Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey

This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance of winning a scholarship prize to a prestigious ...

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Topper (1937) more movies like this

directed by Norman Z. McLeod
featuring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Alan Mowbray

By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built his studio's reputation by delving into the "screwball comedy" genre. Roach selected the racy Thorne Smith fantasy novel Topper for adaptation, and the result was one of the most endearingly funny films of the decade. ...

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Terror by Night (1946) more movies like this

directed by Roy William Neill
featuring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey

The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding train, en route from London to Edinburgh. Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is on board to protect a valuable diamond from the clutches of master criminal Colonel Sebastian Moran. The trouble is, Moran is a master of disguise, and could ...

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Stand-In (1937) more movies like this

directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, Marla Shelton

Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in Hollywood, to see if the firm is any sort of good risk. Dodd's first brush with Tinseltown's cuckoo atmosphere occurs when he takes a room in a boarding house for extras, where all manner of eccentrics wander about as they wait for ...

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The Jackpot (1950) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Natalie Wood, Fred Clark, James Gleason, Patricia Medina, Alan Mowbray

The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks up the phone one day, answers a simple question, and suddenly finds himself the recipient of a radio quiz-show jackpot. Tons of prizes are shipped to Lawrence's house, to the delight of his wife Amy (Barbara Hale) and his ...

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Music in My Heart (1940) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Santley
featuring Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore

Boasting Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth and bandleader Andre Kostelanitz as its leading players, it's surprising that Music in My Heart isn't better than it is. Martin plays European-born actor Robert Gregory, who while rehearsing for a Broadway musical falls in love with chorine Patricia O'Malley (Rita Hayworth). She likewise falls in love with ...

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Lured (1947) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Sirk
featuring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Alan Mowbray, Cedric Hardwicke

Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer a job offer in the "personal" column of the Times...just like several other women who've vanished without a trace. Scotland Yard detective George Zucco suggests that Ball answer the personals herself in hopes trapping the ...

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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) more movies like this

directed by Don Hartman
featuring Cary Grant, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan Mowbray

Cary Grant met his future wife Betsy Drake on the set of the appropriately titled Every Girl Should be Married. Grant plays well-known baby specialist Madison Brown, who is Dr. Spock in everything but name. After a chance meeting with headstrong young Anabel Sins (Drake), poor Brown finds his every move and thought monitored by Anabel, who intends ...

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The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945) more movies like this

directed by Albert Herman, Martin E. Mooney
featuring Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks, Edythe Elliott

A policeman teams up with a drama critic to solve a mystery in this drama. They look into a case involving a wealthy, famous uncle who is killed backstage. His death destroys the Broadway debut of the uncle's niece whose father, also a very popular actor, becomes the prime suspect as the recently bankrupt fellow was in line to inherit the uncle's ...

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Merton of the Movies (1947) more movies like this

directed by Robert Alton
featuring Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames, Alan Mowbray

The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932 (as Make Me a Star) with Stu Erwin. This time around, Red Skelton plays Merton, the small-town rube who aspires to become a dramatic actor in silent pictures. Bumbling his way into Hollywood, he lays waste to several movie ...

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Vogues of 1938 (1937) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Mischa Auer, Alan Mowbray

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to ...

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Becky Sharp (1935) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Alison Skipworth

Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort in its own right. Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the film stars Miriam Hopkins as Becky Sharp, a resourceful, totally self-involved young lady who manages to survive any number of setbacks and ...

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It Happened in New Orleans (1930) more movies like this

directed by Kurt Neumann
featuring Bobby Breen, May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Louise Beavers, Alan Mowbray

In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his beloved mammy and sent to New York to live with his Yankee grandma. At first the family resents the rebel upstart, but soon he charms them into loving him with his singing ability. The story is also called Rainbow on the ...

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Way Down South (1939) more movies like this

directed by Bernard Vorhaus
featuring Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Clarence Muse, Steffi Duna

Way Down South ranks as among the better Bobby Breen musicals, if only because of its impressive production credits. The film is set in antebellum Louisiana, where young Tim Reid's (Breen) inheritance is highly coveted by crooked attorney Martin Dill (Edwin Maxwell). With the help of kindly Cajun innkeeper Jacques Bouton (Alan Mowbray), Tim is ...

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Merrily We Live (1938) more movies like this

directed by Norman Z. McLeod
featuring Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly

Merrily We Live is a blatant imitation of My Man Godfrey, courtesy of producer Hal Roach. This time Brian Aherne is the gentleman vagabond whom flighty society matron Billie Burke hires as a butler. Aherne's down-to-earth attitude jars against the high-toned phoniness of Burke's wealthy household, but soon the butler has "humanized" everyone ...

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So This Is Washington (1943) more movies like this

directed by Ray McCarey
featuring Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray, Roger Clark, Mildred Coles

So This is Washington is one of the better entries in the "Lum 'N' Abner" film series. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff recreate their popular radio characters of Lum and Abner, folksy general-store proprietors in the village of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This time, the boys become convinced that they've developed a synthetic-rubber formula, so they head ...

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That Uncertain Feeling (1941) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray, Olive Blakeney

Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were inspired the Victorien Sardou-Emile de Najac bedroom farce Let's Get a Divorce. Six year into her marriage to preoccupied insurance salesman Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas), Jill Baker (Merle Oberson) develops a case of hiccups. ...

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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) more movies like this

directed by Edward F. Cline
featuring Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton, Joyce Compton, Richard Cromwell

Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using the hoary old stage melodrama The Drunkard: or, the Fallen Saved as its inspiration, the film is a contemptous send-up of all such Victorian mellers, its "serious" moments deliberately and broadly played for laughs. The tone ...

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