Known for Art
Filmography
27 films


Vicki
1953 · 1h 25m · US
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.


Taxi
1953 · 1h 17m · US
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.


The I Don't Care Girl
1953 · 1h 18m · US
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.


Don't Bother to Knock
1952 · 1h 16m · US
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.


The Secret of Convict Lake
1951 · 1h 23m · US
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 innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.


Follow the Sun
1951 · 1h 33m · US
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.


I'll Get By
1950 · 1h 23m · US
I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There Will Never Be Another You", and other favorites (the rights to all of these songs were conveniently held by 20th Century-Fox). The partnership has some hard times, especially during the feud between ASCAP and the radio networks, when only public-domain songs like "I Dream of Jeannie" were permitted to be broadcast.


Love That Brute
1950 · 1h 25m · US
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.


The Gunfighter
1950 · 1h 25m · US
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.


Mother Didn't Tell Me
1950 · 1h 28m · US
Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.


Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
1949 · 1h 23m · US
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.


Apartment for Peggy
1948 · 1h 36m · US
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.


You Were Meant for Me
1948 · 1h 32m · US
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.


Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · 1h 36m · US
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.


The Brasher Doubloon
1947 · 1h 12m · US
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.


Behind Green Lights
1946 · 1h 4m · US
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.


Within These Walls
1945 · 1h 11m · US
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children Tommie and Anne. However, his son Tommie Howland eventually ends up incarcerated in his father's prison.


Circumstantial Evidence
1945 · 1h 8m · US
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.


The Three Caballeros
1944 · 1h 11m · US
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.


Guest in the House
1944 · 2h 1m · US
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.


No Place for a Lady
1943 · 1h 6m · US
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.


Private Snuffy Smith
1942 · 1h 7m · US
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.


Slightly Honorable
1939 · 1h 25m · US
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.


Eternally Yours
1939 · 1h 35m · US
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.


Winter Carnival
1939 · 1h 31m · US
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.