Search results for "William Demarest"
What Price Glory

What Price Glory

What Price Glory
IMDb: 6.1
110

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg’s top sergeant. And when…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Excuse My Dust

Excuse My Dust

Excuse My Dust
IMDb: 6
82

Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his “crazy invention”,…

Genre: Comedy, Music
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home
IMDb: 6.4
82

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in…

Genre: Comedy, War
Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment
IMDb: 5.6
89

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones
IMDb: 6.8
88

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn’t return, he learns that taking care of a child…

Genre: Comedy
Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith
IMDb: 6.6
89

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to…

Genre: Western
On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way
IMDb: 5.7
107

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day’s roving…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
IMDb: 7
81

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline
IMDb: 6.4
96

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she “opens” for a delayed Shakespeare play…with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story
IMDb: 7.2
128

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his…

Genre: Drama, Music
Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones
IMDb: 6.5
90

An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman’s girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy, Western
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
IMDb: 7.5
98

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can’t…

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero
IMDb: 7.6
101

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure….

Genre: Comedy, War
The Great Moment

The Great Moment

The Great Moment
IMDb: 6.2
83

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong
IMDb: 6.8
84

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that…

Genre: Comedy
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
IMDb: 6.3
85

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her…

Genre: Drama
Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball
IMDb: 5.9
60

The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars…

Genre: Comedy, Music
All Through the Night

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
IMDb: 7.1
107

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels
IMDb: 7.9
91

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won’t be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey,…

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
IMDb: 7.7
97

It’s no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles’ fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill
IMDb: 6.4
74

A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones
IMDb: 7.6
92

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley’s Department Store. There is labor…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
IMDb: 7.2
82

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city’s political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from “the boss,”…

Genre: Comedy
Christmas in July

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
IMDb: 7.3
67

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes
IMDb: 6.7
72

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Cowboy Quarterback

The Cowboy Quarterback

The Cowboy Quarterback
IMDb: 4.6
56

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won’t leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up…

Genre: Comedy
One Wild Night

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
IMDb: 6.4
72

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Easy Living

Easy Living

Easy Living
IMDb: 7.5
88

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife’s just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Big City

Big City

Big City
IMDb: 6.4
80

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and…

Genre: Drama
Wedding Present

Wedding Present

Wedding Present
IMDb: 6.2
81

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Charlie Chan at the Opera

Charlie Chan at the Opera

Charlie Chan at the Opera
IMDb: 7.1
68

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table
IMDb: 6.9
80

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Bright Lights

Bright Lights

Bright Lights
IMDb: 6.3
82

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
IMDb: 6.4
89

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film…

Genre: Drama, Music