William Newell
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1894-01-05
Locus Natus: Millville, New Jersey, USA
Et ut: William M. Newell, Wm. Newell, Bill Newell, Billy Newell
Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....
release : 1941.08.09popularis : 3.895
Here Come the Marines
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and...
release : 1952.06.29popularis : 4.896
The Missouri Traveler
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner...
release : 1958.01.21popularis : 2.901
Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
release : 1933.10.13popularis : 7.351
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
release : 1946.11.22popularis : 5.897
Keeper of the Flame
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 2.385
Mysterious Doctor Satan
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer...
release : 1940.12.13popularis : 2.209
Alias Mr. Twilight
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the...
release : 1946.12.24popularis : 2.384
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...
release : 1950.04.01popularis : 4.68
The Mandarin Mystery
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
release : 1936.12.23popularis : 5.89
Bowery Bombshell
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a...
release : 1946.07.20popularis : 2.311
Key Witness
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
release : 1947.10.09popularis : 2.731
Second Chance
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
release : 1947.07.18popularis : 1.413
Mister Cory
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
release : 1957.02.23popularis : 3.4
Miss Polly
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets....
release : 1941.11.14popularis : 1.96
Sing a Jingle
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with...
release : 1944.01.07popularis : 3.018
Rendezvous
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
release : 1935.10.25popularis : 2.14
Rhythm in the Clouds
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
release : 1937.06.21popularis : 2.297
A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 4.375
The Invisible Killer
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of...
release : 1939.11.14popularis : 7.218
Sitting on the Moon
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
release : 1936.09.11popularis : 5.917
Larceny on the Air
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
release : 1937.01.11popularis : 2.573
Beware Of Ladies
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...
release : 1936.12.21popularis : 2.219
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...
release : 1946.12.25popularis : 11.955
Bulldog Edition
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...
release : 1936.09.13popularis : 1.428
Navy Born
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...
release : 1936.06.02popularis : 2.068
Happy Go Lucky
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying....
release : 1936.12.13popularis : 1.473
A Man Betrayed
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders,...
release : 1936.12.27popularis : 2.881
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes...
release : 1936.11.13popularis : 2.249
Bill Cracks Down
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he...
release : 1937.03.22popularis : 2.024
Dangerous Holiday
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
release : 1937.06.06popularis : 2.265
Who Was That Lady?
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story...
release : 1960.04.08popularis : 5.958
Last Train from Gun Hill
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.
release : 1959.07.29popularis : 13.366
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his...
release : 1941.08.07popularis : 10.409
Slander House
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous...
release : 1938.10.04popularis : 2.255
Escape from Fort Bravo
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
release : 1953.12.04popularis : 7.693
Phffft
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate...
release : 1954.11.10popularis : 4.206
Wedding Bills
Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...
release : 1940.11.13popularis : 0.672
The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears...
release : 1958.05.01popularis : 7.317
Louisa
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...
release : 1950.05.31popularis : 3.76
Let's Talk Turkey
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...
release : 1939.10.28popularis : 2.643
Caught in the Act
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another...
release : 1941.01.17popularis : 4.234
Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 2.899
Bright Victory
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
release : 1951.08.01popularis : 2.134
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...
release : 1942.12.09popularis : 1.91
Here Comes the Band
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...
release : 1935.08.30popularis : 4.07
The Outlaw
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his...
release : 1943.02.05popularis : 10.487
Honolulu
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
release : 1939.02.03popularis : 3.916
Rose of Washington Square
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 1.858
Invitation to Happiness
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
release : 1939.06.07popularis : 0.941
Good Girls Go to Paris
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...
release : 1939.06.20popularis : 8.904
Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
release : 1939.06.30popularis : 1.446
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...
release : 1939.10.19popularis : 13.899
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
release : 1939.12.13popularis : 4.696
Swanee River
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...
release : 1939.12.29popularis : 2.548
The Housekeeper's Daughter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
release : 1939.10.26popularis : 2.488
Wedlock Deadlock
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy...
release : 1947.12.18popularis : 0.883
Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 17.579
The Day the Bookies Wept
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
release : 1939.09.13popularis : 4.799
The Lost Weekend
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious....
release : 1945.11.29popularis : 16.18
Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...
release : 1936.10.09popularis : 14.563
The Invisible Man Returns
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
release : 1940.01.12popularis : 8.724
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...
release : 1947.08.30popularis : 2.003
Everybody's Baby
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 3.265
High Noon
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...
release : 1952.06.09popularis : 15.713
All by Myself
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to...
release : 1943.06.11popularis : 2.036
Make Way for Tomorrow
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with...
release : 1937.05.09popularis : 9.938
The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
release : 1940.04.25popularis : 1.508
City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...
release : 1940.09.21popularis : 5.102
Dangerous Blondes
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...
release : 1943.09.23popularis : 4.619
He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 2.221
Hold That Woman!
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...
release : 1940.06.28popularis : 1.841
The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 3.71
Let's Do It Again
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The...
release : 1953.06.16popularis : 6.271
The Magnificent Rogue
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
release : 1946.11.07popularis : 2.083
Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
release : 1941.10.23popularis : 5.066
Our Miss Brooks
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison...
release : 1956.04.24popularis : 5.044
Honeymoon Limited
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
release : 1935.07.01popularis : 2.419
Devil Pays Off
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
release : 1941.11.10popularis : 3.594
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and...
release : 1940.07.05popularis : 2.822
Get Hep to Love
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
release : 1942.10.02popularis : 1.707
Alfalfa's Aunt
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the...
release : 1939.01.07popularis : 2.934
Bubbling Troubles
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
release : 1940.05.25popularis : 0.917
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 7.513
The Great Morgan
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...
release : 1945.01.01popularis : 1.928
The Lady Pays Off
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her...
release : 1951.10.04popularis : 2.66
Fired Wife
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...
release : 1943.09.04popularis : 5.229
Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 2.198
Honeymoon Lodge
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...
release : 1943.07.23popularis : 1.539
No Place for a Lady
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...
release : 1943.02.11popularis : 2.828
Top Man
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...
release : 1943.09.17popularis : 2.853
Ice-Capades
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating...
release : 1941.08.19popularis : 1.675
The Domineering Male
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
release : 1940.03.30popularis : 0.75
Doctor Jim
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial...
release : 1947.01.01popularis : 1.802
A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...
release : 1942.12.10popularis : 2.485
Song of My Heart
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
release : 1948.01.31popularis : 0.99
Inflation
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
release : 1942.01.01popularis : 1.639
The Voice of Bugle Ann
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
release : 1936.02.15popularis : 5.151
Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 4.089
The Major and the Minor
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old...
release : 1942.09.16popularis : 10.961
Adventure
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
release : 1945.12.28popularis : 3.861
On Stage Everybody
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
release : 1945.07.13popularis : 1.56
Her Lucky Night
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
release : 1945.02.09popularis : 2.801
Absolute Quiet
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...
release : 1936.04.24popularis : 5.198
Young Widow
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
release : 1946.03.01popularis : 4.419
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky...
release : 1960.01.21popularis : 5.023
Pollyanna
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
release : 1960.05.19popularis : 12.861
Wichita
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a...
release : 1955.07.03popularis : 6.533
Blondie Goes Latin
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny...
release : 1941.02.27popularis : 5.151
The Ghost Comes Home
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
release : 1940.03.08popularis : 2.24
The Missing Juror
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
release : 1944.11.16popularis : 2.93
Lady in the Lake
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...
release : 1946.12.19popularis : 13.793
Riffraff
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...
release : 1936.01.03popularis : 6.74
The Man Who Dared
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when...
release : 1946.05.30popularis : 3.552