Reginald Gardiner Filmography

Bewitched: I Get Your Nanny, You My Goat

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Reginald Gardiner guest stars as Lord Montdrake, an aging warlock living a lonely existence in his gloomy English castle. Mistakenly believing that Darrin has stolen his servant Elspeth (Hermione Baddeley), the surly Montdrake casts a variety of irksome spells on poor Mr. Stephens. Samantha solves Read More

Petticoat Junction: Uncle Joe and the Master Plan

Synopsis: Having recently come off another Filmways-produced sitcom titled The Pruitts of Southhampton, Reginald Gardiner guests in this episode as Gaylord Martindale, a pompous guest at the Shady Rest. Noting that Martindale is constantly taking notes in a small book, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) jumps to Read More

Green Acres: Culture

Synopsis: As a member in good standing of Hooterville's Every-Other-Wednesday-Afternoon Discussion Club, Lisa (Eva Gabor) insists that what the community needs above all else is a symphony orchestra. Oliver (Eddie Albert) agrees in principle, but suggests that Lisa streamline her plans and organize a park Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

Do Not Disturb

Actors: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley, Sergio Fantoni, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this romantic comedy as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when Mike is transferred by the company for whom he works. While Janet and Mike seem to be happy together, the trip across the pond seems to bring on a case of the Seven Year Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ugly Duckling

Synopsis: A toy manufacturer bequeaths his company, and his fortune, to his unattractive daughter Alice (Anne Whitfield)--on condition that she be married or at least engaged within a year's time. Miraculously, a handsome artist claims to be in love with Alice, proving his ardor by painting her as a beauty. Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Great Buffalo Hunt

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to con world-famous sportsman Lord Faversham (Reginald Gardiner) into staying at the newly-christened "Shady Rest Hunting Lodge." To this end, Joe is willing to go to any lengths--even unto purchasing a buffalo. When this episode originally aired in November of Read More

What a Way to Go!

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who is worth $200 million dollars. However, she's convinced that her fortune is cursed, and she wants to give all her money to the IRS. As she explains her sad tale to her Read More

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Actors: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson

Synopsis: Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the Bride (1950), into this domestic comedy. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Read More

Back Street

Actors: Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: This third film version of the lachrymose Fannie Hurst novel Back Street stars Susan Hayward as Rae Smith the role previously essayed by Irene Dunne (in 1932) and Margaret Sullavan (in 1941). In both earlier films, Rae Smith sacrifices 28 years of her life to her married lover, who can never get a Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Banquo's Chair

Synopsis: One of the true classics of suspense fiction, Rupert Croft-Cooke's short story Banquo's Chair had been adapted for radio and television innumerable times before it was given the Alfred Hitchcock touch in this unforgettable episode. John Williams plays Scotland Yard inspector Brent, who is Read More

Rock-A-Bye Baby

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead marries a dashing Mexican bullfighter. Unfortunately, he dies the day after their wedding; fortunately, he managed to impregnate her. Unfortunately, she is soon supposed to be Read More

Playhouse 90: No Time at All

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously produced film presentation. One of these was the suspenseful 1958 offering No Time at All, a fascinating precursor to the Airport films of the 1970s. On a routine night Read More

The Story of Mankind

Actors: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Vincent Price, Groucho Marx, Agnes Moorehead, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper, Chico Marx

Synopsis: Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price Read More

The Birds and the Bees

Actors: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is sailing back from an African safari when he meets and falls in love with a con-artist's lovely daughter. Posing as a military officer, the card-sharp and his boys have come Read More

Ain't Misbehavin'

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie van Doren, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: In this lively musical a chorine hooks a successful businessman and becomes the snob she thinks he expects her to be. This is a problem, because he fell in love with her because she was so earthy and fun. Now that she has become refined and aloof, he is bored. Fortunately, just as he is leaving Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Read More

Androcles and the Lion

Actors: Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans

Synopsis: With George Bernard Shaw safely in his grave, RKO chief Howard Hughes had no qualms about twisting and bending Shaw's Androcles & the Lion to accommodate his own notions of entertainment. Happier, wiser heads prevailed before the Hughes-commissioned "Vestal Virgins" sequence, complete with Read More

The Black Widow

Synopsis: Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC Read More

Elopement

Actors: Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, William Lundigan, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides to elope with her psychology professor rather than pursue a career. The professor's family is also not pleased by the union. Both families, who despise each other, try to Read More

Wabash Avenue

Actors: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, James Barton, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to Chicago, but the plot remains basically the same. Once again, the star is cast as a honky-tonk singer, Ruby Summers, who is groomed for classier show-business endeavors by Read More

I'll Get By

Actors: June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria de Haven, Dennis Day, Harry James

Synopsis: I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Read More

Halls of Montezuma

Actors: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Jack Webb, Karl Malden, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Hylton

Synopsis: In Halls of Montezuma, Richard Widmark stars as Lt. Carl Anderson, a former schoolteacher who serves as a no-nonsense Marine officer during WW II. Anderson leads his patrol to a Japanese-controlled island, where the enemy has set up an experimental rocket base. The patrol's mission is to capture Read More

That Lady in Ermine

Actors: Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th. In 1861, the Countess Angelina (Betty Grable) and her newlywed husband, Baron Mario, have just entered the bridal chamber when Read More

Fury at Furnace Creek

Actors: Robert Adler, Griff Barnett, Harlan Briggs, Harry Carter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is accused of conspiring with the Indians and is forced to resign. To prove his innocence, the men use terribly different methods. The older one, an adventurer, approaches suspects Read More

That Wonderful Urge

Actors: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson

Synopsis: That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the Betty Grable musical Sweet Rosie O'Grady). Tyrone Power repeats his role from the 1937 film as a handsome reporter who targets a flighty heiress (Gene Tierney, taking over Read More

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Actors: Lenore Aubert, Truman Bradley, Harry V. Cheshire, George Cleveland, Eddie Dunn

Synopsis: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by Mark Stevens (whose singing voice was dubbed by Buddy Clark), Howard is a humble 19th century organ salesman who rises to Broadway fame as the composer of maudlin ballads Read More

One More Tomorrow

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith

Synopsis: In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a wealthy gadabout, and finds she abhors his decadent life even though she loves him. She then takes up with another whom she marries. Unfortunately, she still loves the Read More

Cluny Brown

Actors: Norman Ainsley, Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Sara Allgood, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Margaret Bannerman, Florence Bates, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle is indisposed, Cluny rolls up her sleeves and takes a plumbing job at a society home, where she meets a handsome Czech author (Charles Boyer) - a refugee who has fled the Read More

Do You Love Me?

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Harry James, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Gaines

Synopsis: That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train to meet her husband the symphony conductor. En route she meets Harry James, the big band leader. She is deeply impressed by the swingin' beat of the new music. It becomes Read More

Christmas in Connecticut

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine's housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch Read More

Molly and Me

Actors: Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer

Synopsis: A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry (Gracie Fields) is a struggling actress who is short on money and needs paying work. When she learns that John Graham (Monty Woolley), a wealthy and respected former politician, needs a Read More

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Actors: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Guy Kibbee, Allyn Joslyn, Margaret Dumont, Dolores Moran, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at Midnght, the film is in fact a delightful comedy-fantasy-certainly not Benny's best film, but far from his worst. While dozing off during a radio broadcast, studio musician Read More

The Dolly Sisters

Actors: Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

The Immortal Sergeant

Actors: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Though Henry Fonda is top-billed in The Immortal Sergeant, the title character is played by Thomas Mitchell. Set in the Libyan Desert during WW2, the story finds tough but compassionate British Eighth Army sergeant Kelly (Thomas Mitchell) in charge of a 14-man patrol. Kelly's corporal is Colin Read More

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Actors: Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner, Phil Regan

Synopsis: In this semi-remake of Love is News (37), Betty Grable stars as a Gay-Nineties Bowery saloon singer. Ever seeking an opportunity for advancement, Grable heads to London, becomes a highbrow musical comedy "artiste", and concocts a scheme to land a wealth duke (Reginald Gardiner). Her plan is foiled Read More

Claudia

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Ina Claire, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Dorothy McGuire charmingly recreates her stage role in this film adaptation of Rose Franken's Broadway hit Claudia. The title character (McGuire) is the naïve, somewhat childish young bride of David Naughton (Robert Young). Slowly adapting to married life, the unworldy Claudia receives several Read More

Captains of the Clouds

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias

Synopsis: James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights in stealing jobs-and women-away from his competitors. Brian is forced to shape up in a hurry when he's assigned to Read More

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Actors: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart

Synopsis: A Yank in the RAF is brash pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power), freshly arrived in London. Hoping to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend Carol Brown (Betty Grable), Tim joins the Royal Air Force, immediately alienating everyone with his cockiness and "What the Hell?" attitude concerning the war. Read More

Sundown

Actors: Bruce Cabot, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Harry Carey, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Adapted by Barre Lyndon from his own Saturday Evening Post short story, Sundown takes place in Africa during WW2. British army major Coombes (George Sanders) cannot abide the local Arab population, and he has even less time for district commissioner Crawford (Bruce Cabot), who has befriended the Read More

My Life with Caroline

Actors: Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger, Reginald Gardiner, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: My Life with Caroline is a dizzy boy-chases-girl affair with a twist: the girl being chased is the boy's own wife. Wealthy publisher Anthony (Ronald Colman) weds dizzy socialite Caroline (Anna Lee, in her first Hollywood film), who sees nothing wrong with seeking out new boyfriends even after her 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

The Doctor Takes a Wife

Actors: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college professor Timothy Sterling (Ray Milland) has no use for women. So guess who is mistaken for June's husband, and guess who is forced by circumstances to pretend that she's Read More

Dulcy

Actors: Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner, Billie Burke

Synopsis: The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P. Adams: Archetypal "dumb wife" Dulcinea, who continually spouted cliches like "There's never a policeman around when you need one" and "Don't take any wooden nickels." Lynn Read More

The Great Dictator

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: "This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat." With this pithy opening title, Charles Chaplin begins his first all-talking feature film, The Great Dictator. During World War I Read More

The Flying Deuces

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles B. Middleton

Synopsis: In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's Read More

The Night of Nights

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, this backstage drama stars Pat O'Brien as Dan O'Farrell, a boozy Broadway producer who makes his way back to show-business after a long absence. As a young man, O'Farrell Read More

Everybody Sing

Actors: Allan Jones, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke

Synopsis: Everybody Sing is an uncertain blend of screwball comedy and standard MGM musical. Reginald Owen plays Hillary Bellaire, patriarch of a looney theatrical family, while Billie Burke co-stars as his overly dramatic actress wife Diana. What story there is gets under way when the Bellaire's daughters Read More

Sweethearts

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Florence Rice

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta of the same name (though most of Herbert's songs remain intact), but a Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell brainstorm about a popular Broadway singing duo Read More

The Girl Downstairs

Actors: Franziska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Reginald Gardiner, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: "Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three Hollywood screen appearances in MGM's The Girl Downstairs. A Cinderella yarn, the film stars Gaal as scullery maid Katerina Linz, who is romanced by callous playboy Paul Wagner Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Read More

A Damsel in Distress

Actors: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though it's obvious that leading lady Joan Fontaine can't dance a step. Written by P. G. Wodehouse, Damsel in Distress casts Astaire as Jerry, an American entertainer appearing in Read More

Born to Dance

Actors: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers

Synopsis: A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another three-sailors-on-leave affair, with Ted (James Stewart), Mush (Buddy Ebsen) and Gunny (Sid Silvers, who also co-wrote the script) romancing the eminently romanceable Nora (Eleanor Powell) Read More

Regal Cavalcade

Synopsis: His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued making films until his retirement in 1940. Brenon's first project upon his arrival in London was the feature-length documentary Royal Cavalcade. Covering a 25-year period Read More

A Little Bit of Bluff

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young man becomes an amateur detective when his fiancee's father, a stuffy old admiral (who naturally disapproves of