List of the best Fredric March movies: The Best Years of Our Lives(1946), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931), Design for Living(1933), Death of a Salesman(1951), The Eagle and the Hawk(1933), I Married a Witch(1942), Death Takes a Holiday(1934), Man on a Tightrope(1953), The Adventures of Mark Twain(1944), Another Part of the Forest(1948), The Road to Glory(1936), One Foot in Heaven(1941) ... ...
Drama
USA
1946
172 Minutes
Fredric March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Hoagy Carmichael Gladys George Steve Cochran
veteran wife amputee banker fiancée daughter powerful somber fascinating profound small town midwest family home war disillusionment world war ii love sacrifice discovery transformation
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Horror
USA
1931
97 Minutes
Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Hyde
Fredric March Miriam Hopkins Rose Hobart Holmes Herbert Halliwell Hobbes Edgar Norton Arnold Lucy Tempe Pigott Eric Wilton Douglas Walton John Rogers
scientist murderer lunatic sexy woman fiancée dark creepy gritty london england laboratory scientific experiments madness violence addiction discovery wretched excess metamorphosis 1880s
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Thomas B. "Tom" Chambers
Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton Franklin Pangborn Isabel Jewell Wyndham Standing Harry Dunkinson Helena Phillips Evans James Donlan Vernon Steele
artist playwright american boss husband love interest cheeky madcap playful paris apartment london new york city office roommates jealousy romantic dilemma love triangle sex competition
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
Drama
USA
1951
115 Minutes
Willy Loman
Fredric March Mildred Dunnock Kevin McCarthy Cameron Mitchell Howard Smith Royal Beal Don Keefer Jesse White Claire Carleton David Alpert Elisabeth Fraser
salesman son wife brother endearing sad america household loss financial crisis american dream depression family regret fall transformation 1950s
An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
War
USA
1933
72 Minutes
Jerry H. Young
Fredric March Cary Grant Jack Oakie Carole Lombard Guy Standing Forrester Harvey Kenneth Howell Leland Hodgson
pilot friend beautiful woman major melodramatic thrilling touching london air force base airplane battle fatigue horrors of war world war i affair fall wretched excess 1910s
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Fantasy
USA
1942
76 Minutes
Jonathan Wooley, Nathaniel Wooley, Samuel Wooley, Wallace Wooley
Fredric March Veronica Lake Robert Benchley Susan Hayward Cecil Kellaway Elizabeth Patterson Robert Warwick Eily Malyon Nora Cecil Emory Parnell Aldrich Bowker
witch puritan fiancée politician doctor socialite melodramatic amusing charming lighthearted salem, massachusetts jail inn witchcraft love triangle magic revenge curse love transformation
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Fantasy
USA
1934
78 Minutes
Death
Fredric March Evelyn Venable Guy Standing Katharine Alexander Gail Patrick Helen Westley Kathleen Howard Kent Taylor Henry Travers G.P. Huntley Jr. Otto Hoffman
prince father daughter death dark passionate tender estate italy death forbidden love father/daughter relationship heartbreak sacrifice forbidden love metamorphosis 1930s
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Drama
USA|West Germany
1953
105 Minutes
Karel Cernik
Fredric March Terry Moore Gloria Grahame Cameron Mitchell Adolphe Menjou Robert Beatty Alex D'Arcy Richard Boone
circus performer businessperson wife communist emotional engaging melodramatic czechoslovakia circus circus communism marriage social change escape love transformation underdog 1950s
Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Biography
USA
1944
130 Minutes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Fredric March Alexis Smith Donald Crisp Alan Hale C. Aubrey Smith John Carradine Percy Kilbride
publisher wife widow friend writer charming lighthearted hannibal, miss. mississippi river nevada writer's block trapping american civil war celebrities marital problems mark twain growing up rise love 19th century
The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
Drama
USA
1948
107 Minutes
Marcus Hubbard
Fredric March Dan Duryea Edmond O'Brien Ann Blyth Florence Eldridge John Dall Dona Drake Betsy Blair Fritz Leiber Whit Bissell Don Beddoe
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
War
USA
1936
96 Minutes
Fredric March Warner Baxter Lionel Barrymore June Lang Gregory Ratoff Victor Kilian
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Drama
USA
1941
108 Minutes
William Spence
Fredric March Martha Scott Beulah Bondi Gene Lockhart Grant Mitchell Moroni Olsen Harry Davenport Elisabeth Fraser Frank Thomas Jr. Laura Hope Crews Jerome Cowan
preacher wife son daughter choir director chauffeur tender positive inspiring church house parsonage denver ontario, canada iowa family faith christianity sacrifice transformation
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Drama
USA
1961
100 Minutes
Dr. Joseph Pearson
Fredric March Ben Gazzara Dick Clark Ina Balin Eddie Albert Phyllis Love Edward Andrews Aline MacMahon Arthur Hill Rosemary Murphy
doctor boss nurse pregnant woman intern tense moving engaging gripping hospital new york city pathology aging medical profession birth illness rivalry discovery 1950s
Medical drama set at one of New York City's hospitals during the early 1960s.
Romance
USA
1938
81 Minutes
heiress reporter friend grandfather salesgirl editor cheery amusing lighthearted yacht new york city department store island cabin class distinctions journalism family friendship romance impersonation
A young heiress runs away from her overprotective grandfather. Penniless on the streets of New York, she manages to find employment, but a reporter knows her true identity.
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Luke Drake
Fredric March Loretta Young Robert Benchley Allyn Joslyn Eve Arden Helen Westley Joyce Compton Tim Ryan Olaf Hytten Dorothy Adams Clarence Kolb
playwright actress banker husband wife bellhop amusing witty endearing new york city broadway theater hotel hotel room reno, nev. divorce remarriage jealousy work-life balance romance love triangle
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Drama
USA
1935
110 Minutes
Alan Trent
Fredric March Merle Oberon Herbert Marshall Janet Beecher John Halliday Henrietta Crosman Frieda Inescort Claude Allister George Breakston Fay Chaldecott Dennis Chaldecott
soldier cousin girl friend engaging emotional passionate london france england countryside cottage devotion pride love war blindness jealousy love transformation
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Drama, History
USA
1938
121 Minutes
Fredric March Franciska Gaal Akim Tamiroff
pirate governor senator girlfriend general sea captain rousing gutsy thrilling new orleans ship bayou gulf of mexico naval warfare privateering false accusations patriotism espionage heroism adventure
Semi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.
Drama
USA
1945
86 Minutes
Mike Frame
Fredric March Betty Field Skip Homeier Agnes Moorehead Joan Carroll Edit Angold
nephew uncle professor fiancée emotional gripping germany united states household family world war ii nazism judaism propaganda discovery growing up transformation 1940s
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Fredric March Joan Bennett Ann Sothern Ralph Bellamy Sidney Blackmer Thomas Mitchell Robert Elliott Richard Tucker Joyce Compton Patricia Farr Wilma Francis
detective womanizer sister woman suspect victim thrilling suspenseful frenetic san francisco hawaii ship asia murder investigation on the run chase reward suicide disguise escape
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Comedy
USA
1930
82 Minutes
Fredric March Ina Claire Mary Brian Henrietta Crosman Charles Starrett Arnold Korff Frank Conroy
family matriarch actor actress manager daughter brother melodramatic amusing lighthearted new york city broadway theater family home family acting love retirement theater relationships transformation sacrifice
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
Biography
UK
1949
104 Minutes
Fredric March Florence Eldridge Francis L. Sullivan Kathleen Ryan Derek Bond Nora Swinburne Abraham Sofaer Linden Travers James Robertson Justice Dennis Vance Richard Nugent
explorer queen courtier priest sailor inspiring striking spain boat monastery west indies royal court beach discovery journey spanish inquisition christopher columbus gold mutiny quest
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Drama, History
1932
118 Minutes
Fredric March Claudette Colbert Charles Laughton Elissa Landi Ian Keith Vivian Tobin Harry Beresford Ferdinand Gottschalk Arthur Hohl Tommy Conlon Nat Pendleton
emperor nero empress christian military officer stepfather young woman hedonistic brutal tense rome colosseum burning of rome persecution unrequited love royalty jealousy lions rescue wretched excess underdog
A Roman official (Fredric March) tries to save Christians from the lions and the madness of Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton).
Drama
USA
1960
127 Minutes
Matthew Harrison Brady
Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gene Kelly Florence Eldridge Dick York Harry Morgan Donna Anderson Elliott Reid Claude Akins Noah Beery Jr. Norman Fell
lawyer teacher reporter intense somber suspenseful witty courtroom tennessee court battles creationism vs. evolution lawsuit rescue rivalry 1920s
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Dan C. Hilliard
Humphrey Bogart Fredric March Martha Scott Arthur Kennedy Dewey Martin Gig Young Mary Murphy Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Alan Reed Bert Freed
criminal prisoner father mother son daughter tense thrilling emotional indianapolis house home invasion escaped criminals hostages family stand-off escape love 1950s
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Norman Maine
Janet Gaynor Fredric March Adolphe Menjou May Robson Andy Devine Lionel Stander Franklin Pangborn Owen Moore J.C. Nugent Clara Blandick Peggy Wood
actor actress engaging emotional touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging alcoholism love ambition actors love sacrifice quest 1930s
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Drama
USA
1959
118 Minutes
Kim Novak Fredric March Glenda Farrell Albert Van Dekker Martin Balsam Lee Grant Lee Philips Edith Meiser Joan Copeland Betty Walker Lou Gilbert
receptionist widower mother sister daughter father melodramatic gutsy factory office diner restaurant car party may-december romance divorce disapproval engagement business jealousy
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Drama
USA
1973
239 Minutes
Lee Marvin Fredric March Robert Ryan Jeff Bridges Bradford Dillman Sorrell Booke
salesman barfly bartender bleak spirited new york city greenwich village bar alcoholism failure secret murder delusion drinking fall 1910s
A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Robert Browning
Norma Shearer Fredric March Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan Katharine Alexander Una O'Connor Ian Wolfe Marion Clayton Ralph Forbes Vernon Downing
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest chilling melodramatic london mansion bedroom poetry confinement illness incest romance sexual repression forbidden love escape transformation
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Comedy
USA
1937
75 Minutes
Wally Cook
Carole Lombard Fredric March Charles Winninger Walter Connolly Sig Ruman Frank Fay Max Rosenbloom Margaret Hamilton
doctor reporter editor patient amusing endearing winsome vermont small town new york city hotel newsroom fraud romance deception illness celebrity newspapers adventure love
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Comedy
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Fredric March Adrianne Allen
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
85 Minutes
Paul Lockridge
Nancy Carroll Fredric March Frank Morgan Glenn Anders Diane Ellis Leonard Carey
pretty woman older man pianist sculptor daughter love interest playful melodramatic city household garden apartment marriage age difference courtship family fortune hunters suicide discovery pursuit
A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
Drama, Romance
USA
1929
73 Minutes
Jim Hutton
Ann Harding Fredric March Carmelita Geraghty Leslie Fenton George Irving
Pre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, and the two paramours they deserted who wait patiently - and manipulatively - in the wings.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1929
77 Minutes
Clara Bow Fredric March Marceline Day Shirley O'Hara Adrienne Dore Joyce Compton Jack Oakie Jack Luden Phillips Holmes Virginia Thomas Jean Lorraine
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
82 Minutes
Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
aristocrat servant noblewoman killer prisoner military officer moving suspenseful russia greenhouse moscow courtroom siberia train station lust illegitimate child prostitution class distinctions trial redemption
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1936
123 Minutes
Bothwell
Katharine Hepburn Fredric March Florence Eldridge Douglas Walton John Carradine Robert Barrat Gavin Muir Ian Keith Moroni Olsen William Stack Ralph Forbes
mary stuart elizabeth tudor earl lord courtier engaging fascinating powerful scotland palace england prison abdication imprisonment execution royalty marriage jealousy rivalry rise
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Benvenuto Cellini
Constance Bennett Fredric March Frank Morgan Fay Wray Jessie Ralph Lucille Ball Vince Barnett Louis Calhern Jay Eaton Paul Harvey
artist duchess duke artist's model steward emigrant witty amusing cheeky madcap florence, italy royal palace bedroom balcony benvenuto cellini scandal incompetency palace intrigue adultery patronage
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
115 Minutes
Joan Crawford Fredric March Ruth Hussey John Carroll Rita Hayworth Nigel Bruce Bruce Cabot Rose Hobart Rita Quigley Romaine Callender Marjorie Main
wife husband daughter friend lover cool melodramatic docks mansion newport, r.i. train station house self-discovery cult marriage drinking motherhood spirituality quest transformation
Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found ... See full summary »
Drama, History
Spain|USA
1956
141 Minutes
Richard Burton Fredric March Claire Bloom Danielle Darrieux Barry Jones Harry Andrews
king father mother stepmother friend philosopher incredible intense ancient greece babylon palace battlefield alexander the great royalty greek empire persian empire conquest family quest rivalry
The life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.
Drama
USA
1930
86 Minutes
Howard Vanning
Ruth Chatterton Fredric March Fuller Mellish Jr. Gilbert Emery Doris Lloyd William Stack
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife--now a world-famous opera singer--... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
118 Minutes
President Jordan Lyman
Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas Fredric March Ava Gardner Edmond O'Brien Martin Balsam George Macready Whit Bissell Hugh Marlowe
president military officer assistant mistress tense intricate suspenseful washington, d.c. white house office army base texas politics deception political coup cold war discovery rivalry pursuit 1960s
United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.
Drama
USA
1956
153 Minutes
Ralph Hopkins
Gregory Peck Jennifer Jones Fredric March Marisa Pavan Ann Harding Lee J. Cobb Keenan Wynn Gene Lockhart Gigi Perreau Portland Mason Arthur O'Connell
pr person executive wife ex-lover friend boss dark emotional new york city suburbia office family home battlefield italy ambition family business post-traumatic stress disorder secret world war ii
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Drama
Italy|France
1963
114 Minutes
Albrecht von Gerlach
Sophia Loren Maximilian Schell Fredric March Robert Wagner Françoise Prévost
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Drama
1970
100 Minutes
Mayor Jeff Parks
Jim Brown George Kennedy Fredric March Lynn Carlin Don Stroud Janet MacLaughlin Richard Elkins Clifton James Robert Random Mills Watson Bernie Casey
A newly elected sheriff (Jim Brown) gets help from his predecessor (George Kennedy) and the mayor (Fredric March) in a racially torn Southern town.
War
1954
103 Minutes
Rear Adm. George Tarrant
William Holden Grace Kelly Fredric March Mickey Rooney Robert Strauss Charles McGraw Keiko Awaji Earl Holliman Richard Shannon Willis Bouchey Cheryl Callaway
pilot wife military officer dark tense aircraft carrier military base tokyo north korea sea of japan horrors of war korean war aviation sacrifice transformation 1950s
Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Drama
USA
1954
104 Minutes
Loren Phineas Shaw
William Holden June Allyson Barbara Stanwyck Fredric March Walter Pidgeon Shelley Winters Paul Douglas Louis Calhern Dean Jagger Nina Foch Tim Considine
businessperson engineer secretary wife confident dark new york city office apartment business deception corporate espionage corruption rivalry quest 1950s
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.