Ernest Truex Movies

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Foran

A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Mason

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

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Eldridge

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Harris

A young American broker at large in London.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glynis Johns

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Boland

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

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gary Cooper

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

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 partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Merle Oberon

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Randall

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Shirley

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lew Ayres

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marsha Hunt

Ernest Truex reluctantly turning nudist in this Al Christie Educational short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex's wife is in the hospital to give birth to their first child, and she wants him there. But his boss, Montagu Love, is in a typically...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Montagu Love

In this short film from Educational Pictures, Ernest Truex stars as a man who doesn't like kids and prefers dogs. This gets him in good with the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex and family throwing a dinner party.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diana Barrymore

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 waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lynn Bari

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elissa Landi

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

Genre: Music

Cast: Phillip Terry

A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anna May Wong

The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald O'Connor

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Hutton

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Tobias

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Grace Dorian

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Jean

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tom Brown

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Sheffield

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Swarthout

A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dixie Dunbar

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 baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Herbert

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

Genre: Music

Cast: Allan Jones

Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Douglas

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hugh Herbert

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Louise Allbritton

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

A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

Genre:

Cast: Mary Pickford

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rock Hudson

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Herbert

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cicely Courtneidge

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Ryan

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Brent

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

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Neal

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Sinatra

A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex