List of the best Mary Beth Hughes movies: The Lady Confesses(1945), I Accuse My Parents(1944), Charlie Chan in Rio(1941), Blue, White and Perfect(1942), The Great Flamarion(1945), Grand Canyon(1949), Dressed to Kill(1941), Timber Queen(1944), Inner Sanctum(1948), Rimfire(1949), Last of the Wild Horses(1948), Sleepers West(1941) ... ...
Drama
USA
1945
66 Minutes
Mary Beth Hughes Hugh Beaumont Edmund MacDonald Claudia Drake Emmett Vogan Barbara Slater Edward Howard Dewey Robinson Carol Andrews
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 year disappearance to prevent her husband from marrying his new love, and someone kills her.
Drama
USA
1944
68 Minutes
Young man goes to work for gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
60 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mary Beth Hughes Victor Sen Yung Cobina Wright Jr. Ted North Victor Jory Harold Huber Richard Derr Jacqueline Dalya Kay Linaker Truman Bradley
On the trail of a singer who killed the man she loved in Honolulu, Charlie finds her stabbed to death when he ultimately catches up to her in Rio.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
78 Minutes
Detective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a Nazi smuggling ring.
Drama
USA
1945
78 Minutes
Erich von Stroheim Mary Beth Hughes Dan Duryea Steve Barclay Lester Allen Esther Howard Michael Mark Joseph Granby John R. Hamilton
Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Comedy, Western
USA
1949
64 Minutes
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
75 Minutes
Lloyd Nolan Mary Beth Hughes Sheila Ryan William Demarest Ben Carter Virginia Brissac Erwin Kalser Henry Daniell Dick Rich Milton Parsons Charles Arnt
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.
Adventure
USA
1944
66 Minutes
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1948
62 Minutes
Jean Maxwell
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A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Western
USA
1949
64 Minutes
An undercover army officer investigating the theft of army gold shipments takes a job as deputy in a small town that's being terrorized by what they believe is the ghost of a gambler who ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1948
84 Minutes
Jimmy Ellison Mary Beth Hughes Jane Frazee Douglas Dumbrille James Millican Reed Hadley Olin Howland Grady Sutton William Haade Rory Mallinson Stanley Andrews
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
74 Minutes
Helen Carlson
Lloyd Nolan Lynn Bari Mary Beth Hughes Louis Jean Heydt Edward Brophy Don Costello Ben Carter Don Douglas
Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
75 Minutes
Gaye Livingston
A rancher puts on a show to raise money so he can save his dude ranch from bankruptcy.
Western
USA
1949
70 Minutes
Julie Stewart
Pat Buttram Gloria Henry Steve Darrell Robert Randall Mary Beth Hughes Alan Hale Jr. Tom London Hank Patterson
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When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
85 Minutes
June Lawrence
Linda Darnell John Payne Roland Young Charlotte Greenwood William Gargan Mary Beth Hughes Mary Healy Donald Meek Harry Green Jessie Ralph Walter Kingsford
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Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »
Romance
1941
85 Minutes
Adele Blair
Rosalind Russell Walter Pidgeon Edward Arnold Lee Bowman Jean Rogers Mary Beth Hughes Guy Kibbee Barbara Jo Allen Leon Belasco Bobby Larson Charles Coleman
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A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Drama
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Marge Martin
Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael Juano Hernandez Jerome Cowan Mary Beth Hughes Nestor Paiva Orley Lindgren Walter Reed Alex Gerry
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A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
Western
USA
1949
104 Minutes
Stagecoach Nellie
John Payne Gail Russell Sterling Hayden George "Gabby" Hayes Dick Foran Henry Hull Mary Beth Hughes Eduardo Noriega Arthur Space Bobby Ellis Peggy McIntyre
In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.
Musical, Romance
USA
1942
98 Minutes
Caroline Steele
George Montgomery Ann Rutherford Glenn Miller Lynn Bari Carole Landis Cesar Romero Virginia Gilmore Mary Beth Hughes The Nicholas Brothers Harry Morgan
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Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
92 Minutes
Chuck's Secretary
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Cesar Romero Four Ink Spots The Nicholas Brothers The Wiere Brothers James Newill Mary Beth Hughes Eula Morgan William Pawley
veteran electrician singer wealthy man friend cheery creative melodramatic airport new york city ohio boxing ring stage radio competition friendship romance marriage loyalty discovery
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1939
78 Minutes
Ann
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.