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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, Harry Carey

Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior senator, puts in a call to Governor Hubert "Happy" ...

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The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro (1940) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette

This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing and swashbuckling son of a 19th century California aristocrat. As a champion of the oppressed, Zorro must face a wicked governor portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, who, of course, has a beautiful niece whom our hero loves. ...

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First Love

First Love (1939) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard

Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized variation of the Cinderella legend (there's even "six white mice" in the form of a sextet of motorcycle policemen!). The film casts Durbin as Constance Harding, the poor relation of wealthy tycoon James Clinton (Eugene Pallette ...

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Stowaway

Stowaway (1936) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). Through a series of unbelievable but entertaining circumstances, Ching-Ching inadvertently stows away on a boat bound for San Francisco, which happens to include Tommy on the passenger list. ...

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The Male Animal

The Male Animal (1942) more movies like this

directed by Elliott Nugent
featuring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette

In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled, bookish college professor Tommy Turner, who puts his career on the line by insisting upon standing up for his right to free speech. Determining to read a letter written by executed anarchistic Bartolomeo Vanzetti to his ...

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Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express (1932) more movies like this

directed by Josef von Sternberg
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette

"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily," purrs Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. She certainly has her well-manicured hands full with more men than she can count in this exotic far-Eastern adventure. Among her fellow passengers on the Shanghai Express are her disillusioned former fiance, stalwart British medical corps ...

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The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case (1933) more movies like this

directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson

Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his fourth screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante detective Philo Vance. This time the story involves intrigue at the Long Island kennel club. The murder victim is Robert H. Barrat, who works overtime making himself a ...

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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey (1936) more movies like this

directed by Gregory La Cava
featuring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette

One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump. Godfrey becomes the family's butler, much to the dismay of ...

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The Bride Came C.O.D.

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) more movies like this

directed by William Keighley
featuring James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette

Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but both performers behaved with thorough professionalism, doing a lot more for the film than the film did for them. Davis stars as flighty heiress Joan Winfield, whose impending marriage to bandleader Allen Brice (Jack Carson) ...

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It's a Date

It's a Date (1940) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia Drake (Kay Francis). Hoping to find success as an actress herself, Pamela energetically lobbies for the role of the maid in an upcoming play based on the life of St. Bernadette -- a role that has already been given to Georgia. ...

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The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve (1941) more movies like this

directed by Preston Sturges
featuring Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore

(Preston Sturges) wrote and directed this classic romantic comedy starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, who are involved in a scintillating battle of the sexes, as Sturges points up the terrors of sexual passion and the unattainability of the romantic ideal. Henry Fonda plays Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won ...

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Pin-Up Girl (1944) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette

Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively Technicolor musical casts Gable as Lorrie Jones, secretary at a USO canteen frequented by handsome servicemen. Falling in love with war hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey), Lorrie contrives to be near him wherever he goes by posing as a ...

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The Big Street (1942) more movies like this

directed by Irving G. Reis
featuring Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette

Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big Street. Ball is cast as Gloria, aka "Your Highness," the vain and thoroughly selfish star attraction of gangster Case Ables' (Barton MacLaine) New York nightclub. Henry Fonda costars as busboy Little Pinks, who worships ...

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Step Lively (1944) more movies like this

directed by Tim Whelan, Sr.
featuring Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak

Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) struggles to keep his production and cast together ...

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The Ghost Goes West (1935) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg, Ralph Bunker

Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played by Robert Donat. As the spectre, who feels as ...

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The Gang's All Here (1943) more movies like this

directed by Busby Berkeley
featuring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, James Ellison, Eugene Pallette, Edward Everett Horton, Phil Baker

Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason Sr. (Eugene Pallette), a wealthy, blustery Wall Street financier. While paying respects to his father and the latter's business partner, dithering fuss-budget Peyton Potter (Edward Everett Horton), at the Club New Yorker, ...

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The Three Musketeers (1921) more movies like this

directed by Fred Niblo
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Leon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin, Marguerite de la Motte

Douglas Fairbanks' longest and most elaborate production up to 1921, The Three Musketeers was Fairbanks' first full-blown costume adventure (his modestly produced 1920 The Mark of Zorro was regarded as an extension of his breezy contemporary comedies). Fairbanks assumes the leading role of D'Artagnan, who after challenging musketeers Athos (Leon ...

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The Cheaters (1945) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Kane
featuring Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson, Raymond Walburn

A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy. It all happens because the ditzy wife makes a terrible mistake with their money and loses a fortune. Her husband, a banker is at his wit's end as he scrambles about looking for much-needed cash. He tries his wife's wealthy, ...

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The Kansan (1943) more movies like this

directed by George Archainbaud
featuring Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette, Victor Jory

Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release, then redirected to United Artists. Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt, stars of the previous Sherman effort Buckskin Frontier, are reunited herein as western lawman John Bonniwell and rancher's daughter Eleanor Sager. After chasing ...

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World Premiere (1941) more movies like this

directed by Ted Tetzlaff
featuring John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale, Ricardo Cortez

A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames . It is slated to open in Washington, D.C. and he has his press agents working overtime to produce an enormous hoopla of secrecy and publicity stunts. They come up with the plan of hiring a trio of "spies" who are to send disturbing threats ...

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Young Tom Edison (1940) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette

This film follows the teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison (Mickey Rooney) as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Sensations of 1945 (1944) more movies like this

directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette, Mimi Forsythe

Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final film, period, for comedian W.C. Fields. Powell is the prize client of flamboyant press agent Eugene Pallette. Dennis O'Keefe, Pallette's stiff-necked son, disapproves of his dad's razzle-dazzle promotional techniques, but ...

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Strangers of the Evening (1932) more movies like this

directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring ZaSu Pitts, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Miriam Seegar

Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at the city morgue, where the body of Frank Daniels (Lucien Littlefield) suddenly disappears. Later on, at Daniels' funeral, the wrong man is buried. It's all the handiwork of crooked undertaker Chandler (Warner Richmond), who is ...

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