Hal K. Dawson Movies

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked...

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

A man violates company policy by getting married.

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing...