Donald MacBride Movies

With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sidney Toler

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ida Lupino

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Virginia Bruce

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot...

Genre: Action

Cast: Martha O'Driscoll

Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Toler

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Montgomery

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Brian Donlevy

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Astaire

The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Allen

Buster plays Elmer "Happy" Triple, a scientist who is expected to develop the next big thing. That big thing ends up to be a powder when combined...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Gorcey

A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rondo Hatton

Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sheridan

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Sheridan

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Dix

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vivian Blaine

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Mowbray

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Read

Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Genre: Action

Cast: Leo Gorcey

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frank Morgan

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lois Collier

A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Blue

Golf, we discover in this early Semon short, is a game that is played by striking a croquet ball with a hockey stick and seeing how many times it can...

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Cast: Larry Semon

A freshly minted private eye is sent to a sanitarium as a gag.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jesse Block

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Corrigan

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupe Vélez

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he...

Genre: Music

Cast: June Allyson

An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.

Genre: Western

Cast: Leo Carrillo

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frances Langford

Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

By Might of His Right premiered in December 1915. The comedy shows what happens when a boorish houseguest overstays his welcome. Henry’s...

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Cast: Sidney Drew

An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eddie Bracken

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Bracken

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupe Vélez

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ball

Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillip Terry

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Estelita Rodriguez

A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.

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Cast: Nancy Carroll

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Dunne

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Stewart

Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Givot

After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shemp Howard

Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.

Genre:

Cast: Shemp Howard

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Gribbon

A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daphne Pollard

Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shemp Howard

A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Ates

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Shirley

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ray Milland

A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mary Beth Hughes

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred Astaire

The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tony Martin

Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kirby Grant

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Bergen

The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Leon Errol

Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leah Baird

Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Abel

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mark Stevens

The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Stewart

Complications ensue when a singer discovers he has a double in this musical short film.

Genre: Music

Cast: Russ Columbo

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anita Stewart

A lounge singer sees his career skyrocket after he signs a contract for a mobster nightclub owner.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Berkes

George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Howard

Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Gribbon

Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Howard

Newlyweds Bob and Suzi have landlord troubles when Suzi's mother arrives on a visit and brings her dog and dogs are forbidden in their apartment...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Scott Elliott

Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Ryan

An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Ryan

Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edith Storey

Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Bernard

A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Drew

Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gil Lamb

Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Ruth Etting shows how she make a perfect three minute egg by singing a song with a length of exactly three minutes.

Genre: Music

Cast: Ruth Etting