William Demarest Movies

List of the best William Demarest movies: The First Legion(1951), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek(1944), The Strip(1951), The Jolson Story(1946), Jolson Sings Again(1949), Salty O'Rourke(1945), The Private War of Major Benson(1955), Never a Dull Moment(1950), Behave Yourself(1951), Sullivan's Travels(1941), Christmas in July(1940), Sorrowful Jones(1949) ... ...

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The First Legion

Father Fulton prepares to abandon his vocation despite pleas from Father Arnoux. Then a series of seemingly miracles occur including to the young Terri. Fulton has his doubts and wonders about the role of Dr. Morrell.

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

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The Strip

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

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The Jolson Story

This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »

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Jolson Sings Again

In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the ... See full summary »

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Salty O'Rourke

Salty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and ... See full summary »

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The Private War of Major Benson

As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.

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Never a Dull Moment

Sophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Heyward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married, and ... See full summary »

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Behave Yourself

A couple (Farley Granger, Shelley Winters) find a specially trained lost dog and answer an ad placed by gangsters for its return.

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Sullivan's Travels

A Hollywood director, John L Sullivan, sets out to experience life as a poor, homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

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Christmas in July

When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

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Sorrowful Jones

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his ... See full summary »

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Escape From Fort Bravo

During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.

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The Perils of Pauline

The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.

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Dressed to Kill

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.

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Viva Las Vegas

A race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix, wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.

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The Great Moment

The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

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The Yellow Mountain

Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.

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What Price Glory?

Capt. Flagg (James Cagney) rivals Sgt. Quirt (Dan Dailey) for an innkeeper's daughter (Corinne Calvet) in World War I France.

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Hail the Conquering Hero

Preston Sturges' satire about a sickly soldier discharged from duty and mistaken for a war hero when he returns home.

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The Lady Eve

A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.

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The Great McGinty

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

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Night Has a Thousand Eyes

When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity.

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Whispering Smith

Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.

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The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »

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Romance on the Run

A man has the knack for finding stolen items. Then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.

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Lucy Gallant

The success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.

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Excuse My Dust

Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl ... See full summary »

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The Far Horizons

After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.

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Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor ... See full summary »

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The Jazz Singer

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

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Dangerous When Wet

A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.

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Here Come the Girls

A clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.

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My Favorite Spy

Kay Kyser is late to his wedding. He is taking a short cut through Central Park when he finds out that he is in the army and is due to check in that afternoon. It turns out that the army ... See full summary »

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Don't Tell the Wife

Con men use an honest front man (Guy Kibbee) to get a farmer (Lynne Overman) to promote their gold mine.

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Pardon My Sarong

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

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That Darn Cat!

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

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After Office Hours

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 »

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Little Men

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she ... See full summary »

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Easy Living

A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

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All Through the Night

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.

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Twenty Plus Two

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

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Riding High

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

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Love on the Run

Rival newsmen (Clark Gable, Franchot Tone) and an American heiress (Joan Crawford) get mixed up with spies in Europe.

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The Murder Man

When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.

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Dangerous Blondes

A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.

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While New York Sleeps

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

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The Big City

Julius Trent, the founder and president of Trent Mills objects to the plans of his manager, Walford Andrews, to manufacture a synthetic wool called Woolex. Finding Julius behind the times, ... See full summary »

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Bright Lights

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out ... See full summary »

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