Known for Art
Born
September 12, 1907
Died
January 18, 1992 (age 84)
Filmography
83 films, 1 show


The Jazz Singer
1980 · 1h 55m · UK
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.


Matilda
1978 · 1h 45m · US
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.


Child of Glass
1978 · 1h 33m · US
Alexander Armsworth and his family move to an authentic antebellum mansion which once was owned by a river pirate. Alexander is drawn into a century-old mystery when he sees the ghost of a little girl and she asks for his help in finding the "child of glass" by reciting a riddle. He has only a day or two to solve the riddle...or be haunted for the rest of his life!


The One and Only
1978 · 1h 37m · US
Andy Schmidt manages to win fellow student Mary’s heart, but getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected. Desperate and dreaming of stardom, he tries wrestling.


Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977 · 2h 16m · US
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.


New York, New York
1977 · 2h 43m · US
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.


A Star Is Born
1976 · 2h 20m · US
Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.


Harry and Walter Go to New York
1976 · 1h 55m · US
Two hopelessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the 19th century — by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.


Let's Do It Again
1975 · 1h 53m · US
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.


Once Is Not Enough
1975 · 2h 1m · US
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.


Freebie and the Bean
1974 · 1h 53m · US
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.


The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 · 1h 34m · US
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.


Chinatown
1974 · 2h 10m · US
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.


Genesis II
1973 · 1h 14m · US
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.


The Other
1972 · 1h 48m · US
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.


Getting Away from It All
1972 · 1h 14m · US
Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.


Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971 · 1h 45m · US
A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.


Revenge!
1971 · 1h 15m · US
A deranged mother avenges herself on the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.


The Andromeda Strain
1971 · 2h 11m · US
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.


Lost Flight
1970 · 1h 44m · US
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."


Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · 1h 40m · US
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.


Change of Habit
1969 · 1h 33m · US
Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would be poorly received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.


Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969 · 1h 38m · US
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.


The Sound of Music
1965 · 2h 54m · US
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.


For Love or Money
1963 · 1h 48m · US
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.


Pillow Talk
1959 · 1h 42m · US
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.


Girls on the Loose
1958 · 1h 18m · US
A nightclub operator, her sister, a beautician and two other women rob a payroll.


Flood Tide
1958 · 1h 22m
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.


The Female Animal
1958 · 1h 23m · US
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...


The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
1957 · 1h 21m · US
Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.


The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · 1h 21m · US
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.


The Great Man
1956 · 1h 32m · US
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.


Rock, Pretty Baby
1956 · 1h 29m · US
A high school rock group enters a band contest.


Showdown at Abilene
1956 · 1h 20m · US
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.


Francis in the Haunted House
1956 · 1h 20m · US
Reporter David Prescott becomes unlikely friends with Francis, who is the only witness to a murder. As Prescott finds himself in and out of the police station as a supposedly delirious suspect, he must clear his name with Francis in tow, and set off to the spooky old castle where the real killer waits!


Raw Edge
1956 · 1h 16m · US
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother.


The Square Jungle
1955 · 1h 26m · US
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.


Foxfire
1955 · 1h 32m · US
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.


The Shrike
1955 · 1h 28m · US
Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.


Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955 · 1h 19m · US
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.


Six Bridges to Cross
1955 · 1h 36m · US
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.


So This Is Paris
1954 · 1h 36m · US
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.


Dawn at Socorro
1954 · 1h 21m · US
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.


Magnificent Obsession
1954 · 1h 48m · US
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.


Playgirl
1954 · 1h 25m · US
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the recriminations...and bullets...start to fly!


Yankee Pasha
1954 · 1h 24m · US
Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.


Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954 · 1h 21m · US
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholarship. However, who ever has the nicest looking farm and raises their kids in a good enviroment has a chance of winning.


Forbidden
1953 · 1h 25m · US
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.


The Glass Web
1953 · 1h 21m · US
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests turning the case into a TV show episode.


The Man from the Alamo
1953 · 1h 19m · US
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Unable to expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead.


Francis Covers the Big Town
1953 · 1h 26m · US
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.


It Came from Outer Space
1953 · 1h 20m · US
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...


Column South
1953 · 1h 24m · US
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.


Girls in the Night
1953 · 1h 23m · US
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.


Bonzo Goes to College
1952 · 1h 20m · US
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him into a college.


Untamed Frontier
1952 · 1h 15m · US
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...


Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952 · 1h 18m · US
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.


Flesh and Fury
1952 · 1h 23m · US
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.


No Room for the Groom
1952 · 1h 22m · US
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.


Reunion in Reno
1951 · 1h 19m · US
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.


You Never Can Tell
1951 · 1h 18m · US
Retired army dog King inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the kind woman who used to look after him.


Cattle Drive
1951 · 1h 17m · US
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.


The Mark of the Renegade
1951 · 1h 21m · US
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.


The Fat Man
1951 · 1h 18m · US
A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but private eye Brad Runyan thinks there's more to it.


Bedtime for Bonzo
1951 · 1h 23m · US
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.


Kansas Raiders
1950 · 1h 20m · US
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.


Shakedown
1950 · 1h 20m · US
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.


Louisa
1950 · 1h 30m · US
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.


Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950 · 1h 26m · US
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.


I Was a Shoplifter
1950 · 1h 14m · US
In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.


One Way Street
1950 · 1h 19m · US
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.


Woman in Hiding
1950 · 1h 32m · US
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.


Abandoned
1949 · 1h 18m · US
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.


Take One False Step
1949 · 1h 34m · US
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.


The Lady Gambles
1949 · 1h 39m · US
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.


Cheyenne Cowboy
1949 · 25m · US
Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.


Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948 · 1h 19m · US
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.


You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · 1h 40m · US
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.


Tap Roots
1948 · 1h 49m · US
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.


Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948 · 1h 29m · US
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.


Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · 1h 27m · US
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.


Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 · 1h 43m · US
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.


The Time of Their Lives
1946 · 1h 22m · US
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.