List of the best Natalie Schafer movies: Rescue From Gilligan's Island(1978), Molly and Me(1945), Dishonored Lady(1947), Female on the Beach(1955), Callaway Went Thataway(1951), The Girl Next Door(1953), I'm Dangerous Tonight(1990), Keep Your Powder Dry(1945), Forever Darling(1956), Susan Slade(1961), Anastasia(1956), Back Street(1961) ... ...
Comedy
1978
100 Minutes
Lovey Wentworth Howell
Bob Denver Alan Hale Jr. Jim Backus Natalie Schafer Russell Johnson Dawn Wells Judith Baldwin Vincent Schiavelli Art LaFleur Norman Bartold Barbara Mallory
A tidal wave brings stranded Gilligan (Bob Denver), Skipper (Alan Hale Jr.), Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus) and the rest back to civilization.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
76 Minutes
Kitty Goode-Burroughs
Gracie Fields Monty Woolley Roddy McDowall Reginald Gardiner Natalie Schafer Edith Barrett Clifford Brooke Aminta Dyne Queenie Leonard Doris Lloyd Patrick O'Moore
actress politician butler son amusing charming lighthearted playful estate london apartment politics manners job actors estrangement father/daughter relationship transformation discovery 1940s
A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
85 Minutes
Ethel Royce
Hedy Lamarr Dennis O'Keefe John Loder William Lundigan Natalie Schafer Paul Cavanagh
art designer advertiser secretary psychiatrist neighbor friend bleak melodramatic new york city office stork club apartment house court disillusionment sex mental breakdown attempted suicide blackmail murder
A beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
97 Minutes
Queenie Sorenson
Joan Crawford Jeff Chandler Jan Sterling Cecil Kellaway Natalie Schafer Marjorie Bennett
Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
Comedy, Western
USA
1951
81 Minutes
Martha Lorrison
Fred MacMurray Dorothy McGuire Howard Keel Jesse White Fay Roope Natalie Schafer Douglas Kennedy Elisabeth Fraser John Indrisano Stan Freberg
advertiser actor television producer agent witty engaging hollywood, calif. los angeles mexico filmmaking impersonation cover-up fame quest escape 1950s
Two marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.
Musical, Romance
USA
1953
92 Minutes
Evelyn
Dan Dailey June Haver Dennis Day Billy Gray Cara Williams Natalie Schafer Clinton Sundberg Hayden Rorke Mary Jane Saunders Donna Lee Hickey Lyn Wilde
entertainer illustrator single father son widower classmate emotional lighthearted playful creative new york city house school romance comic books broadway fame grief father/son relationship love
Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Horror
1990
97 Minutes
Grandmother
Madchen Amick Corey Parker Anthony Perkins R. Lee Ermey Dee Wallace Natalie Schafer
An archaeology professor's red Aztec cloak spreads evil and turns a shy coed (Madchen Amick) into a she-devil.
Drama
1945
93 Minutes
Harriet Corwin
Lana Turner Laraine Day Susan Peters Agnes Moorehead Bill Johnson Natalie Schafer Lee Patrick Marta Linden June Lockhart Jess Barker Michael Kirby
A debutante (Lana Turner), a serviceman's bride (Susan Peters) and a girl (Laraine Day) from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Comedy
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Millie Opdyke
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
1961
116 Minutes
Marion Corbett
Troy Donahue Connie Stevens Dorothy McGuire Lloyd Nolan Brian Aherne Grant Williams Natalie Schafer Kent Smith Bert Convy Guy Wilkerson
father wife daughter teenager mother suitor melodramatic emotional california house alaska chile hospital teen pregnancy death cover-up romantic dilemma relationships family forbidden love
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Lissemskaia
Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner Helen Hayes Akim Tamiroff Martita Hunt Felix Aylmer Sacha Pitoeff Ivan Desny Natalie Schafer
refugee military officer prince empress czar nicholas ii emotional melodramatic royal court paris copenhagen, denmark royalty amnesia fortune missing persons quest rise 1920s
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Drama
USA
1961
107 Minutes
Mrs. Evans
Susan Hayward John Gavin Vera Miles Charles Drake Virginia Grey Reginald Gardiner Tammy Marihugh Robert Eyer Natalie Schafer Doreen McLean Alex Gerry
In Lincoln, the ambitious aspirant-designer Rae Smith has an incident with a wolf department store businessman and is rescued by the Marine Paul Saxon. They immediately fall in love with ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
1945
98 Minutes
Mrs. Hume
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Vera-Ellen Donald Woods S.Z. Sakall Allen Jenkins Edward Brophy Steve Cochran Otto Kruger Natalie Schafer
librarian entertainer gangster girlfriend dancer thug witty madcap nightclub backstage city ghosts possession siblings murder performance investigation revenge love transformation
When a brash young nightclub entertainer is murdered, his ghost urges his studious twin brother to seek revenge.
Comedy
1973
110 Minutes
Mrs. Adams
Liv Ullmann Edward Albert Gene Kelly Binnie Barnes Deborah Raffin Billy Green Bush Nancy Walker Don Porter Rosemary Murphy Natalie Schafer Sam Chew
young man suitor mother daughter business woman ex-boyfriend passionate witty greece city apartment manhattan big city stage play serendipity vacation self-discovery one-night stand romantic dilemma adventure love
A 40-ish divorcee (Liv Ullmann) in Greece meets a 20-ish man (Edward Albert) who shows up later in Manhattan to date her daughter.
Comedy
USA
1941
72 Minutes
Jeffrey Lynn Jane Wyman Edward Everett Horton David Bruce Herb Anderson Marguerite Chapman Craig Stevens Willie Best Ivan F. Simpson Charles Halton Wade Boteler
young man fiancé young woman professor friend daughter lighthearted amusing endearing college family home mental institution operating room courtroom bachelor party race against time invisibility science practical jokes marrying for money
Comedy about an invisible man.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
86 Minutes
Bob Hope Joan Fontaine Basil Rathbone Audrey Dalton Hugh Marlowe Vincent Price Arnold Moss John Carradine John Hoyt Hope Emerson Robert Hutton
A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.