Mary WickesFilmography

Little Women

Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz, John Neville

Synopsis: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father leaves for battle as part of the Union Army. At Read More

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, James Coburn, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act, Whoopie Goldberg reprises her role of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas entertainer who hid out with in a convent of nuns to avoid a nasty bunch of gangsters. In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Deloris is persuaded to return to the convent by the Mother Read More

Sister Act

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg's first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Actors: Richard Kiley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV family film (produced for the Wonderworks series) is based on the famous story by Oscar Wilde. While the Otis Family is enjoying a vacation in an Old English estate, a number of strange and unexplained occurrences lead several members of the family to suspect that the old house is Read More

Postcards From the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 02

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 03

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Father Dowling Mysteries: The Missing Body Mystery

Synopsis: A murder case ignites the curiosity of Fr. Dowling and a nun who set out to solve the mystery against the wishes of his bishop and the FBI. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 01

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: This TV pilot film was based on the "Father Dowling" character created (in the tradition of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown) by Ralph McInery. Tom Bosley plays the good Father, who whiles away his off-hours by reading mystery novels. When a young millionaire entrepreneur turns up dead, the official Read More

Almost Partners

Synopsis: Paul Sorvino, Royana Black, and Mary Wickes star in the 60-minute comedy Almost Partners. Fourteen-year-old Molly McCue (Black) is stymied when an urn containing her father's ashes turns up missing. Who'd want to steal something of only sentimental value. To find out, Molly engages the services of Read More

The Christmas Gift

Actors: John Denver, Jane Kaczmarek, Gennie James

Synopsis: In this holiday drama, a widowed architect tries to mix business with pleasure when he takes his daughter on a business trip to a strange town in Colorado. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Widow, Weep for Me

Synopsis: The opening episode of Murder She Wrote's second season marks the first occasion in which matronly mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) assumes a different identity in the cause of justice. Summoned to a Caribbean resort by a desperate letter from her old friend Read More

First the Egg

Actors: Justine Bateman, Mary Wickes, James Vincent McNichol, Elizabeth Huddle, Jack Riley

Synopsis: A group of high-school science students are assigned to "parent" an egg for a full week. The students are subsequent thrown into a tizzy when the egg hatches prematurely. Although the assignment goes awry, the results are quite salutary vis-à-vis the blossoming relationship between students Sara (Justine Bateman Read More

The Waltons: The Hostage

Synopsis: Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) comes to the rescue of a 14-year-old mountain girl named Sissie (Debbie Lytton) , whose father has sold her into marriage. Angry over Mary Ellen's interference, Sissy's prospective husband Job (Gary Grubbs) kidnaps Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) in retaliation. On a Read More

Touched by Love

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Diane Lane, Michael Learned, John Amos, Cristina Raines

Synopsis: Touched by Love was not only filmed in Canada, but had a leading character named Canada (it had to; the film is based on the reminisces of a real-life person). Deborah Raffin portrays Lena Canada, a therapist in charge of handicapped Diane Lane. A wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy victim, Lane also Read More

Willa

Actors: Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a spunky waitress (Deborah Raffin) is left to support herself, her two small children, and her unborn baby when her no-good husband runs off. Determined not to spend her life in a dead-end job, the woman quits waitressing and sets out to become a truck driver. ~ Iotis Read More

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: Season 01

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Scott Kolden, Billy Barty, Mary Wickes, Joe Higgins

Synopsis: Season One of Sid and Marty Krofft's whimsically wacky Saturday-morning series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters begins as young Johnny and Scott Stuart (Johnny Whitaker, Scott Kolden) befriend a green, pint-sized, tentacled sea monster named Sigmund Ooze (Billy Barty), who has been disowned by his Read More

Sanford and Son: The Light Housekeeper

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Mary Wickes, Beah Richards

Synopsis: Recuperating from a broken arm suffered in an accident, Fred (Redd Foxx) is unable to do any housework. To alleviate the problem, Fred's son Lamont (Redd Foxx) agrees to hire a maid -- at bargain prices. The inimitable Mary Wickes guest-stars as abrasive housekeeper Mary, who, need we add, turns Read More

Snowball Express

Actors: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis: In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris (Kathleen Cody) and Richard (Johnny Whitaker) -- decides to leave the New York City rat-race for the clean air and easy living of the Colorado ski country. Read More

Napoleon and Samantha

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Michael Douglas

Synopsis: In this heartwarming family-oriented adventure from Disney, an adorable orphan named Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) is sent to live on his grandfather's Oregon farm. There he is befriended by a college student (Michael Douglas) who has come to the spread to work as a goat herder during the summer. One Read More

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton, Susan Saint James

Synopsis: Mother Simplicia (Rosalind Russell) is the head nun at an all-girl school. Aided by the young Sister George (Stella Stevens), the two try to convert the wayward girls to prim and proper ladies with a solid religious foundation. Rosabelle (Susan St. James) and Marvel Ann (Barbara Hunter), are the Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Robert Goulet

Actors: Robert Goulet, Mary Wickes, Lucie Arnaz

Synopsis: Singer Robert Goulet appears both as himself and as his exact double, truck driver Chuck Willis. When Mooney (Gale Gordon) turns Chuck down for a loan, Lucy (Lucille Ball) takes pity on the guy and enters him in a Robert Goulet lookalike contest, for a $5000 prizes. Unfortunately, Chuck loses the Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Social Climbers

Synopsis: Mary Wickes guest stars as lady blacksmith Adaline Ashley, the social arbiter of Bug Tussle, the Clampetts' home turf. Certain that Adaline would be a prize catch for her widowed son-in-law Jed, Granny tries to bring the two hillbillies together. Also in the cast is Gail Bonney as Mrs. Robinson Read More

F Troop: Marriage, Fort Courage Style

Synopsis: O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) and Agarn (Larry Storch) have hatched another scheme to sell mail-order brides to the troopers, only to face stiff competition in the form of marriage broker Samantha Crawford (Mary Wickes). After considering the matrimonial prospects offered by Samantha, both O'Rourke Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Baby Sitter

Actors: Mary Wickes, Jonathan Hole, Elvia Allman, Joyce Baker, The Marquis Chimps (Charlie, Danny, Bobbie)

Synopsis: After another of her many fights with boss Mooney (Gale Gordon), Lucy (Lucille Ball) quits her job and signs up with the "Unique Employment Agency" (ironically the same firm that would employ Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon on the later sitcom Here's Lucy). For her first assignment, Lucy is sent to Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy's Mystery Guest

Actors: Mary Wickes, Mary Jane Croft

Synopsis: Accidentally tearing up an important letter, Lucy (Lucille Ball) wonders exactly who is planning to pay her a visit. Much to her chagrin, the "mystery guest" turns out to be her zany Aunt Agatha (Mary Wickes), an overbearing physical-fitness freak. Driven to the brink of madness by Aunt Agatha's Read More

The Spirit Is Willing

Actors: Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry J. Gordon, John McGiver, Cass Daley

Synopsis: In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents immediately suspect their son. The real Read More

Bonanza: A Christmas Story

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Wayne Newton, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, "A Christmas Story" originally aired on December 25, 1966. Wayne Newton returns to Bonanza in the role of singer Andy Walker, who herein agrees to perform at the annual Oprhan's Christmas Benefit. The fly (or grinch) in the ointment is Andy's crooked uncle/manager Thaddeus Cade Read More

The Trouble With Angels

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Camilla Sparv, June Harding

Synopsis: The Trouble With Angels opens on the first day of school for a new batch of students at St. Francis Academy, run by a very strong-willed Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). She is used to having things her way, but she may have met her match in the headstrong and independent Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills Read More

How to Murder Your Wife

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty

Actors: Clint Walker, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Leopold Kress

Synopsis: Clint Walker makes the first of two series appearances as Frank Winslow, a handsome construction engineer whom Lucy falls for big-time. Impressed by Frank's physique while visiting the 39-story skyscraper he is working on, Lucy evinces a preference for "tall, handsome buildings" and invites him Read More

Dear Heart

Actors: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Michael Anderson, Jr., Barbara Nichols, Patricia Barry

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a middle-aged postmistress from a small town goes to a post office convention in New York and promptly falls in love with a man who is engaged to another. His fiancee is a widow with a teenage son. The man really wants a family, but he also really wants the Read More

Fate Is the Hunter

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell

Synopsis: Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's novel. Authorities systematically eliminate probable causes, finally placing blame on the pilot, who was seen drinking before the flight. The airline's director of flight Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Puts Out a Fire in the Bank

Actors: Gale Gordon, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Alan Hale, Jr., Irwin Charone

Synopsis: Stingy Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) refuses to provide funds for the Danville Volunteer Fire Department, arguing that fire captain Lucy (Lucille Ball) and her all-girl battalion are the epitome of ineptitude. Down but not out, Lucy cooks up a scheme to prove that the Fire Department is not only Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Viv Play Softball

Actors: William Schallert, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Karen Norris, Herb Vigran

Synopsis: The all-female Danville Volunteer Fire Department organizes a softball team, with Lucy (Lucille Ball) appointing herself captain. Unfortunately, Lucy is so inept a ballplayer that team manager Mr. Cressant (William Schallert) is forced to bench her just before a big game. As often happens Read More

Bonanza: The Colonel

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Larkin

Synopsis: "The Colonel" is habitual liar Frank Medford, an old friend of Ben Cartwright. Now a poverty-stricken travelling salesman, Frank is determined to convince everyone that he is as successful as Ben. Thus, Frank tells one of his celebrated whoppers, claming to be a millionaire. It takes the love of a Read More

Who's Minding the Store?

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston

Synopsis: This frantic comedy finds Raymond (Jerry Lewis) working in a department store. Mr. Tuttle (John McGiver) is the watchful owner, whose outspoken wife Phoebe (Agnes Moorehead) makes no secret about her feelings that Raymond is an incompetent boob. Barbara (Jill St. John) is the pretty elevator Read More

The Music Man

Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford

Synopsis: Meredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary stage performance as fast-talking con man Harold Hill, who goes from town to town selling citizens on starting a "boy's band," then extracts money Read More

The Sins of Rachel Cade

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John, Woody Strode

Synopsis: Rachel Cade (Angie Dickinson), a dedicated American nurse working in the Belgian Congo, meets administrator Henri Derode (Peter Finch) during a native fertility dance. Guess what he tries to do? He doesn't, though, because Rachel falls in love with handsome downed RAF pilot Paul Wilton (Roger Moore Read More

Cimarron

Actors: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey Cravat (Glenn Ford) is an impulsive, short-fused cowboy who has married an immigrant woman, Sabra (Maria Schell). Together, Yancey and Sabra claim a homestead, and Yancey Read More

It Happened to Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney

Synopsis: Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster business, and the railroad has just trashed a shipment, killing them off before they could ever be properly boiled to death for someone's dinner. Jane Read More

Don't Go Near the Water

Actors: Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis, Earl Holliman, Keenan Wynn, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Obviously inspired by such service comedies as Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball, Don't Go Near the Water is a tribute to those "unsung heroes" of WW2: the men and women of the Navy's Public Relations Department. Thousands of miles away from the shooting war, Lt. Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Toby

Synopsis: The title character in this grim charade is a sickly little baby, whom middle-aged Edwina Freed (Jessica Tandy) insists is her nephew. Edwina's childhood sweetheart Albert Birch (Robert H. Harris) wants to marry Edwina, but first he must agree never to come in contact with Toby -- nor is he Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Baby Sitter

Synopsis: Thelma Ritter, previously seen as the delightfully ghoulish nurse in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 theatrical feature Rear Window, is here cast as babysitter Lottie Slocum. When her most recent client, Mrs. Nash, is murdered, Lottie is interviewed by the cops, but she has no vital information. She does Read More

Dance with Me, Henry

Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes place in Kiddieland, an amusement park owned by soft-hearted Lou Henry (Costello). An inveterate collector of strays, Lou has adopted orphaned kids Shelley (Gigi Perreau) and Read More

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Actors: Jerry Paris, Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Kipp Hamilton, Robert Douglas, Peggy Knudsen, Chuck Connors

Synopsis: This distaff variation of the Goodbye Mr. Chips theme is based on a novel by Frances Gray Patton. While confined to a sickbed, ageing New England schoolteacher Miss Dove (Jennifer Jones) recalls the many students who passed through her classroom. Among her now-grown-up prize pupils are surgeon Tom Read More

White Christmas

Actors: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance Read More

Destry

Actors: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: The third and (as of 1998) final film version of Max Brand's Destry Rides Again, this 1954 Audie Murphy vehicle owes more to the 1939 Jimmy Stewart version than it does to the Brand original. Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger. Destry is summoned to a wide-open Read More

Half a Hero

Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

The Actress

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins, Ian Wolfe

Synopsis: The Actress is based on Years Ago, one of several autobiographies by actress/playwright Ruth Gordon. Jean Simmons stars as blossoming teenager Ruth Gordon Jones, who is determined to become a famous stage star despite the objections of her stubborn ex-sea captain father Clinton Jones (Spencer Tracy Read More

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth Tarkington. Penrod himself (played by Billy Gray) takes a back seat to the main plot, concerning the hot-and-cold romance between Doris Day and Gordon MacRae Read More

I Love Lucy: The Ballet

Actors: Mary Wickes, Frank Scannell

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Lucy (Lucille Ball) once again goes to extreme lengths to appear in Ricky's nightclub act. Apprised that Ricky (Desi Arnaz) is looking for a ballerina and a burlesque comic, Lucy first takes ballet lessons from the imperious Mme. LaMond (Mary Wickes) -- and ends up with Read More

Young Man with Ideas

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel, Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran

Synopsis: The Young Man with Ideas in this MGM production is idealistic lawyer Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford). Too self-effacing for his own good, Webster vegetates in Montana with his wife Julie (Ruth Roman) and children for nearly 10 years before starting life anew in California. Living penuriously while Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More

On Moonlight Bay

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his is a strictly secondary part herein. The Read More

I'll See You in My Dreams

Actors: Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, James Gleason

Synopsis: The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' wife Grace, who was still alive when the film was made (Kahn died some ten years earlier). Danny Thomas stars as the prolific tunesmith, whose Read More

The Petty Girl

Actors: Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester, Melville Cooper, Audrey Long

Synopsis: Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed renderings of ripe young damsels wearing next to nothing, and sometimes not even that. In The Petty Girl, George Petty is portrayed by Robert Cummings, while Joan Caulfield Read More

Anna Lucasta

Actors: Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, Oscar Homolka, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Philip Yordan's stage hit Anna Lucasta posed two problems to Hollywood in 1949. For one thing, the story concerned a prostitute who is exploited by her greedy family. For another, the characters were black, thereby cutting the box-office potential in half in those racially divisive times. In Read More

June Bride

Actors: Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Betty Lynn, Barbara Bates

Synopsis: June Bride is based on Feature for June, a play by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer. Bette Davis plays the businesslike editor of a fashionable woman's magazine, who plans a feature on a "typical" midwestern marriage. She assigns her aide (and former fiance) Robert Montgomery to cover the story, a Read More

The Decision of Christopher Blake

Actors: Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, Ted Donaldson, John Hoyt

Synopsis: In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get his parents back together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Higher and Higher

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol, Victor Borge

Synopsis: Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank Sinatra was easily the film's biggest box-office draw. Actually, Frankie was a last minute addition to the film, which began as a traditional adaptation of a popular Broadway Read More

How's About It?

Actors: Robert Paige, Grace McDonald, Shemp Howard, Walter Catlett, Buddy Rich

Synopsis: In this musical, the three Andrews Sisters play elevator operators who work in an office building containing a music publishing business. The girls, all aspiring singers, hope to get a break while working there. Another resident in the building, a songwriter must cope with a plagiarism suit served Read More

My Kingdom for a Cook

Actors: Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, Bill Carter, Isobel Elsom, Edward Gargan

Synopsis: Here's yet another comedy about the wartime servant shortage, with traces of The Man Who Came to Dinner thrown into the mixture. When his cook is forced to stay behind in England, Rudyard Morley (Charles Coburn), a noted author who bears more than a passing resemblance to George Bernard Shaw Read More

Rhythm of the Islands

Actors: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love Read More

The Happy Land

Actors: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Richard Crane

Synopsis: An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by the ghost of his Read More

Who Done It?

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: With only a minimal romantic subplot and no music whatsoever, Who Done It? is pure, undiluted Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and a good mystery on its own to boot. Bud and Lou star as Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim, a pair of soda jerks who aspire to become radio detective-show writers (their Read More

Private Buckaroo

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis, Jennifer Holt, Shemp Howard

Synopsis: This upbeat WW II-era musical features performances by the Andrews Sisters and Harry James as it tells the story of a rebellious young inductee who has trouble toeing the line until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and decide to perk up their camp Read More

Blondie's Blessed Event

Synopsis: An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic strip wherein Blondie and Dagwood were blessed with baby daughter Cookie. The first portion of the film involves the tribulations of Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) as he Read More

The Mayor of 44th Street

Actors: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan, Richard Barthelmess, Joan Merrill

Synopsis: In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns Read More

Now, Voyager

Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson. Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to Read More

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis

Synopsis: The George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner was inspired by the authors' mutual friend, waspish critic/author Alexander Woollcott. Generously bearded ex-Yale professor Monty Woolley, no mean curmudgeon himself, plays the Woollcott character, here rechristened Sheridan Read More