Cast: Jessie Royce Landis

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jessie Royce Landis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


North by Northwest

1959 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Plot Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a...

8.3

68K votes

8.3

68K votes

To Catch a Thief

1955 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Grace Kelly · Brigitte Auber · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence.

7.1

13K votes

7.1

13K votes

Goodbye Again

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yves Montand · Anthony Perkins · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot In this adaptation of Francoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful, 40-year old, highly successful businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five...

6.6

358 votes

6.6

358 votes

Columbo: Lady in Waiting (TV)

1971 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Lloyd

Cast Peter Falk · Susan Clark · Jessie Royce Landis · Richard Anderson

Plot A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi.

6.4

340 votes

6.4

340 votes

My Foolish Heart

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Susan Hayward · Kent Smith · Lois Wheeler

Plot After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers...

6.3

123 votes

6.3

123 votes

The Swan

1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Grace Kelly · Alec Guinness · Louis Jourdan · Agnes Moorehead

Plot Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit...

6.1

772 votes

6.1

772 votes

It Happens Every Spring

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ray Milland · Jean Peters · Paul Douglas · Ed Begley

Plot A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled...

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

My Man Godfrey

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast David Niven · June Allyson · Martha Hyer · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the...

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

A Private's Affair

1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Sal Mineo · Christine Carère · Barry Coe · Barbara Eden

Plot Luigi is an Army private with a chip on his shoulder and some personal problems. He's also a talented jazz drummer, but the Army offers few outlets for this ability.

5.8

27 votes

5.8

27 votes

Boys' Night Out

1962 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Kim Novak · James Garner · Tony Randall · Howard Duff

Plot Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and...

5.8

199 votes

5.8

199 votes

Bon Voyage!

1962 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction James Neilson

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jane Wyman · Michael Callan · Deborah Walley

Plot The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his...

5.1

42 votes

5.1

42 votes

Critic's Choice

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Rip Torn · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good....

4.7

38 votes

4.7

38 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mother, May I Go Out to Swim? (TV)

1960 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast William Shatner · Jessie Royce Landis · Gia Scala · Robert Carson

Plot John Crane is attending a coroner's inquiry and remembers the events that brought him there. John lives with his mother Claire and they are obviously very close. While on holiday,...

Not rated

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I Married a Woman

1958 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Hal Kanter

Cast George Gobel · Diana Dors · Adolphe Menjou · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.

Not rated

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Mother Didn't Tell Me

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Claude Binyon

Cast Dorothy McGuire · William Lundigan · June Havoc · Gary Merrill

Plot Naive young woman marries a doctor, not contemplating demands of being a professional man's wife.

Not rated

Not rated

Main Street to Broadway

1953 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

Meet Me Tonight

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

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The Girl He Left Behind

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Tab Hunter · Natalie Wood · Jessie Royce Landis · Jim Backus

Plot College students Andy Shaeffer and Susan Daniels are pinned. While Susan works hard to put herself through college, Andy sponges off his parents, his mother, Madeline Shaeffer, who in particular...

Not rated

Not rated

Gidget Goes to Rome

1963 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast James Darren · Cindy Carol · Jessie Royce Landis · Cesare Danova

Plot Frances, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his...

Not rated

Not rated

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

1949 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

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Not rated