List of the best Don DeFore movies: It Happened on 5th Avenue(1947), Too Late for Tears(1949), Romance on the High Seas(1948), The Stork Club(1945), Without Reservations(1946), One Sunday Afternoon(1948), A Time to Love and a Time to Die(1958), The Facts of Life(1960), My Friend Irma(1949), Jumping Jacks(1952), No Room for the Groom(1952), Battle Hymn(1957) ... ...
Other, Comedy
USA
1947
115 Minutes
Jim Bullock
Don DeFore Ann Harding Victor Moore Charles Ruggles Gale Storm Grant Mitchell Edward Brophy Alan Hale Jr. Dorothea Kent
businessman wealthy man drifter veteran daughter ex-wife touching charming amusing uplifting manhattan, n.y. townhouse park virginia greed homelessness father/daughter relationship class distinctions business deal second chance
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Don Blake
Lizabeth Scott Don DeFore Dan Duryea Arthur Kennedy Kristine Miller Barry Kelley Denver Pyle Virginia Mullen Richard Irving George Mann Harry J. Vejar
wife husband brother brother-in-law sister-in-law private investigator creepy disturbing shocking suspenseful tense uneasy hollywood hollywood hills apartment car train station money murder greed
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
99 Minutes
Michael Kent
Jack Carson Janis Paige Don DeFore Doris Day Oscar Levant S.Z. Sakall Fortunio Bonanova Eric Blore Franklin Pangborn
husband wife singer detective boyfriend playful lighthearted amusing household travel agency cruise ship cabin rio de janeiro stage marriage suspicion drinking romance false accusations impersonation
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
98 Minutes
Sgt. Danny Wilton
Betty Hutton Barry Fitzgerald Don DeFore Robert Benchley Bill Goodwin Iris Adrian Mikhail Rasumny Mary Young Andy Russell Perc Launders Mary Currier
hatcheck girl millionaire marine boss singer band leader cheery engaging stork club hotel new york city wealth generosity misunderstanding jealousy romance big-band music rescue transformation love
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Dink
Claudette Colbert John Wayne Don DeFore Anne Triola Frank Puglia Phil Brown Thurston Hall Louella Parsons Dona Drake
author captain lieutenant producer passenger charming madcap witty cheery train chicago ranch unlikely romance movies military service writers road trip pursuit love 1940s
En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
Musical
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Hugo Barnstead
Dennis Morgan Janis Paige Don DeFore Dorothy Malone Ben Blue Oscar O'Shea Alan Hale Jr. George N. Neise
Biff Grimes has spent the last ten years regretting that he hadn't married Virginia Brush, the girl of his dreams. Virginia ran off and married his best friend - breaking his heart. Virginia's best friend, Amy, consoles Biff.
War
USA
1958
132 Minutes
Hermann Boettcher
John Gavin Liselotte Pulver Jock Mahoney Don DeFore Keenan Wynn Erich Maria Remarque Dieter Borsche Barbara Rütting Thayer David Charles Régnier Klaus Kinski
soldier young woman refugee military officer villager bureaucrat brooding emotional germany small town battlefield office new love world war ii family search destruction marriage quest love
On the Russian front in 1944 German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1960
103 Minutes
Jack Weaver
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Ruth Hussey Don DeFore Louis Nye Philip Ober Marianne Stewart Peter Leeds Holly Irving William Lanteau Robert F. Simon
suburbanite friend husband wife witty passionate amusing suburbia household abandoned building hotel boat affair marriage friendship vacation love-hate relationship middle age forbidden love temptation
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1949
103 Minutes
Richard Rhinelander
John Lund Marie Wilson Diana Lynn Don DeFore Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Hans Conried Kathryn Givney Percy Helton Erno Verebes Gloria Gordon
A scatterbrained Brooklynite and her wheeler-dealer fiancé interfere in her level-headed roommate's love life.
Comedy
USA
1952
96 Minutes
Lt. Kelsey
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Mona Freeman Don DeFore Robert Strauss Ray Teal Marcy McGuire Danny Arnold Richard Erdman Edwin Max Alex Gerry
entertainer partner paratrooper soldier general sergeant madcap cheery playful stage military base barracks backstage new york city entertainment impersonation military life musical revue romance contest
Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.
Comedy
USA
1952
82 Minutes
Herman Strouple
Tony Curtis Piper Laurie Spring Byington Don DeFore Jack Kelly Lillian Bronson Paul McVey Stephen Chase Lee Acker Frank Sully James Parnell
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more ... See full summary »
War
USA
1957
108 Minutes
Capt. Dan Skidmore
Rock Hudson Martha Hyer Dan Duryea Don DeFore Anna Kashfi Jock Mahoney Alan Hale Jr. Carl Benton Reid Richard Loo James Edwards Philip Ahn
reverend wife volunteer friend military officer orphan powerful solemn military base south korea korean war military life redemption orphanage refugees religion transformation sacrifice 1950s
A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
Comedy
USA
1952
86 Minutes
Bert Sedgwick
Groucho Marx Marie Wilson William Bendix Don DeFore Gene Lockhart Dee Hartford Hanley Stafford Teddy Hart Percy Helton George E. Stone Rodney Wooton
sailor best friend commanding officer groom woman gangster lighthearted airy amusing ship racetrack stable diner farm office horse racing swindling impersonation gangsters sabotage
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Musical, Comedy
1952
101 Minutes
Shep Slade
Virginia Mayo Ronald Reagan Gene Nelson Don DeFore Phyllis Thaxter Patrice Wymore Roland Winters Raymond Greenleaf Norman Bartold Amanda Randolph
A burlesque queen (Virginia Mayo) goes to college, charms a professor (Ronald Reagan) and livens up the class play.
Western
USA
1947
94 Minutes
Bill Schell
Veronica Lake Joel McCrea Donald Crisp Charles Ruggles Preston Foster Don DeFore Arleen Whelan Lloyd Bridges Nestor Paiva Ray Teal
rancher father cattleman overseer sheriff alcoholic gutsy brash tense ranch saloon dressing room range street range war ambition murder romantic dilemma deception gender roles
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
Comedy
USA
1942
101 Minutes
Wally Myers
Henry Fonda Olivia de Havilland Jack Carson Joan Leslie Herb Anderson Don DeFore Hattie McDaniel Eugene Pallette
professor dean student wife ex-boyfriend trustee uplifting emotional family home university midwest free speech censorship love triangle education career rivalry transformation 1940s
It's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six ... See full summary »
War
1944
138 Minutes
Charles McClure
Spencer Tracy Van Johnson Robert Walker Phyllis Thaxter Scott McKay Robert Mitchum Don DeFore Stephen McNally Louis Jean Heydt Leon Ames Paul Langton
colonel captain lieutenant pilot wife patriotic rousing tense japan china ship naval base air raids survival world war ii stranded heroism bombing quest rivalry
Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.
Fantasy
USA
1943
120 Minutes
James J. Rourke
Spencer Tracy Irene Dunne Van Johnson Ward Bond James Gleason Lionel Barrymore Barry Nelson Esther Williams Henry O'Neill Don DeFore Charles Smith
guardian angel pilot love interest commanding officer friend patriotic spirited england arizona military academy afterlife world war ii bombing jealousy mission love quest 1940s
A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
77 Minutes
Davis
George Brent Brenda Marshall Gene Lockhart Roscoe Karns Edward Ciannelli Paul Harvey Edith Barrett Harry Hayden Charles Halton Don DeFore George Meeker
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred ... See full summary »