Cast: Joan Shawlee
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joan Shawlee. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 34
The Apartment
1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Fred MacMurray · Ray Walston
Synopsis In The Apartment (1960), a lonely office worker named C.C. Baxter lends his apartment to company executives for their extramarital affairs, hoping to climb the corporate ladder. His life takes a turn when he develops feelings for Fran, an elevator...
8.4
79K votes
8.4
79K votes
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft
Synopsis Some Like It Hot (1959) follows two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry, who witness a mob hit in 1920s Chicago. To escape the gangsters, they disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band heading to Florida. As "Josephine" and...
8.3
81K votes
8.3
81K votes
Irma la Douce
1963 · Movie · 142 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell
Synopsis The film version of Irma La Douce (which means "Irma the Sweet") tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest policeman who finds a street full of prostitutes in a popular area in Paris. After reporting the ladies...
7.9
33K votes
7.9
33K votes
A Star Is Born
1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford
Synopsis Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Columbo: Suitable for Framing (TV)
1971 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Hy Averback
Cast Peter Falk · Ross Martin · Don Ameche · Kim Hunter
Synopsis Noted art critic Dale Kingston kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. Despite Columbo's suspicions, all the clues point to the dead man's ex-wife. Can the lieutenant reveal the true culprit before it is too late?
6.7
377 votes
6.7
377 votes
Buddy, Buddy
1981 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Paula Prentiss · Klaus Kinski
6.6
4K votes
6.6
4K votes
Woman on the Run
1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis O'Keefe · Robert Keith · John Qualen
Synopsis Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from...
6.6
434 votes
6.6
434 votes
Tony Rome
1967 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Frank Sinatra · Jill St. John · Richard Conte · Sue Lyon
Synopsis The beautiful daughter of a wealthy industrialist turns up drunk and unconscious in a hotel room. To avoid a scandal the hotel house detective hires his former partner, private detective Tony Rome, to sober her up and escort her home....
6.1
422 votes
6.1
422 votes
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · Movie · 152 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rock Hudson · Jennifer Jones · Vittorio De Sica · Oskar Homolka
Synopsis Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley. In the midst of war and some...
6.0
803 votes
6.0
803 votes
House of Horrors
1946 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Jean Yarbrough
Cast Rondo Hatton · Robert Lowery · Virginia Grey · Bill Goodwin
Synopsis Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as "tripe"...
5.8
23 votes
5.8
23 votes
Willard
1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Mann
Cast Bruce Davison · Elsa Lanchester · Ernest Borgnine · Sondra Locke
Synopsis A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates....
5.6
326 votes
5.6
326 votes
The Wild Angels
1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Roger Corman
Cast Peter Fonda · Nancy Sinatra · Bruce Dern · Diane Ladd
Synopsis Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. Nancy...
5.4
711 votes
5.4
711 votes
One More Train to Rob
1971 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast George Peppard · Diana Muldaur · John Vernon · France Nuyen
Synopsis In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that he could marry the robber's love. To get his revenge, the robber helps out a gang...
5.2
215 votes
5.2
215 votes
Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Elvis Presley · Michele Carey · Rudy Vallee · Don Porter
Synopsis Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment, but it is so expensive that he has to get two full-time jobs. Nolan has trouble finding time to...
3.9
49 votes
3.9
49 votes
Storefront Lawyers (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Karp · Charles S. Dubin · Lee H. Katzin · Marvin J. Chomsky
Cast Robert Foxworth · Sheila Larken · David Arkin · A Martinez
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The Vigilantes Return
1947 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Ray Taylor
Cast Jon Hall · Margaret Lindsay · Andy Devine · Paula Drew
Synopsis A marshal is sent to a frontier town to investigate a rash of murders, and gets caught up in a murder himself.
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The Runaround
1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Ella Raines · Rod Cameron · Broderick Crawford · Frank McHugh
Synopsis Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton...in competition with their former boss Prentiss. Kildane finds Penelope with surprising ease...
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Kiss My Grits
1982 · Movie · 101 min. · Mexico
Direction Jack Starrett
Cast Bruce Davison · Susan George · Bruno Kirby · Anthony Franciosa
Synopsis A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
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Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Donald O´Connor · Julie Adams · Mamie Van Doren · Joan Shawlee
Synopsis On arrival at Fort Chase, ex-soldier Peter Stirling, recalled to active duty, is re-united with his old pal Francis the Talking Mule. Gradually, it dawns on Peter that a clerical error has assigned him to an all-female WAC base, where...
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I'll Be Yours
1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Deanna Durbin · Tom Drake · William Bendix · Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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