David Newell Movies

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lilli Palmer

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Bow

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Montgomery

Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anita Louise

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Harding

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles Boyer

Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Evelyn Brent

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

Genre: History

Cast: Joel McCrea

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean Muir

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

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Muni

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Trent

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Preston Foster

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Peter Lorre

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sidney Toler

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyrone Power

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Preston Foster

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Ameche

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kane Richmond

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

Genre: Western

Cast: Dick Foran

When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free...

Genre: Western

Cast: Audie Murphy

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Toler

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Green

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gary Cooper

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bette Davis

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Merle Oberon

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Foran

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Allan Lane

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as...

Genre: War

Cast: Joan Bennett

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great...

Genre: Western

Cast: Sidney Blackmer

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Miller

In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pola Negri

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

The singing stoker and the vamp.

Genre: Music

Cast: Carl Brisson

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Boyer

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Errol Flynn

In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Cherrill

This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Dorothy Revier