Victor Moore Filmography

We're Not Married

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne

Synopsis: Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star "omnibus" film, We're Not Married. The unifying factor of this enjoyable seriocomedy is provided by justice-of-the-peace Melvin Bush (Victor Moore), who learns to his horror that Read More

A Kiss in the Dark

Actors: David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction demand that some sort of plot must follow this promising beginning. Wyman plays model Polly Haines, one of several mildly eccentric tenants in an apartment building owned by Read More

On Our Merry Way

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, James Stewart, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It is Meredith's job to interview several people, asking them what effect children have had on their lives. First he checks with two itinerant musicians (James Stewart and Henry Fonda Read More

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Actors: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm

Synopsis: A Christmastime TV perennial, It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a sentimental yarn starring Victor Moore as a genial hobo. Moore's usual wintertime modus operandus is to sneak into the town house of a wealthy family that always leaves New York for their Florida home at Christmas. Taking over Read More

Ziegfeld Follies

Actors: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an impressionable viewer from thinking that this 1946 film is a Technicolor sequel to the 1936 Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld. Not so: this is more in the line of an all-star revue Read More

Duffy's Tavern

Actors: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite watering hole from old time radio shows. The trouble begins when the neighborhood bar is in danger of closing. The trouble begins when the proprietor, Archie, discovers that one Read More

It's in the Bag

Actors: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley

Synopsis: Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning that he's inherited $12 million from his uncle, Fred also discovers that the money has been stuffed in one of thirteen chairs that he's sold at auction. The rest of the film Read More

Carolina Blues

Actors: Ann Miller, Victor Moore, Jeff Donnell, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: In his final starring film, bandleader Kay Kyser is cast as bandleader Kay Kyser. Picking up where Kyser's previous RKO Radio film Around the World left off, Columbia's Carolina Blues finds Kay and his band returning to America after a worldwide USO tour. Phineas J. Carver (Victor Moore), the Read More

Riding High

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Gil Lamb, Cass Daley

Synopsis: No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining Read More

True to Life

Actors: Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Mabel Paige, William Demarest

Synopsis: True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a typical American family. To soak up inspiration, he hangs around the household of waitress Mary Martin and her parents (Ernest Truex, Mabel Paige), transcribing their Read More

This Is the Army

Actors: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Julie Oshins, Charles Butterworth

Synopsis: The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 "barracks musical" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine servicemen, many of them either recently Read More

The Heat's On

Actors: Mae West, Victor Moore, Lloyd Bridges, William Gaxton, Mary Roche, Hazel Scott, Lester Allen

Synopsis: After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay Lawrence, a famous Broadway actress who is loved intensely by her producer Tony Ferris (William Gaxton). Rival producer Forrest Stanton (Alan Dinehart) steals Fay away from Read More

Star Spangled Rhythm

Actors: Victor Moore, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Anne Revere, Walter Abel

Synopsis: Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender plot involves the efforts by humble studio doorman Pop Webster (Victor Moore) to pass himself off as a big-shot Paramount executive for the benefit of his sailor son Jimmy (Eddie Bracken Read More

Louisiana Purchase

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Dona Drake

Synopsis: The Irving Berlin-Morrie Ryskind Broadway musical hit Louisiana Purchase came to the screen with surprisingly few emendations in 1941. Bob Hope replaces Broadway's William Gaxton in the role of innocent political flunkey Jim Taylor, set up to take the fall for wholesale graft by a group of corrupt Read More

This Marriage Business

Actors: Victor Moore, Vicki Lester, Cecil Kellaway, Jack Carson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has licensed have gotten divorced. A reporter learns of his record and writes an article resulting in the small town office being flooded with engaged couples. The reporter then Read More

Radio City Revels

Actors: Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Victor Moore, Milton Berle

Synopsis: Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two bungling aspiring songwriters who are looking for the tune that will make them stars. They hear the sweet sound of opportunity's knock when they find a naive country boy who Read More

She's Got Everything

Actors: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Parkyakarkus [Harry Einstein]

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a wealthy fellow. Soon the two fall in love and begin planning their wedding, much to the delight of the woman's creditors. When her fiancé learns that she is deeply in debt, he Read More

Gold Diggers in Paris

Actors: Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Gloria Dickson

Synopsis: The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic setting. The stars this time are Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, and Warners musical perennial Hugh Herbert. There aren't really any "gold diggers" (i.e. young ladies on the prowl for Read More

Meet the Missus

Actors: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley, Alan Bruce, Edward H. Robins

Synopsis: Meet the Missus poked fun at the contest crazes of the 1930s. Helen Broderick stars as a woman who spends every spare moment entering contests, much to the discomfort of her browbeaten hubby Victor Moore, who is left with all the housework. She finally makes the finals in the "Happy Noodles Read More

We're on the Jury

Actors: Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Philip Huston, Louise Latimer, Vinton Haworth

Synopsis: In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is convinced of the defendant's innocence and refuses to change her verdict. Unlike the others, she listens to her own common sense and looks carefully at the facts and decides that Read More

Make Way for Tomorrow

Actors: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Ray Mayer

Synopsis: While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he Read More

The Life of the Party

Actors: Joe Penner, Gene Raymond, Parkyakarkus [Harry Einstein], Harriet Hilliard, Victor Moore

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately, the willful young is not even slightly interested in her "fiance," preferring the attentions of another instead. Unfortunately, the other man has a big problem. Though he Read More

Gold Diggers of 1937

Actors: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon

Synopsis: Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a meek hypochondriac (Victor Moore) who'd rather the girls get his insurance money than his murderous business partners. Dick Powell isn't the male star of the show, but does Read More

Swing Time

Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore

Synopsis: The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting cold feet on his wedding day. Astaire's bride-to-be Betty Furness will give him a second chance, providing he proves himself responsible enough to earn $25,000. Astaire Read More

Romance in the Rain

Actors: Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Victor Moore, Esther Ralston, Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis: Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery magazine publisher J. Franklyn Blank (Victor Moore), press agent Charlie (Roger Pryor) stages a "Cinderella contest" in search of new female talent for the airwaves. The winner Read More

Gift of Gab

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Phil Baker

Synopsis: In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It is his girlfriend who helps him sober up when she provides him with a major scoop--a missing airplane. He enthusiastically sets out after it and eventually finds it. As a Read More

Dangerous Nan McGrew

Actors: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin, Frank Morgan

Synopsis: Having long enjoyed a near-legendary status because of its general unavailability, Dangerous Nan McGrew inevitably disappoints when seen today. In her only starring feature role, Helen Kane, the original "Boop-boop-a-doop" girl, stars as an entertainer in a travelling medicine show. While her boss Read More

Heads Up

Actors: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, Margaret Breen, Gene Gowing

Synopsis: In this actioner, a Coast Guard ensign must investigate a yacht suspected of smuggling alcohol. While aboard, he falls for a lovely young woman. The woman disobeys her mother and begins seeing the ensign who soon discovers that the brains behind the operation is the man the woman's mother wanted Read More

The Man Who Found Himself

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Virginia Valli, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Tom Macaulay (Thomas Meighan) and his brother Edwin (Russell Griffin) both hold positions at the bank belonging to their father (Charles Stevenson). Edwin takes forty thousand dollars from the bank to play the stock market, but he loses it all. Lon Morris, a rival banker (Frank Morgan), tips off Read More

The Wrong Mr. Fox

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Moore

The Race

Synopsis: Though he himself was already in his forties, Victor Moore played the son of a fiftysomething millionaire in the "jerk makes good" comedy The Race. Disinherited by dear old dad, Jim Grayson Jr. (Moore) takes a job as a chauffeur. While thus employed, he meets pretty heiress Grace Van Dyke (Anita King Read More

Clown

Synopsis: At the circus, Piffles The Clown (Victor Moore) is seriously injured when he saves a crippled boy, Jackie (Jerold Ward), from a team of runaway horses. He convalesces at the home of Jackie's father, Judge Leroy (Ernest Joy), and meets his sister, Millicent (Florence Dagmar). Millicent's fiancée Read More

Chimmie Fadden out West

Synopsis: This 5-reel sequel to the popular comedy Chimmie Fadden reunited star Victor Moore with director Cecil B. DeMille. This time around, brash Bowery boy Chimmie gets mixed up in a publicity stunt staged by a railroad. With a bag of gold in hand, he is shipped out to Death Valley, where he is supposed Read More

Snobs

Synopsis: During the brief "movie star" phase of his career, Broadway comedian Victor Moore appeared in several inconsequential comedies along the lines of Snobs. In this one, Moore plays Charles Disney, a milkman who inherits $20 million and a British peerage. Suddenly the most eligible bachelor in High Read More

Chimmie Fadden

Synopsis: Bowery toughie Chimmie Fadden was the creation of New York Sun journalist E. W. Townsend. Chimmie proved popular enough with Sun readers to spawn a novel, play, and finally, a 1915 4-reeler. Victor Moore stars as the boisterous Chimmie, who decides to mend his ways when he is befriended by a Read More