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It's a Date

It's a Date (1940) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia Drake (Kay Francis). Hoping to find success as an actress herself, Pamela energetically lobbies for the role of the maid in an upcoming play based on the life of St. Bernadette -- a role that has already been given to Georgia. ...

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The Lullaby of Broadway

The Lullaby of Broadway (1951) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George

Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway. Day plays an American musical comedy star who comes back from a successful London engagement to visit her mother Gladys George. A once-great Broadway star herself, George is now living in drunken poverty, but this fact has ...

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In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg

In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland play a couple of clerks in a sheet-music ...

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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire (1941) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, Henry Travers

Ball of Fire is a delightful retelling (by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett) of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" legend -- though strictly for grownups. Gary Cooper is the youngest of eight bookish professors authoring an encyclopedia. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of stripteaser Barbara Stanwyck, who ...

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Wintertime

Wintertime (1943) more movies like this

directed by John Brahm
featuring Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cornel Wilde, Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, S.Z. Sakall

In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and her millionaire uncle Hjallmar (S. Z. Sakall) are sweet-talked into investing in a failing resort hotel, now a hostelry for showbiz folk. Unemployed musician Brad Barton (Cesar Romero) makes a play ...

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Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl (1953) more movies like this

directed by Busby Berkeley, Leslie Kardos
featuring Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Keith, Bobby Van

A remake of the 1936 Janet Gaynor vehicle of the same name, Small Town Girl stars Jane Powell in the title role. Powell plays Cindy Kimball, daughter of village judge Gordon Kimball (Robert Keith). When wealthy playboy Rick Livingston (Farley Granger) is arrested for speeding, Judge Kimball sentences the arrogant young sprout to 30 days to teach ...

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San Antonio

San Antonio (1945) more movies like this

directed by David Butler
featuring Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Victor Francen, Florence Bates, Paul Kelly

In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that San Antonio saloon proprietor Roy Stuart (Paul Kelly) is actually a cattle rustler of major proportions. Determined to bring Stuart to justice, Clay runs into difficulties when he mistakes feted chanteuse Jeanne Starr (Alexis ...

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The Dolly Sisters

The Dolly Sisters (1945) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career from childhood. Passing an important audition for ...

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That Night in Rio

That Night in Rio (1941) more movies like this

directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, J. Carrol Naish, S.Z. Sakall

That Night in Rio is a musical remake of 1934's Folies Bergère. Don Ameche plays a dual role as a middle-aged Brazilian industrialist, and a young Rio de Janeiro cabaret performer who looks just like him. The highlight of the entertainer's act is an imitation of the industrialist, which impresses the latter's associates. When the industrialist is ...

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Wonder Man

Wonder Man (1945) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, S.Z. Sakall, Donald Woods, Steve Cochran

Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle and Edwin's extroverted twin brother, nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew. When Buzzy witnesses a gangland shooting, he himself is rubbed out by mob boss Ten-Grand Jackson (Steve Cochran, in his movie debut). Before long, ...

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Spring Parade (1940) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer (Bob Cummings) who secretly ...

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The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington

The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store that he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store, the better to catch the union ...

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