William Powell Movies

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story...

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...

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,...

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's...

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

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

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

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...

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a...

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

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

Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the...

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

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...

The intertwined lives of Jean Harlow and William Powell, from childhood struggles to Hollywood stardom. The rise of Jean Harlow and William Powell in...

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...