Cast: Joan Shawlee

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joan Shawlee. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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.

Not rated

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated