Dick Powell Movies

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Dick Powell and Joan Blondell from around the time of their wedding. Footage features Joan...

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back...

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and...

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...