Johnny Come Lately

1943

English

6.8

♡ 5

43%

William K. Howard Director

Irving Bacon as Chief of Police

Marjorie Main as 'Gashouse' Mary

Marjorie Lord as Jane

Margaret Hamilton as Myrtle Ferguson

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.

It's a Great Feeling

1949

English

6.4

♡ 7

30%

David Butler Director

Dennis Morgan as Dennis Morgan

Eleanor Parker as Eleanor Parker

Errol Flynn as Jeffrey Bushdinkle, the Groom

Irving Bacon as RR Information Clerk

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

Great Guns

1941

English

6.1

♡ 5

45%

Monty Banks Director

Harold Goodwin as Army Captain

Pierre Watkin as Col. Wayburn

Irving Bacon as Postman

Edward Earle as War Games Umpire

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

Moonrise

1948

English

7.0

♡ 10

100%

Frank Borzage Director

Dane Clark as Danny Hawkins

Irving Bacon as Judd Jenkins

Amzie Strickland as Minor Role

William A. Boardway as Townsman

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Casanova Brown

1944

English

6.2

♡ 6

36%

Sam Wood Director

Edward Earle as Doctor

Irving Bacon as Hotel Manager

Mary Treen as Monica Case

Anne O'Neal as Nurse

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel has just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.

Pardon My Sarong

1942

English

6.8

♡ 8

55%

Erle C. Kenton Director

Irving Bacon as Gas Station Proprietor

George Chandler as George Peabody

William A. Boardway as Nightclub Patron

Maria Montez as (scenes deleted)

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Topper

1937

English

7.2

♡ 17

88%

based on novel or book

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Lester Dorr as Bank Teller

Irving Bacon as Hotel Clerk

Betty Blythe as Mrs. Goodrich

Anita Garvin as Seabreeze Hotel Guest

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Romance in Manhattan

1934

English

6.8

♡ 6

57%

Stephen Roberts Director

Irving Bacon as Counterman

Harold Goodwin as Doctor at Police Station

Francis Lederer as Karel Novak

Ginger Rogers as Sylvia Dennis

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.

Internes Can't Take Money

1937

English

6.8

♡ 5

55%

Alfred Santell Director

Pierre Watkin as Dr. Fearson

Irving Bacon as Jeff

George Lynn as Joe

Ellen Drew as Nurse

Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.

The Plainsman

1936

English

6.8

♡ 6

100%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Irving Bacon as Hysterical Trooper

Paul Newlan as Man Getting Whipped on Wrist

Sidney D'Albrook as Townsman

Kenneth Gibson as Trooper

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

A Star Is Born

1954

English

7.5

♡ 29

98%

81%

academy awards

academy awards (oscars)

husband wife relationship

musical

Musical

Romance

George Cukor Director

Irving Bacon as Graves

Louis Jean Heydt as Ocean Scene Director

Ron Nyman as Stage Manager

Don Beddoe as Studio Executive at Premiere

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Girl Crazy

1943

English

6.8

♡ 6

100%

Norman Taurog Director

Harry C. Bradley as Governor's Crony

Irving Bacon as John

Nancy Walker as Polly Williams

June Allyson as Specialty

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...

It Started with Eve

1941

English

7.6

♡ 7

84%

Henry Koster Director

Paul Porcasi as Armand - the Chef

Jack Byron as Nightclub Patron

Irving Bacon as Raven

Ray Walker as Slim - Reporter

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

San Francisco

1936

English

7.1

♡ 8

92%

san francisco, california

W.S. Van Dyke Director

Rosemary Theby as Earthquake Survivor

Robert J. Wilke as Earthquake Survivor

Jason Robards Sr. as Father

Irving Bacon as Picnicker

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Spawn of the North

1938

English

6.7

♡ 4

Henry Hathaway Director

Irving Bacon as Cannery Official

Monte Blue as Cannery Official

Henry Fonda as Jim Kimmerlee

George Raft as Tyler Dawson

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

English

7.0

♡ 5

72%

Lloyd Bacon Director

Irving Bacon as Bartender

William Hopper as Canadian Soldier

Jean Del Val as Capt. La Pricor

Dane Clark as Johnnie Pulaski

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Broadway Melody of 1940

1940

English

7.2

♡ 5

80%

Action

musical

Musical

Norman Taurog Director

John T. Murray as Ham Actor

Jean Del Val as Italian Waiter

George Chandler as Mr. Jones

Irving Bacon as Soda Jerk

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944

English

6.5

♡ 6

61%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Louis Jean Heydt as Ensign

Gloria Dea as Javanese Nurse

Irving Bacon as Missionary

William Challee as Radio Man

As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938

English

7.0

♡ 5

62%

Anatole Litvak Director

Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Clitterhouse

Irving Bacon as Foreman of Jury

Claire Trevor as Jo Keller

Amzie Strickland as Patient

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.

Goin' to Town

1935

English

6.4

♡ 3

50%

Alexander Hall Director

Irving Bacon as Cowboy

Tom London as Cowboy

Dale Van Sickel as Party Guest

Frank Mayo as Rand

Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.

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Johnny Come Lately

It's a Great Feeling

Great Guns

Moonrise

Casanova Brown

Pardon My Sarong

Topper

Romance in Manhattan

Internes Can't Take Money

The Plainsman

A Star Is Born

Girl Crazy

It Started with Eve

San Francisco

Spawn of the North

Action in the North Atlantic

Broadway Melody of 1940

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Goin' to Town