Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody...
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1974
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Return of Charlie Chan was subtitled Happiness is a Warm Clue, which should be warning enough for the discriminating viewer....
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1973
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The mellifluous Richard Haydn is cast as Malcolm the Magificent, a seedy travelling magician. To fool the yokels, Malcolm...
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Malcolm the Magnificent
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1969
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In a bit of casting that would probably not pass muster anymore, British character actor Richard Haydn appears as Darrin's...
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Mr. Mishimoto
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1968
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Quentin Bartlett
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1966
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One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family...
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Max Detweiler
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1965
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Dr. Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) is an animal behavioral research director who travels to East Africa with his daughter...
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Rupert Rowbotham
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1965
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Rob (Dick Van Dyke) plans to devote an episode of "The Alan Brady Show" to a showcase of famous old radio comedians. The...
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Edwin Carp
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1964
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With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation...
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1962
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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William Brown
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1962
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four...
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Alfred North
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1960
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of an expedition to a remote plateau rumored to be the home of prehistoric beasts, already the...
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1960
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Magazine critic Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) despises all things mechanical, from electric typewriters to refrigerators....
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Bartlett Finchley
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1960
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1958
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1958
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That zany video genius Ernie Kovacs plays it (sort of) straight in this Playhouse 90 adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical...
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Muche
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1957
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Art Carney plays the title role, so to speak, in this live, 90-minute Playhouse 90 adaptation of Brandon Thomas' classic...
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1957
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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Dr. Avord Barrett
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1954
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Frightening though the prospect may sound, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appear in Technicolor and 3-D in the musical comedy...
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Bertie Searles
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1953
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Clark Gable's next-to-last MGM film was the Cold War melodrama Never Let Me Go. Filmed in England, the story finds American...
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Christopher Wellington St. John Denny
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1953
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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Baron Popoff
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1952
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This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through...
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Caterpillar
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1951
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Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made...
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Director
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1950
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Director
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1949
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Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last...
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Emperor Franz Josef
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1948
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A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated...
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Director
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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Mr. Appleton
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1948
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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Andre LeBlanc
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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Chief Inspector Hewitt
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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1946
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1946
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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This was the seventh entry in Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series, and there were still two more to come. Per the title,...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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Roger
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1943
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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1941
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Charles Wyckham
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1941
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