Ben Cartwright's former sweetheart Lydia (Maggie Hayes), now the wealthy and widowed Lady Lydia Chadwick, returns to Virginia...
|
Screenwriter
|
1961
|
Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
|
Doc
|
1955
|
A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
|
Steve Latimer
|
1953
|
|
|
1953
|
Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays...
|
Doc Homer Brown
|
1952
|
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
|
|
1950
|
William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
|
Prof. Andrew Gentling
|
1949
|
This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
|
Emery Slade
|
1949
|
Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William...
|
Mr. Peabody
|
1948
|
Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
|
Sen. Melvin G. Ashton
|
1947
|
|
|
1947
|
The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
|
Clarence Day
|
1947
|
The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
|
|
1946
|
William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
|
Terry Ellerton O'Neill
|
1946
|
This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
|
Nick Charles
|
1944
|
In this light romantic comedy, William B. Whitley (William Powell) is an astronomer who is very excited about his latest...
|
William B. Whitley
|
1943
|
In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
|
|
1943
|
An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
|
David Talbot
|
1942
|
This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
|
Nick Charles
|
1941
|
William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
|
Steven Ireland
|
1941
|
|
|
Larry Wilson
|
1940
|
Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
|
Nick Charles
|
1939
|
The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
|
Johann Porok
|
1938
|
|
|
Charles
|
1937
|
Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
|
Baron Stephan Wolensky
|
1937
|
Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
|
Charlie Lodge
|
1937
|
In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
|
Florenz Ziegfeld
|
1936
|
|
Bill Chandler
|
1936
|
|
Godfrey Parke
|
1936
|
|
Nick Charles
|
1936
|
|
Dr. Lawrence Bradford
|
1936
|
|
Clay Dalzell
|
1935
|
Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
|
Ned Riley
|
1935
|
Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
|
Fritz
|
1935
|
This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
|
Lt. Bill Gordon/Anson Meridan
|
1935
|
Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
|
John Prentice
|
1934
|
The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
|
Capt. Tennant
|
1934
|
|
|
|
1934
|
Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
|
Sherwood Nash
|
1934
|
Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
|
Jim Wade
|
1934
|
Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
|
Nick Charles
|
1934
|
William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
|
Anton Adam
|
1933
|
Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed...
|
John Fletcher
|
1933
|
Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
|
Philo Vance
|
1933
|
Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
|
Donald Free
|
1933
|
Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
|
Gar Evans
|
1932
|
William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
|
Dan Hardesty
|
1932
|
This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
|
The Robber
|
1932
|
Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
|
|
1931
|
|
|
Jamie Darricott
|
1931
|
Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth...
|
Michael Trevor
|
1931
|
In this drama, a doctor and his wife are stationed in Singapore where the lonely wife, tired of constantly trying to get his...
|
Hugh Daltrey
|
1931
|
Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
Philo Vance
|
1930
|
In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
|
Gardoni
|
1930
|
William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
|
William Foster
|
1930
|
This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
|
John B. Marsden
|
1930
|
In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after...
|
John Nelson
|
1930
|
William Powell was still in his tux-and-top-hat period when he starred in Pointed Heels. The scene is Broadway, where...
|
Robert Courtland
|
1930
|
In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
|
Philo Vance
|
1929
|
|
|
Karl Kraley
|
1929
|
This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
|
Philo Vance
|
1929
|
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
|
Philip Voaze
|
1928
|
A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
|
Froggy
|
1928
|
|
|
Her Nemesis
|
1928
|
This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
|
Capt. Trench
|
1928
|
|
|
Dapper Frank Trent
|
1928
|
Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
|
Smith
|
1928
|
This silent Paramount Zane Grey Western marked the screen debut of the then 7-year-old Tim Holt. Young Tim's father,...
|
John Murdock
|
1928
|
This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like...
|
Becque
|
1928
|
Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
|
Leo Andreiev
|
1928
|
Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
|
Trent Regan
|
1927
|
Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
|
Clan Dillon
|
1927
|
Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
|
Don Kendall
|
1927
|
It has often been reported that Howard Hawks tried and failed to create an "art" film with Paid to Love, only to return to...
|
Prince Etic
|
1927
|
Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who,...
|
Prince Alado
|
1927
|
|
|
Kada
|
1927
|
One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When...
|
Ramon Oliveros
|
1927
|
The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman....
|
Harold Jones
|
1927
|
|
|
George Wilson
|
1926
|
William Powell, who spent much of his early silent career playing villains, got to play a hero in this romantic adventure,...
|
|
1926
|
In one of her first Paramount vehicles, Clara Bow stars as Cynthia Meade, a movie actress on location in the hills of...
|
Jack Harrison
|
1926
|
Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
|
Lorenzo Solvia
|
1926
|
Gilda Gray, best-known for inventing the shimmy, shows off her talents as a Hawaiian dancer in this South Seas drama, based...
|
Van Templeton
|
1926
|
|
|
Tony Santelli
|
1926
|
Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
|
|
1926
|
|
|
Landree
|
1926
|
The presence of Richard Barthelmess adds a poetic quality to this romantic melodrama. Tony Gillardi (Barthelmess) is a flower...
|
Nick Di Silva
|
1925
|
The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
|
Julio
|
1925
|
Filmed on location in Italy, where director Henry King ruled over a huge set that covered 17 acres, Romola stars...
|
|
1925
|
A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent...
|
|
1925
|
Few leading ladies appeared in as many films in 1926 as the vivacious Clara Bow. In My Lady's Lips, Bow plays the feisty...
|
Scott Seddon
|
1925
|
There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
|
Prince Arnolfo da Pescia
|
1924
|
An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his...
|
|
1923
|
This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
|
|
1923
|
This picture was based on the stage play by Hubert Henry Davies and starred Elsie Ferguson, who reprised her role for the...
|
|
1922
|
John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
|
|
1922
|
Film critics (at least those who weren't employed by the Hearst Corporation) frequently complained about the amount of money...
|
|
1922
|
|
|
|
|