Donald Meek Movies

List of the best Donald Meek movies: Behind the Headlines(1937), The Fabulous Joe(1947), Come Live With Me(1941), Pennies From Heaven(1936), The Toast of New York(1937), Nick Carter, Master Detective(1939), And So They Were Married(1936), Blonde Inspiration(1941), Maisie Gets Her Man(1942), Blondie Takes a Vacation(1939), The Gilded Lily(1935), Breakfast for Two(1937) ... ...

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Behind the Headlines

Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But ... See full summary »

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The Fabulous Joe

A henpecked husband looks to his talking dog for consolation. From the "Hal Roach Comedy Carnival.".

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Come Live With Me

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

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Pennies From Heaven

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her ... See full summary »

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The Toast of New York

Notorious robber baron financier Jim Fisk, who makes and loses fortunes, tries to corner the gold market as well as the heart of a beautiful actress.

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Nick Carter, Master Detective

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

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And So They Were Married

A bitter divorcée and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin... See full summary »

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Blonde Inspiration

Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.

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Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie (Ann Sothern) falls on hard times and works at several odd jobs before she meets aspiring comedian Hap (Red Skelton).

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Blondie Takes a Vacation

Blondie (Penny Singleton), Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) and Daisy help an elderly couple save their mountain resort.

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The Gilded Lily

A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer, courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.

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Breakfast for Two

Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.

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Du Barry Was a Lady

A night club's coatroom attendant who's in-love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.

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The Whole Town's Talking

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.

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Make a Wish

While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his ... See full summary »

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Colonel Effingham's Raid

A retired Army colonel (Charles Coburn) writes a newspaper column blasting the crooks who run his Georgia hometown.

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The Omaha Trail

A drifter (James Craig) leads a railroad expedition through Indians and a bad guy's (Dean Jagger) gang.

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Third Finger, Left Hand

A single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor.

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State Fair

The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so.

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The Return of Frank James

Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

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Tortilla Flat

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy ... See full summary »

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Rise and Shine

Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited.

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Babes on Broadway

Talented young hopefuls strive for their big break on Broadway in this follow-up to "Babes in Arms.".

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Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

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Star Dust

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »

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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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Magic Town

An opinion pollster finds a town which is a perfect mirror of U.S. opinions.

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Hold That Co-ed

While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine.

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Artists and Models

Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »

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One Rainy Afternoon

Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »

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Parnell

The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »

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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.

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Bathing Beauty

A goofy songwriter (Red Skelton) enrolls at a women's college to be near his aquatic sweetheart (Esther Williams).

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You Can't Take It With You

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

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Young Mr. Lincoln

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

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The Last Gentleman

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr ... See full summary »

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Having Wonderful Time

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

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Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues psuedo-portait artist Marion Forsythe on her arrival from Europe after painting (and possibly being involved with) notables all over the ... See full summary »

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Air Raid Wardens

Rejected by the military, a pair of bumblers volunteers their questionable services to an unsuspecting homefront.

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The Thin Man Goes Home

Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) visit his hometown, sober, and link art and corpses to a spy ring.

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Peter Ibbetson

A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.

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Little Miss Broadway

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.

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Two Girls and a Sailor

A sailor (Van Johnson) from a rich family meets a nightclub-singing sister act (June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven) in wartime New York.

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Maid of Salem

Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »

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Captain Hates the Sea

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Kind Lady

Mary Herries is a rich woman with a habit of contributing to those less fortunate than her. On her way home from a concert on Christmas Eve she discovers a poor, would-be artist outside her... See full summary »

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Captain Blood

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

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Double Wedding

Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger's milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.

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