Eddie AlbertFilmography

Brenda Starr

Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Brook Shields plays the comic-strip journalist, Brenda Starr, who travels to a South American jungle on an assignment. It is there that she covers the story about a mad scientist who plans to blow up the planet with his newly developed rocket fuel. Also appearing are Timothy Dalton and Charles Durning Read More

Return to Green Acres

Synopsis: The cast from the popular television cornball comedy series are reunited when Oliver must save Hooterville from developers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Swedenborg: The Man Who Had to Know

Synopsis: Review the life and work of Sweden's Emanuel Swedenborg. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Accidents

Actors: Jon Cypher, Leigh Taylor-Young

Synopsis: This paranoid Australian thriller from director Gideon Amir concerns the theft of a dangerous device by evil scientist James Hughes (Jon Cypher). The inventor, Eddie Powers (Edward Albert), teams up with a researcher (Leigh Taylor-Young) to prevent its sale on the global-arms market. Like most of Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Body Politic

Synopsis: In the final episode of Murder She Wrote's fourth season, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) volunteers as a speech writer for her old friend Kathleen Lane (Shirley Jones), whose wealthy husband Jackson (Eddie Albert) is bankrolling her political campaign. Not surprisingly, politics and scandal go hand in Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Remember Love

The Heist

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Robert Prosky, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: In this made-for-HBO thriller, Pierce Brosnan stars as an ex-convict who seeks revenge on the racetrack partner (Tom Skerritt) who framed him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Siege

Turn Around

Synopsis: After a malicious gang attacks the residents of a small town, a magician decides to use his trade to exact revenge. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Mercy or Murder?

Actors: Frances Reid, Robert Young

Synopsis: Though based on a true story which occurred in 1985, the made-for-TV Mercy or Murder? bears traces of the 1947 Fredric March film An Act of Murder. Robert Young stars as Roswell Gilbert, a 75-year-old Florida retiree happily married for 45 years. Gilbert's wife (Frances Reid) falls victim to Read More

Head Office

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Jane Seymour, Don King, Rick Moranis, Danny DeVito, Don Novello, Lori-Nan Engler

Synopsis: With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Read More

The Return of Video Yesterbloop

Synopsis: This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights as Edward G. Robinson being startled when a prop gun he is holding accidentally goes off, Bette Davis falling off a stage, Ronald Reagan struggling with a pants zipper that Read More

Dress Gray

Synopsis: A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film revolves around an upper classman who is falsely accused of responsibility for the death of a student when he begins to investigate the mysterious demise of the young gay cadet. Read More

In Like Flynn

Actors: Jenny Seagrove

Synopsis: In Like Flynn is Remington Steele cross-pollinated with Romancing the Stone. The title "character," Jason Flynn, is a fictional James Bond-like adventurer created by reclusive author Daryl E. Raymond. Raymond's bestselling books are seemingly the sole source of income for the publishing firm where Jenny Seagrove Read More

Stitches

Actors: Parker Stevenson, Geoffrey Lewis, Brian Tochi, Robin Dearden, Bob Dubac

Synopsis: Goofy medical students have all kinds of rip roaring fun pulling crazy pranks such as scaring first year students by pretending to be cadavers. When the hijinks accelerate, the dean of the school tries to stop them. Filled with vulgarity, sexist and bathroom humor, the film's director Rod Holcomb Read More

Burning Rage

Actors: Eddie Albert

Synopsis: When a rash of coal mine fires breaks out underground in Tennessee, the government sends a geologist to assist the small-town residents in preventing tragedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Dreamscape

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Great special effects do not always make for a great film, but Dreamscape comes awfully close. Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow) and Dr. Jane Devries (Kate Capshaw) run a clinic for the study of dreams. Hoping to alleviate the pain of those plagued with recurring nightmares, Novotny hires a team of Read More

The Demon Murder Case

Actors: Eddie Albert, Ken Kercheval, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Demon Murder Case has received an inordinate amount of airplay since its initial telecast on March 6, 1983. We suspect that this has something to do with its star, a young and callow fellow name of Kevin Bacon. Though he receives top billing, Bacon is hardly the hero of the piece; Read More

Rooster

Synopsis: In this comedy, a suspicious fire brings two disparate detectives together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Yes, Giorgio

Actors: Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong

Synopsis: When touring Italian opera star Giorgio Fini (Luciano Pavarotti in his screen debut) mysteriously loses his voice before a performance in Boston, he goes to see throat specialist Dr. Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), and the two fall madly in love. This film features a number of songs, including Read More

The Act

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld, John Aprea, John Tripp

Synopsis: John Sebastian's musical score lends an appropriately anachronistic touch to the endearingly outdated The Act. Robert Ginty and Sarah Langenfield are the principal participants in this satiric tale of political dirty trickery, with emphasis on underhanded union tactics. Also on hand are veterans Read More

This Time Forever

Synopsis: Two cultures clash when a young American man and a French-Canadian woman fall in love while studying at a Montreal college. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Night School

Actors: Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder, Joseph R. Sicari, Nicholas Cairis

Synopsis: In this gory horror movie, a group of young, nubile night-school students find themselves unable to hang on to their heads when a mad slasher takes up residence in their hallowed halls. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Take This Job and Shove It

Actors: Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Inspired by Johnny Paycheck's song of the same name, Take This Job and Shove It is a comedy/drama of big business vs. little guys. His corporate employers put Frank Maclin in charge of a project to shape up a newly acquired brewery. It just so happens that this places him back in his Iowa hometown Read More

The Oklahoma City Dolls

Synopsis: In this film, a group of frustrated feminists form a football team for their factory in an effort to foil male chauvinists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Goliath Awaits

Synopsis: Though it strains credibility to the breaking point, the made-for-TV Goliath Awaits proved a ratings success when it was first syndicated via "Operation Prime Time" on November 16, 1981. Mark Harmon plays oceanographer Peter Cabot, who intends to salvage valuable treasures from the ocean liner Read More

Peter and Paul

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of evangelizing in the Mediterranean region. The 195-minute version of the original TV miniseries begins in Jerusalem four years after the death of Jesus Christ when Stephen, a Read More

Trouble in High Timber Country

Synopsis: In this drama, union organizers, desperate to control the lumber and mining empire of a wealthy family, resort to sabotage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Yesterday

Actors: Claire Pimpare, Vincent Van Patten, Eddie Albert, Nicholas Campbell, Daniel Gadouas

Synopsis: Melodramatic and obvious in its ploy to dampen all the handkerchiefs in the theater, Yesterday pulls it off. Gabrielle (Claire Pimpare) is a radical French-Canadian artist from one side of the economic, political, and linguistic tracks, and Matt (Vince Van Patten) is a rich American kid studying Read More

How to Beat the High Co$t of Living

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James share star-billing with Jessica Lange in this uninspired comedy about three women who need a cash infusion. (Curtin and Saint James would later co-star in the popular sitcom Kate and Allie.) Jane (Saint James) is divorced and financially pressed to raise her Read More

Beulah Land

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Hope Lange

Synopsis: Beulah Land is an edited, movie-length version of the three-part TV miniseries adaptation of Lonnie Coleman's multi-part novels. The film is set in the Old South, with a time span ranging from 1827 to the postwar Reconstruction Era. Lesley Ann Warren stars as Sarah Kendrick, young belle of the Read More

Foolin' Around

Actors: Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman, John Calvin

Synopsis: In a conventional, tried and true way, Foolin' Around tells the predictable story of a couple of widely divergent students who fall in love against all odds. Wes (Gary Busey) is attending a well-endowed college when he signs up for a psychology experiment and meets Susan (Annette O'Toole), a young Read More

Airport '79: Concorde

Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy

Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles Read More

Border Cop

Actors: Telly Savalas, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: The original title of this film was The Border. It tells the story of one border guard's desire to put an end to the practice of hauling truck loads of illegal Mexican workers across the border and into California where they are forced to work for a mere pittance. Mexico provided the background Read More

The Crash of Flight 401

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on true events from 1972, the story concerns an airline crash in the Everglades and the courageous adventures of the 73 survivors. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Word

Synopsis: Word is about the newly discovered text that is allegedly written by the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It the document is genuine, it would throw the world's theological community into chaos. David Janssen plays an archaeologist who travels to Italy to verify the document's origins. ~ Stephen Read More

Evening in Byzantium

Synopsis: A piece of made-for-television hack work that suddenly became sort of topical 23 years later, with the attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Evening in Byzantium was a two-part made-for-TV feature based very loosely on Irwin Shaw's best-seller. The book Read More

The Birch Interval

Actors: Eddie Albert, Rip Torn, Ann Wedgeworth, Susan McClung, Brian Part

Synopsis: In Birch Interval Eddie Albert and Rip Torn, play Pa Strawacher and Thomas, a pair of Amish patriarchs. Susan McClung plays Jesse, an 11-year-old city girl who undergoes severe culture shock when she moves in with her Amish cousins. Told from McClung's point of view, the film concentrates on such Read More

Moving Violation

Actors: Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz, Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman, Will Geer

Synopsis: A young couple (Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz) witness the murder of a police officer by the local sheriff (Lonny Chapman). When the sheriff figures out that they have seen him commit the crime, he tries to frame them as terrorists and the murderers of his deputy. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape to Witch Mountain

Actors: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann

Synopsis: This fast-paced Disney endeavor stars Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as two adolescents with acute psychic powers. The kids are actually space aliens, but suffer from amnesia and are unaware of their origins. Pursued by greedy business-mogul Ray Milland, who wants to harness their special powers Read More

The Devil's Rain

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also Read More

Las Vegas Roundabout

Synopsis: When an ex-convict and a former policeman team up to help prove a safecracker innocent, they discover that his past record isn't the only thing surprising about this case. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Whiffs

Actors: Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Godfrey Cambridge, Jennifer O'Neill

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a gullible private volunteers to become the subject of numerous military biological and chemical weaponry experiments. Later he becomes so messed up that he is forced into early retirement. He then decides to use some of the experimental gases to rob banks. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Switch

Actors: Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: Switch was the pilot film for a tongue-in-cheek adventure series that ran on CBS from 1975 to 1978. Robert Wagner stars as Pete Ryan, an ex-con sent up for being a "scam" artists, and Eddie Albert as Frank McBride, an ex-cop turned private investigator. Working as a team, Pete and Frank devote Read More

Hustle

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) re-unites with Burt Reynolds for this hard-edged neo-noir. Lieutenant Phil Gaines (Reynolds) is a cynical Los Angeles police detective amorously involved with an icewater-veined Parisian call girl, Nicole Britton (Catherine Deneuve). On the job, he begins Read More

McQ

Actors: Dick Friel, John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: Undoubtedly having second thoughts after turning down Dirty Harry, John Wayne showed up in 1974 in his own "maverick cop" adventure, McQ. Wayne, playing McQ, a veteran detective, turns in his badge when he's officially denied the opportunity of clearing the name of his late best friend, who has Read More

The Longest Yard

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: Ex-football star Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert). Strong-armed into forming an inmate football team, Crewe manages to instill an esprit de corps previously lacking in the prisoners' lives. Besides, they now have the Read More

Promise Him Anything

Actors: Eddie Albert, William Schallert

Synopsis: Reverse sexism-sort of-is the theme of Promise Him Anything. Ever on the lookout for new conquests, bachelor Frederic Forrest signs on with a computer dating service, exaggerating his attractiveness on his resume. He is matched up with secretary Meg Foster, whose own resume promises that "anything Read More

The Take

Actors: Frankie Avalon

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the trouble begins when a police lieutenant begins accepting bribes while simultaneously trying to impress his superiors by breaking up a big gang. Keep a sharp eye out for Frankie Avalon playing a sneaky crook. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Borrowers

Actors: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Fans of the 1970s cartoon series The Littles may enjoy its live-action spiritual ancestor The Borrowers. Dennis Larson plays an eight-year-old boy living in Victorian England. While exploring his aunt's (Dame Judith Anderson) mansion, Larson peeks under the floorboards...and what should he see but Read More

Fireball Forward

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ricardo Montalban, Anne Francis, Dana Elcar, Edward Binns

Synopsis: Outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton were utilized to flesh out the made-for-TV Fireball Forward, which was the brainchild of Patton producer Frank McCarthy. Ben Gazzara plays a fictional American general obviously patterned on "Old Blood And Guts". Gazzara suspects that Read More

Division Headquarters

The Heartbreak Kid

Actors: Tim Browne, Jean Scoppa, Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley

Synopsis: In Elaine May's second directorial outing, Charles Grodin stars as Lenny, a slick salesman who, while honeymooning with his new bride, Lila (Jeannie Berlin, May's daughter), begins to have second thoughts about his marriage. Once Lenny spots the gorgeous Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), he is lost Read More

Power Plays

Synopsis: Learn about art propaganda and the power of art harnessed by political regimes with this informative video. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

See the Man Run

Synopsis: Most of the "action" in See the Man Run takes place during tense telephone conversations. Robert Culp stars in this TV movie as a failed actor who accidentally intercepts a phoned-in ransom demand for a kidnapped teenage girl. Deciding to cash in on this happenstance, Culp and his wife (Angie Dickinson Read More

Green Acres: Season 06

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The merriment continues unabated as Green Acres enters its sixth and last season, with city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) no more successful at managing a rural farm than they'd been in season one. New to the cast is Judy McConnell as Darlene Wheeler, the latest of Read More

Green Acres: The Wish-Book

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Larry D. Mann, Hagan Beggs

Synopsis: While burrowing through a wall in their farm, Oliver and Lisa come across a very old mail-order catalog. This yellowed volume soon morphs into a "wish book" for the Douglases, as they experience another of those Green Acres flashbacks in which they play different characters in an earlier time Read More

Green Acres: Oliver's Double

Actors: Eddie Albert, Chanin Hale, William Sylvester, Hal Smith, Robert Ruth

Synopsis: Eddie Albert plays a dual role in this episode, as gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas, and Oliver's exact double, a bank robber named Charlie. When Charlie checks into a local hotel with his sexy gun moll Blanche (Chanin Hale), the neighbors are convinced that Oliver is cheating on his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor Read More

Green Acres: Season 05

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season five of Green Acres begins as the ramshackle farm of Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) is invaded by Lisa's Hungarian mother (Lilia Skala), a bejeweled countess. As "Mudder" remains on the premises for weeks and weeks, the male citizenry of Hooterville, notably hotelier Read More

Green Acres: The Old Trunk

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Henry Oliver, John Wheeler, Gordon Jump

Synopsis: While rummaging through an old trunk, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) come across the artifacts of a 19th century romance. This sparks another of Green Acres' "fantasy flashback" sequence, in which the two leading characters assume different roles in a different time period. In this Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Valley Has a Baby

Synopsis: With train conductor Wendell Gibbs (Byron Foulger) fast asleep, no one is around to pilot the Hooterville Cannonball when the pregnant Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) begins feeling labor pains. Thus it is that Betty takes the controls of the train herself--with virtually everyone else in Read More

Green Acres: Season 04

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that the producers of Green Acres could come up with fourth-season episodes that are even crazier than those seen in the previous three seasons, but that's just what happens as city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) continue to weather the trials and Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Thanksgiving Spirit

Synopsis: This memorable "crossover" episode serves to unite the casts of three popular, interrelated TV sitcoms: Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres. The Clampett family visits the town of Hooterville for the Thanksgiving holiday. Appearing on this densely populated episode are Read More

Mouse on the Mayflower

Synopsis: A stowaway mouse has several adventures while traveling to a new continent on board the Mayflower in this animated Thanksgiving special. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Green Acres: Season 03

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season three of Green Acres begins as attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) is nominated for the political post of state senator. Alas, this dream come true is destined to become as much a comic nightmare as city slicker Oliver's efforts to become a successful farmer in the bucolic Read More

Seven Women

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: John Ford's final film is set in China in 1935, where a group of American women, led by Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton), work as missionaries. One of the women, Florrie (Betty Field), is pregnant and accompanied by her husband, Charles (Eddie Albert), while the others are single and on their Read More

Green Acres: Season 02

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) make the best of another year of "farm livin'" in bucolic Hooterville as Green Acres enters its second season. Still stubbornly determined to make a profit on his rundown farm, Oliver continues to be flustered by such local looneys as Read More

The Party's Over

Actors: Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn, Katherine Woodville, Louise Sorel

Synopsis: An American looking for excitement overseas finds more than she can handle in this cautionary drama. Melina (Louise Sorel), a young American woman, disappears while traveling in Great Britain, and her father Ben (Eddie Albert) sends her fiancée Carson (Clifford David) to the U.K. in hopes of Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate Bradley, Peacemaker

Synopsis: Hooterville Valley comes to a complete standstill when the Hooterville Cannonball ceases operation. The reason? Longtime engineers Floyd (Rufe Davis and Charley (Smiley Burnette) are feudin', fussin' and a-fightin'. As usual, it falls to Kate (Bea Benaderet) to patch up the feud and get things Read More

Petticoat Junction: Yogurt, Anyone?

Synopsis: Though still a high school student, Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) tries to pass herself off as a college co-ed. The reason is both simple and thoroughly "in character": Boy-crazy Betty hopes to attract the attention of handsome college student Edward (Dennis Pepper). This episode was written by Clifford Read More

Petticoat Junction: Joe Carson, General Contractor

Synopsis: As she settles into her new farmhouse, transplanted Manhattanite Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor in her familiar Green Acres role) realizes that the place is in dire need of renovation. Enter Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan), who passes himself off as a professional general contractor. Sure, he'd be happy to Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bobbie Jo's Sorority

Synopsis: Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) hopes to be accepted into Hooterville High's most prestigious sorority (which also happens to be Hooterville High's only sorority). Unfortunately, in order to be initiated, she must perform a well-night-impossible task--namely, wangle a date with the school's star Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Baffling Raffle

Synopsis: This episode is the first of many Petticoat Junction-Green Acres crossovers, with Eddie Albert appearing in his familiar Green Acres guise as lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas. "Gentleman farmer" Oliver is solicited for free legal advice by Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan), who is on the horns of another Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

Green Acres: Season 01

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City-bred attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his chic, sophisticated wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), undergo quite a period of adjustment throughout the first season of Green Acres. Having insisted upon bundling himself and his wife to a 160-acre farm just outside the bucolic town of Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Good Luck Ring

Synopsis: Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) wants to win a school spelling bee, and is pinning her hopes on the "good luck" ring in her possession. Alas, panic and confusion sets in when our heroine loses the precious ring. This crisis also affects Bobbie's mom Kate, who'd hoped that her daughter's win would settle Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Dog Turns Playboy

Synopsis: The Bradley girls are having problems casting their upcoming community play. The solution: Forget about human actors, and stage the production with an all-canine cast. But complications ensue when the girls' own dog (played by Higgins of "Benjy" fame) suddenly falls heir to $200--making him not Read More

Petticoat Junction: Hooterville A-Go-Go

Synopsis: The Bradley girls want to invite rock star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at their football-team benefit show, but Kate (Bea Benaderet) vetoes their choice in favor of syrupy balladeer--and former Hooterville resident--Herbie Willets. Imagine everyone's surprise when King Ring-a-Ding and Herbie Read More

Petticoat Junction: Uncle Joe Plays Post Office

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) goes to town to pick up a postage stamp and comes home with the whole post office. Figuring that he could do a better and more efficient job than the present P.O. staff, Joe wangles the job of Hooterville Postmaster. But the fun doesn't really begin until Joe transforms Read More

Petticoat Junction: Betty Jo Goes to New York

Synopsis: Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) invites Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) to spend a weekend in New York City. Upon her return, former country gal Betty has been transformed into a stylish sophisticate--and a royal pain in the neck to her mother and sisters. This episode was more or less remade as Petticoat Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Doctor in the House

Synopsis: Ever on the lookout for new sources of income, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) invites young doctor Matthew Bailey (Alan Reed Jr.) to set up his practice at the Shady Rest. Unfortunately, Joe forget to ask permission of hotel owner Kate (Bea Benaderet)--and she's dead set against turning her place into Read More

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 1

The Outer Limits: Cry of Silence

Synopsis: In Volume 38 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a couple finds themselves the target of alien stalkers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Eleven Days to Zero

Synopsis: In the series' opening episode, audiences are introduced to the super-submarine Seaview, built, owned and operated by the Nelson Institute of Marine Research headed by Vice Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart). An assassination attempt on Nelson kills the commander of the Seaview on the eve Read More

Combat!: Doughboy

Synopsis: Eddie Albert guest stars in this episode, playing--of all things--a middle-aged American farmer with a foreign-accented wife. But this is Combat, not Green Acres: Albert's character, a WW1 veteran named Phil, has been living in France with his French-born wife Marie (played by Alida Valli of The Read More

Captain Newman, M.D.

Actors: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin, James Gregory

Synopsis: Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to Read More

Who's Got the Action?

Actors: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Nita Talbot, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, John McGiver

Synopsis: Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also rouses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Walter Read More

Naked City: Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow

Miracle of the White Stallions

Actors: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the dedication of Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), the instructor at a prestigious Vienna equestrian school. The colonel is in charge of the safety and health of the royal Read More

Madison Avenue

Actors: Dana Andrews, Howard St. John, David White, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Dana Andrews is ad-man Clint Lorimer in this uneven drama, the last feature film by director Bruce Humberstone, released several years after it was completed. Clint is fired from his job working for a big ad agency, and he is determined to prove himself better than his former bosses. He has two Read More

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

The Two Little Bears

Actors: Eddie Albert, Jane Wyatt, Butch Patrick, Brenda Lee

Synopsis: In this standard children's story -- with a few teen songs added -- the head of Burberry Elementary School, Harry Davis (Eddie Albert) is the proud father of two boys, Timmy and Billy (Donnie Carter and Butch Patrick) who wish they were bears. If Dad was bothered before by this wish, things only Read More

Beloved Infidel

Actors: Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober, Herbert Rudley

Synopsis: Gregory Peck stars as the great American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in this film based on a memoir by Sheilah Graham, who was Fitzgerald's paramour during his final days. Graham (played by Deborah Kerr) was a gossip columnist and aspiring novelist who met Fitzgerald during his latter days as a Read More

Orders to Kill

Actors: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, Irene Worth

Synopsis: The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he, originally a pilot, is grounded during WW II. He is trained to assassinate a Paris lawyer suspected of colluding with the Nazis. During his rigorous training for the killing, the Read More

The Roots of Heaven

Actors: Errol Flynn, Juliette Greco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Though billed third, Trevor Howard plays the central character, an idealist who has gone into Africa in hopes of saving the elephants from extinction. At first Read More

The Gun Runners

Actors: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloane, Gita Hall

Synopsis: The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners was as topical as this morning's news when it came out in 1958. Audie Murphy plays Sam Martin, a charter-boat skipper based in Key West, whose bad luck has enlarged from the Read More

The Ride Back!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, George Trevino, Lita Milan, Victor Millan

Synopsis: Produced by former radio star William Conrad, this taut psychological Western features Conrad as Chris Hamish, a lawman assigned to bring back from Mexico accused murderer Robert Kallen (Anthony Quinn). Locating Kallen in a small Mexican pueblo proves easy enough, but bringing him to justice Read More

The Joker Is Wild

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control many of the city's venues; when they ask Lewis Read More

The Sun Also Rises

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost Generation" protagonists. Tyrone Power heads Read More

Attack

Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The Fragile Fox, this searing war film is a powerful indictment against a military system which protects even its most incompetent of officers. Eddie Albert plays a posturing but Read More

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Actors: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo, Eddie Albert, Paul Ford

Synopsis: Marlon Brando went out on yet another creative limb when he insisted upon playing sly, philosophical Okinawan interpreter Sakima in the 1956 filmization of John Patrick's Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon. While he occasionally lapses into "flied lice" stereotyping, for the most part Read More

Bell Science: Our Mister Sun

Synopsis: Modern audiences may not be familiar with Our Mister Sun, but many students growing up in the '50s and '60s (and into the '70s) remember being pleasantly surprised when this very entertaining program was part of their science class curriculum. Given its age, it's surprising how much of Our Mister Read More

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor

Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More

Oklahoma!

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play's intricate integration of song and storyline, and the simplicity and austerity of its production design. The 1955 film version of Oklahoma! retains the songs Read More

The Girl Rush

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria de Haven, Marion Lorne

Synopsis: In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island, inherits half ownership of a Las Vegas hotel when her father dies. She and her Aunt Clara go there to learn more about it. Unfortunately, just before they arrive, the other Read More

General Electric Theater: I'm a Fool

Synopsis: One of the most famous of the pre-East of Eden TV appearances by the immortal James Dean, this 30-minute adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's short story "I'm a Fool" originally aired live as the November 14, 1954 episode of the CBS anthology General Electric Theater. Narrated by Eddie Albert, this Read More

Studio One: The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Synopsis: An American columnist rails for the rights of a free press in this small screen drama presented as part of the "Studio One" series. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roman Holiday

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams

Synopsis: Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by "affairs of state." On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens Read More

Carrie

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, Miriam Hopkins, Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis: Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes Read More

Actors and Sin

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marsha Hunt, Dan O'Herlihy, Eddie Albert, Rudolph Anders, Tracey Roberts

Synopsis: At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of theatrical intrigue. Edward G. Robinson plays a Barrymoresque Shakespearean actor whose obsessive control of the life and career of his actress-daughter Marsha Hunt results Read More

You're in the Navy Now

Actors: Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John McIntire

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine story. Cooper plays Lieutenant John Harkness, a wet-behind-the ears naval lieutenant who is given command of his first ship. Unfortunately, not only is Harkness new to Read More

Meet Me After the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, MacDonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns Read More

The Fuller Brush Girl

Actors: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of such Red Skelton slapstick comedies as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man came The Fuller Brush Girl, starring Lucille Ball in a fascinating dry run for her wacky "Lucy Ricardo" TV character. Unable to hold a job because of her tendency to get into trouble, Sally Read More

Every Girl Should Be Married

Actors: Cary Grant, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Cary Grant met his future wife Betsy Drake on the set of the appropriately titled Every Girl Should be Married. Grant plays well-known baby specialist Madison Brown, who is Dr. Spock in everything but name. After a chance meeting with headstrong young Anabel Sins (Drake), poor Brown finds his Read More

You Gotta Stay Happy

Actors: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it is her wedding night, she decides not to consummate the union and so ends up hiding in the room of a fellow whose airplane cargo company is facing financial ruin. He assumes Read More

The Dude Goes West

Actors: Eddie Albert, Binnie Barnes, Catherine Doucet, Dick Elliott, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that everybody their carries guns. His trip West is an exercise in misfortune. Everything that could go wrong on the journey, does. At least he meets a pretty woman, also en route Read More

Fun on a Weekend

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Priscilla Lane, Tom Conway, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Treacher

Synopsis: Long before he became the foremost purveyor of ultra-realistic melodramas, writer/producer/director Andrew Stone turned out a handful of screwball comedies like Fun on a Weekend. Eddie Bracken stars as P. P. Porterhouse III, who despite his triple-barrelled monicker is flat broke. Long on ideas Read More

Time out of Mind

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl Kate Ferald (Phyllis Calvert, in her first Hollywood film) falls in love with Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), the scion of a wealthy New England sailing family. Read More

Hit Parade of 1947

Actors: Eddie Albert, Chester Clute, Joan Edwards, Frank Fenton, William Frawley

Synopsis: In this musical, the fourth entry in a five-film series, three singers come together to form a nightclub act. Their songwriter falls for the female. They become a hit and are soon signed to appear in Hollywood musicals, but when the female becomes a star, the group disbands. Songs include Read More

Unconquered

Actors: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Katherine de Mille, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first postwar production, the $5 million Technicolor historical spectacular Unconquered lacks only the kitchen sink. The story begins in England in the 1760s, as Abigail Martha Hale (Paulette Goddard), unjustly accused of a crime against the Crown, is sentenced by the Lord Chief Read More

High and Happy

Synopsis: Four dreamers team up to produce their own musical extravaganza. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

Actors: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The woman started out as a night-club singer, but abandoned her career after marrying a budding radio star. At first she does everything she can to insure his success, but when he Read More

The Perfect Marriage

Actors: Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Charlie Ruggles, Virginia Field

Synopsis: If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an ideal couple, Maggie and Dale Williams (Loretta Young, David Niven) have grown tired of one another after 10 years. Petty squabbles lead to major battles, exacerbated by the Read More

Rendezvous with Annie

Synopsis: Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing in at United Artists throughout the 1940s. Eddie Albert plays an American pilot stationed in England who pines for his stateside wife (Faye Marlowe). Denied a pass, he goes Read More

Strange Voyage

Actors: Eddie Albert, Forrest Taylor, Ray Teal, Matt Willis, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, a band of treasure hunters sail to the Mexican coast to find a buried treasure. Along the way, the seafarers encounter a variety of strange occurrences that convince them that they are on a cursed mission. The leader does all he can to quell their fears, but what with Read More

Bombardier

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Walter Reed

Synopsis: A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots. O'Brien and Scott argue over teaching methods, while their students vie for the affections of Anne Shirley. O'Brien's methods prove sound during a bombing raid over Tokyo. Scott Read More

Ladies' Day

Actors: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly, Max Baer, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Lupe Velez is "The Mexican Spitfire" in everything but name in the frantic baseball farce Ladies Day. Eddie Albert plays Wacky Waters, star pitcher of the Sox, a league-leading contender for the World Series. Alas, whenever Wacky falls in love, his game suffers-and so do the wives of his Read More

Eagle Squadron

Actors: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who joined England's Royal Air Force before America's entry into WW2 in Eagle Squadron. Robert Stack stars as Chuck Brewer, one of several US flyers participating in RAF Read More

Treat 'Em Rough

Actors: Eddie Albert, William Frawley

Synopsis: In this drama, an aspiring prizefighter disobeys his father, an oil baron, by pursuing his fortune in the ring rather than the family business. Trouble ensues when the feds discover that his father cannot account for over a million barrels of oil. Fortunately, the son begins his own investigation Read More

Lady Bodyguard

Actors: Eddie Albert, Anne Shirley, Raymond Walburn, Edward S. Brophy, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising representative for an insurance company, A. C. gets into trouble when she okays several $1000 life-insurance policies as a publicity stunt. One of the recipients is Terry Moore (Eddie Albert Read More

Thieves Fall Out

Actors: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Jane Darwell, Alan Hale, William Orr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a grandmother decides to help her naive grandson get the money he needs to marry his girl by allowing him to get his inheritance, a mattress factory, before she dies. She suggests that he use it as collateral on a loan, but instead the young man sells the business to a crook who Read More

Out of the Fog

Actors: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias

Synopsis: Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by expert wordsmiths Robert Rossen, Jerry Wald, and Richard Macaulay. Humphrey Bogart lobbied strenuously to play the leading role of charming but ruthless waterfront loan Read More

The Great Mr. Nobody

Actors: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, John Litel

Synopsis: The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants out of life is to own a boat and drift aimlessly across the ocean in the company of his good pal Skipper (played by Alan Hale-ironically the father of Gilligan's Island's Read More

Four Mothers

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains

Synopsis: Four Mothers was the last of three films inspired by Fannie Hurst's sentimental novel Sister Act. As in the earlier Four Daughters and Four Wives, the quartet of heroines-Ann, Kay, Thea and Emma Lemp-are enacted by real-life siblings Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, and by Gale Page as the Read More

The Wagons Roll at Night

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion, retaining the plotlines but altering the circumstances and character names. Wagons Roll at Night was a 1941 reworking of the prizefight drama Kid Galahad, filmed only four years Read More

An Angel from Texas

Actors: Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan

Synopsis: An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg Man. The plot remains basically the same, with a wealthy but incredibly naïve young sprout coming to the rescue of a near-bankrupt Broadway musical. This time around, Eddie Albert Read More

Brother Rat and a Baby

Actors: Eddie Albert, Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Jane Wyman, Larry Williams

Synopsis: This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from the Virginia Military Institute. One of them has just applied for a job as the academy's baseball coach and the others come to assist him. Mayhem ensues; especially after the Read More

My Love Came Back

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Charles Winninger, Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman

Synopsis: Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory (Charles Winninger). The old man hopes to vicariously live his own musical aspirations through the young woman's success. DeHavilland, however, is just as interested in Read More

A Dispatch from Reuters

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on the condition that the studio permit him to play the leading role in the lavish biopic A Dispatch from Reuters. Robinson is cast as Baron Paul Julius Reiter, who in 1833 Read More

Four Wives

Actors: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, Frank McHugh, May Robson, Eddie Albert, Priscilla Lane

Synopsis: In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new love for the fourth sister whose husband recently committed suicide. The widowed woman then discovers that she is pregnant with her deceased husband's child and this causes Read More

Man About Town

Actors: Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Binnie Barnes, Monty Woolley

Synopsis: Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the love of glamorous singer Dorothy Lamour. Unfortunately, she finds him unattractive. Wanting to make her jealous, Benny pursues a pair of women who are trying to make their Read More

On Your Toes

Actors: Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a Russian ballet company that contains his old childhood lover, but when the troupe mistake him for a traitor trouble ensues. Perhaps the film is most notable for Balanchine's Read More

Brother Rat

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, three young hell-raisers enroll in the Virginia Military Institute and have a hard time staying out of trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More