List of the best Louis Calhern movies: The Magnificent Yankee(1950), Too Wise Wives(1921), The Count of Monte Cristo(1934), Two Weeks With Love(1950), Annie Get Your Gun(1950), The Man With a Cloak(1951), Stolen Heaven(1931), The Man With Two Faces(1934), Washington Story(1952), The Asphalt Jungle(1950), Notorious(1946), Blackboard Jungle(1955) ... ...
Biography
USA
1950
89 Minutes
judge wife friend clerk writer inspiring tender fascinating spirited washington, d.c. family home courtroom marriage love grief aging love quest 1920s
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Drama
USA
1921
80 Minutes
Mr. David Graham
Louis Calhern Claire Windsor Phillips Smalley Mona Lisa
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Adventure
USA
1934
113 Minutes
De Villefort Jr.
Robert Donat Elissa Landi Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer Raymond Walburn O.P. Heggie Irene Hervey Georgia Caine Walter Walker Lawrence Grant Luis Alberni
prisoner count villain fiancée spirited gutsy rousing gripping paris italy island revenge fortune imprisonment rags to riches adventure revenge rivalry transformation 1810s
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Horatio Robinson
Jane Powell Ricardo Montalban Louis Calhern Ann Harding Phyllis Kirk Carleton Carpenter Debbie Reynolds
daughter father mother teen boy cuban best friend playful charming uplifting resort beach restaurant canoe dance floor adolescence romance family friendship father/daughter relationship singing
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1950
107 Minutes
Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
Betty Hutton Howard Keel Louis Calhern J. Carrol Naish Edward Arnold Keenan Wynn Benay Venuta Clinton Sundberg
annie oakley frank butler buffalo bill gunslinger cowboy cowgirl amusing spirited charming wild west america europe love competition cowboys performance love discovery rivalry 19th century
The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
81 Minutes
Charles Theverner
Joseph Cotten Barbara Stanwyck Louis Calhern Leslie Caron Joe De Santis Jim Backus Margaret Wycherly Richard Hale Nicholas Joy Roy Roberts Mitchell Lewis
woman wealthy man poet servant butler revolutionary uneasy dark suspenseful emotional new york city mansion inheritance murder plot schemes family bloodline revolution national pride quest rivalry
In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Steve Perry
Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Stanley Vance
Edward G. Robinson Mary Astor Louis Calhern Ricardo Cortez Mae Clarke John Eldredge Arthur Byron Henry O'Neill David Landau Emily Fitzroy Margaret Dale
A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.
Drama
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Charles W. Birch
Van Johnson Patricia Neal Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer Philip Ober Patricia Collinge Moroni Olsen
congressman columnist journalist lobbyist secretary boss emotional patriotic rousing positive washington, d.c. newsroom capitol building massachusetts restaurant politics journalism corruption idealism unlikely romance
Joe Gresham is a hard-working but reticent congressman from Massachusetts. Reporter Alice Kingsley arrives in Washington, DC hired by Gilbert Nunnally, a tabloid columnist and cynic who ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Alonzo D. Emmerich
Sterling Hayden Sam Jaffe Marilyn Monroe Louis Calhern Jean Hagen James Whitmore John McIntire Marc Lawrence Barry Kelley Anthony Caruso Teresa Celli
ex-convict waitress safecracker thief lawyer intricate tense united states city jewelry theft greed deception schemes murder fall temptation 1950s
A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
103 Minutes
Captain Paul Prescott
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin Reinhold Schünzel Moroni Olsen
secret agent spy nazi mother engaging tense suspenseful united states brazil mansion espionage deception nazism dangerous assignment love mystery discovery love rescue 1940s
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Drama
USA
1955
101 Minutes
Jim Murdock
Glenn Ford Vic Morrow Anne Francis Louis Calhern Margaret Hayes John Hoyt Richard Kiley Emile Meyer Warner Anderson Basil Ruysdael Sidney Poitier
teacher student principal wife gritty fiery new york city boys school troubled youth inner-city life teaching race relations generational divide rock 'n' roll underdog quest rivalry 1950s
A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
Drama, History
USA
1953
121 Minutes
Julius Caesar
Marlon Brando James Mason John Gielgud Louis Calhern Edmond O'Brien Greer Garson Deborah Kerr George Macready Michael Pate Richard Hale Alan Napier
brutus mark antony julius caesar assassin emotional fiery passionate patriotic ancient rome assassination politics war fall revenge ancient rome
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Steve Dutton
Ruth Chatterton Donald Cook James Murray Louis Calhern Helen Jerome Eddy Hallam Cooley Pat O'Malley Harold Huber J. Carrol Naish
young woman son prostitute district attorney lawyer madam incredible melodramatic unrestrained san francisco brothel foster home chinatown ruins prison mother/son relationship prostitution crime poverty murder
Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1921
78 Minutes
Phil West
Philip Hubbard Margaret McWade Claire Windsor Louis Calhern Marie Walcamp
professor wife librarian student reverend neighbor bleak inspiring touching house college poverty illness theft young love class struggle sacrifice underdog escape 1920s
The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
USA
1954
107 Minutes
King of Karlsberg
Ann Blyth Edmund Purdom John Ericson Louis Calhern Edmund Gwenn S.Z. Sakall Betta St. John John Williams Evelyn Varden John Hoyt Richard Anderson
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Smiley Gordon
innocent woman lawyer mob boss fiancée police officer henchman engaging suspenseful crafty tense new york city car apartment road restaurant waterfront wrongful conviction fugitives mobsters frame-up
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another auto. Ann escapes and ends up in the vehicle of Tony Baxter, a lawyer who has eyes for her.
Drama
USA
1948
133 Minutes
"Col." Boris Morosov
Ingrid Bergman Charles Boyer Charles Laughton Louis Calhern Ruth Warrick Roman Bohnen Stephen Bekassy Ruth Nelson Curt Bois J. Edward Bromberg Michael Romanoff
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
Comedy
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Charles Y. Bewell
Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz James Mason Louis Calhern John Emery John Hoyt Natalie Schafer Mabel Albertson Ralph Dumke Nancy Kulp Willis Bouchey
chemist wife angel cousin father boss madcap campy playful endearing family home yosemite valley movie theater woods unhappy marriage career vs. love angels reconciliation camping infatuation
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
108 Minutes
Jim Leversoe
Lana Turner Ray Milland Tom Ewell Louis Calhern Ann Dvorak Barry Sullivan Margaret Phillips Jean Hagen Phyllis Kirk Sara Haden Hermes Pan
model wealthy man wife executive lawyer melodramatic kansas new york city montana success forbidden love affair love fame forbidden love fall 1950s
A girl from Kansas arrives to New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
Adventure
USA
1949
89 Minutes
Grandfather
Myrna Loy Robert Mitchum Peter Miles Louis Calhern Shepperd Strudwick Margaret Hamilton Patty King Jackie Jackson Beau Bridges Nino Tempo Tommy Sheridan
young boy father mother ranch hand grandfather friend heartwarming emotional salinas valley ranch household school family responsibility loss coming of age horses illness growing up discovery
A ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic results.
Drama
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Ford Humphries
Loretta Young George Brent David Manners Louis Calhern Una Merkel Joseph Cawthorn Helen Vinson
Marian moves to New York to make it big in the chorus and becomes involved in a love triangle.
Romance
USA
1954
115 Minutes
Nicholas Durant
Elizabeth Taylor Vittorio Gassman John Ericson Louis Calhern Michael Chekhov Barbara Bates Richard Hageman Richard Lupino Celia Lovsky Stuart Whitman Madge Blake
millionaire heiress student violinist love interest pianist emotional melodramatic france villa music conservatory switzerland zurich love triangle music betrayal love love rivalry rise
Spoiled heiress Louise Durant (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) decides to leave the comfort of her father's estate in southern France to study piano at the Music Conservatory in Zurich, despite ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
89 Minutes
Don Andre
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Musical, Comedy
1953
104 Minutes
Grandfather Eduardo Santos
Lana Turner Ricardo Montalban John Lund Louis Calhern Jean Hagen Eduard Franz Beulah Bondi Joaquin Garay Archer MacDonald Dorothy Neumann Robert Burton
wealthy man heiress plantation owner psychiatrist secretary grandfather lighthearted engaging new york city office brazil hotel love triangle vacation misunderstanding fortune hunters career money love adventure
A rich girl (Lana Turner) follows her rich boyfriend (John Lund) to Brazil, where she flirts with a rich rancher (Ricardo Montalban).
Musical, Comedy
USA
1956
107 Minutes
Uncle Willie
Bing Crosby Grace Kelly Frank Sinatra Celeste Holm Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer John Lund
musician socialite reporter fiancé endearing charming lighthearted rhode island newport, r.i. mansion love triangle marriage high society pursuit rivalry love 1950s
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Adventure
USA
1952
100 Minutes
Col. Zapt
Stewart Granger Deborah Kerr James Mason Jane Greer Louis Calhern Lewis Stone Robert Douglas Robert Coote
prince princess brother fiancée king impersonator suspenseful engaging thrilling ruritania palace royal life conspiracy kidnapping identity deception adventure mystery escape 19th century
An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
99 Minutes
Gregory Elliott
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.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
73 Minutes
Elias Z. "Eli" Bannerman
Melvyn Douglas Florence Rice Claire Dodd Shepperd Strudwick Louis Calhern Nat Pendleton Douglas Dumbrille Mary Howard George Zucco Minor Watson Don Douglas
A husband and wife team who are in rare books and are skillful at recovering stolen volumes for insurance companies become involved in the murder of a fence.
Drama, History
USA
1935
96 Minutes
Prefect
Preston Foster Alan Hale Basil Rathbone John Wood Louis Calhern David Holt Dorothy Wilson Wyrley Birch Gloria Shea Frank Conroy William V. Mong
slave trader blacksmith son fortuneteller gladiator pontius pilate touching intense inspiring spectacular volcano jerusalem africa italy redemption city regret corruption painful memories crucifixion
In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity.
Romance
USA
1949
119 Minutes
Colonel Piniev
Walter Pidgeon Ethel Barrymore Peter Lawford Angela Lansbury Janet Leigh Louis Calhern Francis L. Sullivan Melville Cooper Robert Coote Alan Napier Roman Toporow
colonel mother superior major aide ballerina private tense emotional vienna convent train station rome repatriation communism faith romance duty suicide quest escape
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Maj. Jim Day
Irene Dunne Donald Woods Hugh Herbert Ned Sparks Joseph Cawthorn Louis Calhern Winifred Shaw
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Ambassador Trentino of Sylvania
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Margaret Dumont Raquel Torres Louis Calhern Leonid Kinskey Charles Middleton Edgar Kennedy
marx brothers widow wealthy woman leader ambassador amusing hilarious wild freedonia war espionage infatuation transformation quest 1930s
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Drama
USA
1954
104 Minutes
George Nyle Caswell
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.
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Ottaviano
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.
Drama, History
USA
1936
102 Minutes
Sunderland
Joan Crawford Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Melvyn Douglas James Stewart Alison Skipworth Louis Calhern Beulah Bondi Melville Cooper Sidney Toler
president best friend senator sailor adviser gutsy spirited washington, d.c. inn peggy eaton andrew jackson loyalty politics scandal rivalry sacrifice love 1830s
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
Drama
1940
97 Minutes
Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr Verree Teasdale Kent Taylor Mona Barrie Paul Cavanagh Jack Carson Louis Calhern Laraine Day Reed Hadley Frances Drake
physician patient rich girl wealthy man debutante husband tense disheartening emotional new york city clinic hospital apartment ship suicide attempt unrequited love health care class distinctions marriage sacrifice
A doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a model (Hedy Lamarr) and quits his clinic to make enough money to please her.
Biography
USA
1939
132 Minutes
LeMarc
Paul Muni Bette Davis Brian Aherne Claude Rains John Garfield Gale Sondergaard Donald Crisp Gilbert Roland Louis Calhern Grant Mitchell
emperor empress president rebel soldier napoleon iii tense emotional mexico france government offices mansion democracy government power struggle breakdown benito juérez maximilian i quest fall
Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire.
Musical
USA
1954
96 Minutes
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
Jane Powell Edmund Purdom Debbie Reynolds Nancy Kilgas Dolores Starr Jane Fischer Cecile Rogers Vic Damone Louis Calhern Evelyn Varden Linda Christian
lawyer friend fiancée health nut sister grandfather winsome quirky cheery spirited family home apartment california opposites attract political campaign health bodybuilding eccentricity culture clash transformation
Attorney, Purdom, and singer, Damone, romance two sisters, Reynolds and Powell, who live with and are strongly influenced by eccentric, health oriented and star gazing grandparents.
Fantasy
USA
1943
112 Minutes
Randolph Van Cleve
Gene Tierney Don Ameche Charles Coburn Marjorie Main Laird Cregar Spring Byington Allyn Joslyn Eugene Pallette Signe Hasso Louis Calhern Helene Reynolds
devil playboy husband wife parent offbeat amusing heartwarming uplifting new york city hell afterlife death infidelity family morality metamorphosis love wretched excess 19th century
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Biography
USA
1937
116 Minutes
Major Dort
Paul Muni Joseph Schildkraut Gale Sondergaard Gloria Holden Donald Crisp Erin O'Brien-Moore John Litel Henry O'Neill Morris Carnovsky Louis Calhern Ralph Morgan
author paul cézanne victim soldier wife prostitute engaging gripping moving france paris prison england courtroom household emile zola court battles friendship journalism historical events
CHAP. 1, HI YO SILVER: An outlaw leader planning to take control of Texas after the Civil War kills Colonel Jeffries, a man empowered to levy taxes, and assumes his identity. His men then ... See full summary »
Biography
1940
103 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Gordon Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Ruman Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Albert Basserman Edward Norris
doctor scientist colleague wife fascinating inspiring powerful egypt germany laboratory medicine syphilis tuberculosis scientific experiments diptheria discovery rise rescue sacrifice 1880s
The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.