Dennis Morgan Filmography

Rogue's Gallery

Synopsis: Roger Smith plays private eye Richard Rogue in this cinematic revival of the old radio series. Rogue gallantly tries to help would-be suicide Greta Baldwyn. This selfless act enmeshes him in a murder scheme, with himself as the fall guy. The film's chief value is its veteran supporting cast Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bye, Bye, Doctor

Synopsis: This is the first episode in which June Lockhart is affored star billing in the opening credits in the role of Dr. Janet Craig--and accordingly, the lyrics of the Petticoat Junction theme song have been rewritten to accommodate the "Lady M.D., as pretty as can be." At long last, the menfolk of Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bull in a China Shop

Synopsis: Four little old ladies become fascinated by Mr. O'Finn (Dennis Morgan), the homicide detective who is investigating a murder in a nearby apartment. Intently peering through a telescope to observe his every move, the ladies try to figure out a way to attract O'Finn's attention. Ultimately, they Read More

Uranium Boom

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Talman, Tina Carver, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: In this drama, two prospectors search the Colorado Territory for precious radioactive metal. They find large deposits and become rich men. Unfortunately, their friendship almost disintegrates after they fall in love with the same sexy woman. She pits them against each other. Fortunately, their Read More

Pearl of the South Pacific

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lance Fuller

Synopsis: Refreshingly, the tropical melodrama Pearl of the South Pacific never takes itself too seriously. Virginia Mayo heads the cast as a phony missionary, in cahoots with crooks Dennis Morgan and David Farrar. The trio intend to make off with a fortune in black pearls, which rests in an underwater Read More

The Gun That Won the West

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Paula Raymond, Richard Denning, Chris O'Brien, Robert Bice

Synopsis: The Gun That Won the West was, of course, the Springfield Rifle, the "central character" in this inexpensive Columbia western. The plot concerns the efforts of the War Department to build up a chain of defense posts to protect railroad workers from Indian attacks. Dennis Morgan stars as real-life Read More

This Woman Is Dangerous

Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon

Synopsis: Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth Austin, the lady friend of dangerous gangster Matt Jackson (David Brian). After being caught in the crossfire of a robbery engineered by Jackson, Beth recuperates in a Read More

Cattle Town

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake, Rita Moreno, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: Cattle Town is a rare low-budget western from the Warner Bros. mills. Dennis Morgan plays Mike McGann, a troubleshooter sent out by the governor of Texas to keep a group of dispossessed ranchers from causing trouble. Disgusted by the activities of land baron Judd Hastings (Ray Teal), who has the Read More

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Lucille Norman, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for comparison (though its first remake, Gold Diggers of 1933, has been safely preserved). Carol (Virginia Mayo), Abby (Lucille Norman) and June (Virginia Gibson) arrive in Las Vegas Read More

Raton Pass

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran, Scott Forbes, Dorothy Hart

Synopsis: Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she Read More

Perfect Strangers

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur Broadway comedy Ladies and Gentlemen formed the basis of the Warner Bros. laughspinner Perfect Strangers. The title characters are Terry Scott and David Campbell, played by Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. She's a divorcee, he's a husband and father. Terry and David Read More

Pretty Baby

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Frawley

Synopsis: Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar era. In Pretty Baby, Drake plays Patsy Douglas, an enterprising young lady who always assures herself a seat on the subway by carrying a doll wrapped in baby bunting. Through a Read More

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Actors: Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan, Eve Arden, Robert Douglas, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing in frivolities like The Lady Takes a Sailor. It all begins when Jennifer (Wyman), the head of an oceanographic research institute, claims to have made a fascinating Read More

It's a Great Feeling

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for their next picture, the boys find themselves Read More

Two Guys from Texas

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a Texas dude ranch. Comic mayhem ensues as they cope with time in jail, a rodeo, and eventually love. They also help save the ranch from two greedy thugs trying to force the Read More

To the Victor

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Victor Francen, Bruce Bennett, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or gas ovens here; the people on trial are French citizens, accused of collaboration. This being a Warner Bros. production, the cast includes such authentic Frenchpersons as Dennis Morgan Read More

One Sunday Afternoon

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Dorothy Malone, Ben Blue

Synopsis: This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941's Strawberry Blonde). This time around, songs have been added to accommodate the talents of Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige. Morgan stars as Read More

My Wild Irish Rose

Actors: Sara Allgood, Ben Blue, George Cleveland, Arlene Dahl, Ruby Dandridge, Andrea King, Dennis Morgan

Synopsis: The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey Olcott-or at least, the version set down by Olcott's daughter Rita. Starting his career in minstrel shows, Olcott (Dennis Morgan) is given his first break by stage luminary Read More

Cheyenne

Actors: John Alvin, Bruce Bennett, Monte Blue, John Compton, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is having no luck discovering the desperado's identity; when he comes across James Wylie (Dennis Morgan), a gambler who is running from the law in Carson City, he blackmails Read More

Always Together

Actors: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire

Synopsis: In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door, gives star-struck movie buff Jane Barker a million bucks. Problems begin when Jane's hubby, an aspiring writer, finds out about her new fortune. Marital turmoil ensues causing Read More

One More Tomorrow

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith

Synopsis: In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a wealthy gadabout, and finds she abhors his decadent life even though she loves him. She then takes up with another whom she marries. Unfortunately, she still loves the Read More

Two Guys from Milwaukee

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Janis Paige, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then Warner Bros. could do the same. Lacking a Crosby or Hope, Warners paired Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson (who like Crosby and Hope were good buddies off-screen) and came up Read More

The Time, the Place and the Girl

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place and the Girl. The story involves a pair of nightclub owners and the problems inherent in their mounting The Big Show. Victoria Cassel Martha Vickers agrees to help out. The Read More

God Is My Co-Pilot

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Andrea King

Synopsis: Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light in the sky and several scenes of enemy pilots spitting up blood when shot down by American bullets. The film was based on the best-selling novel by fighter pilot Col. Robert Read More

Christmas in Connecticut

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine's housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch Read More

The Very Thought of You

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: Though filmed while WW2 was still very much in progress, The Very Thought of You has the lighthearted ambience of a postwar picture. After 18 months' duty in the Aleutians, army buddies Dave (Dennis Morgan) and Fixit (Dane Clark) take a long-awaited furlough in Dave's home town of Pasadena. While Read More

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Julie Bishop, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Barbara Brown, Sydney Greenstreet

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs of fabled vaudeville headliners Jack Norworth (1879-1959) and Nora Bayes (1880-1928). After rejecting a partnership with songstress Blanche Mallory (Irene Manning), Norworth Read More

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky Stars. Believe it or not, this one has a wisp of a plot. A pair of enterprising producers, played by S.Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton, want to hire singer Dinah Shore Read More

The Desert Song

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Victor Francen, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: The popular operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II enjoyed its second screen adaptation with this film, which added four new songs and updated the story to World War II. Paul Hudson (Dennis Morgan), an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, makes his living playing piano in a Read More

Captains of the Clouds

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias

Synopsis: James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights in stealing jobs-and women-away from his competitors. Brian is forced to shape up in a hurry when he's assigned to Read More

In This Our Life

Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn

Synopsis: In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining melodrama, it more than fits the bill. Howard Koch's screenplay is a trifle predictable, but it's well structured and provides the requisite juicy roles for its pair of female Read More

The Hard Way

Actors: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Gladys George

Synopsis: In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway career. She does this to desperately try to keep her little sis from falling into the same small-town trap of marriage to a dull working-stiff and endless hours of taking care Read More

Wings for the Eagle

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, George Tobias, Jack Carson, Don DeFore

Synopsis: Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where a good portion of the film was made. Hoping to dodge the draft, Corky Jones (Dennis Morgan) lands an "essential" job at Lockheed, eventually realizing the importance of his Read More

Bad Men of Missouri

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris, Arthur Kennedy, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension. Ronald Reagan was considered, and so were James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and George Raft, but, happily, the role eventually went to the more age-appropriate Dennis Morgan, a Read More

Double Identity

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Victor Jory

Synopsis: A fugitive works to clear his name through the use of a dead mountie's identity. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Affectionately Yours

Actors: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy, George Tobias

Synopsis: Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera positions, virtually pushing male leads Dennis Morgan and Ralph Bellamy right off the screen! Here's the deal: Neglected wife Sue Marberry (Oberon) obtains a quickie Nevada Read More

Kisses for Breakfast

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyatt, Shirley Ross, Lee Patrick, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage play by Seymour Hicks-which in turn was adapted from a French farce by Yves Mirande and Andre Mouzey-Eon. With that pedigree, it's amazing that this frenetic 1941 Read More

The Fighting 69th

Actors: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness" pictures like The Fighting 69th? This film, based on the experiences of military priest Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), is set during World War I. The US 69th division was a Read More

Tear Gas Squad

Actors: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, George Reeves, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan plays cocky nightclub entertainer Tommy McCabe, who gets his jollies out of making fun of the local police force. This does not prove amusing to pretty Jerry Sullivan (Gloria Read More

Three Cheers for the Irish

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the police force. The girl's father, a New York policeman who was forcibly retired, is not happy that his daughter desires to marry a highlander. Still, amidst the turmoil, the Read More

Kitty Foyle

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart

Synopsis: Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph Read More

Ladies Must Live

Actors: Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick, George Reeves

Synopsis: Ladies Must Live was based on George M. Cohan's play The Hometowners, prievious filmed in 1928. Wayne Morris plays the bumpkinish Lake, who tries to prevent his millionaire pal George (George Reeves) from marrying gold-digging nightclub thrush Pat (Rosemary Lane). As it turns out, however, Pat Read More

Flight Angels

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyman

Synopsis: A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive "tribute" to airline stewardesses. Among the angels of the title are haughty Virginia Bruce and hoydenish Jane Wyman, who in one scene actually come to blows over their Read More

River's End

Actors: Dennis Morgan, George Tobias, Elizabeth Earl, Victor Jory, James Stephenson

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940. Dennis Morgan plays a dual role as falsely accused murderer John Keith and stalwart Canadian mountie Sgt. Conniston. When Conniston is accidently killed, Keith takes his Read More

Ride, Cowboy, Ride

Waterfront

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Marie Wilson, Larry Williams, Sheila Bromley

Synopsis: Waterfront moves so quickly that the film is half over by the time all the characters have been introduced. Dockworker Jim Dolan (Dennis Morgan) keeps landing in jail because he can't keep his fists to himself. He mends his ways with the help of waterfront priest Father Dunn (Aldrich Bowker), but Read More

No Place to Go

Synopsis: No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber play Old Man Minick. Fred Stone plays elderly retiree Andrew Plummer, who moves in with his well-to-do son Joe (Dennis Morgan) and Joe's wife Gertrude (Gloria Read More

Persons in Hiding

Actors: Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry, Helen Twelvetrees

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting existence, more robberies ensue until they get really greedy and attempt a kidnapping. Unfortunately, they chose an unusually perceptive victim who is able to recall the flight Read More

The Return of Doctor X

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Huntz Hall, Wayne Morris

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a sequel to the classic 1932 chiller Dr. X it is not. The terror begins when an eager-beaver reporter stumbles across the corpse of a popular actress who turns up, after much Read More

Men with Wings

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell, Andy Devine, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of aviation -- from the start of his career (Wings), until the end (Lafayette Escadrille). But, perhaps, never has his devotion to aviation been made more vivid than in his 1938 Read More

Illegal Traffic

Actors: J. Carrol Naish, Mary Carlisle, Robert Preston, Judith Barrett, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays Louis Zonta, an immigrant gangster running a racket that transports wanted criminals. At their wits end, the authorities send in undercover agent Bent Martin (Robert Preston) to Read More

King of Alcatraz

Actors: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, J. Carrol Naish, Harry Carey, Robert Preston

Synopsis: We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action takes place aboard a passenger ship, which Naish has boarded incognito in hopes of escaping prosecution. Naish and his gunmen take over the ship, complicating the lives Read More

Mama Steps Out

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection built around the considerable talents of Alice Brady. She plays her standard empty-headed flibbertygibbet, this time vacationing on the Riviera after inheriting a fortune. Read More

Song of the City

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, J. Carrol Naish, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a milque-toast socialite is drowning in San Francisco Bay. Fortunately, he is saved by a kindly Italian fisherman who takes him in and teaches him how to be manly. During his slow recovery, the wimpy fellow is cared for by the fisherman's lovely daughter who is studying to become an Read More

Navy Blue and Gold

Actors: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts the progress of three Annapolis "plebes," all played by actors in the age range of 24 to 30. Wisecracking Roger Ash (Robert Young) is a cynic, wide-eyed Richard Gates Jr. (Tom Brown Read More

Suzy

Actors: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of