Lew Ayres
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1908-12-28
Locus Natus: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Et ut: Lewis Frederick Ayre III
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...
release : 1930.04.29popularis : 19.801
End of the World
After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world...
release : 1977.08.01popularis : 3.177
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar...
release : 1973.06.15popularis : 43.458
Of Mice and Men
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always...
release : 1981.11.29popularis : 3.056
Damien: Omen II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military...
release : 1978.06.09popularis : 33.6
Suddenly, Love
Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a...
release : 1978.12.04popularis : 4.634
The Kiss
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
release : 1929.11.15popularis : 3.791
Shakedown
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work...
release : 1936.07.17popularis : 0.581
The Doorway to Hell
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and...
release : 1930.10.18popularis : 3.983
Donovan's Brain
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess...
release : 1953.09.30popularis : 3.235
Johnny Belinda
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
release : 1948.09.14popularis : 6.536
The Capture
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
release : 1950.04.08popularis : 7.297
The Dark Mirror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
release : 1946.10.17popularis : 8.814
The Questor Tapes
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of...
release : 1974.01.23popularis : 2.758
Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...
release : 1938.05.26popularis : 12.597
Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
release : 1942.04.22popularis : 2.177
Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired...
release : 1962.06.06popularis : 13.39
No Escape
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a...
release : 1953.07.31popularis : 1.594
Okay, America!
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
release : 1932.09.08popularis : 1.005
State Fair
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
release : 1933.02.10popularis : 2.925
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
release : 1941.08.22popularis : 1.62
The Unfaithful
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...
release : 1947.07.01popularis : 3.628
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
release : 1940.09.06popularis : 1.226
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
release : 1940.11.29popularis : 1.259
Earth II
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered...
release : 1971.11.28popularis : 6.069
Young Dr. Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his...
release : 1938.10.14popularis : 4.431
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
release : 1941.05.02popularis : 4.752
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
release : 1939.11.24popularis : 4.48
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 5.314
Calling Dr. Kildare
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. ...
release : 1939.04.28popularis : 4.466
Dr. Kildare's Victory
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
release : 1942.02.04popularis : 4.204
Maisie Was a Lady
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...
release : 1941.01.10popularis : 6.434
Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
release : 1939.04.07popularis : 5.841
New Mexico
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing...
release : 1951.05.18popularis : 2.399
East Is West
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold...
release : 1930.10.23popularis : 1.854
The Golden Fleecing
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 6.382
King of the Newsboys
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...
release : 1938.03.18popularis : 2.7
The Crime Nobody Saw
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
release : 1937.03.12popularis : 2.206
The Impatient Maiden
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
release : 1932.03.01popularis : 8.243
Don't Bet on Love
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...
release : 1933.06.30popularis : 3.864
Iron Man
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back...
release : 1931.04.29popularis : 4.36
Murder with Pictures
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...
release : 1936.09.24popularis : 3.226
Panic on the Air
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune,...
release : 1936.04.10popularis : 3.491
The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...
release : 1939.03.10popularis : 4.052
These Glamour Girls
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...
release : 1939.08.18popularis : 2.93
Spring Tonic
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
release : 1935.06.27popularis : 1.26
The Man
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health,...
release : 1972.07.19popularis : 3.203
Rich Man, Poor Girl
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
release : 1938.08.12popularis : 2.113
Remember?
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...
release : 1939.12.19popularis : 2.46
The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
release : 1937.06.11popularis : 4.187
Spring Madness
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after...
release : 1938.11.11popularis : 3.785
Common Clay
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves...
release : 1930.08.01popularis : 1.456
Don Camillo
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
release : 1984.02.08popularis : 11.879
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...
release : 2004.02.03popularis : 2.661
My Weakness
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor...
release : 1933.09.22popularis : 2.393
Up for Murder
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
release : 1931.05.26popularis : 1.89
Night World
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...
release : 1932.05.04popularis : 3.527
Battlestar Galactica
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for...
release : 1978.09.16popularis : 36.468
Heatwave!
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
release : 1974.01.27popularis : 4.274
Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the...
release : 1934.01.16popularis : 2.657
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an...
release : 1969.03.26popularis : 1.599
Big News
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
release : 1929.09.06popularis : 2.157
Reunion
A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her...
release : 1980.10.14popularis : 2.095
The Sophomore
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this...
release : 1929.08.24popularis : 1.687
The Stranger
An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.
release : 1973.02.26popularis : 5.337
She Learned About Sailors
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the...
release : 1934.06.28popularis : 1.403
The Carpetbaggers
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is...
release : 1964.04.08popularis : 3.336
Heaven on Earth
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
release : 1931.11.27popularis : 0.709
Bruised Celluloid
The 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in film history. But like hardly any other cinema...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 1.152
She Waits
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
release : 1972.01.28popularis : 1.144
Servants' Entrance
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda...
release : 1934.09.25popularis : 1.964
Under Siege
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in...
release : 1986.02.09popularis : 3.587
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway....
release : 1994.03.25popularis : 2.676
Cast the First Stone
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her...
release : 1989.11.13popularis : 4.688
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody"...
release : 1936.02.17popularis : 2.771
Hold 'Em Navy
Two football players fight over the same girl.
release : 1937.11.04popularis : 1.641
The Way of Peace
Punctuated with stories from the Bible, the film’s purpose was to reinforce Christian values in the atomic age by condemning the consequences...
release : 1947.04.23popularis : 4.064
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
release : 1976.09.29popularis : 1.738
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...
release : 1940.10.24popularis : 5.716
The Spirit of Notre Dame
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
release : 1931.10.13popularis : 1.519
The Lottery Lover
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They"...
release : 1935.02.05popularis : 2.738
Let’s Be Ritzy
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
release : 1934.05.01popularis : 1.284
Silk Hat Kid
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an...
release : 1935.07.19popularis : 0.235
The Biscuit Eater
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all...
release : 1972.03.22popularis : 2.66
The Story of Noah
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of devotion, courage and triumph.
release : 1978.11.19popularis : 2.909
Lady Be Careful
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful....
release : 1936.09.03popularis : 0.841
Blow-Ups of 1946
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
release : 1946.12.31popularis : 1.929
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
release : 1932.03.27popularis : 2.432
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
release : 1940.05.29popularis : 2.991
That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...
release : 1976.05.16popularis : 6.283
From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...
release : 1939.05.28popularis : 2.171
Scandal Street
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in...
release : 1938.02.11popularis : 2.498
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...
release : 1991.10.28popularis : 6.824
Letters from Frank
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank...
release : 1979.11.22popularis : 0.792
Cocoon
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy...
release : 1968.09.20popularis : 2.89
Many a Slip
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
release : 1931.03.02popularis : 0.88