Edward Arnold
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1890-02-17
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider
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 : 9.928
Annie Get Your Gun
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
release : 1950.05.17popularis : 6.565
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese...
release : 1982.05.21popularis : 13.428
Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...
release : 1941.03.14popularis : 10.875
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...
release : 1938.09.01popularis : 11.692
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active...
release : 1949.03.09popularis : 2.559
The Houston Story
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
release : 1956.02.01popularis : 1.156
City That Never Sleeps
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting...
release : 1953.06.12popularis : 2.164
I'm No Angel
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...
release : 1933.10.06popularis : 5.873
Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
The director's son gives interesting anecdotes about Frank Capra's making of the 1938 hit comedy, "You Can't Take It With You."
release : 2008.12.09popularis : 0.917
Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
release : 1941.12.09popularis : 5.274
All That Money Can Buy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the...
release : 1941.10.17popularis : 9.505
Miami Exposé
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
release : 1956.09.01popularis : 0.959
The Glass Key
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and...
release : 1935.06.15popularis : 4.022
Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...
release : 1932.10.29popularis : 7.86
Roman Scandals
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of...
release : 1933.11.27popularis : 3.647
Ziegfeld Follies
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
release : 1945.08.26popularis : 5.572
Kismet
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...
release : 1944.10.01popularis : 3.382
Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
release : 1939.01.27popularis : 2.547
Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
release : 1934.05.09popularis : 2.368
Crime and Punishment
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
release : 1935.11.22popularis : 4.352
Hide-Out
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his...
release : 1934.08.24popularis : 2.33
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
release : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.633
Mrs. Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by...
release : 1944.10.12popularis : 2.814
The Toast of New York
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he...
release : 1937.07.22popularis : 4.654
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...
release : 1937.07.16popularis : 4.052
Okay, America!
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
release : 1932.09.08popularis : 1.005
Belles on Their Toes
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha,...
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 4.244
Thirty Day Princess
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly...
release : 1934.05.18popularis : 2.661
Eyes in the Night
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
release : 1942.10.16popularis : 5.929
Remember Last Night?
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
release : 1935.10.28popularis : 2.436
Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
release : 1936.11.06popularis : 4.465
Unholy Partners
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
release : 1941.11.01popularis : 4.95
Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...
release : 1945.10.04popularis : 3.332
Design for Scandal
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
release : 1941.12.01popularis : 1.247
Nothing But the Truth
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
release : 1941.10.10popularis : 3.373
The Hidden Eye
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
release : 1945.08.31popularis : 2.35
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her...
release : 1942.08.07popularis : 3.096
The Hucksters
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
release : 1947.07.17popularis : 3.861
Main Street After Dark
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
release : 1945.01.12popularis : 3.879
The Yellow Cab Man
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...
release : 1950.03.25popularis : 2.668
No Leave, No Love
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he...
release : 1946.03.10popularis : 2.24
The Misleading Lady
Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her...
release : 1916.01.03popularis : 2.311
The Return of Eve
Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl,...
release : 1916.10.16popularis : 0.899
Dear Ruth
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to...
release : 1947.06.10popularis : 1.484
Dear Wife
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in...
release : 1949.11.15popularis : 2.284
The Mighty McGurk
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
release : 1947.01.02popularis : 4.574
The Youngest Profession
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson...
release : 1943.02.26popularis : 6.386
Slightly Honorable
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
release : 1939.12.22popularis : 3.689
Three Daring Daughters
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
release : 1948.02.12popularis : 2.551
The Earl of Chicago
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
release : 1940.01.05popularis : 5.031
Secret of the Blue Room
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The...
release : 1933.07.20popularis : 4.034
The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...
release : 1941.04.11popularis : 2.103
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...
release : 1935.01.04popularis : 2.268
The White Sister
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
release : 1933.03.17popularis : 4.816
My Brother Talks to Horses
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races....
release : 1947.02.04popularis : 1.471
Dear Brat
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge...
release : 1951.05.30popularis : 2.666
Meet Nero Wolfe
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the...
release : 1936.07.16popularis : 1.275
Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
release : 1940.05.24popularis : 2.506
Whistling in the Dark
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
release : 1933.01.21popularis : 1.624
Wallflower
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
release : 1948.06.13popularis : 2.584
Jennie Gerhardt
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
release : 1933.06.08popularis : 2.454
Let Freedom Ring
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
release : 1939.02.24popularis : 2.009
Big Jack
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
release : 1949.04.12popularis : 2.131
Blossoms On Broadway
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
release : 1937.11.19popularis : 1.841
Ellis in Freedomland
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the...
release : 1952.06.15popularis : 1.993
Janie Gets Married
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
release : 1946.06.22popularis : 1.323
Janie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
release : 1944.09.02popularis : 1.546
Wednesday's Child
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
release : 1934.10.26popularis : 1.82
Standing Room Only
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel...
release : 1944.01.07popularis : 1.291
Three Wise Fools
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
release : 1946.09.26popularis : 1.778
Big City
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
release : 1948.03.25popularis : 2.552
Inflation
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
release : 1942.01.01popularis : 1.171
John Meade's Woman
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...
release : 1937.02.26popularis : 1.204
Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...
release : 1939.06.29popularis : 3.068
The Barbarian
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
release : 1933.05.12popularis : 6.066
Sutter's Gold
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
release : 1936.03.01popularis : 2.396
The Crowd Roars
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...
release : 1938.08.06popularis : 1.651
Rasputin and the Empress
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
release : 1932.12.23popularis : 6.779
Cardinal Richelieu
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
release : 1935.04.18popularis : 1.423
Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
release : 1935.09.01popularis : 5.079
John Loves Mary
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That...
release : 1949.02.04popularis : 1.986
Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
release : 1939.06.15popularis : 2.138
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history ....
release : 2013.01.29popularis : 1.397
He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown...
release : 1924.12.22popularis : 6.873
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party,...
release : 1933.06.03popularis : 5.664
The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...
release : 1934.11.17popularis : 2.695
Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...
release : 1948.12.23popularis : 4.751
Million Dollar Ransom
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
release : 1934.09.01popularis : 1.545
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 3.57
The Penalty
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy...
release : 1941.03.13popularis : 2.247
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned...
release : 1997.05.12popularis : 4.416
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
release : 1950.06.29popularis : 1.277
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
release : 1933.11.12popularis : 9.36
Sherlock Holmes
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal...
release : 1916.06.30popularis : 2.642
Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20...
release : 1954.09.20popularis : 2.998
Living It Up
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic...
release : 1954.07.15popularis : 4.004
The Ambassador's Daughter
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
release : 1956.07.26popularis : 3.384
Madame Spy
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a...
release : 1934.02.10popularis : 1.858
Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
release : 1947.12.31popularis : 1.418
Afraid to Talk
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
release : 1932.11.17popularis : 2.625
Unknown Blonde
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
release : 1934.04.23popularis : 1.542
Phil-for-Short
A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is...
release : 1919.06.02popularis : 0.679
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
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the...
release : 1954.09.28popularis : 1.544
Her Bodyguard
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the...
release : 1933.07.21popularis : 1.402
Man of Conflict
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls...
release : 1953.11.04popularis : 1.484
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
release : 1988.11.22popularis : 4.187
A Broadway Saint
Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his...
release : 1919.07.21popularis : 0.876
Murder in the Pullman
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
release : 1932.05.01popularis : 2.946