Jack BuchananFilmography

As Long As They're Happy

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jean Carson, Brenda de Banzie, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen

Synopsis: Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance interludes. Adapted from the London stage hit of the same name, the film stars Jack Buchanan as stockbroker John Bentley, whose household is thrown into a tizzy when popular singing Read More

Josephine and Men

Actors: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always champion the underdog causes her endless romantic woes. It all begins when she breaks up with her fiance on the eve of their wedding so she can marry and help out a Read More

The Band Wagon

Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan

Synopsis: One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s, The Band Wagon stars Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His Read More

Happidrome

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A wealthy, doting father becomes the Broadway producer of a new show in hopes of fulfilling his daughter's aspirations to become a dramatic thespian in this comedy. Unfortunately the pretentiously serious play he chooses is such a stinker that it becomes a hit with the audience who perceives it to Read More

Penny Serenade

Actors: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran

Synopsis: While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade," Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant), which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. While Read More

Bulldog Sees It Through

Synopsis: Though the title might suggest that Bulldog Sees it Through is another entry in the never-ending "Bulldog Drummond" series, this British programmer is instead a comedy-melodrama vehicle for song-and-dance- man Jack Buchanan. Our hero plays the butler to aviator Sebastian Shaw. Smarting over losing Read More

The Middle Watch

Synopsis: In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two glamorous women are still aboard after they set sail and cannot turn back. To protect them, and himself, he hides the unwilling stowaways in his quarters. Unfortunately, they are Read More

Break the News

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jack Buchanan, June Knight, Marta Labarr, Gertrude Musgrove

Synopsis: What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer Maurice Chevalier, legendary director Rene Clair, and songwriter Cole Porter. But what should have made for dynamite entertainment, fizzled in the eyes of disappointed contemporary Read More

The Gang's All Here

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers, Edward Everett Horton, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Dapper musical comedy favorite Jack Buchanan is practically the whole show in The Gang's All Here. Buchanan plays John Forrest, top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, Forrest intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but this plan Read More

Smash and Grab

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Arthur Margetson, Anthony Holles, Edmund Willard

Synopsis: In this detective comedy, set in London, an intrepid detective and his wife must discover the criminals behind a series of jewel heists. The two follow the robbers' trail to a barber shop that is the front for a jewel fencing operation. To check it out, the detective literally sticks his neck out Read More

The Sky's the Limit

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Buchanan, David Hutcheson, H.F. Maltby

Synopsis: Star Jack Buchanan shared directorial credit with cinematographer Lee Garmes for the breezy British musical comedy The Sky's the Limit. Buchanan and opera star Mara Loseff star as bankrupt couturier Dave Harber and his equally cash-less partner Mme. Isobella. With the spring season approaching Read More

Sweet Devil

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this happy musical, two business partners find themselves in all sorts of romantic trouble. One of them is planning to marry his secretary, and the other, who is engaged to an aristocrat, advises him to fire her before proposing. The fellow does, but unfortunately, the distraught secretary, not Read More

This'll Make You Whistle

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Jean Gillie, David Hutcheson

Synopsis: Adapted from a popular West End stage musical, This'll Make You Whistle has been refashioned as a suitable vehicle for Jack Buchanan. Surprisingly, all of the music has been excised from the film version, denying Buchanan the opportunity to display his considerable singing and dancing skills. No Read More

When Knights Were Bold

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, Garry Marsh, Kate Cutler, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: After several years in India, Sir Guy De Vere (Jack Buchanan) returns to England where he has inherited his ancestral castle. His snobbish relatives, already disgusted by Sir Guy's cheek irreverence (and his insistence upon chumming around with the "common folk"), plot to wrest control of the Read More

Brewster's Millions

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Lili Damita, Nancy O'Neil, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: Brewster's Millions was the fourth film version (and first talkie adaptation) of the war-horse Winchell Smith/Byron Ongley play. This being a British film, it's only logical that popular British musical comedy star Jack Buchanan should portray hero Jack Brewster. Once more, Brewster will inherit Read More

Come out of the Pantry

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, James Carew, Olive Blakeney, Fred Emney

Synopsis: Alice Duer Miller's 1921 play Come out of the Kitchen was filmed during the silent era with Marguerite Clark, then musicalized (and Americanized) by Paramount in 1930 as Honey with Nancy Carroll. A second musical version, with brand-new songs, surfaced five years later as Come Out of the Pantry. Read More

That's a Good Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Vera Pearce

Synopsis: Dapper song-and-dance man Jack Buchanan was both star and director of That's a Good Girl. Hoping to replenish his bank account, Jack Barrows (Buchanan) tries to marry his female cousin off to a wealthy American. This plan is sidetracked when Barrows, wandering backstage at the Milan opera house Read More

Yes, Mr. Brown

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Hartley Power, Clifford Heatherley, Vera Pearce, Margot Grahame

Synopsis: This British musical comedy is based on a German play and tells the story of Nicholas Baumann, an ambitious representative of a US company who plies his trade in his native Vienna. When he learns that his American employer, Mr. Brown, is coming to Vienna, Baumann hopes that he will become a Read More

Magic Night

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Clive Currie, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A general's son, Buchanan, calls off his engagement to countess Bland when he falls in love with flower girl Neagle who becomes an opera singer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Man of Mayfair

Synopsis: In this funny romance, a nobleman finds himself infatuated with a show girl and be impersonating a stage hand so he can be near her. He also wants to impress the girl's overprotective mother who does not know that her daughter is a dancer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monte Carlo

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, ZaSu Pitts, Claud Allister, Tyler Brooke

Synopsis: After the master of sophisticated romantic comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, directed Jeanette MacDonald in the smash hit The Love Parade, they were reunited a year later for this similarly frothy romp. Countess Vera Von Conti (MacDonald) is engaged to marry the dull Prince Otto Von Seibenheim (Claud Allister Read More

Show of Shows

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

Paris

Actors: Irene Bordoni, Jack Buchanan, Louise Closser Hale, Jason Robards, Sr., Margaret Fielding

Synopsis: Paris served as the talkie debut for French music-hall favorite Irene Bordoni, who though never quite attaining screen stardom remained popular on American radio. Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's Read More

Bulldog Drummond

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Joan Bennett, Lilyan Tashman, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for hire. This gets him mixed up with lovely Joan Bennett, whose wealthy father is being held against his will in a gloomy sanitarium. Armed with little more than bravado Read More

Toni

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Dorothy Boyd, Forrester Harvey, Hayford Hobbs, Henry Vibart

Confetti

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Annette Benson, Robin Irvine, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: The British Confetti was the first film produced by Teddington Studios under their "quota" arrangement with Hollywood's First National. Musical-comedy favorite Jack Buchanan stars as Count Andrea della Zorro, a fortysomething Spanish aristocrat. In love with Dolores (Annette Benson), the Count Read More

Settled out of Court

Synopsis: This Selig "human interest" drama begins as a married couple head to Reno to get a divorce. Lost in the shuffle is the couple's young son, who can't understand why mommy and daddy are so mad at each other. On his own volition, the boy makes the arduous cross-country journey to Reno, hoping to Read More

The Audacious Mr. Squire

Synopsis: Though primarily known as a British musical comedy star, Jack Buchanan also appeared in a handful of silent films. One of the best of these was 1923's The Audacious Mr. Squire, adapted from a play by Syndey Bowcett. The dapper Buchanan finds himself the central figure in a snowballing comedy of Read More

Her Heritage

Auld Lang Syne

Synopsis: Auld Lang Syne is a silent British meller that asks the audience: "Does lower class mean lower values?" Commoner Violet Graham marries English noble Henry Baynton. No one gives the marriage much of a chance, but Baynton loves his wife and cares not about her humble origins. Enter George Bellamy, Graham Read More