Cast: David Wayne

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


The Front Page

1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Susan Sarandon · Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis The Front Page (1974) is a comedic tale set in the bustling world of 1920s Chicago journalism. The story follows Hildy Johnson, a sharp-witted reporter eager to leave the newspaper business for a quieter life with his fiancée. However, on...

8.1

24K votes

8.1

24K votes

Adam's Rib

1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell

Synopsis Adam's Rib (1949) is a witty courtroom comedy that explores gender dynamics and marital conflict. The story follows married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner, who find themselves on opposing sides of a high-profile case. Amanda defends a woman accused of...

7.8

10K votes

7.8

10K votes

Portrait of Jennie

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

7.4

94 votes

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast David Wayne · Steve Brodie · Louise Larabee · Norman Leavitt

Synopsis In the midst of a heated quarrel, a man lifts up the fireplace poker in his hand and brings it down on his wife, who drops to the floor. She's dead. The man puts her body in the trunk of...

7.0

238 votes

7.0

238 votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Synopsis This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

The Andromeda Strain

1971 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Arthur Hill · David Wayne · Kate Reid · James Olson

Synopsis When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found to have died after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. Many years prior to...

6.7

11K votes

6.7

11K votes

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1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

6.6

179 votes

6.6

179 votes

The Three Faces of Eve

1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Joanne Woodward · David Wayne · Lee J. Cobb · Nancy Kulp

Synopsis Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild,...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

How to Marry a Millionaire

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Betty Grable · Lauren Bacall · William Powell

Synopsis Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble...

6.4

4K votes

6.4

4K votes

As Young as You Feel

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Monty Woolley · Thelma Ritter · David Wayne · Jean Peters

Synopsis Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast David Wayne · Thomas Gomez · Virginia Christine · Raymond Bailey

Synopsis Hypochondriac Walter Bedeker has once again had his doctor come to his bedside but he can find absolutely nothing wrong with him. The doctor tells him his aches and pains are psychosomatic but he refuses to accept it. Later that...

6.0

223 votes

6.0

223 votes

5.7

37 votes

We're Not Married!

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Ginger Rogers · Fred Allen · Victor Moore · Marilyn Monroe

Synopsis A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. America...

5.7

184 votes

5.7

184 votes

The Tender Trap

1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Frank Sinatra · Debbie Reynolds · Celeste Holm · David Wayne

Synopsis Theatrical agent Charlie Reader lives a dreamy bachelor existence on Sutton Place -- he throws parties for sophisticates and has access to a bevy of beautiful women. One such woman is Julie, who has already set a marriage date for...

5.7

157 votes

5.7

157 votes

Hell and High Water

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Widmark · Bella Darvi · Victor Francen · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer (Widmark) to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine...

5.5

486 votes

5.5

486 votes

The Sad Sack

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Jerry Lewis · David Wayne · Phyllis Kirk · Peter Lorre

Synopsis In his second solo starring film after breaking with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis plays cartoonist George Baker's classic GI misfit The Sad Sack. Lewis' constitutional inability to do anything right brings him under the scrutiny of gorgeous Army psychiatrist Phyllis...

5.5

112 votes

5.5

112 votes

With a Song in My Heart

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Susan Hayward · Rory Calhoun · David Wayne · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a European tour... but her plane crashes in Lisbon,...

5.5

47 votes

5.5

47 votes

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Tokar

Cast Bill Bixby · Susan Clark · Don Knotts · Tim Conway

Synopsis Three orphaned siblings are forced upon confirmed bachelor Donovan (Bixby) in a 19th century boom town of Quake City, CA. After an earthquake shakes the area, the children find a large gold nugget worth tens of thousands of dollars. But...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes