William BendixFilmography

Law of the Lawless

Actors: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy who has become a good guy (read that ex Read More

The Phony American

Synopsis: In this German comedy-melodrama, the exploits of a plucky WW II orphan as he moves from foster family to foster family are chronicled. He is first taken in by a Yankee pilot who subsequently dies during the Korean War. As a teen, he is then adopted by a German family and soon falls for his Read More

The Young and the Brave

Actors: Rory Calhoun, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Manuel Padilla

Synopsis: In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their flight, the soldiers encounter a young boy and his German Shepherd. The boy hates the communists because they killed his parents for sheltering American soldiers, and he offers Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish Read More

Toller Hecht Auf Krummer Tour

Actors: Christine Kaufmann, Michael Hinz, William Bendix, Wera Frydtberg

Synopsis: Director Akos von Rathony, perhaps best known for his 1960 Mrs. Warren's Profession, guides a talented cast of American and German actors in this entertaining comedy that pokes fun at cultural morés on both sides of the Atlantic. Helmut (Michael Hinz) is an orphan with plenty of Yank friends Read More

Boys' Night Out

Actors: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff, Janet Blair

Synopsis: In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a sociology student preparing her doctoral thesis, "Adolescent Sexual Fantasies in the Adult Suburban Male." She poses as a call girl to gain perspective on the sexual attitudes and Read More

Johnny Nobody

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Aldo Ray, William Bendix, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Father Carey (Nigel Patrick) is a priest who must decide whether or not an amnesia victim (Aldo Ray) is responsible for the murder of the alcoholic Irish writer Mulcahy (William Bendix) in this routine thriller. The question posed to Carey is whether or not the murderer acted on the word of God Read More

The Untouchables: The Tri-State Gang

Synopsis: William Bendix discards his oafish "Chester A. Riley" characterization in the role of Wally Legenza, the vicious, sadistic head of the Tri-State Gang. Legenza and such fellow hoods as Big Bill Phillips (Alan Hale Jr.) and Art McLeod (Gavin McLeod) specialize in hijacking trucks and murdering the Read More

Idle on Parade

Actors: William Bendix, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, Sidney James

Synopsis: The otherwise routine story and themes of this comedy are greatly balanced by talents of Anthony Newley as Jeep Jackson, a singing idol called up to serve in the British army and Lionel Jeffries as Bertie, a fussbudget adjutant. One of Jackson's superior officers is the brash Sgt. Lush (William Bendix Read More

Portrait of a Sinner

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry, Norman Wooland

Synopsis: After spending most of the 1950s in Europe, writer/director Robert Siodmak filmed his only picture in England: The Rough and the Smooth (US title: Portrait of a Sinner). Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the story concerns a young archaeologist (Tony Britton), engaged to marry the daughter (Natasha Parry Read More

The Deep Six

Actors: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, James Whitmore, Dianne Foster, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Read More

Battle Stations

Actors: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone, William Leslie

Synopsis: Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches. John Lund plays Father Joe McIntyre, who is assigned as chaplain of an Essex-class aircraft carrier. Father Joe finds himself in conflict with the carrier's Captain (Richard Boone Read More

Fireside Theatre: Sergeant Sullivan Speaking

Crashout

Actors: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans

Synopsis: Six convicts plan a prison break and are successful, though their ringleader (William Bendix) is injured in the attempt. He promises to share the fortune in gold he has stowed away if they help him get to a doctor. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Mission

Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price

Synopsis: The 3D melodrama Dangerous Mission starts off with a bang when innocent Piper Laurie inadvertently witnesses the murder of her gangster boss. Though she doesn't get a particularly good look at the killer, she knows she's dead meat if she remains in town. Thus, Laurie skeedaddles to Montana's Read More

Sergeant Sullivan Speaking

Macao

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true, it has its problems, including a weak plot and a slightly hasty pace, but it is still an extraordinary film for its time and its personnel. The real sparkplug for the movie Read More

Blackbeard the Pirate

Actors: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to Read More

Detective Story

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Bert Freed, George Macready, Cathy O'Donnell

Synopsis: Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police precinct station. The film, directed by meticulous taskmaster William Wyler, manages to retain this realism, even allowing for the star-turn performance of Kirk Douglas. A Read More

A Girl in Every Port

Actors: Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, Don DeFore, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The unique comic talents of Groucho Marx, William Bendix and Marie Wilson are hardly exploited to their fullest in RKO's A Girl in Every Port. Groucho and Bendix play Benny Linn and Tim Dunnevan, respectively, a couple of scheming sailors who embark upon one get-rich-quick scheme after another. Read More

Submarine Command

Actors: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Submarine Command reunites the romantic leads from Sunset Boulevard, William Holden and Nancy Olsen. Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction. Though his action saves his crew, it results in the death of the machine-gunner Read More

Gambling House

Actors: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix, Zachary A. Charles, Cleo Moore, Basil Ruysdael, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Gambling House is a low-key remake of the 1943 Cary Grant vehicle Mr. Lucky. Victor Mature stars as Marc Fury, a foreign-born gambler who is currently facing deportation. Always looking out for Number One, Fury seeks out a legal loophole so he can sidestep naturalization--and, incidentally, avoid Read More

Kill the Umpire

Actors: William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry, Richard Taylor

Synopsis: William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion to baseball has lost him job after job, so his father-in-law (Ray Collins)--who happens to be an umpire--forces Our Hero to enroll in umpire school. Eventually Bendix learns Read More

Cover-Up

Actors: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Art Baker, Helen Spring

Synopsis: Cover-Up transfers the metropolitan "film noir" milieu to a small Midwestern town. Dennis O'Keefe plays Sam Donovan, an insurance detective, investigating the suicide of a policy holder. All signs point to murder, but no one in the victim's hometown is willing to cooperate with Donovan, least of Read More

The Big Steal

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: This breezy and unpretentious film noir from director Don Siegel starts off with fireworks. Duke Holliday (Robert Mitchum), an American army lieutenant, is on his way to Mexico by boat when he's confronted in his cabin by Blake (William Bendix), gun in hand, who plans on taking him back to the Read More

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Actors: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a lot more faithful to the Twain original than either of the two previous film versions. Crosby plays Hank Martin, a turn-of-the-century Read More

The Life of Riley

Actors: William Bendix, James Gleason, Rosemary de Camp, Bill Goodwin, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: This comedy is based on the enduring radio series and chronicles the attempts of an airplane riveter to find a better paying, less physically taxing job. Chester A. Riley gets his chance when his employer's son falls in love with Riley's daughter. Wanting to make her father happy, the daughter Read More

Streets of Laredo

Actors: William Holden, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Streets of Laredo is a streamlined and Technicolorful remake of Paramount's 1936 box-office champ The Texas Rangers. William Holden, William Bendix and MacDonald Carey star as roguish outlaws Jim Dawkins, Wahoo Jones and Lorn Remming. After rescuing a little girl named Rannie Carter from a wicked Read More

Boys' Prison

Synopsis: Boys' Prison is a reissue title for 1949's Johnny Holiday--and a curious one indeed, since it is made clear throughout that the institution so prominently featured is not a prison. The Indiana Boys' School is a home for "wayward youths", endeavoring to imbue its juvenile charges with Read More

Johnny Holiday

Actors: William Bendix, Allen Martin, Jr., Stanley Clements, Jack Hagen, Herbert Newcomb

Synopsis: This drama tells about a juvenile delinquent that wavers between loyalty to a fellow crook and a kind-hearted reform school guard. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Time of Your Life

Actors: Marlene Ammes, James Cagney, William Bendix, James Barton, Reginald Beane, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney, Broderick Crawford, Gladys Blake

Synopsis: After turning down several other Hollywood producers, playwright William Saroyan sold the film rights of his whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life to James and William Cagney. The scene is a rundown San Francisco waterfront bar, populated by a group of lovable eccentrics. Joe Read More

Race Street

Actors: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a comely widow. In preparation for his nuptials, the fellow stays on the straight and narrow, but when he learns that one of his cohorts has been murdered by an East Coast gang that Read More

10,000 Kids and a Cop

The Babe Ruth Story

Actors: William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley

Synopsis: The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An outrageously miscast William Bendix stars as George Herman "Babe" Ruth, who as depicted herein is a childish, misunderstood oaf who happens to be one of the greatest Read More

Where There's Life

Actors: Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris, Vera Marshe

Synopsis: Bearing traces of such earlier hits as My Favorite Blonde and The Ghost Breakers, Where There's Life is one of the best of Bob Hope's postwar vehicles. The inimitable Mr. Hope is cast as New York radio personality Michael Valentine, who's poised to marry his long-time fiancee Hazel O'Brien (Vera Marshe Read More

I'll Be Yours

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with dreams of making it in show business. She gets her foot in the door in a roundabout way when she gets a job as an usherette at a prestigious movie palace run by tycoon J. Conrad Read More

The Web

Actors: Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer

Synopsis: Bob Regan (Edmond O'Brien) -- a small-time attorney from the wrong side of the tracks who nonetheless has a lot of dedication -- is representing a vegetable pushcart owner (Tito Vuolo) in a damage suit against multi-millionaire Andrew Colby (Vincent Price). It seems Colby's car wrecked the man's Read More

Variety Girl

Actors: Eric Alden, Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, DeForest Kelley, William Demarest, Joan Caulfield, Stanley Clements, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for Paramount Studios in 1947. Mary Hatcher plays Catherine Brown, a woman of humble origins who arrives in Hollywood, where she meets another wanna-be movie star, Amber La Vonne Read More

Blaze of Noon

Actors: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately Read More

Calcutta

Actors: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore

Synopsis: Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake (William Bendix) and Bill Cunningham (John Whitney), Gordon handles the air-freight route between Calcutta and Chungking. When Cunningham meets his death at the hands of jewel Read More

Sentimental Journey

Actors: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: A real three-handkerchief affair, Sentimental Journey stars John Payne and Maureen O'Hara as a Broadway producer Bill and his actress-wife Julie. Unable to have children, Julie adopts orphaned girl Hitty (Connie Marshall). Shortly afterward, Julie dies of a heart attack, leaving Hitty in the care Read More

White Tie and Tails

Actors: Scotty Beckett, William Bendix, Barbara Brown, Donald Curtis

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer's mansion after he goes on a ten-day vacation. They decide to avail themselves of their master's luxuries. The butler finds his boss's clothing fits him perfectly, and so pretends to be Read More

The Blue Dahlia

Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a Read More

The Dark Corner

Actors: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens, William Bendix, Cathy Downs

Synopsis: This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private detective business upon his release. Sour and surly, Galt behaves himself only when he's around his faithful and adoring secretary Kathleen (top-billed Lucille Ball). When Read More

Two Years Before the Mast

Actors: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Roman Bohnen, George Bruggeman, Barry Fitzgerald, James Burke, Howard Da Silva

Synopsis: Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the wealthy son of a Boston shipowner, is hijacked by Amazeen (William Bendix), the first mate on a ship bound for California. Francis Thompson 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

A Bell for Adano

Actors: Luis Alberni, Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, Henry Armetta, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and attempts to return it to its pre-war tranquility. His initial actions include feeding and Read More

Don Juan Quilligan

Actors: William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Anne Revere, B.S. Pully

Synopsis: In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his late mother. He married the other because she cooks like his mom. He soon finds himself in over his head. A good friend helps extricate him by devising an ingenious plot. 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

Abroad With Two Yanks

Actors: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Allan Dwan directed this light-hearted service comedy starring William Bendix (best known from the television series The Life of Riley) and Dennis O'Keefe as a pair of Marines stationed in Australia. As might be expected, the two soldiers fall for the same woman, a pretty Australian named Joyce Read More

The Hairy Ape

Actors: William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, Dorothy Comingore, Roman Bohnen, Alan Napier

Synopsis: Despite a few Hollywood compromises, The Hairy Ape remains one of the more artistically successful filmizations of Eugene O'Neill. William Bendix is nothing less than brilliant as ship's stoker Hank Smith, a brutish but sensitive lug who is convinced that his strength is derived from the hair that Read More

Greenwich Village

Actors: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Those willing to accept Carmen Miranda as a "typical" 1920s type will be able to swallow the rest of the lavish but rather silly 20th Century-Fox musical Greenwich Village. Most of the action takes place in a New York speakeasy managed by tough guy Danny O'Mara (William Bendix). Providing Read More

Lifeboat

Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, John Hodiak, Hume Cronyn, Mary Anderson

Synopsis: Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack: sophisticated magazine writer/photographer Read More

Skirmish on the Home Front

Actors: Alan Ladd, Betty Hutton, William Bendix, Susan Hayward

China

Actors: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Iris Wong

Synopsis: Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a cynically materialistic American who has no qualms about selling oil to the enemy; as far as he's concerned, their money spends as well as anyone's. Against the advice of Read More

The Crystal Ball

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Virginia Field, William Bendix, Gladys George

Synopsis: Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United Artists. One such effort was The Crystal Ball, wherein beauty contest loser Toni Gerard (Paulette Goddard) takes a job as a sideshow fortune teller. Subbing for the ailing Read More

Hostages

Actors: Arturo de Cordova, Luise Rainer, William Bendix, Roland Varno, Oscar Homolka

Synopsis: Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan Heym, the story is set in a Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakian village. Rainer plays Milada, the daughter of collaborationist Lev Preissinger (Oscar Homolka). Totally apolitical Read More

Guadalcanal Diary

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the spare, lean prose of Tregaskis' eyewitness account. The incidents in the "diary" are tied together by an off-screen narrator into a cohesive storyline. The principal characters Read More

The Mcguerins from Brooklyn

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

The Glass Key

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, William Bendix, Richard Denning

Synopsis: Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant. This 1942 remake improves on the original, especially in replacing the stolid Raft with the charismatic Alan Ladd Read More

Wake Island

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced participation in World War II. The first two reels takes place in the weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, as Wake Island military commander Brian Donlevy carries on a friendly 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

Two Mugs from Brooklyn

Actors: William Bendix, Grace Bradley, Joe Sawyer, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Taxi, Mister (AKA Two Mugs from Brooklyn was the first in a brief series of roughhouse comedies starring William Bendix and Joe Sawyer as a pair of nouveau riche cabdrivers. In this one, Tim McGuerin (Bendix) and Eddie Corbett (Sawyer) recall in flashback how they built up their thriving taxi Read More

The Forest Rangers

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Albert Dekker, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He investigates in a neighboring town. There he meets a beautiful rich girl, and they fall in love and get married. Unfortunately, the other rangers do not react well to the female's Read More

Woman of the Year

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first time in the delectable romantic comedy Woman of the Year. Tracy plays New York sportswriter Sam Craig, who becomes incensed at comments about the uselessness of sports made by foreign correspondent Tess Harding (Hepburn). Sam and Tess Read More

Brooklyn Orchid

Actors: William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: Hal Roach Studios' Brooklyn Orchid was one of three "streamliners" (films running between 40-50 minutes) starring William Bendix and Joe Sawyer as a pair of nouveau riche taxi drivers. While vacationing with their wives at a swanky resort, Bendix and Sawyer rescue beautiful blonde Marjorie Woodworth Read More