List of the best Richard Whorf movies: Champagne for Caesar(1950), Luxury Liner(1948), It Happened in Brooklyn(1947), Till the Clouds Roll By(1946), The Sailor Takes a Wife(1945), Love From a Stranger(1947), Blonde Fever(1944), Blues in the Night(1941), Christmas Holiday(1944), Juke Girl(1942), Keeper of the Flame(1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1950
99 Minutes
Director
genius business owner host love interest pet sister amusing charming lighthearted outlandish hollywood, calif. television studio office game show intelligence retribution television personalities schemes revenge love
In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1948
98 Minutes
Director
George Brent Jane Powell Frances Gifford Lauritz Melchior Marina Koshetz Xavier Cugat Thomas E. Breen Richard Derr
captain daughter opera singer fiancée fiancé aspiring singer amusing lighthearted emotional cruise ship opera house atlantic ocean cruise stowaway opera love triangle father/daughter relationship singing love growing up
A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
105 Minutes
Director
Frank Sinatra Kathryn Grayson Peter Lawford Jimmy Durante Gloria Grahame Marcy McGuire Aubrey Mather Tamara Shayne
singer clerk songwriter schoolteacher veteran janitor lighthearted amusing charming brooklyn, n.y. music store neighborhood music love triangle show business ambition new life love adventure 1940s
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is ... See full summary »
Musical, Biography
USA
1946
132 Minutes
Director
Robert Walker Van Heflin Lucille Bremer Dorothy Patrick Judy Garland Kathryn Grayson Lena Horne Tony Martin Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra June Allyson
composer mentor daughter producer sweetheart singer charming confident moving new york city theater ship london countryside nightclub songwriting ambition broadway romance competition
Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).
Comedy
USA
1945
92 Minutes
Director
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Director
John Hodiak Sylvia Sidney Ann Richards John Howard Isobel Elsom Frederick Worlock Ernest Cossart Philip Tonge Anita Sharp-Bolster Billy Bevan
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
Drama
USA
1944
69 Minutes
Director
Mary Astor Philip Dorn Gloria Grahame Felix Bressart Marshall Thompson Curt Bois Elisabeth Risdon Arthur Walsh
restaurant owner wife gold digger boyfriend waitress airy lighthearted amusing nevada café highway reno, nev. nightclub marriage financial windfall flirtation jealousy manipulation temptation forbidden love
Peter owns a small but upscale café on the road between Reno and Lake Tahoe in Nevada. He is a heavy gambler and his marriage is rocky. Into is life come a waitress named Sally.
Musical
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Jigger Pine
Priscilla Lane Betty Field Richard Whorf Lloyd Nolan Jack Carson Wallace Ford Howard da Silva Elia Kazan
convict jazz musician jazz singer femme fatale pianist dark quirky amusing st. louis new orleans new jersey roadhouse stage jazz ambition touring friendship scam crime rise
"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
92 Minutes
Simon Fenimore
Deanna Durbin Gene Kelly Richard Whorf Dean Harens Gladys George Gale Sondergaard David Bruce
A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Danny Frazier
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Richard Whorf George Tobias Gene Lockhart Alan Hale Betty Brewer Donald MacBride Howard da Silva Willard Robertson Faye Emerson
farmer owner girl friend farmhand tense melodramatic florida atlanta farm farming worker's rights friendship framed for murder small-town life greed underdog love sacrifice 1940s
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick.... See full summary »
Drama
1942
100 Minutes
Clive Kerndon
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Richard Whorf Margaret Wycherly Forrest Tucker Frank Craven
widow reporter secretary son mother suspenseful tense shocking estate office mansion deception war murder journalism love mystery discovery escape 1940s
A reporter (Spencer Tracy) interviews a patriot's widow (Katharine Hepburn) for a biography, but he makes a startling discovery.
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
Sam Harris
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.
Drama
USA
1950
94 Minutes
Carl Troxell
Humphrey Bogart Eleanor Parker Raymond Massey Richard Whorf James Brown Roy Roberts Morris Ankrum Fay Baker Fred Sherman
pilot old flame inventor friend business owner inspiring gripping airplane hangar alaska washington, d.c. germany heroism guilt redemption aviation love quest rivalry love 1950s
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.