Known for Sound
Born
June 8, 1890
Died
September 30, 1966 (age 76)
Birthplace
Blackfoot, Idaho, USA
Filmography
59 films


Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962 · 1h 41m · US
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.


Bachelor Flat
1961 · 1h 31m · US
Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.


Flaming Star
1960 · 1h 32m · US
Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.


Beloved Infidel
1959 · 2h 3m · US
In the late 1930s, Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood column quickly becomes popular for its biting tone. At a party, she meets author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the two begin a torrid affair. Scott laments that his writing has fallen out of fashion, and when he is fired from his screenwriting position, he begins drinking heavily. Soon his intrusive, volatile behavior threatens their relationship and Sheilah's career.


The Hunters
1958 · 1h 48m · US
With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film based on the best-selling novel by veteran fighter pilot James Salter. Set during the height of the Korean War, the story centers on Major Cleve Saville (Robert Mitchum), a master of the newly operational F-86 Sabre fighter jets. But adept as he is at flying, Saville¹s personal life takes a nosedive when he falls in love with his wingman¹s (Lee Philips) beautiful wife (May Britt). To make matters worse, Saville must cope with a loud-mouthed rookie (Robert Wagner) in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives in this well-crafted war drama.


Fraulein
1958 · 1h 35m · US
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.


The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · 1h 55m · US
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.


Desk Set
1957 · 1h 43m · US
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.


Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · 1h 33m · US
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.


The Girl Can't Help It
1956 · 1h 38m · US
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.


The King and I
1956 · 2h 13m · US
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.


The Seven Year Itch
1955 · 1h 45m · US
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.


Violent Saturday
1955 · 1h 30m · US
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.


There's No Business Like Show Business
1954 · 1h 58m · US
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.


New Faces
1954 · 1h 38m · US
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.


King of the Khyber Rifles
1953 · 1h 40m · US
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.


Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 · 1h 31m · US
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.


My Wife's Best Friend
1952 · 1h 27m · US
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.


Dreamboat
1952 · 1h 23m · US
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.


Deadline - U.S.A.
1952 · 1h 27m · US
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.


Let's Make It Legal
1951 · 1h 17m · US
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.


Anne of the Indies
1951 · 1h 21m · US
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.


David and Bathsheba
1951 · 2h 3m · US
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.


On the Riviera
1951 · 1h 29m · US
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.


Stella
1950 · 1h 23m · US
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.


Cheaper by the Dozen
1950 · 1h 25m · US
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.


The Fan
1949 · 1h 19m · US
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.


Home Sweet Homicide
1946 · 1h 30m · US
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.


Colonel Effingham's Raid
1946 · 1h 12m · US
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.


Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · 1h 50m · US
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.


Happy Land
1943 · 1h 13m · US
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.


Holy Matrimony
1943 · 1h 27m · US
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.


Jitterbugs
1943 · 1h 15m · US
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.


Quiet Please, Murder
1943 · 1h 10m · US
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.


The Pied Piper
1942 · 1h 27m · US
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.


The Night Before the Divorce
1942 · 1h 7m · US
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.


Belle Starr
1941 · 1h 23m · US
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.


Ride, Kelly, Ride
1941 · 59m · US
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.


Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · 1h 40m · US
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.


Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939 · 1h 11m · US
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.


Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937 · 1h 11m · US
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!


Ladies in Love
1936 · 1h 37m · US
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.


Everybody's Old Man
1936 · 1h 22m · US
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.


King of Burlesque
1936 · 1h 30m · US
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.


Charlie Chan in London
1934 · 1h 19m · US
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
No dejes la puerta abierta
No dejes la puerta abierta
1933 · 1h 16m · US
Aka Don't Leave the Door Open


Call Her Savage
1932 · 1h 28m · US
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.


She Wanted a Millionaire
1932 · 1h 20m · US
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.