Robert CummingsFilmography

Partners in Crime

Synopsis: Partners in Crime was the second attempt by Richard Levinson and William Link to create a TV series featuring a female ex-judge and male ex-con: the first was 1971's The Judge and Jake Wyler. This time, Lee Grant is the former jurist turned sleuth, while Lou Antonio is the onetime prisoner turned Read More

Bewitched: Samantha and the Troll

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: Once again, Tabitha brings all of her toys to life. Though she manages to recall most of her playthings, her "humanized" toy troll (Felix Silla) escapes -- just when Samantha is out having her "10,000 Twitch Overhaul." Meanwhile, Darrin's new client, Mr. Berkeley (Robert Cummings), insists upon Read More

Green Acres: Rest and Relaxation

Actors: Robert Cummings, Joe Higgins

Synopsis: Bob Cummings, who in the '50s starred in producer Paul Henning's classic sitcom Love That Bob, returns for a guest role in Henning's equally popular series Green Acres. Cummings is cast as writer Mort Warner, an old friend of gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert). Anxious to escape the Read More

The Flying Nun: Speak the Speech, I Pray You

Synopsis: Robert Cummings guest-stars as Father Larson, the new priest at Convent San Tanco. Having spent his whole career in the academic world, Father Larson is nervous about assuming the responsibilities of his first parish-and even more so when he is slated to make a speech at his welcome dinner. A Read More

Gidget Grows Up

Synopsis: Gidget, the teenybopper surfer created by Frederick Kohner, grows up in the form of Karen Valentine (rather than such previous Gidgets as Sandra Dee and Sally Field). She leaves her friends and family at Malibu to head for New York, there to take a job as a guide at the United Nations building. Read More

Five Golden Dragons

Actors: Robert Cummings

Synopsis: While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons, and the local mobsters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Stagecoach

Actors: Ann-Margret, Red Buttons, Michael Connors, Alex Cord, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy sawbones Josiah Boone (Bing Crosby), dance-hall girl and prostitute Dallas (Ann-Margret), embezzling bank clerk Gatewood (Robert Cummings), pregnant army officer's wife Lucy Read More

Promise Her Anything

Actors: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) is a young widow raising a baby in Greenwich Village. She's decided that her child needs a father, and she determines that her best bet as a prospective mate is Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Race for Queen

Synopsis: First shown on February 5, 1964, "The Race for Queen" was the fifth highest-rated episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. This time out, the Clampetts strike oil again, this time on their Beverly Hills property. Meanwhile, Elly May competes in the Miss Beverly Hills beauty contest. Robert Cummings Read More

My Living Doll

Synopsis: Included are two episodes ("Uninvited Guest" and "Something Borrowed, Something Blue") from the mid-'60s TV show about a psychiatrist and his patient, a robot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Carpetbaggers

Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the Cord Chemical factory, a manufacturer of dynamite 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

Beach Party

Actors: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: Professor Bob Cummings is an anthropologist who uses a telescope to study the mating habits of teenagers, namely Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. However, Cummings' secretary Dorothy Malone wishes that his boss would get his mind off bikinis and surfers. Meanwhile trouble brews when Eric Von Read More

My Geisha

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her husband. Shirley MacLaine stars as Lucy Dell, a comic actress married to equally successful director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand). Though Paul has found success creating comic Read More

The Twilight Zone: King Nine Will Not Return

Actors: Robert Cummings, Paul Lambert, Gene Lyons, Jenna McMahon, Seymour Green

Synopsis: As had been the case with the first season's inaugural episode "Where Is Everybody?", the second season of Twilight Zone opened with a "solo" drama, wherein the protagonist finds himself alone in a bizarre situation, with no memory of how he got there. In "King Nine Will Not Return," Robert Cummings Read More

Love That Bob: Season 05

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Still on NBC after moving from CBS a year earlier, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fifth and final season in first-run prime time. Bob Cummings returns in his signature role as professional photographer and self-styled ladies' man Bob Collins, with Ann B. Davis as Bob's Read More

Love That Bob: Season 04

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from its familiar Thursday night time slot to a Tuesday evening berth, and leaving CBS to return to NBC in the bargain, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fourth season. Even after all these years, Bob Collins (Bob Cummings), the series' cheerfully lascivious Read More

Love That Bob: Season 03

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Happy-go-lucky photographer Bob Collins (Bob Cummings) continues to ardently pursue his lovely models -- and for that matter, any other lovely lady who tickles his fancy -- as Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its third season. Also still on hand are future Brady Bunch Read More

How to Be Very, Very, Popular

Actors: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer Read More

Dateline: Disneyland

Actors: Art Linkletter

Love That Bob: Season 02

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from NBC to CBS for its second season, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) also moved to a more advantageous time slot, Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Here it would remain for the next two years -- never a huge ratings hit, but always consistently popular with its target audience Read More

Love That Bob: Season 01

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: "Hold it! I think you're gonna like this picture!" With this jaunty assurance, Bob Cummings calmly snuggled into the late-Sunday-night NBC time slot previously occupied by The Hunter for the first season of the breezy sitcom Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show). Little time is wasted Read More

Lucky Me

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in 1954. Candy (Doris Day), Hap (Phil Silvers), Duke (Eddie Foy Jr.) and Flo (Nancy Walker) are four small-time performers who find themselves stranded in Miami. Forced to take Read More

Dial M for Murder

Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson

Synopsis: Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable. British tennis pro Ray Milland suspects that his wealthy wife Grace Kelly is fooling around with handsome American Robert Cummings. Milland Read More

Marry Me Again

Actors: Robert Cummings, Marie Wilson, Ray Walker, Mary Costa, Jess Barker

Synopsis: This nonsensical farce stars Robert Cummings as an air force reserve pilot, called back to active duty on the eve of his wedding to Marie Wilson. When he returns, he discovers that Wilson has inherited a million dollars, and plans to be the head of their household. Under the circumstances Read More

The First Time

Actors: Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin, Jeff Donnell, Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis: Former cartoonist and gag man Frank Tashlin made his directorial debut with 1952's The First Time. The story concerns Joe and Betsey Bennet (Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale) a young married couple anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first child. Once the bundle of joy has arrived, Joe and Betsey Read More

My Hero [TV Series]

Actors: Robert Cummings, John Litel, Julie Bishop

The Barefoot Mailman

Actors: Robert Cummings, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland, John Russell

Synopsis: To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it appears to be three half-hour TV episodes strung together. No matter, since the premise is workable and the characters appealing. Though Robert Cummings is top-billed as Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Actors: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back together and start making babies in this fantasy. The husband is a busy producer for theatrical shows so the angel disguises himself as a wealthy Westerner looking to invest in a Read More

Paid in Full

Actors: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Eve Arden, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Lizabeth Scott and Diana Lynn are both effectively cast against type in Paid in Full. Scott plays Jane Langley, the spectacularly self-sacrificial older sister of selfish, reckless Nancy Langley (Lynn). Though she is in love with Bill Prentice (Robert Cummings), Jane gives him up to Nancy. And 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

The Black Book

Actors: Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Richard Basehart

Synopsis: Also known as Reign of Terror, The Black Book is a bold effort by director Anthony Mann to film a French Revolution epic on a "B" detective picture budget. Robert Cummings stars as Charles D'Aubigny, who has been engaged by a group of political moderates to retrieve a little black book from Read More

Free for All

Actors: Robert Cummings, Percy Kilbride, Ann Blyth, Ray Collins, Donald Woods

Synopsis: A pleasant comedy with serious undertones, Free for All stars Robert Cummings as erstwhile inventor Christopher Parker. Hoping to secure a patent on his latest invention--a formula that turns water into gasoline--Parker is flummoxed by yards and yards of governmental and bureaucratic red tape. He Read More

Tell It to the Judge

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Marie McDonald, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: Though divorced from attorney Robert Cummings, Rosalind Russell continues hoping that she can arrange a reconciliation. This proves difficult due to Cummings' fascination with curvaceous Marie McDonald. Contriving to arouse Cumming's jealousy, Russell pretends to be married to feckless Gig Young. Read More

Sleep, My Love

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Hazel Brooks, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris

Synopsis: This noir mystery thriller was produced by Mary Pickford and her husband Buddy Rogers, and directed by Douglas Sirk. Claudette Colbert stars as Alison Courtland, a wealthy New York socialite who awakens on a Boston-bound train with no memory of how she got there. A kindly older woman, Mrs. Read More

Let's Live a Little

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Cummings, Anna Sten, Mary Treen, Harry Antrim

Synopsis: Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a relationship with his girlfriend. This is difficult as she controls a major account for his company and refuses to renew it unless he continues to go out with her. The frustrated Read More

The Accused

Actors: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick

Synopsis: The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young stars as Wilma Tuttle, a prim and proper college professor who unwittingly arouses the libido of student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick). When Perry tries to rape Wilma under cover of Read More

Heaven Only Knows

Actors: Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, Jorja Curtright, Bill Goodwin

Synopsis: Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of Read More

The Lost Moment

Actors: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire Claremont, who in her dotage jealously guarded the poems written by Byron in her honor. In the film version of James' novel, The Lost Moment, the Clairemont character, renamed Read More

The Chase

Actors: Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Originally slated for release through Monogram Pictures, The Chase was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Adapted by Philip Yordan from Cornell Woolrich's The Black Path of Fear (a perennial of the radio series Suspense), the film stars Robert Cummings as Chuck, shell-shocked ex-GI. Read More

The Bride Wore Boots

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Robert Benchley, Peggy Wood

Synopsis: Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it began. Here's the deal: Breeding-farm owner Sally (Barbara Stanwyck) loves horses. Novelist Jeff (Robert Cummings) hates horses, but loves Sally. Jeff and Sally marry, only Read More

You Came Along

Actors: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Charles Drake, Julie Bishop

Synopsis: "You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US Army Air Force Major Bob Collins (Robert Cummings), Captain "Shakespeare" Anders (Don Defore), and Lt. "Handsome" Janoshek (Charles Drake) are three happy-go-lucky combat Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, 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

Flesh and Fantasy

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

Princess O'Rourke

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman

Synopsis: A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is named an ambassador to the U.S., and when he relocates to Washington D.C., he's accompanied by his niece, Princess Maria (Olivia de Havilland). Maria's uncle hopes that Read More

Saboteur

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually, Cummings is the fall guy for a clever ring of Nazi spies, headed by above-suspicion American philanthropist Otto Kruger. Our hero goes on a cross-country chase after genuine Read More

Between Us Girls

Actors: Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings, Kay Francis, John Boles, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another Deanna Durbin with Between Us Girls, an ambitious sub-screwball comedy that undoubtedly owed some aspects of its existence to The Major And The Minor (in addition to Read More

It Started With Eve

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet

Synopsis: A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring Deanna Durbin. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) is the playboy son of multi-millionaire business magnate Jonathan Reynolds, Sr. (Charles Laughton). Junior has told his Read More

Kings Row

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn

Synopsis: A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry Bellamann's best-selling novel. Parris Mitchell (Scotty Beckett) is a young boy growing up in the town of King's Row, where he becomes close friends with Cassandra (Mary Thomas), a Read More

Free and Easy

Actors: Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson, C. Aubrey Smith, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: This brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and supporting characters had to be eliminated, but at its base, the film follows the original plotline with reasonable fidelity. Hoping to land wealthy wives, a father-and-son Read More

The Devil and Miss Jones

Actors: Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington

Synopsis: The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store that he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job Read More

Moon over Miami

Actors: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Charlotte Greenwood, Jack Haley

Synopsis: The first of several remakes of 1938's Three Blind Mice, the Technicolor musical Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable and Carole Landis as Kay and Susan Latimer, two Texas carhops who journey to Florida in search of a rich husband. The plan is to have Kay pose as a millionairess, while Barbara and Read More

One Night in the Tropics

Actors: Bud Abbott, Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: The third film version of Earl Derr Biggers' novel Love Insurance, One Night in the Tropics stars Allan Jones as a hotshot insurance salesman who sells a policy to his best pal Robert Cummings. Cummings will earn $1 million if he fails to marry his fiance Nancy Kelly. Half of the policy is Read More

And One Was Beautiful

Actors: Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir, Billie Burke, Ann Morriss

Synopsis: Social-climbing Helen (Jean Muir) sends her less-pretentious younger sister Kate (Laraine Day) to a party in her stead, and there Kate strikes up a friendship with wealthy playboy Ridley Crane (Robert Cummings), but later, he clearly prefers Helen. One night he gets drunk, so Helen drives him Read More

Spring Parade

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a Read More

Private Affairs

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young, Robert Cummings, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Roland Young and Hugh Herbert make an unorthodox but amusing comedy team in the Universal programmer Private Affairs. Disowned by his wealthy family, Amos Bullerton (Young) ekes out a living as a chalk-board proprietor in a Wall Street brokerage. With the help of his erstwhile friend, cab-driver Read More

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In this sequel to 1936's Three Smart Girls, Deanna Durbin is back as the most precocious of a sister trio: the other girls are Nan Grey and Helen Parrish (replacing the first film's Barbara Read. Three Smart Girls dealt with the girls' efforts to reunite their parents. In the sequel, Durbin pokes Read More

The Under-Pup

Actors: Gloria Jean, Robert Cummings, Nan Grey, C. Aubrey Smith, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean. Producer Joe Pasternak sagaciously based the leading character on Jean herself: A shy, self-effacing 11 year old girl, thrust into a glamorous lifestyle beyond her ken. She Read More

Everything Happens at Night

Actors: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovich, Leonid Kinskey

Synopsis: 20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice, Sonja Henie. She plays the daughter of a Nobel Peace Prize-winner feared murdered by the German Gestapo. A couple of rival American newspaper reporters, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings Read More

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Having proven their box-office value in such films as A Letter of Introduction, Goldwyn Follies and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wise-lipped dummy Charlie McCarthy were awarded with a starring vehicle of their own. While entertaining at the home of magazine Read More

Rio

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Though running a mere 75 minutes, Rio has enough plot for ten movies. Basil Rathbone and Sigrid Gurie, previously teamed in The Adventures of Marco Polo, head the cast as crooked French financier Paul Reynard and his wife Irene. Sentenced to a ten-year term in a French penal colony for bank fraud Read More

You and Me

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings, Barton MacLane, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire. It includes three songs by the famed Kurt Weill, including "The Right Guy for Me." George Raft plays Joe Dennis, an ex-convict working in a department store. The store's Read More

College Swing

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the Read More

I Stand Accused

Actors: Robert Cummings, Helen Mack, Lyle Talbot, Thomas Beck, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the different paths taken by former partners in law. One of them, an avaricious attorney who will stop at nothing to find success, becomes a lawyer for the mob. His dreams are soon realized, but their achievement cost him his marriage, family and partner. Meanwhile his Read More

The Texans

Actors: Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with ranch owner Ivy Preston (Joan Bennett). Although a loyal Southerner, Jordan can't get past the waste and tragedy of the four years that have just ended, but Ivy is eager to Read More

Touchdown, Army

Actors: John Howard, Robert Cummings, Mary Carlisle, Owen Davis, Jr., William Frawley

Synopsis: It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Howard stars as Brandon Culpepper, a self-admiring West Point football hero. A true Southerner, Culpepper is mercilessly heckled by his teammates Read More

Sophie Lang Goes West

Actors: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Barlowe Borland

Synopsis: In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive from justice and heading for the West coast. Soon after her arrival, she hooks up with a screenwriter and not only helps him finish his latest script, she also helps him Read More

The Life of Emile Zola

Actors: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Robert Warwick, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even allowing for the dramatic license taken with the material. When first we meet French novelist and essayist Zola, he is starving in a Parisian garret with his painter Read More

The Last Train from Madrid

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Karen Morley, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the plight and personal lives of refugees preparing to board a train that will take them far away from the bloody horrors of war-besieged Loyalist-controlled Madrid. Once safely on Read More

First Lady

Actors: Kay Francis, Anita Louise, Veree Teasdale, Louise Fazenda, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story of the first woman president. The central character, played by Kay Francis, is the granddaughter of a president (though clearly inspired by Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Read More

Wells Fargo

Actors: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Porter Hall

Synopsis: The third of Paramount's "deluxe" westerns of the 1930s (following The Texas Rangers and The Plainsman) was Wells Fargo, filmed on a Cecil B. DeMille scale by producer-director Frank Lloyd. In his first western appearance, Joel McCrea plays Ramsey McCay, troubleshooter for the newly formed Read More

Souls at Sea

Actors: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as Nuggin Taylor, first mate on a slave ship in 1842. Ironically, Nuggin is an abolitionist. When a mutiny overthrows the ship's skipper and leaves him in charge, he frees his Read More

Hideaway Girl

Actors: Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Robert Cummings, Monroe Owsley, Louis Da Pron

Synopsis: Paramount's resident "big mouth" Martha Raye was afforded her first top-billed screen assignment in Hideaway Girl. The script would have us believe that rambunctious heroine Helen (Raye) is a high-society debutante with a fondness for singing. The plot is set in motion by a stolen necklace Read More

Forgotten Faces

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, James Burke, Robert Cummings, Jane Rhodes

Synopsis: Forgotten Faces is the third of four versions of the old chestnut Heliotrope Harry. Herbert Marshall stars as Harry Ashton, a gambler-turned-jailbird saddled with a vindictive ex-wife named Cleo (Gertrude Michael). Seventeen years after the break-up, an impoverished Cleo, now a cheap burlesque Read More

Border Flight

Actors: Frances Farmer, John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Border Flight devotes most of its running time to the exploits of the U.S. Coast Guard's airborne division. Flight lieutenants Dan Conlan (John Howard) and Pat Tornell (Grant Withers) find it impossible to get along, especially when battling over the affections of heroine Ann Blane (Frances Read More

Desert Gold

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt, Tom Keene

Synopsis: Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket" western Desert Gold. Though most of the storyline is taken up the romance between young pioneers Dick Gale (Tom Keene) and Jane Belding (Marsha Hunt), the most compelling Read More

The Accusing Finger

Actors: Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, Paul Kelly, Kent Taylor, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and never mind the mitigating circumstances. But Goodwin finds himself on the other end of the spectrum when he is framed on a murder charge and sent to Death Row. During his Read More

Hollywood Boulevard

Actors: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned screenwriter played by Robert Cummings (whose dialogue anticipates the lines spoken by William Holden in 1950's Sunset Boulevard), the focus of the story is John Halliday as a Read More

Arizona Mahoney

Actors: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, June Martel, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in 1937's Arizona Mahoney. As in his earlier film, the star plays a travelling circus entrepreneur, said "circus"consisting of an elephant, a goose, and a rusty old cannon. When Read More

Three Cheers for Love

Actors: Eleanore Whitney, Robert Cummings, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, John Halliday

Synopsis: In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by an unemployed stage troupe, her fellow students are chorus girls, and the faculty is comprised of the troupe's star act. The truth is soon revealed. Fortunately, it all Read More

The Virginia Judge

Actors: Walter "Judge" Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit, Johnny Downs, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this 1935 Paramount film. When not busy dispensing pearls of bucolic wisdom in the courtroom, Judge Davis (Kelly) of Tidewater, Virginia, tries to straighten out his hotheaded Read More

So Red the Rose

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Janet Beecher, Harry Ellerbe, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine Southerners in the leading roles. Margaret Sullavan is the aristocratic mistress of a sprawling Southern plantation, whose sheltered lifestyle is rent asunder by the War. Read More

Millions in the Air

Actors: John Howard, Willie Howard, Robert Cummings, Inez Courtney

Synopsis: The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s. Samuel S. Hinds plays a Major Bowes-type entrepreneur who sponsors a weekly radio amateur contest. Hinds' daughter Wendy Barrie has show-biz aspirations, but dad won't hear of Read More

Sons of the Desert

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read: annual binge) in Chicago. That is, Ollie takes the oath, but Stanley balks. When asked why, Stanley answers that he's afraid his wife won't let him go. Ollie is appalled Read More

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The Convict's Code

Synopsis: In this crime drama a convicted killer faces the chair for killing a woman. His lover goes to the governor to beg a stay of execution. She tells him the convicts story, which is told in flashback. The trouble begins when the hussy he purportedly killed invited him up to her apartment. There she Read More