rooney, as the dynamic, self-destructive Lorenz Hart. Read More

April Showers

Actors: Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: April Showers stars Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a pair of small-time vaudevillians whose act gets nowhere until their young son (Robert Ellis) joins them. The threesome form a knockabout acrobatic turn which propels them into the big time. Jealous of his son's success, Carson takes to the Read More

Undercover Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Mark Daniels, Leon Ames, Clinton Sundberg

Synopsis: MGM's "Maisie" series came to an end with this undistinguished entry. Eschewing show business for the time being, perennially stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) decides to join the Los Angeles police force. This she does primarily to be near her latest beau, Lt. Paul Scott (Barry Read More

Up Goes Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke, Horace McNally, Ray Collins

Synopsis: MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere. Our heroine manages to secure a job as secretary to inventor Joseph Morton (George Murphy), who has developed a revolutionary new helicopter. A rival aircraft Read More

Maisie Goes to Reno

Actors: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden, Paul Cavanagh, Ava Gardner

Synopsis: In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story opens, Maisie has a steady non-showbiz job as a defense plant riveter (it's wartime, of course); still, she utilizes a two-week vacation to take a singing job in a Reno night Read More

Three Hearts for Julia

Actors: Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, Lee Bowman, Richard Ainley, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas), feeling as though he's holding her back. But Jeff is still in love with Julia, and he's willing to move Heaven and Earth to get her back. Meanwhile, David Torrance (Lee Read More

Swing Shift Maisie

Actors: Jim Davis, Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen

Synopsis: In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the swing shift in an airplane factory. Taking in a seemingly suicidal co-worker, Iris (Jean Rogers), Maisie can only watch as the girl steals her beau, handsome pilot James Read More

Cry Havoc

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt

Synopsis: Allen R. Kerward's flagwaving stage play Proof thro' the Night was vastly improved in its screen adaptation, which was retitled Cry Havoc. Margaret Sullavan (making her first screen appearance in two years), Joan Blondell and Ann Southern are among the appropriately deglamorized actresses playing Read More

Thousands Cheer

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Mary Astor, John Boles, Eleanor Powell, José Iturbi, Ann Sothern

Synopsis: Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his fellow serviceman. Along the way, Eddy falls in love with Kathryn Jones (Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of Colonel William Jones (John Boles). End of story. The principal Read More

You, John Jones

Actors: James Cagney, Ann Sothern, Margaret O'Brien

Maisie Gets Her Man

Actors: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek

Synopsis: The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and stranded once more, showgirl Maisie Revere briefly works as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act, then dedicates herself to helping would-be comedian Hap Hixby (Skelton) Read More

Panama Hattie

Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland, Ben Blue, Marsha Hunt

Synopsis: Cole Porter's musical hit Panama Hattie originally starred Ethel Merman on Broadway. But Merman was not a proven movie commodity, thus it was Ann Sothern who appeared in the film version as Hattie, brassy but golden-hearted proprietress of a Canal Zone hotel. Accustomed to dealing with such Read More

Lady Be Good

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll

Synopsis: The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score) to the original play is purely accidental. The MGM scriveners came up with a new story concerning married songwriters Ann Sothern and Robert Young, who can't live with each Read More

Maisie Was a Lady

Actors: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Joan Perry

Synopsis: Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the young man of the household (Lew Ayres), but the rest of the family is too wrapped up in its own problems to benefit from Maisie's good-natured personality. The daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan Read More

Ringside Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling, Virginia O'Brien, Natalie Thompson

Synopsis: Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in general proximity with a prizefighting camp. She meets and ultimately falls in love with up-and-coming boxer Terry Dolan (played by Ann Sothern's future husband Robert Sterling). Read More

Dulcy

Actors: Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner, Billie Burke

Synopsis: The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P. Adams: Archetypal "dumb wife" Dulcinea, who continually spouted cliches like "There's never a policeman around when you need one" and "Don't take any wooden nickels." Lynn Read More

Congo Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson, Shepperd Strudwick, J.M. Kerrigan

Synopsis: This is the second episode in the Maisie series, which focused upon the exploits of a feisty, clever, smooth-talking showgirl. The story begins when Maisie has hidden herself aboard a West African steamer after she discovers that she cannot pay her hotel tab. She winds up in a hospital upon Read More

Gold Rush Maisie

Actors: Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, George "Slim" Summerville, Virginia Weidler, Mary Nash

Synopsis: This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a deserted mining camp. Here she links up with Davises, an impoverished migrant family which hopes to strike gold somewhere in the neighboring hills. Their efforts are resisted by Read More

Brother Orchid

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with usurping mobster Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart), Sarto is taken for a one-way ride, but he escapes his would-be assassins and hides out in a monastery overseen by Brother Read More

Maisie

Actors: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Ian Hunter, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Maisie stars Ann Sothern as a worldly showgirl stranded in Wyoming when her show fails. She accepts a job at a carnival shooting gallery, where she meets the handsome foreman (Robert Young) of a lavish ranch -- and is promptly accused of picking the man's pocket. Despite this rocky beginning Read More

Hotel for Women

Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Actors: Ann Sothern, Walter Brennan, William Gargan, Marsha Hunt

Synopsis: This Damon Runyon yarn features William Gargan and Ann Sothern as Brooklynites Joe and Ethel Turp. The Turps are up in arms when their faithful old mailman (Walter Brennan) is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President Read More

Fast and Furious

Actors: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with different stars in the leads. Fast and Furious, the last of the mini-series, featured Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern as the Sloanes. The couple attends a seaside beauty Read More

She's Got Everything

Actors: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Parkyakarkus [Harry Einstein]

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a wealthy fellow. Soon the two fall in love and begin planning their wedding, much to the delight of the woman's creditors. When her fiancé learns that she is deeply in debt, he Read More

Trade Winds

Actors: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Joan Bennett plays a young woman who believes she's killed bigtime crook Sidney Blackmer. She changes her hair color from blonde to brunette and escapes from San Francisco to parts unknown. Police detective Fredric March is hired to track down Bennett, which he does in the company of two Read More

There Goes the Groom

Actors: Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Mary Boland, Onslow Stevens, William Brisbane

Synopsis: In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone for a long time. He returns to marry his girl friend and is dismayed to discover that she is no longer interested him. When her mother learns that the fellow has struck it Read More

Fifty Roads to Town

Actors: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, George "Slim" Summerville, Jane Darwell, John Qualen

Synopsis: Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides out at a country inn. A young girl (Ann Sothern) stumbles into Ameche's rural hideaway; she thinks he's an escaped gangster, while he thinks she's a process server. The local Read More

There Goes My Girl

Actors: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Gordon Jones, Richard Lane, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a rival paper. In spite of the editor, the wedding day finally comes. The happy couple is at the alter when suddenly the woman gets news of a big scoop. Without a backward Read More

Danger: Love at Work

Actors: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland, John Carradine

Synopsis: An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the daughter, the only remotely "normal" member of the clan. Poor Jack Haley enters the scene as a feckless attorney who tries to get the family to finalize an important land deal. Read More

Super Sleuth

Actors: Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Bruce, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle remonstrations of his girl friend (Ann Sothern), Oakie fancies himself a genuine master sleuth, and in this capacity offers his services to the law in helping to solve a recent series Read More

Dangerous Number

Actors: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout Manhattan for her zany antics, Elinor is also quite a handful for her conservative husband Hank (Robert Young). In addition, Hank must contend with the heroine's flamboyant ex-burlesque queen mother Read More

You May Be Next

Actors: Ann Sothern, Lloyd Nolan, Douglas Dumbrille, John Arledge, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Gangster boss Beau Gardner (Douglass Dumbrille) isn't happy about the things being said about him on the radio station owned by J. J. Held (Berton Churchill). Using his influence, Gardner is able to shut down Held's operation, but he can't wipe out an entire radio network. Thus, he uses hot-shot Read More

My American Wife

Actors: Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred Stone, Billie Burke, Ernest Cossart

Synopsis: Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Read More

Don't Gamble with Love

Actors: Ann Sothern, Bruce Cabot, Irving Pichel, Ian Keith, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that all house games be on the up-and-up. Trouble ensues when his wife demands he shut down the house to protect the good name of their newborn baby. He gives in and sells the Read More

Hell-Ship Morgan

Actors: George Bancroft, Ann Sothern, Victor Jory, George Regas, Howard Hickman

Synopsis: Hell-Ship Morgan (George Bancroft) is the brawny skipper of a small fishing schooner. Supplying fish for a San Francisco cannery, Morgan works hard and relaxes even harder, boasting not one but several girls in every port. Our hero's roving days come to an end when he marries Mary (Ann Sothern) Read More

Smartest Girl in Town

Actors: Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes

Synopsis: Ann Sothern is a magazine model looking for a rich husband. Wealthy Gene Raymond attends a photo shoot; Sothern mistakes him for a male model and resists his advances. Eventually she falls for Raymond and decides to cease her search for quick wealth. The story resolves itself in a fast-moving Read More

Walking on Air

Actors: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Jessie Ralph, Henry Stephenson, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents. She wants him to be as appalling as possible so they will hate him and allow her to date the man she really loves who has recently been divorced. Read More

Folies Bergère

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Sothern, Merle Oberon, Eric Blore, Ferdinand Munier

Synopsis: This French-language version of the 1935 Hollywood musical Folies Bergere retains the original star (Maurice Chevalier) and director (Roy Del Ruth) and Busby Berkeley's big-scale production numbers. It also follows substantially the same plot: A nightclub entertainer (Chevalier), is hired to pose Read More

Eight Bells

Actors: Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, John Buckler, Catherine Doucet, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: Steamship captain Steve Andrews (Ralph Bellamy) is demoted to second officer when Marge Walker (Ann Sothern), daughter of Steve's boss, insists that her boyfriend Roy Dale (John Buckler) be put in charge of the ship. Dale's first assignment is to deliver a valuable cargo to Shanghai within a Read More

Hooray for Love

Actors: Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Thurston Hall, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: Obviously filmed on a tight budget, RKO Radio's Hooray for Love nevertheless has as much sheer entertainment value as any high-priced Busby Berkeley spectacular. Gene Raymond plays Doug, a college boy who aspires to become a Broadway producer. With reluctant songstress Pat (Ann Sothern) as his Read More

Grand Exit

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Onslow Stevens, Robert Middlemass, Wryley Birch

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped along by his dedicated assistant John Grayson (Onslow Stevens), and to a lesser extent by Fire Chief Mulligan (Robert Middlemass). Because Fletcher always demands a huge fee Read More

The Girl Friend

Actors: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian

Synopsis: Ann Sothern and Jack Haley star in this inconsequential little musical. Haley is a struggling playwright of minimal talent, whose latest play is miraculously selected for a Broadway berth by producer Roger Pryor. The problem: Pryor isn't a producer at all, but an out-of-work actor anxious to get Read More

Melody in Spring

Actors: Lanny Ross, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern, George Meeker

Synopsis: Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast as one John Craddock, is given top billing, the picture belongs to the delightful screen team of Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland as Warren and Mary Blodgett, sponsors of a Read More

Kid Millions

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Stanley Fields, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, Doris Davenport, George Murphy, Otto Hoffman, Paul Harvey, Eve Sully

Synopsis: Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother), inherits $77 million from his uncle, an Egyptologist. Con artist Dot (Ethel Merman) wants to get her lunchhooks on the money, and to this end offers Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Charters

Synopsis: The all-purpose title Blind Date was trotted out in 1934 for this romantic trifle. Poor Kitty Taylor (Ann Sothern) just can't choose between wealthy Bob Hartwell (Neil Hamilton) and unwealthy mechanic Bill (Paul Kelly). When Kitty gets a modelling job thanks to Bob, she feels beholden to him, even Read More

Let's Fall in Love

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan, Gregory Ratoff, Tala Birell

Synopsis: A genial lampoon of the Greta Garbo craze, Let's Fall in Love stars Ann Sothern as Jean, a Brooklyn-born aspiring actress. It so happens that Ken (Edmund Lowe), an ambitious movie director, is searching for a Swedish actress to replace his temperamental star Forsell (Tala Birrell). In desperation Read More

The Hell Cat

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Ann Sothern, Ben Baker, Minna Gombell, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: Scrappy society belle Geraldine (Ann Sothern) is The Hell Cat in this peppy Columbia potboiler. Fed up with the intrusions of brash newspaper reporter Dan Collins (Robert Armstrong), Geraldine punches him in the nose -- whereupon he promptly punches her back. Feeling humiliated, Geraldine plots a Read More

The Party's Over

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Ann Sothern, Arline Judge, Chick Chandler, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: The party's barely begun for mild-mannered CPA Bruce (Stuart Erwin); browbeaten by his lazy family and his domineering boss, our hero despairs of ever having a good time. Even Bruce's budding romance with Ruth (Ann Sothern) is threatened by his sponging relatives, who demand that he pump extra Read More

Broadway Through a Keyhole

Actors: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a singer. So smitten is he by the chorus girl's charms that he buys her a nightclub. Unfortunately for him, the club's male crooner/bandleader also loves the girl. Realizing that Read More

Doughboys

Actors: Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards, Edward S. Brophy, Victor Potel

Synopsis: Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment office to hire a new chauffeur. Elmer isn't aware that the office has been converted into a World War I recruiting center, and before he knows it, he's in an ill-fitting Read More

Whoopee!

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Eleanor Hunt, Paul Gregory, John Rutherford, Ethel Shutta

Synopsis: Adapted from Owen Davis's stage comedy The Nervous Wreck (itself filmed in 1927), Flo Ziegfeld's musical spectacular Whoopee! was one of the solid hits of the 1928-29 Broadway season, thanks largely to the irrepressible Eddie Cantor. The property was transferred to film virtually intact in 1930 Read More

Song of the West

Actors: John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Marie Wells, Joe E. Brown, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: Based upon an ambitious but unsuccessful stage operetta by Oscar Hammerstein and Vincent Youmans, Song of the West is set in the middle 1800s during the great western Gold Rush. At a fort in Kansas, Lt. Singleton is in love with Virginia, daughter of the fort's Colonel. Singleton encounters Capt. Read More

Hold Everything

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Winnie Lightner, Sally O'Neil, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: The opening attraction at New York's Hollywood Theatre, Hold Everything was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr. For the film, both Lahr and most of the score were jettisoned, replaced by Joe E. Brown and songs by Al Dubin Read More

Hearts in Exile

Actors: Dolores Costello, Grant Withers, James Kirkwood, George Fawcett, David Torrence

Synopsis: In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

Broadway Nights

Actors: Lois Wilson, Sam Hardy, Louis John Bartels, Philip Strange, Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to get married, if only to save on expenses. Things don't go well on "the road" for Fannie and Johnny, and before long Johnny is spending more time shooting craps than Read More

Collecting America: Folk Art and the Shelburne Museum

Synopsis: This artistic tour takes you through The Shelburne Museum that is filled with Electra Havemeyer Webb's collection of American folk art. See the many pieces of art made by just everyday folk. ~ All Movie Guide Read More