Ruth Donnelly Movies

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."

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Cast: Marion Davies

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Carole Lombard

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bing Crosby

Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

Genre: Romance

Cast: William Powell

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an...

Genre: Western

Cast: Glenn Ford

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

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

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dana Andrews

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Susan Hayward

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: James Ellison

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Kibbee

A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ida Lupino

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

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

A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins'...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Warren Hull

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

Genre: War

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on...

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul Lukas

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

Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful...

Genre: War

Cast: Wendell Corey

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Arthur

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Evans

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean Muir

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up...

Genre: War

Cast: Bill Elliott

Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter

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

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Cast: Joan Blondell

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Fred MacMurray

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Gargan

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

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

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Hutton

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder...

Genre: Action

Cast: Edmund Lowe

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Ellis

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

Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Herbert

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Aline MacMahon

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Leslie

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Abel

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.

Genre: Music

Cast: William Lundigan

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Genre: Crime

Cast: June Lang

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bill Elliott

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Anne Baxter

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jean Porter

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Bacall

Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Holt

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bobby Jones

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

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

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roger Pryor

Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.

Genre: Action

Cast: George O’Brien

An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gladys George

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn