Frank Whitbeck Movies

Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dell Henderson

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Calleia

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Spencer Tracy

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

Genre: History

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Flanagan

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judy Garland

This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jo Ann Sayers

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Morriss

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Dawn

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Shearer

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

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Cast: Judy Garland

This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works with her trainer.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Adkinson

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lew Ayres

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Louis B. Mayer

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Dane

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Crawford