Una Merkel Movies

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Bing Crosby

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chester Morris

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lionel Atwill

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Fisher

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Murphy

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

Genre: Action

Cast: James Stewart

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Benny

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eleanor Powell

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susan Hayward

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hayley Mills

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Loretta Young

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Una Merkel

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Main

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Harvey

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Francis

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Otto Kruger

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Harlow

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Kibbee

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Rice

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Craig

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early...

Genre: History

Cast: Walter Huston

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jane Powell

When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Russell

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenny Delmar

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Tracy

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lew Ayres

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Harding

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Colman

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madge Evans

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Stewart

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Charles Ruggles

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Slim Summerville

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hayley Mills

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Grable

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.

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Cast: Charles Butterworth

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Powell

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Carrillo

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Butterworth

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Parks

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madge Evans

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franchot Tone

Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neil Hamilton

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stuart Erwin

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

Genre: Music

Cast: Alice Brady

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Bendix

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pete Smith

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

Genre: Music

Cast: Una Merkel

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Keith

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.

Genre:

Cast: Una Merkel

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Una Merkel

A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Burns

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Baby Sandy

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

Genre:

Cast: Judy Garland

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Stewart

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Una Merkel

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

Genre:

Cast: Lewis Stone

Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sal Mineo

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Joy