Movies: Douglas Shearer

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit....

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control....

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages....

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man....

Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare....

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter....

Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane....

Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duk...

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member....

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife....

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations....

Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband. Victoria discovers that Paul is a spy...

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him....

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound....

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII....

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives....

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years t...

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny Green. The film consists of the MGM Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to Otto Nicolai's opera Th...

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff....

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy....