Movies: William Powell

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process....

In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the story of Drake's life: As a rising engineer, he marries Janet Stone, the ambitious daughter of a wea...

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the prod...

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club....

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity....

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss 'Dapper' Frank Trent stands bail for all of them as independent minor gang-leader. Setting out to get...

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder....

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire....

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients....

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton....

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style....

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Prof...

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife....

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen....

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop....

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....

Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on disinformation from a meddling governess, Joan also devotes some time...

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series....

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubb...

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 talking picture is created....