Dick Powell Movies

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

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

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Dick Powell

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dick Powell

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Allyson

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dick Powell

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ian Hunter

On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ball

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

Genre: Music

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Al Jolson

The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Martin

A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and FDR appear in his room asking him why he wants...

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Cast: Dick Powell

Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Allyson

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.

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Cast: Joan Blondell

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Blondell

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

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

A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dick Powell

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joyce Compton

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Rubin

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history ....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Errol Flynn

Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Will Rogers

Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sophie Okonedo

An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner...

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Cast: Al Barabas

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Cronkite

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Barrios

This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Blondell

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Acuff

This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.

Genre: Music

Cast: Lynn Baggett

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Armstrong

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Addison Richards

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Rains

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lyle Talbot

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bette Davis

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rin-Tin-Tin

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

A short promotional film about Ruby Keeler and her upcoming film "Flirtation Walk." It provides a brief look at her career on Broadway, early films,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Warner Baxter