Eddie QuillanFilmography

Moonlighting: In God We Strongly Suspect

Synopsis: This episode opens with the grave announcement that it has NOT been filmed in 3-D (the glasses didn't show up in the mail). Once this is established, we segue into the curious tale of the Great Kandinski, a famous escape artist who has recently died. Inasmuch as Kandinski had threatened to come Read More

Helltown Goes Bananas

Synopsis: The Magnificent Five, a group of winos, steal the $4,000 intended to buy a stained-glass window for St. Dominic's by a bag lady. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Father of Hell Town

Actors: Robert Blake, Jeff Corey, James Gammon

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was edited from several episodes of the short-lived television series Hell Town, in which Robert Blake starred as Father Noah "Hardstep" Rivers, a tough but giving Catholic priest trying to do good works in a rough ghetto neighborhood. Also appearing in Father of Hell Town Read More

Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 2

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as a two-hour TV movie, this opening episode of Highway to Heaven has since been divided into two one-hour installments for syndication. In part two, probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), adopting the guise of an earthly handyman, continues in his efforts to Read More

Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 1

Synopsis: Having gone to his Heavenly reward in 1948, lawyer Arthur Morton is "reborn" in 1987 as Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), a probationary angel who in order to earn his wings must return to Earth and offer help and support to unfortunate mortals. In this debut episode of Highway to Heaven, Jonathan Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The In-Laws

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) enters into a rivalry with his son-in-law Almanzo (Dean Butler). The bone of contention is an argument over the quickest method to deliver goods from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye. To settle the matter, Charles and Almanzo agree to a race; whichever man loses will have to Read More

The Jeffersons: The Loan

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Mike Evans

Synopsis: Lionel and Jenny Jefferson (Mike Evans, Berlinda Tolbert) want to purchase a home, but the bank turns down their mortgage loan application. Despite this setback, the couple insists that their parents not interfere in their financial travails. Amazingly, George and Louise Jefferson (Sherman Read More

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The High Cost of Being Right

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Jonathan Garvey's crops burn, leaving his family destitute, his wife, Alice (Hersha Parady), decides to take a job at the local post office. But the stubbornly proud Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) is outraged that his wife must support his family, and threatens to divorce her if she doesn't quit her Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Runaway

Synopsis: In search of a career criminal named Fred Cavanaugh (Billy Green Bush), Stone (Karl Malden) is hampered by the persistence of the fugitive's precocious daughter Chris (Pamelyn Ferdin), who is likewise looking for her errant daddy. The difference is that Stone knows all too well about Fred's Read More

The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

More Milton Berle's Mad World of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: Watch the comedy unfold as Milton Berle trades wisecracks with his hilarious guests on this videotape. Some of the funniest people in show business are featured in this collection hosted by "Mr. Television" himself. Pat Buttran, Dick Martin, Mort Sahl, and Eddie Quillon are interviewed. Footage of Read More

The F.B.I.: The Deadly Species

Synopsis: Penny Fuller guest stars as Jean Scott, an accomplished thief and con artist. Freshly escaped from prison, Jean charms several gullible males into acting as accomplices in a nationwide robbery spree. She needs the money to kidnap her son from her ex-husband and then leave the country with the boy Read More

Adam-12: The Tip

Synopsis: Much to the embarrassment of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), their stakeout of a savings and loan comes a-cropper when the place is robbed right under their noses. Worse still, the thieves manage to smuggle in tear gas and make their escape without interference. Read More

How to Frame a Figg

Actors: Savannah Bentley

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel in My Pocket

Actors: Andy Griffith, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Lee Meriwether, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Minister Sam (Andy Griffith) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lee Meriweather) move to a Kansas town divided by political concerns that stall the town's progress. Will Sinclair (Henry Jones) and Alex Gresham (Edgar Buchanan) have allowed a long-standing family argument to impede the progress of the Read More

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Joe Flynn, Eileen Wesson, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: After registering well in supporting roles in such Bob Hope farces as Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number and Eight on the Lam, raucous comedienne Phyllis Diller attempted to carry a picture all by herself. Alas, Did You Hear the One About the Travelling Saleslady? proved to be as bad as its title. Read More

A Guide for the Married Man

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Actors: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett (Dick Sargent) gives Luther his big break and assigns him to spend the night in a house generally considered to be haunted. The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to Read More

F Troop: Our Hero, What's His Name?

Synopsis: To prevent his sweetheart in Pasaic, New Jersey from marrying a horse-car conductor, Agarn (Larry Storch) sends the girl a letter claiming that he has killed the infamous Apache warrior Geronimo (Mike Mazurki). Alas, Agarn sets him self up for a scalping when Geronimo learns of the deception and Read More

Lost in Space: West of Mars

Synopsis: This classic episode can be described as an outer-space western, as cowardly Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) comes face to face with his coldblooded lookalike Zeno (also Jonathan Harris), a notorious intergalactic gunslinger. Forced to trade his clothes with Zeno's, Smith is arrested by the Law, who Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Misguided Model

Synopsis: Model Sharon Camody (Mary Ann Mobley) has an excellent chance of being hired as the spokeswoman for White Snow Soap--so long as she is able to keep her unsavory past a secret from the public. Unfortunately, Sharon is targetted for a shakedown by blackmailer Ed Grover, who subsequently turns up Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Taylors in Hollywood

Actors: Hayden Rorke

Synopsis: Andy, Opie and Aunt Bee arrive in Hollywood, there to witness the filming of Andy's life story Sheriff Without a Gun. But upon paying their first visit to Belmont Studios, the Taylors are none too pleased with the liberties taken by the scriptwriter. Aunt Bee in particular is aghast to discover Read More

The Bounty Killer

Actors: Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good" townsfolk until they need him to track down and kill a criminal; the gratitude doesn't last long, and it's back to outcast status for Duryea. At one juncture, the Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Stunt Man

Actors: Joan Blondell, Don Megowan, Eddie Quillan, Lou Krugman, Burt Douglas

Synopsis: As a ploy to get extra money for a leopard-skin jacket, Lucy (Lucille Ball) tells Mooney (Gale Gordon) that her refrigerator is on the blink -- then is forced to destroy the fridge to back up her story. Meanwhile, Lucy's neighbor Joan (Joan Blondell) is dating a Hollywood stuntman who comes up Read More

Viva Las Vegas

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair

Synopsis: Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a race-car driver competing in the Las Vegas Grand Prix opposite his principal rival, Cesare Danova. To finance his entry, Elvis takes a job as a casino waiter. Naturally, he Read More

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Actors: Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley, Jan Merlin

Synopsis: In this western, set in 1875, an agent for the National Detective Agency is assigned to find the murderous outlaw gang that has been breaking convicts out of prison and helping them to commit more crimes. The resulting crimes cause the bounties upon the fugitives' heads to rise. The outlaws then Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Genghis Keane Story

Synopsis: In the final episode of Petticoat Junction's first season, Kate (Bea Benadaret) braces herself for a visit from her former schoolteacher Adelaide Keane (played by Benadaret's fellow old-time-radio veteran Lurene Tuttle), who was so stern and tough that she was known to one and all as "Genghis" Read More

Advance to the Rear

Actors: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Union Colonel Brackenby (Melvyn Douglas) and his second-in-command, Captain Heath (Glenn Ford), attempt to command a rather inept cavalry unit during the Civil War. General Willoughby (Jim Backus) heads them out West on assignment rather than allowing them to foul things up where it counts. They Read More

Petticoat Junction: Spur Line to Shady Rest

Synopsis: The first episode of Petticoat Junction (NOT the pilot film, since no pilot was ever made!) finds C & F.W Railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) dispatching his vice-president Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) to the tiny community of Hooterville, there to find out why one of the railroad's Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day 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

Summer Magic

Actors: Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Eddie Hodges

Synopsis: A young widow from Boston travels with her three children to Maine to enjoy their summer vacation. Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) is helped by the friendly Osh Popham (Burl Ives), who finds the family a rent-free house vacated by a vacationing landowner. Daughter Nancy (Hayley Mills) catches the Read More

Promises! Promises!

Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald, Mickey Hargitay, Tommy Noonan, Fritz Feld

Synopsis: Jayne Mansfield bares almost all (and became the first Hollywood actress to do so) in this nearly universally panned sex comedy from the early 1960s. In the story, poor Sandy is desperate to get pregnant. Unfortunately, her husband, a television script writer, is too wound up over his high stress Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Buys a Sheep

Actors: Charles Lane, Parley Baer, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: When she can't find anyone to mow her lawn, Lucy (Lucille Ball) acts upon a suggestion made by Viv's son Sheman (Ralph Hart) and purchases a grass-grazing sheep named Clementine. The sheep does its "trimming" job so well that Lucy is soon entertaining thoughts of setting up her own "Ewe Drive" Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Captain's Coins

Synopsis: Schoolteacher and maritime historian Philip Andrews (Jeremy Slate) incurs the wratch of shipping-company owner Ben Farraday (Herbert Rudley) when he insists that Evelyn Farraday (Joan Patrick), Philip's fiancee and Ben's niece, deserved a portion of the company's profits. It inevitably follows Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Cowardly Lion

Synopsis: When a baby gorilla named Toto is stolen from a zoo, curator Tony Osgood (Fred Beir) begins questioning his employees. One of them, a visiting dentist named Dr. Braun (Leslie Bradley), accuses Tony's girlfriend Hilde (Carol Rossen) of stealing Toto. Not long afterward, Braun is found dead in the Read More

The Ladies' Man

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Hope Holiday

Synopsis: Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one of his early efforts in that regard. The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job Read More

Brigadoon

Actors: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones

Synopsis: Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who Read More

Sideshow

Actors: Don McGuire, Tracey Roberts, John Abbott, Eddie Quillan, Ray Walker

Synopsis: Sideshow was the last starring effort of Don McGuire, who would soon abandon acting in favor of writing, producing and directing. McGuire plays Steve Arthur, an undercover T-Man (or Treasury Agent), hot on the trail of jewel smugglers. He traces the crooks to a travelling carnival, where he takes Read More

A Guy Could Change

Actors: Jane Frazee, Twinkle Watts, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: In this drama, a husband becomes a single parent after his wife dies in childbirth. He is so engrossed in his newspaper career that he pays little attention to his daughter. He then meets and falls for a woman who chastises him for ignoring the child. He has just begun reestablishing his Read More

Sensation Hunters

Actors: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth, Isabel Jewell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of them is raided and she is there, her angry father throws her out of the house. After that her life takes a real dive until she is able to talk her way into joining a chorus-line Read More

Song of the Sarong

Actors: Nancy Kelly, William Gargan, Eddie Quillan, Fuzzy Knight, George Dolenz

Synopsis: In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote island and grab a great fortune in pearls which happen to be guarded by some very fearsome natives who are ruled by a sensuous dancing woman. Later the guards capture the Read More

Jungle Queen [Serial]

Synopsis: Veteran action specialists Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins co-directed this below-average Universal serial featuring brunette starlet Lois Collier as a young woman swept up in international intrigue in Darkest Africa. Although the serial's nominal (and much imperiled) heroine, Collier did not play Read More

Jungle Raiders

Synopsis: One of the screen's favorite tough blondes, the delightful Veda Ann Borg, stole the show in this low-budget serial produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures. Although star-billed (with leading man Kane Richmond and comic relief Eddie Quillan), Veda was the serial's villainess, making life Read More

This Is the Life

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man. When the older gent goes to New York, she follows as does her younger suitor. While in the Big Apple, the soldier encounters the older man's ex-wife who is still in Read More

Moonlight and Cactus

Synopsis: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strange Confession

Actors: Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney plays an idealistic writer who allows himself to be used by a politically ambitious publishing mogul (J. Carroll Naish). Not only does the publisher distort the Read More

Mystery of the Riverboat

Synopsis: This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode serial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Slightly Terrific

Actors: Leon Errol, Anne Rooney, Eddie Quillan, Richard Lane, Betty Kean

Synopsis: In this musical comedy of mistaken identity, a group of young of budding theatrical performers endeavor to put on their own show and enlist the aid of twin brothers. One of them is a producer while the other is a business magnate. Songs include "Hold That Line," "A Dream Said Hello" (sung by Read More

Song of the Open Road

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Jane Powell, W.C. Fields

Synopsis: A beautiful child (14-year-old Jane Powell in her feature film debut) star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. Read More

Hi, Good-Lookin'

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Kirby Grant, Betty Kean, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case of 1944's Hi, Good-Lookin', an agreeable vehicle for songstress Harriet Hilliard and her bandleader husband Ozzie Nelson. The barely existant plot finds aspiring singer Read More

Dark Mountain

Actors: Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor, Bradley finds his success hollow when his childhood sweetheart Kay (Ellen Drew) marries big-time gangster Steve Downey (Regis Toomey). In soon develops that Kay has wedded Downey against Read More

The Impostor

Actors: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: The Impostor is one of French film favorite Jean Gabin's two wartime Hollywood vehicles. Adapted by Stephen Longstreet and Marc Connelly from a screenplay by director Julien Duvivier, the story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the Read More

Twilight on the Prairie

Synopsis: In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Read More

Dixie Jamboree

Actors: Frances Langford, Guy Kibbee, Eddie Quillan, Charles Butterworth, Fifi D'Orsay

Synopsis: Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree, Frances Langford plays Susan Jackson, the daughter of a showboat skipper (Guy Kibbee). Captain Jackson's vessel, the Ellabelle, is the last of the Mississippi showboats, and Read More

Hi 'ya, Sailor

Actors: Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks, Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis: The musical quickie Hi'Ya Sailor was produced by Universal, the same studio responsible for Hi'Ya Chum, Hi, Buddy, Hi, Beautiful and Hi, Good Lookin'. Donald Woods plays Bob Jackson, a song-writing sailor who is taken to the cleaners by a crooked song-publishing racket. Left in the cold, Bob and Read More

Alaska Highway

Actors: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Ralph Sanford, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: Army engineeer Richard Arlen helps blaze the trail for a crucial highway in the Alaskan wastes. His younger brother William Henry works side by side with Arlen, though Henry is hampered by a tendency to down tools and raise fists whenever someone calls him out. Arlen is willing to bail Henry out Read More

Here Comes Kelly

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Joan Woodbury, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Armida, Sidney Miller

Synopsis: Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after another, much to the chagrin of his faithful girlfriend (Joan Woodbury) and loving mother (Mary Gordon). Finally, Kelly lands a job as a process server, leading to quite a Read More

Melody Parade

Actors: Tim Ryan, Mary Beth Hughes, Eddie Quillan, Irene Ryan, Mantan Moreland, André Charlot

Synopsis: The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a nightclub busboy who hopes to become a big-time producer. Mary Beth Hughes costars as Anne O'Rourke, a hatcheck girl with singing aspirations. The arrival of supposed heriess Gloria Read More

Follow the Band

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Mary Beth Hughes, Leon Errol, Anne Rooney, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He happens to bring with him his beloved trombone. Soon, with the help of bandleader Skinnay Ennis, the boy gets a job in a nightclub and subsequently becomes a popular radio star. Read More

It Ain't Hay

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend (Cecil Kellaway) replace his beloved carriage horse, and another friend (Leightno Noble) put together a US Army camp show. Through a misunderstanding, they take what they Read More

Kid Glove Killer

Actors: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S. Hinds, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: Kid Glove Killer is an expanded remake of They're Always Caught (1938), a 2-reel entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Van Heflin stars as criminologist Gordon McKay, at present investigating the murder of of reform mayor Daniels (Samuel S. Hinds). What the audience knows, but McKay doesn't Read More

Priorities on Parade

Actors: Ann Miller, Johnny Johnston, Jerry Colonna, Betty Jane Rhodes, Vera Vague

Synopsis: Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in 1942. The story takes place in a wartime aircraft plant, where a group of entertainers secure jobs putting on shows for the workers during lunch and dinner breaks. The Read More

Too Many Blondes

Actors: Rudy Vallee, Helen Parrish, Lon Chaney, Jr., Jerome Cowan, Shemp Howard

Synopsis: One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy Vallee. The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising situation with brassy Read More

The Flame of New Orleans

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Anne Revere, Andy Devine, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Acclaimed French filmmaker Rene Clair made his American debut with this period comedy/drama. Claire Ledeux (Marlene Dietrich) leaves her native France and arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1841, with one goal in mind: marrying a wealthy man. Posing as a pillar of society and a woman of means Read More

Six Lessons from Madame La Zonca

Actors: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Helen Parrish, Charles Lang, William Frawley

Synopsis: To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular song of 1941. Carrying over their antics from RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series, Lupe Velez and Leon Errol star respectively as Havana nightclub entertainer Madame La Zonga Read More

Where Did You Get That Girl?

Actors: Leon Errol, Helen Parrish, Charles Lang, Eddie Quillan, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the Read More

Flying Blind

Actors: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson, Roger Pryor

Synopsis: Flying Blind was the third of William Pine and William Thomas' independent productions for Paramount release. The cast includes such Pine-Thomas "regulars" as Richard Arlen and Jean Parker, and like its two predecessors dealt with the more dramatic aspects of aviation. Arlen plays Jim Clark Read More

The Grapes of Wrath

Actors: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Grapewin, Doris Bowden

Synopsis: The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who opens the movie returning to his Oklahoma home after serving jail time for manslaughter. En route, Tom Read More

Dancing on a Dime

Actors: Robert Paige, Grace McDonald, Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: Future Universal contractees Robert Paige and Grace MacDonald (in her film debut) star in the Paramount mini-musical Dancing on a Dime. The story concerns an entertainment troupe financed by the government's Work Projects Administration. When the WPA drops its funding, the young performers despair Read More

Dark Streets of Cairo

Actors: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this rough-and-tumble melodrama from Universal. The wiliest of them all is one Abbadi (George Zucco), who leaves no stone unturned in his quest for possession of the fabulous "seven Read More

Margie

Actors: Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Mischa Auer, Edgar Kennedy, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems necessary. Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Read More

La Conga Nights

Actors: Hugh Herbert

Synopsis: In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when Read More

Allegheny Uprising

Actors: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy, Wilfred Lawson

Synopsis: Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception. John Wayne and Claire Trevor, stars of the recent western hit Stagecoach, are reteamed herein as 18th
century adventurer James Smith and his spitfire sweetheart Janie. Taking Read More

The Flying Irishman

Actors: Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York to California by way of Ireland, was probably a carefully calculated publicity stunt. The end result was that Corrigan became a household name, and as such was an ideal Read More

The Family Next Door

Synopsis: Hugh Herbert is the head of The Family Next Door; he's a plumber of modest means and questionable skills. The rest of Herbert's family would love to climb the social ladder and improve their lot, but their dreams are always compromised by papa's ineptitude. In time-honored fashion, Hugh saves the Read More

Young Mr. Lincoln

Actors: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Richard Cromwell, Pauline Moore

Synopsis: John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film shows Lincoln (Henry Fonda) as he rises from a country boy born in a log cabin to a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois defending two young men unjustly accused of murder. The Read More

Hawaiian Nights

Actors: Johnny Downs, Mary Carlisle, Constance Moore, Etienne Girardot

Synopsis: For some reason, Hollywood movie musicals "discovered" Hawaii in the late 1930s. One of the lesser but still entertaining efforts in this realm was Universal's Hawaiian Nights, starring the personable Johnny Downs. The story centers on Ted Hartley (Downs), son of a wealthy hotelier. Rather than Read More

Made for Each Other

Actors: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: James Stewart and Carole Lombard star in this comedy-drama about the struggles of a young married couple directed by John Cromwell. Stewart and Lombard play a recently married couple, Jane and John Mason. John works as an attorney for the law firm of skinflint Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn). Read More

Swing, Sister, Swing

Actors: Ken Murray, Johnny Downs, Kathryn Kane, Eddie Quillan, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson Read More

London by Night

Actors: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field, Leo G. Carroll, George Zucco

Synopsis: London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from Will Scott's play The Umbrella Man, this atmospheric thriller concerns the a series of murders committed in foggy Sundial Square by an elusive gentleman known variously as Read More

The Mandarin Mystery

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen in Republic's The Mandarin Mystery. That actor was Eddie Quillan, who though a talented and appealing performer was woefully miscast as Queen. The story, based on the Ellery Read More

The Big City

Actors: Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charles Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and graft-ridden taxi monopolies. Looking for a scapegoat for a recent gangland bombing, crooked city officials deport the foreign wife (Luise Rainer) of rabble-rousing cabbie Spencer Tracy Read More

Fury

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis

Synopsis: Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in their Midwestern hometown when she takes a job in another city. Joe is a decent, hard-working soul Read More

The Gentleman from Louisiana

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Charles "Chic" Sale, Charlotte Henry, Marjorie Gateson, John Miljan

Synopsis: In this drama, set at the turn-of-the-century an ingenious young jockey finds his reputation sullied by criminals. He cleverly outsmarts them and his reputation is restored. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty Read More

Gridiron Flash

Actors: Betty Furness, Grant Mitchell, Edgar Kennedy, Grady Sutton

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a deal with a talented convict. If the youth will play on Bedford College's team and stay out of trouble, the coach will get him paroled. Well, natch, the con agrees to the deal. Read More

Hollywood Party

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Lupe Velez, Polly Moran

Synopsis: Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the less-than-sterling guidance of "kicked upstairs" MGM producer Harry Rapf, production dragged on interminably, using up the talents of five directors (none of whom were credited) and Read More

Broadway to Hollywood

Actors: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Russell Hardie, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville headliners of the 1880s whose fame is eclipsed by their son (played as a youth by Jackie Cooper, then as an adult by Russell Hardie). Morgan and Brady are reduced to bit Read More

Strictly Personal

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Edward Ellis, Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Quillan, Louis Calhern

Girl Crazy

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Eddie Quillan, Dorothy Lee, Mitzi Green

Synopsis: The 1930 George & Ira Gershwin musical smash Girl Crazy was refashioned for the screen in 1932 as a vehicle for comedians Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Most of the original play's romantic plotline has been jettisoned, shifting the emphasis to cabdriver Jimmy Deegan (Wheeler) and his larcenous Read More

Sweepstakes

Actors: Eddie Quillan, James Gleason, Marian Nixon, Lew Cody, Paul Hurst

Synopsis: The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey who was falsely accused of cheating and barred from the track. Desperate for work, the fellow becomes a singing waiter in Tijuana. Eventually he is allowed back and ends up Read More

The Tip-Off

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong, Ginger Rogers, Joan Peers, Ralf Harolde

Synopsis: A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Shot

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Roscoe Ates, Belle Bennett

Synopsis: The Big Shot is Ray (Eddie Quillan), a go-getting but incredibly naïve real estate speculator. Duped into purchasing some worthless swamp land, Ray is kept in the dark by the villains when the land turns out to be harboring a profitable sulphur spring. On the verge of selling back the property at Read More

Big Money

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Dorothy Christy

Synopsis: Breezy comic actor Eddie Quillan starred in several amiable Pathe programmers in 1929, 30' and '31. Big Money finds Quillan cast as a go-getting bank messenger, who falls in with unsuccessful gambler Jimmy Gleason. Entering a high-stakes card game, Quillan bets the bank's money, and is promptly Read More

Night Work

Synopsis: In this heartwarming drama, an amiable department store worker gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally slips a $10 tip he'd received into the hands of a nurse looking for donations to an orphanage on the way to the bank. By doing this, he unwittingly committed himself to supporting Read More

The Sophomore

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Sally O'Neil, Stanley Smith, Jeanette Loff, Russell Gleason

Synopsis: In this comedy, a college sophomore gets into deep trouble when he gambles away his tuition money on the first day of school. Now to pay for his education, he must work as a soda jerk at a local fountain. There he meets and falls in love with a pretty coed. Because the shop's owner also loves her Read More

Noisy Neighbors

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Theodore Roberts, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: Only three minutes of the 74-minute Noisy Neighbors contains any dialogue; the rest of the film has hardly any noise at all. Written for the screen by F. Hugh Herbert (of Kiss and Tell and The Moon is Blue fame), the story focuses on a family of second-string vaudevillians, played by genuine Read More

The Godless Girl

Actors: Tom Keene, Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, George Duryea, Eddie Quillan, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple expedient of tacking on a 10-minute coda, wherein the characters discuss the weather. The film begins as a condemnation of the atheistic movement then prevalent on high-school and Read More

Geraldine

Actors: Marian Nixon, Eddie Quillan, Albert Gran, Gaston Glass

Synopsis: Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Geraldine stars winsome Marion Nixon in the title role. Though quite wealthy, sweet Geraldine Wygate lacks the social graces to win the heart of aristocratic Bell Cameron (Gaston Glass). The heroine's dad (Alexander Gran) spends a fortune sending the girl to Read More

Show Folks

Actors: Carole Lombard, Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Robert Armstrong, Crauford Kent, Bessie Barriscale

Synopsis: The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with counter-girl Rita Carey (Lina Basquette), vaudeville hoofer Eddie Kehoe (Quillan) invites Rita to join his act. On the eve of their all-important Broadway debut, however, Eddie Read More

Caution: Funny Men at Work!

Synopsis: These vintage silent comedies from Mack Sennett include A Strong Revenge (1913) A Sea Dog's Tale (1926), Sailor, Beware (1927) and The Channel Swimmer (1928). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Our Dancing Daughters

Actors: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can never forget the indelible images of Joan Crawford tearing loose with one Charleston after another. Since everyone in the film is rich, the wild parties that dominate Our Read More