Esther Howard Movies

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Neal

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Claire Trevor

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Erich von Stroheim

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosalind Russell

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Donlevy

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel McCrea

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tom Conway

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Morgan Conway

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Bracken

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andy Clyde

A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

Compilation hodgepodge.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Stewart

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Fay

An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Howard

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

Genre: Music

Cast: Patricia Ellis

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

Two sailors get romantically involved with a mother and daughter.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack White

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Payne

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...

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Cast: Edmund Lowe

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Lukas

A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franklin Pangborn

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynne Overman

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bette Davis

While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andy Clyde

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marsha Hunt

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Bracken

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joel McCrea

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eleanor Parker

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Shirley

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Allen

In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Besser

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe DeRita

Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andy Clyde

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginald Denny

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Dick Powell

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bill Elliott

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirk Douglas

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wallace Beery

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ken Murray

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dennis Morgan

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual...

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor McLaglen

As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Houseley Stevenson

Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Catlett

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Lukas

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Martin

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Douglas

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Sidney