Jed Prouty Movies

In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Weaver

Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gertrude Michael

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Why Leave Home? is said to be a lost film according to the Fox section at Lost Film Files.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sue Carol

Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Davey Lee

Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmie Wakely, a suitor she has not seen in a year....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billie Burke

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zachary Scott

Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Astor

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Allen

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Genre: Western

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat Paterson

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Betty Compson

An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Dix

A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lewis Stone

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jed Prouty

The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Brian

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lew Ayres

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

Genre: Action

Cast: Louis Hayward

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Shirley

In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginald Denny

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phil Regan

A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Hersholt

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Brady

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Sinclair

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stuart Erwin

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Al Ritz

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers

Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Dove

When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being deported via a train full of criminal aliens, g-men,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Sten

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nan Grey

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jed Prouty

Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ray Walker

On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eleanor Boardman

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Colleen Moore

Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Betty Bronson

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosetta Duncan

In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bessie Love

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets...

Genre: Action

Cast: Clara Bow

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Cavanagh

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jed Prouty

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Lee

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Lang

Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Albertson

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Loretta Young

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Halop

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a...

Genre:

Cast: Richard Arlen

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis...

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles King

Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hope Hampton

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Carroll

Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patsy Ruth Miller

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lawrence Tibbett

A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson

When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Kibbee

The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Ames

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Phillips Holmes

A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the property in order to get the money needed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viola Dana

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Morrison

Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claire Trevor

Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Swanson

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Bergen

This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Edward Johnson

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

Not realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez. Trapped by a snowstorm Ramerrez is forced to stay the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Sylvia Breamer

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anita Stewart

Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colleen Moore

A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Revier

A poor man refrains from proposing to the woman he loves until he can secure the fortune left him by his uncle. Believing the treasure awaits in his...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Robert Agnew

After her family is financially ruined in a lawsuit by John Rutherford of Wall Street, Carol Raymond leaves Virginia to set matters straight. Three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florence Reed

Bryce Gilbert convinces his daughter, Virginia, that she should not elope with a casual boyfriend and sends her to Italy to stay with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milton Sills

The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Cranahan, wagering that crimes can be committed...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Matt Moore

Bobby Austin is sent to Madrid on a diplomatic mission. He is followed by Lady Sylvia Hutton, a society adventuress who is infatuated with him. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon