List of the best Walter Lang movies: The King and I(1956), Desk Set(1957), The Little Princess(1939), State Fair(1945), Cheaper by the Dozen(1950), Moon Over Miami(1941), The Magnificent Dope(1942), The Jackpot(1950), The Mighty Barnum(1934), The Baroness and the Butler(1938), The Red Kimono(1925), Susannah of the Mounties(1939) ... ...
7.4/10
Musical
USA
1956
133 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr Yul Brynner Rita Moreno Martin Benson Terry Saunders Rex Thompson Carlos Rivas Patrick Adiarte
governess king child slave wife son moving uplifting charming spectacular thailand royal court palace siam king mongkut anna leonowens slavery royal life culture clash sacrifice
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
7.3/10
Romance
USA
1957
103 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Gig Young Joan Blondell Dina Merrill Sue Randall Neva Patterson Harry Ellerbe Nicholas Joy Diane Jergens Merry Anders
librarian computer programmer executive amusing witty new york city library romance computers love triangle competition love discovery rivalry 1950s
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a television network's research department.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1939
91 Minutes
Director
William A. Seiter Shirley Temple Richard Greene Arthur Treacher Anita Louise Ian Hunter Cesar Romero Marcia Mae Jones Sybil Jason Mary Nash
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.
7.0/10
Musical
USA
1945
100 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Crain Dana Andrews Dick Haymes Vivian Blaine Charles Winninger Fay Bainter Donald Meek Frank McHugh Percy Kilbride Harry Morgan Jane Nigh
mother father daughter son singer reporter lighthearted heartwarming fair trailer iowa infatuation competition love triangle family growing up love quest 1940s
The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so.
7.0/10
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1950
85 Minutes
Director
Clifton Webb Myrna Loy Jeanne Crain Betty Lynn Edgar Buchanan Barbara Bates Mildred Natwick Sara Allgood Anthony Sydes Roddy McCaskill Norman Ollestad
father mother daughter son doctor heartwarming lighthearted rhode island new jersey household family parenthood siblings marriage daunting task efficiency love growing up 1940s
"Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in ... See full summary »
6.9/10
Musical
USA
1941
91 Minutes
Director
Don Ameche Betty Grable Bob Cummings Carole Landis Charlotte Greenwood Jack Haley
fortune hunter sister aunt bartender wealthy man heir charming lighthearted amusing mushy texas florida resort bar money sister relationship deception socialites romance impersonation
Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Lynn Bari Don Ameche Edward Everett Horton George Barbier Frank Orth Roseanne Murray Marietta Canty Hal K. Dawson Josephine Whittell Arthur Loft
young man love interest motivational speaker press agent insurance executive reporter lighthearted airy new york city office ambition love triangle contest culture clash deception transformation rise love 1940s
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1950
85 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Barbara Hale James Gleason Fred Clark Alan Mowbray Patricia Medina Natalie Wood Tommy Rettig Robert Gist Lyle Talbot
vice president wife boss interior decorator painter irs officer heartwarming hilarious quirky small town indiana house luck contest taxes family radio husband/wife relationship discovery underdog
Bill Lawrence wins a slew of prizes on a radio quiz program. His happiness is short-lived when he discovers he'll have to sell the prizes in order to pay the taxes on them.
6.8/10
Biography
USA
1934
87 Minutes
Director
The comic exploits of confidence trickster and showman P.T. Barnum from his early days through to the creation of The Greatest Show on Earth.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Director
prime minister butler daughter husband countess airy charming offbeat tender hungary parliament political intrigue conflict of interest loyalty family honor unusual romance rivalry transformation 1930s
A butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1925
77 Minutes
Director
Dorothy Davenport Priscilla Bonner Theodore von Eltz Mary Carr Virginia Pearson Dorothy Davenport Nellie Bly Baker Emily Fitzroy Carl Miller George Siegmann
A small town girl finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her.
6.6/10
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1939
78 Minutes
Director
William A. Seiter Shirley Temple Randolph Scott Margaret Lockwood J. Farrell MacDonald Maurice Moscovich Moroni Olsen Victor Jory Martin Good Rider
Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Director
Linda Darnell John Payne Roland Young Charlotte Greenwood William Gargan Mary Beth Hughes Mary Healy Donald Meek Harry Green Jessie Ralph Walter Kingsford
actress teenager talent scout football player singer girl charming endearing emotional amusing arizona arkansas los angeles theater film set office aspirations film industry fame friendship
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 »
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
117 Minutes
Director
Ethel Merman Dan Dailey Marilyn Monroe Donald O'Connor Johnnie Ray Mitzi Gaynor Hugh O'Brian Frank McHugh
vaudevillian wife daughter son singer priest uplifting charming melodramatic spirited new jersey new york city theater performance show business family maturing romantic dilemma growing up discovery
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
6.4/10
Romance
USA
1937
79 Minutes
Director
Newly remarried woman finds her businessman husband boring and runs into her wealthy playboy first husband.
6.4/10
Musical
USA
1960
131 Minutes
Director
Frank Sinatra Shirley MacLaine Maurice Chevalier Louis Jourdan Juliet Prowse Marcel Dalio Leon Belasco Nestor Paiva
lawyer club owner judge photographer bailiff dancer hilarious campy frenetic montmartre paris nightclub courtroom performance controversy freedom morality love triangle bribery love
Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless, Simone has it performed every day in her nightclub. Her employees use their female... See full summary »
6.4/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Director
Betty Grable Cesar Romero George Montgomery Charles Winninger Phil Silvers Matt Briggs Paul Hurst Frank Orth
promoter saloon owner singer carnival worker bartender drunk amusing cheeky lighthearted coney island broadway theater saloon carnival backstage stage show business jealousy carnivals ambition love triangle
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Musical
USA
1940
94 Minutes
Director
Alice Faye Betty Grable Jack Oakie John Payne Allen Jenkins Esther Ralston Fayard Nicholas Harold Nicholas Ben Carter John Loder Elisha Cook Jr.
singer songwriter musician boxer melodramatic charming new york city stage tin pan alley show business romance songwriting vaudeville world war i love rise quest 1910s
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1940
88 Minutes
Director
Shirley Temple Spring Byington Nigel Bruce Gale Sondergaard Eddie Collins Edwin Maxwell Thurston Hall Sterling Holloway Claire DuBrey Dorothy Dearing
daughter mother fairy brother lumberjack creative emotional heartwarming moving positive uplifting forest home past future war growing up fairies journey adventure
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Director
Carole Lombard Preston Foster Cesar Romero Janet Beecher Betty Lawford Richard Carle Forrester Harvey Ed Barton Sam Tong Bob Thom
A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.
6.3/10
Musical
USA
1942
75 Minutes
Director
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... See full summary »
6.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Director
Carmen Miranda Don Ameche William Bendix Vivian Blaine Felix Bressart B.S. Pully Emil Rameau Frank Orth Torben Meyer Herb Evers Hal K. Dawson
composer club owner singer violinist henchman love interest lighthearted cheery greenwich village new york city apartment theater jail stage composing music swindling drunkenness ambition disillusionment
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1937
85 Minutes
Director
Social butterfly (Young) marries Park Avenue doctor (Baxter) and learns that his nurse (Bruce) is in love with him.
5.9/10
Comedy
USA
1960
98 Minutes
Director
James Mason Julie Newmeyer Susan Hayward Robert Paige June Clayworth Joe Kirkwood Jr. Mary Patton Trax Colton Everett Glass Ben Astar
A Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.
5.9/10
Musical
USA
1948
98 Minutes
Director
Vaudeville performers, Dailey and Grable, have marital difficulties when he hits the "Big Time", which are compounded by his drinking problem.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Director
Jack Pearl Jimmy Durante The Three Stooges ZaSu Pitts Ted Healy Edna May Oliver
The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
5.3/10
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1961
107 Minutes
Director
The Three Stooges Carol Heiss Edson Stroll Patricia Medina Guy Rolfe Michael David Buddy Baer Edgar Barrier
snow white evil queen stepmother king madcap lighthearted playful emotional winsome kingdom palace cottage mountain woods lake murder plot heir to throne jealousy rebellion friendship
An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.
Musical, Romance
1947
107 Minutes
Director
singer dance hall girl parent daughter suitor engaging heartwarming spirited northern california boston boarding school stage vaudeville family fame mother/daughter relationship music love growing up metamorphosis
The daughter of vaudevillians recalls her parents (Betty Grable, Dan Dailey), a source of embarrassment to her big sister (Mona Freeman).
Musical, Comedy
1953
117 Minutes
Director
Ethel Merman Donald O'Connor George Sanders Vera-Ellen Billy De Wolfe Helmut Dantine Walter Slezak Steven Geray
socialite ambassador minister general duchess witty lighthearted fictional country washington, d.c. politics foreign relations romance social standing love rise 1950s
A Washington hostess (Ethel Merman) falls for a foreign minister (George Sanders) after being named ambassador to a grand duchy.
Musical, Comedy
1941
80 Minutes
Director
Alice Faye Carmen Miranda John Payne Cesar Romero Cobina Wright Jr. George Barbier Leonid Kinskey Sheldon Leonard Billy Gilbert
salesgirl vice president manager singer company president daughter lighthearted amusing mellow cruise ship havana hotel casino inn vacation business jealousy romance gambling adventure
A salesgirl (Alice Faye) runs aground on a cruise and receives a tour of Havana with an escort (John Payne) as compensation.
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