List of the best Ernest Truex movies: Christmas in July(1940), All Mine to Give(1957), His Girl Friday(1940), The Adventures of Marco Polo(1938), Bachelor Mother(1939), Private Buckaroo(1942), Lillian Russell(1940), These Glamour Girls(1939), Dance, Girl, Dance(1940) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1940
67 Minutes
Mr. J.B. Baxter
Dick Powell Ellen Drew Raymond Walburn William Demarest Ernest Truex Franklin Pangborn Harry Hayden Rod Cameron Adrian Morris Harry Rosenthal Georgia Caine
clerk girlfriend mother businessman coworker lighthearted endearing new york city office household aspirations romance deception practical jokes contest discovery love 1940s
When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Other, Drama
1957
103 Minutes
Doctor Delbert
Glynis Johns Cameron Mitchell Rex Thompson Patty McCormack Ernest Truex Hope Emerson Alan Hale Jr. Sylvia Field Royal Dano Reta Shaw Stephen Wootton
mother father older brother younger brother sister baby melodramatic touching wisconsin family home wilderness loss survival siblings frontier life orphans christmas quest growing up 1850s
An orphan (Rex Thompson) raised by Scottish pioneers (Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell) in Wisconsin seeks homes for his five younger siblings on Christmas.
Comedy
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Roy V. Bensinger
Cary Grant Rosalind Russell Ralph Bellamy Gene Lockhart Helen Mack Ernest Truex Clarence Kolb Porter Hall Roscoe Karns Abner Biberman Cliff Edwards
editor reporter insurance salesman murderer sheriff mayor amusing frenetic new york city office prison newspapers justice love triangle marriage pursuit love 1940s
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Drama, History
USA
1938
100 Minutes
Binguccio
Gary Cooper Sigrid Gurie Basil Rathbone George Barbier Binnie Barnes Ernest Truex Alan Hale
explorer princess emperor adviser assistant spirited melodramatic peking palace china marco polo expedition travel romance shipwreck discovery love adventure 13th century
Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
Romance
USA
1939
81 Minutes
Investigator
Ginger Rogers David Niven Charles Coburn Frank Albertson E.E. Clive Ferike Boros Ernest Truex Leonard Penn Paul Stanton Frank M. Thomas Edna Holland
orphan playboy father mother grandfather baby hilarious heartwarming spirited department store orphanage apartment new york city abandonment marriage mother/child relationship love growing up love sacrifice
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
Musical
1942
68 Minutes
Col. Elias Weatherford
The Andrews Sisters Dick Foran Joe E. Lewis Jennifer Holt Shemp Howard Richard Davies Mary Wickes Ernest Truex Donald O'Connor Peggy Ryan Huntz Hall
Nightclub performers (The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis) do Army shows with Harry James and His Music Makers.
Musical
USA
1940
127 Minutes
Charles K. Leonard
Alice Faye Don Ameche Henry Fonda Edward Arnold Warren William Leo Carrillo Helen Westley Dorothy Peterson Ernest Truex Nigel Bruce Lynn Bari
opera singer political candidate mother husband composer spirited uplifting melodramatic new york city music hall iowa show business rags to riches love performance romance ambition transformation underdog love
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.
Comedy
USA
1939
78 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lana Turner Tom Brown Richard Carlson Jane Bryan Anita Louise Marsha Hunt Ann Rutherford Mary Beth Hughes Owen Davis Jr. Ernest Truex
A drunken college boy invites a taxi dancer to spend the weekend at his snobbish school.
Musical
1940
90 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Louis Hayward Lucille Ball Virginia Field Ralph Bellamy Maria Ouspenskaya Mary Carlisle Katharine Alexander Edward Brophy Walter Abel Harold Huber
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).