Hal K. Dawson Movies

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of...

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by...

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

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

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war...

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.

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

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself...

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

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...

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.