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Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton

Arsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), beloved in their genteel Brooklyn neighborhood for their many charitable acts. One charity which the ladies don't advertise is their ongoing effort to permit lonely bachelors ...

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Top Hat

Top Hat (1935) more movies like this

directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Helen Broderick

One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice, assuming that American entertainer Jerry Travers (Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) -- who's actually the wife of Jerry's business manager ...

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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon (1937) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Ronald Colman, Edward Everett Horton, H.B. Warner, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, Margo

It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two years-and half of his home studio Columbia's annual budget-to bring it to the screen. After a lengthy preamble, inviting audiences to imagine their own ideas of Utopia, the film opens on a chaotic scene at a Chinese airfield. ...

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Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance? (1937) more movies like this

directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan

The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and Rogers as a musical comedy headliner. Rogers' manager Jerome Cowan concocts a phony romance between his client and Astaire in order to garner publicity for them both. Eventually, of course, the twosome falls in love for ...

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Holiday

Holiday (1938) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton

Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as sister Julia prepares to marry self-made financier ...

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The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee (1934) more movies like this

directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes

Based on Dwight Taylor and Cole Porter's play of the same name, The Gay Divorcee centers on Mimi (Ginger Rogers), a woman seeking a divorce from her husband. Mimi travels to an English seaside resort, pursued by the love-stricken Guy (Fred Astaire), whom she mistakes for the hired correspondent in her divorce case. Among the many musical numbers ...

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The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow (1934) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier

Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1934 musical comedy The Merry Widow, based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. In 1885, King Achmed (George Barbier) strives to protect the financial interests of his small, poor kingdom of Marshovia in Central Europe. When the kingdom's wealthiest widow, Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), goes off to Paris, the king sends the ...

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College Swing

College Swing (1938) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton

It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the family can pass her college exams within a 200-year ...

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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson

The great Ernst Lubitsch directed this farce (written by Charles M. Brackett and Billy Wilder) about a free-wheeling millionaire, Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), who enjoys getting married but has a hard time staying married: he's had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may have found her in the person of Nicole de Loiselle ...

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Down to Earth

Down to Earth (1947) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Hall
featuring James Burke, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Jean Donahue, Roland Culver, James Gleason, William Frawley, Edward Everett Horton, Marc Platt

A semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia's Down to Earth is a camp- and kitsch-lover's delight. More beautiful than ever, Rita Hayworth stars as Terpsichore, the Goddess of Dance. From her perch Up Above, Terpsichore discovers that Broadway producer Danny Miller (Larry Parks) intends to put together a musical satire, lampooning herself and ...

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Hall
featuring Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton

Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the consternation of his manager Max Corkle (James Gleason). Just before a championship bout, Joe's plane crashes. When he revives, he finds he has been whisked away to Heaven by the overanxious Messenger #7013. Checking with the man in ...

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The Gang's All Here (1943) more movies like this

directed by Busby Berkeley
featuring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, James Ellison, Eugene Pallette, Edward Everett Horton, Phil Baker

Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason Sr. (Eugene Pallette), a wealthy, blustery Wall Street financier. While paying respects to his father and the latter's business partner, dithering fuss-budget Peyton Potter (Edward Everett Horton), at the Club New Yorker, ...

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The Front Page (1931) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett

This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit stars Adolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns and Pat O'Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of getting married and retiring from Burns' dirty little tabloid, but he agrees to cover one last story: the politically ...

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Trouble in Paradise (1932) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton

Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a ...

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Her Husband's Affairs (1947) more movies like this

directed by S. Sylvan Simon
featuring Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Nana Bryant, Edward Everett Horton, Mikhail Rasumny, Gene Lockhart, Jonathan Hale

Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret Weldon, the wife of advertising executive William Weldon (Franchot Tone). Though Weldon is successful, Margaret can't help but feel that he'd be more successful if she were to take an active part in his business affairs. The ...

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Angel (1937) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Herbert Mundin

Generally considered one of director Ernst Lubitsch's lesser works, Angel stars Marlene Dietrich as Maria, the neglected wife of Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who travels often and seems little concerned with his spouse. Maria has nearly reached her breaking point when she travels to Paris to visit her old friend Anna ...

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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) more movies like this

directed by Josef von Sternberg
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth

Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this historical melodrama, which was a notorious and controversial box-office flop in its day. Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero), a young military officer, meets a mysterious and alluring woman named Concha Perez (Dietrich) and soon falls ...

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Reaching for the Moon (1931) more movies like this

directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Jack Mulhall, Claud Allister

In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to woo her. This doesn't set well with her fiance. Later the fellow learns of the stock market crash and develops a taste for booze. Romantic mayhem ensues until the inevitable happy ending. Look for a young Bing Crosby singing ...

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The Town Went Wild (1945) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Murphy
featuring Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Edward Everett Horton, Tom Tully, Jill Browning

In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to marry. Despite their parents' objections they begin planning and getting the legal paper work done; it is then they learn they could be brother and sister. Fortunately, the situation is straightened out and the two find out ...

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It's a Boy (1934) more movies like this

directed by Tim Whelan, Sr.
featuring Leslie Henson, Albert Burdon, Edward Everett Horton, Heather Thatcher, Alfred Drayton

It's a Boy was freely adapted from a German play by Franz Arnold and Ernest Bach. On the eve of his marriage to Anita Gunn (Heather Thatcher), Dudley Leake (Edward Everett Horton) is confronted by Joe Piper (Albert Burdon), who claims to be Dudley's illegitimate son. Best man James Skippett (Leslie Henson) smells a rat, especially when Joe demands ...

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The Man in the Mirror (1936) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Elvey
featuring Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Ursula Jeans, Aubrey Mather

The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays Jeremy Dilke, a meek, mild-mannered businessman who allows everyone to use him for a doormat. While looking into his mirror, Dilke is confronted by his brusque, assertive alter ego, who declares "I am the man you have always ...

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Sunny (1941) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wilcox
featuring Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman

Sunny was one of three RKO Radio Broadway-musical adaptations tailored to the talents of British favorite Anna Neagle by her soon-to-be-husband Herbert Wilcox (the other two were No No Nanette and Irene). The story has been updated a bit and transposed to New Orleans' Mardi Gras, but remains at base a "Cinderella" yarn, replete with a poor girl ...

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The Gang's All Here (1939) more movies like this

directed by Thornton Freeland
featuring Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers, Edward Everett Horton, Otto Kruger

Dapper musical comedy favorite Jack Buchanan is practically the whole show in The Gang's All Here. Buchanan plays John Forrest, top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, Forrest intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but this plan goes out the window when his former employers are ...

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Lonely Wives (1931) more movies like this

directed by Russell Mack
featuring Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller, Spencer Charters

Five characters find themselves playing a lively game of musical beds in this saucy pre-Code comedy. Richard (Edward Everett Horton) is a well-known lawyer who has a rather surprising reputation as a ladykiller. Felix (also played by Horton) is a nightclub impressionist who wants Richard's permission to spoof him in his stage act. Richard tells ...

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