List of the best Stuart Erwin movies: The Big Broadcast(1932), Bachelor Bait(1934), Pigskin Parade(1936), Killer Dill(1947), The Great Mike(1944), Heading for Heaven(1947), Before Dawn(1933), All-American Chump(1936), Hold Your Man(1933), After Office Hours(1935), Palooka(1934), The Bride Came C.O.D.(1941) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Leslie McWhinney
Stuart Erwin Bing Crosby George Burns Gracie Allen Leila Hyams Sharon Lynne
star millionaire secretary love interest singer tycoon amusing mushy radio station united states stage relationships music love radio financial troubles performance love quest 1930s
A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Stuart Erwin Rochelle Hudson Pert Kelton Skeets Gallagher Berton Churchill Grady Sutton Clarence Wilson Otto Hoffman
secretary businessman wealthy man playboy executive ex-wife lighthearted heartwarming amusing city household boat office matchmaking loss of job business scheme love triangle marriage love rivalry
A well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1936
95 Minutes
Amos Dodd
Stuart Erwin Patsy Kelly Jack Haley Johnny Downs Betty Grable Arline Judge Dixie Dunbar Judy Garland
coach student athlete wife communist sister lighthearted amusing charming yale stadium texas college football unlikely hero mix-up sports underdog rivalry quest
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.
Comedy
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Johnny "Killer" Dill
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
70 Minutes
Jay Spencer
Stuart Erwin Robert "Buzz" Henry Pierre Watkin Gwen Kenyon Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Edythe Elliot Marion Martin Bob Meredith Lane Chandler Ed Cassidy William Halligan
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck (Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer) and his best friend Jimmy (Rober "Buzz" Henry), together they have a paper route, on which ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1947
65 Minutes
Henry Elkins
Stuart Erwin Glenda Farrell Russ Vincent Irene Ryan Milburn Stone George O'Hanlon Janis Wilson Ralph Hodges Dick Elliott
Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes known, except to Erwin,... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1933
60 Minutes
Stuart Erwin Dorothy Wilson Warner Oland Dudley Digges Gertrude Hoffman Oscar Apfel Frank Reicher Jane Darwell
A detective (Stuart Erwin) and a fortuneteller (Dorothy Wilson) meet a doctor (Warner Oland) from Vienna looking for loot hidden in a mansion.
Comedy
1936
63 Minutes
Elmer Lamb
Carnival promoters and gangsters back a math-genius rube (Stuart Erwin) in a big-money bridge tournament.
Romance
USA
1933
86 Minutes
Al Simpson
Jean Harlow Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Elizabeth Patterson Blanche Frederici Dorothy Burgess Muriel Kirkland Garry Owen Barbara Barondess Paul Hurst Theresa Harris
con artist woman partner ex-girlfriend minister criminal thrilling amusing tender apartment prison reform school love crime accident blackmail infidelity responsibility love discovery
A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Hank Parr
Constance Bennett Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Billie Burke Harvey Stephens Henry Travers William Demarest Katharine Alexander
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Joe Palooka
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin Marjorie Rambeau Robert Armstrong Mary Carlisle William Cagney Thelma Todd Franklyn Ardell Tom Dugan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Comedy
1941
92 Minutes
Tommy Keenan
James Cagney Bette Davis Stuart Erwin Eugene Pallette Jack Carson George Tobias
heiress pilot fiancé father old man madcap cheeky brash airplane desert ghost town mine cabin abduction debt romance father/daughter relationship regret running away escape
A Texas oil tycoon pays a pilot (James Cagney) by the pound to fly his daughter (Bette Davis) out of a marriage.
Adventure
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Texas Clarke
James Cagney Pat O'Brien June Travis Stuart Erwin Barton MacLane Henry Wadsworth Martha Tibbetts Isabel Jewell Craig Reynolds
pilot boss friend teenager suspenseful newark, n.j. airplane airplane hangar aviation friendship dangerous assignment transformation rescue 1930s
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1931
77 Minutes
Pat Kelly
Judith Wood Dorothy Hall Paul Lukas Stuart Erwin Frances Dee Mary Forbes Frances Moffett Claire Dodd Dorothy Stickney Alberta Vaughn
Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.
Drama, History
USA
1934
115 Minutes
Jonny Sykes
Wallace Beery Leo Carrillo Fay Wray Stuart Erwin Donald Cook George E. Stone Joseph Schildkraut Henry B. Walthall Katherine DeMille David Durand Frank Puglia
bandit overseer reporter politician revolutionary sister brutal disheartening mexico mexico city hillside farm fort el paso, texas pancho villa murder betrayal mexican revolution assassination exile
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1964
93 Minutes
Police Captain Loomis
Tommy Kirk Annette Funicello Leon Ames Stuart Erwin Alan Hewitt Connie Gilchrist Dal McKennon Norman Grabowski Kelly Thordsen Michael Fox Burt Mustin
judge scientist hypnotist girl student monkey quirky amusing college courtroom laboratory massachusetts house inventions hypnosis kidnapping crime extrasensory perception writing discovery
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Mike Brophy
Loretta Young Joel McCrea David Niven Stuart Erwin Marjorie Weaver Pauline Moore Binnie Barnes Jane Darwell Leonid Kinskey Spencer Charters Franklin Pangborn
woman sister wealthy man rancher impostor bartender lighthearted amusing playful kansas santa barbara, calif. club hotel ranch fortune hunters sister relationship impersonation inheritance marriage romance
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1934
76 Minutes
John L. 'Johnnie' Smith
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Otto Kruger Stuart Erwin Una O'Connor Akim Tamiroff Marjorie Gateson
wealthy man secretary rancher wife friend melodramatic charming new york city south america argentina boat apartment country house marrying for money divorce wealth love triangle travel commitment love
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
71 Minutes
Oscar `'Chubby'` Rudd
Lionel Atwill Irene Hervey Raymond Walburn Stuart Erwin Ann Loring Louis Hayward Wallace Ford Bernadene Hayes Harvey Stephens Robert Gleckler J. Carrol Naish
tycoon escaped convict secretary pilot governor reporter tense melodramatic ranch airstrip countryside hostage situation plane crash political intrigue kidnapping prison break escape 1930s
Businessman Gerald Axton goes to his ranch to rest, having had a near-heart-attack due to business worries. But while there (with his female assistant who makes his heart flutter as much as... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1933
80 Minutes
Ernest Pratt Baker
Marion Davies Bing Crosby Fifi D'Orsay Stuart Erwin Patsy Kelly Bobby Watson Ned Sparks
actor actress girlfriend singer roommate amusing spirited lighthearted new york city hollywood, calif. train hollywood acting romance jealousy determination rivalry forbidden love pursuit 1930s
A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
Drama
USA
1930
70 Minutes
Pudge Higgins
Charles Rogers Jean Arthur Paul Lukas Stuart Erwin Virginia Bruce Gordon De Main James Finlayson Frank Ross Jack Luden Freeman Wood George Irving
Lt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.
Comedy, Drama
1937
80 Minutes
Stumpy
Pat O'Brien Henry Fonda Margaret Lindsay Stuart Erwin J. Farrell MacDonald Dick Purcell Joe Sawyer Craig Reynolds John Litel Harland Tucker Joe King
farmhand electrician nurse crew member boss emotional melodramatic countryside midwest chicago construction site love triangle dangerous assignment ambition employment adventure transformation 1930s
A high-voltage lineman's (Pat O'Brien) farm-boy student (Henry Fonda) becomes his rival for a girl (Margaret Lindsay).
Romance
USA
1939
96 Minutes
Pete Tinney
Alice Faye Don Ameche J. Edward Bromberg Alan Curtis Stuart Erwin Jed Prouty Buster Keaton Donald Meek George Givot
actress director producer actor lighthearted hilarious emotional new york city los angeles broadway theater movie set hollywood career jealousy friendship fame rise growing up 1930s
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Western
USA
1940
80 Minutes
Ben Dalton
Randolph Scott Kay Francis Brian Donlevy George Bancroft Broderick Crawford Stuart Erwin Andy Devine Frank Albertson Mary Gordon Harvey Stephens Edgar Dearing
pioneer outlaw railroad baron rancher lawyer sheriff thrilling gripping kansas frontier ranch courtroom land claim false accusations murder trial family on the run rivalry underdog
Fictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice.
Romance
USA
1929
72 Minutes
Fred
Edmund Lowe Constance Bennett Roscoe Karns ZaSu Pitts Carmelita Geraghty John Roche Stuart Erwin Ruth Taylor
Ann Marvin, who is thoroughly disillusioned about marital bliss because of the turbulence in her sister Clara's marriage, meets Robert Collings, a millionaire gold miner, while visiting her... See full summary »
War
USA
1930
77 Minutes
Radioman Jenkins
Kenneth MacKenna Frank Albertson Paul Page Walter McGrail Warren Hymer J. Farrell MacDonald Stuart Erwin George LeGuere Ben Hendricks Jr. Harry Tenbrook Roy Stewart
Navy divers clear the torpedo tube of a sunken submarine.
Drama
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Howie Newsome
William Holden Martha Scott Frank Craven Fay Bainter Beulah Bondi Thomas Mitchell Guy Kibbee Stuart Erwin
milkman editor stage manager professor husband wife emotional sad amusing grover's corners new hampshire garden wedding cemetery small-town life america love transformation growing up love
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.