Películas de Melvyn Douglas

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the...

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons...

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out...

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with...

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house...

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged...

A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book...

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send...

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing...

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging...

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph...

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal...

Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother...

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for...

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3...

Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became...

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was...

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into...

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude...

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention...

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes...

Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their...

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is...

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a...

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from...

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to...

A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his stepfather, who holds him responsible...

When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the...

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when...

An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.

A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips...

In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm...

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.

A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal...

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals...

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

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...

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed...

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers...

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

The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann...

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer...

The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter.

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds...

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys,...

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a...