Don Ameche Movies

List of the best Don Ameche movies: Rings Around the World(1966), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell(1939), Moon Over Miami(1941), Cocoon(1985), Happy Land(1943), Wing and a Prayer(1944), Slightly French(1949), Cocoon: The Return(1988), Oddball Hall(1991), That's My Man(1947), Picture Mommy Dead(1966), Heaven Can Wait(1943) ... ...

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Rings Around the World

While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La ... See full summary »

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

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Moon Over Miami

Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.

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Cocoon

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

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Happy Land

In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who... See full summary »

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Wing and a Prayer

In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.

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Slightly French

A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer.

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Cocoon: The Return

The old age pensioners that left at the end of the first film come back to Earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on Earth?

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Oddball Hall

A gang of thieves has pulled a huge jewel heist, but has had to hide out in a tiny South African village posing as members of a fraternal order called The Oddballs. As they wait for their ... See full summary »

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That's My Man

A gambler (Don Ameche) wins big but neglects his wife (Catherine McLeod) and family, until all he has left is guilt and a racehorse.

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Picture Mommy Dead

Shaken by her mother's death, an heiress (Susan Gordon) comes home to a father (Don Ameche), stepmother (Martha Hyer) and cousin she cannot trust.

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Heaven Can Wait

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

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That Night in Rio

An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

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Lillian Russell

Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

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Guest Wife

A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.

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Hollywood Cavalcade

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

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So Goes My Love

Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. After their marriage, his ... See full summary »

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Down Argentine Way

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

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Sins of Man

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing ... See full summary »

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Happy Landing

Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

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Fifty Roads To Town

A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.

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Greenwich Village

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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Folks!

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.

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Ramona

A chief's son (Don Ameche) falls in love with a Spanish rancher's part-Indian daughter (Loretta Young).

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Midnight

A Paris cabby (Don Ameche) chases a chorus girl (Claudette Colbert) hired by a rich man (John Barrymore) to pose as a baroness.

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Love Is News

A financier's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.

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The Magnificent Dope

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »

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In Old Chicago

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

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One in a Million

American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.

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Trading Places

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Ladies in Love

Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another... See full summary »

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Harry and the Hendersons

The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.

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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

An Army sergeant's (Brian Keith) buddies rescue him with a tank after a Southern sheriff (Ernest Borgnine) puts him in jail.

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Coming to America

An extremely pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and will.

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