List of the best Irene Ryan movies: Hot Rhythm(1944), Heading for Heaven(1947), San Diego, I Love You(1944), The Woman on the Beach(1947), Blackbeard, the Pirate(1952), Half Angel(1951), Meet Me After the Show(1951), Diary of a Chambermaid(1946), My Dear Secretary(1948), Desire in the Dust(1960) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
79 Minutes
Polly Kane
Dona Drake Robert Lowery Tim Ryan Irene Ryan Sidney Miller Jerry Cooper Robert Kent Harry Langdon Lloyd Ingram Cyril Ring Joan Curtis
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band. ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1947
65 Minutes
Molly the Maid
Stuart Erwin Glenda Farrell Russ Vincent Irene Ryan Milburn Stone George O'Hanlon Janis Wilson Ralph Hodges Dick Elliott
Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes known, except to Erwin,... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1944
81 Minutes
Miss Jones
Jon Hall Louise Allbritton Edward Everett Horton Eric Blore Buster Keaton Irene Ryan Rudy Wissler Gerald Perreau Charles Bates Don Davis Florence Lake
inventor daughter millionaire butler bus driver lighthearted endearing san diego household opposites attract money culture clash family inventions love pursuit quest 1940s
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Drama
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Mrs. Wernecke
Joan Bennett Robert Ryan Charles Bickford Nan Leslie Walter Sande Irene Ryan Frank Darien Jay Norris Glen Vernon Hugh Chapman Carl Faulkner
coast guard officer fiancée wife husband painter blind man brooding melodramatic suspenseful dreamy beach cliff boat house coast love triangle jealousy paranoia deception infidelity
A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Adventure
USA
1952
99 Minutes
Alvina
Robert Newton Linda Darnell William Bendix Keith Andes Torin Thatcher Irene Ryan Alan Mowbray Richard Egan Skelton Knaggs Richard Wessel Anthony Caruso
pirate surgeon first mate blackbeard damsel in distress hostage thrilling spirited atlantic ocean pirate ship island heroism pirates seafaring bravery secret identity pursuit rivalry rescue 1710s
Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Comedy
USA
1951
77 Minutes
Nurse Kay
Loretta Young Joseph Cotten Cecil Kellaway Basil Ruysdael Jim Backus Irene Ryan John Ridgely
nurse attorney contractor doctor father spirited endearing quirky lighthearted hospital mansion church united states sleepwalking amnesia love triangle subconscious discovery temptation 1950s
Nurse Nora Gilpin is attracted to lawyer John Raymond whom she dislikes during the day and seduces during the night, when she sleepwalks.
Musical
USA
1951
86 Minutes
Tillie
Betty Grable Macdonald Carey Rory Calhoun Eddie Albert Fred Clark Lois Andrews Irene Ryan Steve Condos Edwin Max Bob Nash
broadway star broadway producer rival singer husband lawyer playful crafty broadway theater apartment backstage nightclub doctor's office boat marriage divorce amnesia ambition trial reconciliation
Delilah Lee is the star of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
Comedy, Drama
1946
86 Minutes
Louise
Paulette Goddard Burgess Meredith Hurd Hatfield Francis Lederer Judith Anderson Florence Bates Irene Ryan Reginald Owen
A gold-digging chambermaid (Paulette Goddard) eyes her brooding master (Hurd Hatfield) and drives a valet to murder.
Comedy
USA
1948
94 Minutes
Mary
Laraine Day Kirk Douglas Keenan Wynn Helen Walker Rudy Vallee Florence Bates Alan Mowbray Grady Sutton Irene Ryan Gale Robbins Virginia Hewitt
novelist secretary publisher neighbor wife husband cheeky playful apartment beach house las vegas nightclub writing romantic dilemma publishing unlikely romance love transformation discovery 1940s
A romance novelist appoints a would-be writer as his secretary. Although she is initially dismayed by his work ethic and playboy attitude, they begin to fall in love.
Drama
USA
1960
102 Minutes
Raymond Burr Martha Hyer Ken Scott Joan Bennett Brett Halsey Ed Binns Jack Ging Anne Helm Margaret Field Douglas Fowley Kelly Thordsen
colonel doctor wife ex-convict sheriff husband tense gripping shocking clinton, la. hunting lodge farm mansion office infidelity accidental death cover-up framed bribery seduction
Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ... See full summary »