Douglas Leavitt

Movies22

• Movie7.1

  RomanceComedy

  An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

  You Were Never Lovelier

  1942 · 60 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

  The More the Merrier

  1943 · 99 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyMystery

  A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

  A Night to Remember

  1942 · 17 votes

• Movie4.7

  MysteryThriller

  An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

  Murder in Times Square

  1943 · 7 votes

• Movie6.5

  WarDrama

  A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

  Good Luck, Mr. Yates

  1943 · 3 votes

• Movie7.7

  Comedy

  Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.

  It's a Great Life

  1943 · 3 votes

• Movie5.3

  Comedy

  Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.

  Redhead from Manhattan

  1943 · 4 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

  Power of the Press

  1943 · 11 votes

• Movie6.7

  Comedy

  The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.

  Two Señoritas from Chicago

  1943 · 3 votes

• Movie8.0

  Western

  Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.

  Law of the Northwest

  1943 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  Fay Weston, a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.

  She Has What It Takes

  1943 · 1 votes

• Movie7.5

  ComedyMusic

  Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.

  Reveille with Beverly

  1943 · 6 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  Jack Haley joins the circus.

  Wrongorilla

  1933 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.

  A Blitz on the Fritz

  1943 · 2 votes

• Movie5.7

  RomanceComedy

  Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.

  Campus Rhythm

  1943 · 3 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.

  Cupid Takes a Holiday

  1938 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.

  His Pest Girl

  1937 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  ComedyWestern

  Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.

  Cactus Caballeros

  1938 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.

  Her Accidental Hero

  1937 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  A French language teacher finds a fortune in lost jewellery, manages to trace the owner and returns them. His picture is splashed all over the papers prompting several people to report him as a crook in a case of mistaken identity, causing him all sorts of trouble with the police.

  The Affairs of Pierre

  1937 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.

  Who's Crazy

  1937

• Movie

  ComedyMusic

  Dancing, singing and some mild humor in this rather unknown 2 reeler.

  Pot Luck

  1937