Hal K. Dawson Movies

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...

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

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

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

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

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

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a...

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

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

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

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

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

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.