Donald Cook Movies

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Genre: Music

Cast: Irene Dunne

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Cook

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Magnuson

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Blyth

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Lukas

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Donald Cook

An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Cromwell

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Arliss

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Gwynne

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nancy Carroll

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Smith

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Cook

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judith Allen

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Donald Cook

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ramon Novarro

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gilbert Roland

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Winnie Lightner

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Travis

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Barrymore

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Bennett

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Holt

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norman Foster

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ted Lewis

A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.

Genre:

Cast: James Craig

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Conrad Nagel

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Montez

In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florence Rice

A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Holt

A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.

Genre: Music

Cast: Ruth Etting

Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adrienne Ames

Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Cagney

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter...

Genre: War

Cast: Lee Tracy

The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Brian

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers