Edward Arnold
Also Known As: Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider
Biography: Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: February 17, 1890
Deathday: April 26, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
Popularity:
Annie Get Your Gun
Overview: Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-17
Popularity:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Overview: Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
Popularity:
Meet John Doe
Overview: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
Popularity:
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
Popularity:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Overview: The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
Popularity:
The Houston Story
Overview: A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
Popularity:
City That Never Sleeps
Overview: Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-12
Popularity:
I'm No Angel
Overview: The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
Popularity:
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
Overview: The director's son gives interesting anecdotes about Frank Capra's making of the 1938 hit comedy, "You Can't Take It With You."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-09
Popularity:
Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
Popularity:
All That Money Can Buy
Overview: Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
Popularity:
Miami Exposé
Overview: A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
Popularity:
The Glass Key
Overview: When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-15
Popularity:
Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
Popularity:
Roman Scandals
Overview: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-27
Popularity:
Ziegfeld Follies
Overview: The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-26
Popularity:
Kismet
Overview: Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-01
Popularity:
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
Popularity:
Sadie McKee
Overview: A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
Popularity:
Crime and Punishment
Overview: A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
Hide-Out
Overview: Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
Popularity:
Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
Popularity:
Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
Popularity:
The Toast of New York
Overview: After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
Popularity:
Easy Living
Overview: 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 poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
Popularity:
Okay, America!
Overview: A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
Popularity:
Belles on Their Toes
Overview: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
Popularity:
Thirty Day Princess
Overview: A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
Popularity:
Eyes in the Night
Overview: Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
Popularity:
Remember Last Night?
Overview: After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
Popularity:
Come and Get It
Overview: An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
Popularity:
Unholy Partners
Overview: A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
Popularity:
Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
Popularity:
Design for Scandal
Overview: A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
Popularity:
Nothing But the Truth
Overview: A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
Popularity:
The Hidden Eye
Overview: A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-31
Popularity:
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Overview: Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
Popularity:
The Hucksters
Overview: A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
Popularity:
Main Street After Dark
Overview: A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
Popularity:
The Yellow Cab Man
Overview: Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-25
Popularity:
No Leave, No Love
Overview: A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-10
Popularity:
The Misleading Lady
Overview: Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-03
Popularity:
The Return of Eve
Overview: Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-16
Popularity:
Dear Ruth
Overview: Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
Popularity:
Dear Wife
Overview: In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
Popularity:
The Mighty McGurk
Overview: A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-02
Popularity:
The Youngest Profession
Overview: Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
Popularity:
Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
Popularity:
Three Daring Daughters
Overview: Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
Popularity:
The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
Popularity:
Secret of the Blue Room
Overview: According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-20
Popularity:
The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
Popularity:
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Overview: Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-04
Popularity:
The White Sister
Overview: An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
Popularity:
My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
Popularity:
Dear Brat
Overview: Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-30
Popularity:
Meet Nero Wolfe
Overview: Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-16
Popularity:
Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
Popularity:
Whistling in the Dark
Overview: A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
Popularity:
Wallflower
Overview: Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-13
Popularity:
Jennie Gerhardt
Overview: This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-08
Popularity:
Let Freedom Ring
Overview: A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
Popularity:
Big Jack
Overview: Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-12
Popularity:
Blossoms On Broadway
Overview: A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
Popularity:
Ellis in Freedomland
Overview: Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
Popularity:
Janie Gets Married
Overview: Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-22
Popularity:
Janie
Overview: Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-02
Popularity:
Wednesday's Child
Overview: A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-26
Popularity:
Standing Room Only
Overview: During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
Popularity:
Three Wise Fools
Overview: An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-26
Popularity:
Big City
Overview: A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
Popularity:
Inflation
Overview: The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
Popularity:
John Meade's Woman
Overview: "Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
Popularity:
Man About Town
Overview: Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-29
Popularity:
The Barbarian
Overview: An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-12
Popularity:
Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
Popularity:
The Crowd Roars
Overview: A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
Popularity:
Rasputin and the Empress
Overview: The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
Popularity:
Cardinal Richelieu
Overview: The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
Popularity:
Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
Popularity:
John Loves Mary
Overview: After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
Popularity:
Land of Liberty
Overview: This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-15
Popularity:
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Overview: Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-29
Popularity:
He Who Gets Slapped
Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-22
Popularity:
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Overview: Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
Popularity:
The President Vanishes
Overview: The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
Popularity:
Command Decision
Overview: High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
Popularity:
Million Dollar Ransom
Overview: To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
Popularity:
That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
Popularity:
The Penalty
Overview: In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-13
Popularity:
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Overview: Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-12
Popularity:
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Overview: A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-29
Popularity:
Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
Popularity:
Sherlock Holmes
Overview: When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-30
Popularity:
Twelve Angry Men
Overview: Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
Popularity:
Living It Up
Overview: Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-15
Popularity:
The Ambassador's Daughter
Overview: While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-26
Popularity:
Madame Spy
Overview: Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
Popularity:
Blow-Ups of 1947
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
Popularity:
Afraid to Talk
Overview: Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
Popularity:
Unknown Blonde
Overview: An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-23
Popularity:
Phil-for-Short
Overview: A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-02
Popularity:
Blow-Ups of 1946
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
Popularity:
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
Popularity:
Her Bodyguard
Overview: The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
Popularity:
Man of Conflict
Overview: Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-04
Popularity:
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
Popularity:
A Broadway Saint
Overview: Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his uncle (George Bunny) and aunts (Emily Fitzroy and Annie Laurie Spence). He finds small-town life far more wicked than living in the big city. A theatrical troupe comes to town, and Dick finds his match in chorus girl Mazie Chateaux (Helen Weir). Dick's uncle inherits a huge sum of money and insists that his nephew take him to New York and entertain him. Dick, knowing what his uncle expects, takes him through a number of wild adventures, but he is happy to put all that behind him and settle down with Mazie. (Janiss Garza)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-07-21
Popularity:
Murder in the Pullman
Overview: Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
Popularity:
The Cost
Overview: Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-11
Popularity: