Known for Art
Born
June 15, 1906
Died
July 20, 1983 (age 77)
Birthplace
San Mateo, California, USA
Filmography
54 films, 1 show


The Cat from Outer Space
1978 · 1h 44m · US
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.


A Family Upside Down
1978 · 1h 38m · US
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.


Babe
1977 · 1h 37m · US
This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling marriage to wrestler George Zaharias, and the final battle with the only thing tougher than she was.


Woman of the Year
1976 · 1h 40m · US
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.


Rooster Cogburn
1975 · 1h 48m · US
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.


The Lives of Jenny Dolan
1975 · 1h 40m · US
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.


The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 · 1h 38m · US
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.


Earthquake
1974 · 2h 3m · US
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.


The Don Is Dead
1973 · 1h 46m · US
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.


Brewster McCloud
1971 · 1h 45m · US
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.


Pretty Maids All in a Row
1971 · 1h 31m · US
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated by the plethora of uninhibited freewheeling young girls.


The Strawberry Statement
1970 · 1h 49m · US
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.


Airport
1970 · 2h 17m · US
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.


The Impossible Years
1968 · 1h 32m · US
The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.


Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · 1h 29m · US
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.


Penelope
1966 · 1h 38m · US
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.


Quick, Before It Melts
1965 · 1h 38m · US
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.


The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964 · 2h 8m · US
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.


It Happened at the World's Fair
1963 · 1h 45m · US
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike cares for a small girl whose father has disappeared.


Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962 · 2h 5m · US
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.


All Fall Down
1962 · 1h 50m · US
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.


The Honeymoon Machine
1961 · 1h 27m · US
Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch, putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme.


Wild in the Country
1961 · 1h 54m · US
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.


Where the Boys Are
1960 · 1h 39m · US
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.


Bells Are Ringing
1960 · 2h 6m · US
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.


Home from the Hill
1960 · 2h 30m · US
The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.


Green Mansions
1959 · 1h 44m · US
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.


Gigi
1958 · 1h 55m · US
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.


Designing Woman
1957 · 1h 58m · US
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.


Lust for Life
1956 · 2h 2m · US
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.


These Wilder Years
1956 · 1h 31m · US
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.


Kismet
1955 · 1h 53m · US
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.


The Cobweb
1955 · 2h 4m · US
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.


Brigadoon
1954 · 1h 48m · US
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.


Torch Song
1953 · 1h 30m · US
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.


The Band Wagon
1953 · 1h 52m · US
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.


The Story of Three Loves
1953 · 2h 2m · US
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.


The Wild North
1952 · 1h 37m · US
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.


An American in Paris
1951 · 1h 53m · US
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.


Two Weeks with Love
1950 · 1h 32m · US
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.


Crisis
1950 · 1h 36m · US
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.


The Outriders
1950 · 1h 33m · US
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....


The Doctor and the Girl
1949 · 1h 38m · US
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.


That Midnight Kiss
1949 · 1h 36m · US
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.


Big City
1948 · 1h 43m · US
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.


Three Daring Daughters
1948 · 1h 55m · US
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.


Lady in the Lake
1946 · 1h 45m · US
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.


She Went to the Races
1945 · 1h 26m · US
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.


The Hidden Eye
1945 · 1h 9m · US
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.


Blonde Fever
1944 · 1h 9m · US
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.