List of the best Leon Belasco movies: Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion(1950), Hollywood and Vine(1945), Can-Can(1960), Son of Ali Baba(1952), Niagara Falls(1941), Design for Scandal(1941), Every Girl Should Be Married(1948), The Mummy's Hand(1940), Love Happy(1949), The Chocolate Soldier(1941), The Golden Horde(1951), Nancy Goes to Rio(1950) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1950
80 Minutes
Hassam
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Patricia Medina Walter Slezak Douglas Dumbrille Leon Belasco Marc Lawrence Tor Johnson Wee Willie Davis Fred Nurney
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Comedy
USA
1945
59 Minutes
Cedric Borris
Jimmy Ellison Wanda McKay Franklin Pangborn Ralph Morgan June Clyde Leon Belasco Karin Lang Emmett Lynn Robert Greig Vera Lewis
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies, but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult then she counted on. Howewver, she does become a star ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1960
131 Minutes
Arturo
Frank Sinatra Shirley MacLaine Maurice Chevalier Louis Jourdan Juliet Prowse Marcel Dalio Leon Belasco Nestor Paiva
lawyer club owner judge photographer bailiff dancer hilarious campy frenetic montmartre paris nightclub courtroom performance controversy freedom morality love triangle bribery love
Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless, Simone has it performed every day in her nightclub. Her employees use their female... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1952
75 Minutes
Babu
Tony Curtis Piper Laurie Susan Cabot William Reynolds Hugh O'Brian Victor Jory Morris Ankrum Philip Van Zandt Leon Belasco Palmer Lee Barbara Knudson
Kashma Baba, the son of the famed Baghdad thief Ali Baba is a cadet in a medieval Persian military academy where he runs afoul of his rival Hussein, the evil Caliph's son.
Comedy
1941
43 Minutes
Head Waiter
Marjorie Woodworth Tom Brown ZaSu Pitts Slim Summerville Chester Clute Edgar Dearing Ed Gargan Gladys Blake Leon Belasco Rand Brooks Margaret Roach
Romance
1941
85 Minutes
Alexander Raoul
Rosalind Russell Walter Pidgeon Edward Arnold Lee Bowman Jean Rogers Mary Beth Hughes Guy Kibbee Barbara Jo Allen Leon Belasco Bobby Larson Charles Coleman
judge businessman wife reporter sculptor boyfriend madcap playful confident new york city courtroom cape cod studio street deception impersonation law judgment divorce journalism
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Comedy
USA
1948
85 Minutes
Violinist
Cary Grant Betsy Drake Franchot Tone Diana Lynn Alan Mowbray Elisabeth Risdon Richard Gaines Harry Hayden Chick Chandler Leon Belasco Fred Essler
store clerk doctor wealthy man friend amusing lighthearted san francisco department store household unrequited love obsession deception marriage love pursuit 1940s
A willful woman concocts an elaborate scheme to trap a handsome pediatrician into marriage.
Horror
USA
1940
67 Minutes
Ali
Dick Foran Peggy Moran Wallace Ford Cecil Kellaway George Zucco Charles Trowbridge Tom Tyler Sig Arno Edward Ciannelli Leon Belasco Harry Stubbs
archaeologist professor best friend magician daughter high priest creepy frightening suspenseful egypt university graveyard tomb curse expedition mummy drugs father/daughter relationship pursuit mystery
Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
91 Minutes
Mr. Lyons
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Ilona Massey Vera-Ellen Marion Hutton Raymond Burr Bruce Gordon Melville Cooper Leon Belasco Paul Valentine
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves.
Musical
1941
102 Minutes
Waiter
Nelson Eddy Rise Stevens Nigel Bruce Florence Bates Dorothy Gilmore Nydia Westman Max Barwyn Charles Judels Jack "Tiny" Lipson Leon Belasco Sig Arno
husband wife friend lady maid soldier playful cheery vienna theater café apartment jealousy actors impersonation singing romance secret love temptation
An opera singer (Nelson Eddy) poses as a Russian in Vienna to test his wife's (Rise Stevens) fidelity; she plays along.
Adventure
USA
1951
77 Minutes
Ann Blyth David Farrar George Macready Henry Brandon Howard Petrie Richard Egan Marvin Miller Donald Randolph Peggie Castle Poodles Hanneford Leon Belasco
The princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
99 Minutes
Jane Powell Ann Sothern Barry Sullivan Carmen Miranda Louis Calhern Scotty Beckett Fortunio Bonanova Glenn Anders Nella Walker Hans Conried Frank Fontaine
singer mother daughter producer romantic interest actress winsome touching amusing new york city boat broadway theater rio de janeiro theater misunderstanding performance mother/daughter relationship love love sacrifice
A mother and daughter compete over the same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Romance
1941
73 Minutes
Robert Sterling Marsha Hunt Virginia Weidler Paul Kelly Fay Holden Henry Travers Don Costello Carol Hughes Reed Hadley Ben Welden Theodore von Eltz
Comedy
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Leif Erickson Helen Vinson Willie Best Glenn Anders Grant Mitchell Catherine Doucet Rose Hobart Clarence Kolb
stockbroker niece uncle boss partner employee amusing madcap crafty intricate yacht florida office wager schemes honesty family business money rivalry
Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Deanna Durbin Edmond O'Brien Don Taylor Jeffrey Lynn Ray Collins Hugo Haas Harry Davenport Griff Barnett Katharine Alexander James Todd Morris Ankrum
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Comedy
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Dennis Morgan Jane Wyatt Shirley Ross Lee Patrick Jerome Cowan Una O'Connor Romaine Callender Barnett Parker Cornel Wilde Willie Best Louise Beavers
Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
71 Minutes
W.C. Fields Gloria Jean Margaret Dumont Leon Errol Billy Lenhart Kenneth Brown Anne Nagel Franklin Pangborn Mona Barrie Susan Miller Charles Lang
filmmaker actress producer mother daughter amusing campy madcap hollywood, calif. airplane movie studio movies fantasy hollywood pursuit escape 1940s
A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
Musical, Comedy
1940
103 Minutes
Deanna Durbin Kay Francis Walter Pidgeon Samuel S. Hinds S.Z. Sakall Lewis Howard Cecilia Loftus Henry Stephenson Eugene Pallette Joe King Fritz Feld
actress singer theatrical producer love interest mother father airy lighthearted charming new york city honolulu backstage stage mother/daughter relationship theater love triangle failing career show business rivalry love
A Broadway star (Kay Francis) and her daughter (Deanna Durbin) become rivals for a role and a millionaire (Walter Pidgeon) in Hawaii.
Musical
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Lew Ayres Ian Hunter Frank Morgan Wally Vernon Rita Johnson Virginia Grey William Cargan Katharine Alexander Al Shean Esther Dale
Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
101 Minutes
Hedy Lamarr Paul Henreid Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Victor Francen Joseph Calleia Carol Thurston Vladimir Sokoloff Edward Ciannelli Steven Geray Kurt Katch
During WW2, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid Nazi spies and Portuguese policemen.
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf George Tobias Irene Manning Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney S.Z. Sakall George Barbier Walter Catlett
george m. cohan father mother sister theatrical producer songwriter patriotic spirited new york city white house theater ambition actors show business patriotism family romance rise 1940s
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.