Larry KeatingFilmography

Boys' Night Out

Actors: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Janet Blair

Synopsis: In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a sociology student preparing her doctoral thesis, "Adolescent Sexual Fantasies in the Adult Suburban Male." She poses as a call girl to gain perspective on the sexual attitudes and Read More

Who Was That Lady?

Actors: Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore, John McIntire

Synopsis: A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh star as David and Ann Wilson. David is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when Ann walks in on them. She demands a Read More

The George Burns Show [TV Series]

Actors: George Burns

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 08

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

The Buster Keaton Story

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating

Synopsis: The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by Donald O'Connor. The film begins with young Buster appearing in his parents' circus acrobatic act (the real Keatons never appeared in a circus, but were vaudevillians instead). After Buster Read More

Stopover Tokyo

Actors: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott, Reiko Oyama

Synopsis: Novelist John P. Marquand's soft-spoken Japanese detective Mr. Moto was brought to the screen in an entertaining 1930s B-picture series by 20th Century-Fox. But when the same studio purchased Marquand's novel Stopover Tokyo in 1957, Mr. Moto was totally excised from the screenplay. The film's main Read More

The Wayward Bus

Actors: Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey, Rick Jason

Synopsis: John Steineck's novel The Wayward Bus was retranslated into pop-entertainment terms for the screen. Most of the story takes place on the charter bus owned by driver Rick Jason. Travelling slowly through a treacherous California mountain region, the passengers -- including Jason's spiteful Read More

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Don Dailey, Sheree North, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown (Ernest Borgnine) and Henderson (Dan Dailey). Pooling their talents, the trio rises from Tin Pan Alley to fame and fortune. The team's future is threatened when Buddy Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 07

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

The Eddy Duchin Story

Actors: Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Rex Thompson

Synopsis: Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Boston-born Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power) moves to New York City to pursue a career as a pharmacist. However, Eddy is also a skilled piano player, and when he meets pretty socialite Read More

Daddy Long Legs

Actors: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron. Fragments of the basic plot remain: American millionaire Astaire is the unknown benefactor of French orphan girl Caron, financing the girl's Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 06

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Gypsy Colt

Actors: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee, Larry Keating, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Gypsy Colt was based on a story by Eric Knight, better known for his enduring dog saga Lassie Come Home. This time, a beautiful black colt subs for Lassie, undergoing all sorts of perilous adventures out of love for its mistress, little Meg McWade (Donna Corcoran). Living with her mother and Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 05

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Give a Girl A Break

Actors: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood, Bob Fosse

Synopsis: After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were rewarded with their own starring vehicle, Give a Girl a Break. Marge plays one of three actresses competing for the leading role in a Broadway show directed by Gower. The other two Read More

A Lion Is in the Streets

Actors: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson, John McIntire

Synopsis: In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley, concerning the rise of a Southern demagogue, loosely based on the political career of Huey Long. By the time the film finally went into production and was released in 1953 Read More

Inferno

Actors: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip, millionaire Carson (Robert Ryan) is left in the middle of the desert by his wife Geraldine (Rhonda Fleming) and his business partner Joseph Duncan (William Lundigan). Ostensibly Read More

She's Back on Broadway

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Frank Lovejoy, Steve Cochran, Patrice Wymore

Synopsis: Virginia Mayo stars in this unofficial follow-up to her 1952 musical hit She's Working Her Way Through College. Mayo plays movie star Catherine Terris, who after three box-office flops in a row, returns to the Broadway stage whence she came. Her co-star in this endeavor is Rich Sommers (Steve Cochran Read More

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 04

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Monkey Business

Actors: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Howard Hawks hoped to capture the screwball comic fervor of his 1938 film Bringing Up Baby with his 1952 comedy Monkey Business. As in the earlier film, Cary Grant stars as an absent-minded professor involved in a research project. This time he's a chemist seeking a "fountain of youth" formula Read More

Something for the Birds

Actors: Victor Mature, Patricia Neal, Edmund Gwenn, Larry Keating, Gladys Hurlbut

Synopsis: Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target that wouldn't get them labeled as Communists, the producers decided to go after lobbyists. Patricia Neal comes to Washington on behalf of the preservation of the California Read More

About Face

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson, Virginia Gibson, Phyllis Kirk

Synopsis: About Face is a musicalized remake of the old stage and film comedy Brother Rat. The basic story remains the same, as military-school cadet Boff Roberts (Eddie Bracken) tries to keep his forbidden marriage to Alice Wheatley (Phyllis Kirk) a secret. Meanwhile, Boff's roommates Tony Williams (Gordon MacRae Read More

Above and Beyond

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the mission. Robert Taylor stars as Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of the Enola Gay. Once selected for this extremely dangerous mission, Tibbetts must hand-pick a crew worthy of the Read More

Carson City

Actors: Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Don Beddoe, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb

Synopsis: When a final tally is made, it may turn out that Andre De Toth directed as many superior Randolph Scott westerns as the more celebrated Budd Boetticher. In De Toth's Carson City, Scott is cast as a railroad construction engineer known only as Silent Jeff. His plans to build a railroad line between Read More

The Mating Season

Actors: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Larry Keating

Synopsis: A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays globe-trotting socialite Maggie Carleton, while Thelma Ritter is cast as Ellen McNulty, the hash-slinging mother of Maggie's husband, Val (John Lund). Perceiving that her son is Read More

Too Young to Kiss

Actors: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Kathryn Givney

Synopsis: Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson) is well into her 20s, but she's posing as a 14-year-old musical prodigy. It's part of her desperate effort to become a client of highly selective concert-promoter Eric Read More

Follow the Sun

Actors: Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Larry Keating

Synopsis: Follow the Sun is the filmed biography of golf champion Ben Hogan. Glenn Ford, no mean duffer himself, stars as Hogan, here depicted as a single-purposed individual to whom golf is everything. Anne Baxter co-stars as Hogan's supportive wife Valerie, who sticks with him through thick and thin. On Read More

Bannerline

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who devises a heart-tugging promotional stunt. Upon learning that crusty old history teacher Hugo Trimble (Lionel Barrymore) is dying, Mike writes up a glowing tribute, ascribing Read More

Bright Victory

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, John Hudson, James Edwards

Synopsis: Arthur Kennedy stars as a blinded war veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. He must overcome his pugnacious attitude towards any problem he can't think his way out of--and he must learn to temper his inbred racial prejudices. Peggy Dow plays the woman who loves Kennedy Read More

When Worlds Collide

Actors: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating

Synopsis: First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille. But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with an adequate screen treatment, the Read More

Come Fill the Cup

Actors: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason, Gig Young

Synopsis: James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason, Cagney pulls himself out of the gutter and restores his journalistic reputation. Because of his own redemption, Cagney is asked by his editor to straighten out the editor's Read More

The Light Touch

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Italy, The Light Touch served as a showcase for MGM's newest female star Pier Angeli. The title refers to the nimble-fingered technique utilized by art thief Sam Conride (Stewart Granger). Sam is a cog in the wheel of the operation controlled by illegal art peddler Felix Read More

Francis Goes to the Races

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Barry Kelley

Synopsis: In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule the loquacious equine and his plucky pal Peter (Donald O'Connor) get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch and end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names Read More

The Hank McCune Show [TV Series]

Actors: Hank McCune

When Willie Comes Marching Home

Actors: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Jimmy Lydon, Mae Marsh

Synopsis: A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published war memoirs of Sy Gomberg. Bill Kluggs (Dan Dailey) is the first man in his small West Virginia town to enlist, and his father Herman (William Demarest) and the locals give Read More

Mister 880

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, Millard Mitchell, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting. He makes only enough "funny money" to support himself, but the fact that his work is so amateurish (he can't even spell "Washington") arouses the indignation of the Read More

I Was a Shoplifter

Actors: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a well-off socialite suffering from kleptomania. Faye falls into the hands of a professional shoplifting ring headed by Herb Claxton (Charles Drake) and Ina Perdue (Andrea King Read More

Three Secrets

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Three Secrets is a darker variation on a theme first explored in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). There's only one survivor when a private plane crashes in the mountains of California. That survivor is a five-year-old boy, who hovers between life and death. As efforts continue to save the boy Read More

My Blue Heaven

Actors: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt, Mitzi Gaynor

Synopsis: In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple who, after hosting their own radio show, have just been given a deal to star in a TV series. They're also thrilled to discover that Molly is expecting a baby, but their joy Read More

Stella

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature, David Wayne, Randy Stuart, Marion Marshall

Synopsis: Stella is an out-of-left-field black comedy in which star Anne Sheridan is upstaged by an uproarious supporting cast. At a family picnic, a none too likeable uncle dies from accidentally eating poisoned mushrooms. The other family members don't want to be accused of murder, so they leave it to the Read More

Mother Didn't Tell Me

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, William Lundigan, June Havoc, Gary Merrill, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: What mother didn't tell Dorothy McGuire was that it's hard to be a doctor's wife. Marrying physician William Lundigan, Dorothy finds herself home alone most of the time, and also fumes silently as she watches her husband's parade of beautiful female patients. Further problems arise due to Read More

Right Cross

Actors: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore, Teresa Celli

Synopsis: Right Cross stars Dick Powell as cynical sportswriter Rick Gavery and Powell's wife June Allyson as boxing manager Pat O'Malley. Subbing for her incapacitated father (Lionel Barrymore), Pat grooms prizefighter Johnny Monterez (Ricardo Montalban) for the championship. Johnny holds a grudge against Read More

Dancing in the Dark

Actors: William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou, Randy Stuart

Synopsis: This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work. Arrogantly determined to climb back to the top, Slade convinces studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give him the male lead in the film version of a Broadway Read More

Tulsa

Actors: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills

Synopsis: Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence, especially the technical credits, suggests that the film was put together at Universal-International, then merely distriibuted by Eagle-Lion (who made a fortune at the box office). Read More

Whirlpool

Actors: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Eduard Franz, Barbara O'Neil

Synopsis: In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret kleptomania seeks help from a unscrupulous hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Although she is married to a successful psychiatrist (Richard Conte), and has no need to steal the Read More