Cast: Ann Sothern

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


A Letter to Three Wives

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Synopsis Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a day trip, the ladies recall the faults in their marriages...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

The Blue Gardenia

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Anne Baxter · Richard Conte · Ann Sothern · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Anne Baxter is a telephone operator who believes she committed murder when she was drinking away the tears of a broken romance. Too much rum with Raymond Burr, a licentious artist, has blacked out her memory and when she reads...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Best Man

1964 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Henry Fonda · Cliff Robertson · Edie Adams · Margaret Leighton

Synopsis Intellectual William Russell and down-to-earth Joe Cantwell are front runners for a party nomination that will almost certainly mean the Presidency. Cantwell is prepared to use anything to achieve his goal while Russell sees himself as a man of principle...

6.8

273 votes

6.8

273 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 Whales of August

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Bette Davis · Lillian Gish · Vincent Price · Ann Sothern

Synopsis Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. Libby is blind,...

6.4

499 votes

6.4

499 votes

Brother Orchid

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds his gang in the hands of Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart),...

6.3

169 votes

6.3

169 votes

Danger-Love at Work

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Ann Sothern · Jack Haley · Mary Boland · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.

6.1

174 votes

6.1

174 votes

5.9

47 votes

Words and Music

1948 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · June Allyson · Gene Kelly

Synopsis The plot is a hokey whitewash of the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with characters talking in stilted phrases ("Gee, Larry, that's marvelous, really and truly") and complexities reduced to ground zero. But Rodgers and Hart comprised one...

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5.6

94 votes

5.6

94 votes

The Miracle of Sound (S)

1940 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Shearer

Cast Clark Gable · Hedy Lamarr · Spencer Tracy · Norma Shearer

Synopsis MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (1940) (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X (1940) to...

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

Crazy Mama

1975 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Cloris Leachman · Stuart Whitman · Ann Sothern · Jim Backus

Synopsis Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, for a crime spree from California to the old family homestead in...

5.5

46 votes

5.5

46 votes

Trade Winds

1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Fredric March · Joan Bennett · Ralph Bellamy · Ann Sothern

Synopsis Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard...

5.4

25 votes

5.4

25 votes

Thousands Cheer

1943 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Gene Kelly · Mary Astor · John Boles

Synopsis Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having...

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

The Manitou

1978 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction William Girdler

Cast Tony Curtis · Susan Strasberg · Michael Ansara · Stella Stevens

Synopsis Karen Tandy enters a San Franisco hospital suffering from a growing tumor on her back. To the doctors think it's a living creature, a fetus is being born inside the tumor. To fortune teller Harry Erskine says it's nothing until...

4.9

162 votes

4.9

162 votes

Golden Needles

1974 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Clouse

Cast Joe Don Baker · Elizabeth Ashley · Ann Sothern · Jim Kelly

Synopsis Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These "golden needles" hold extraordinary and unique properties, if inserted in...

4.0

30 votes

4.0

30 votes

The Little Dragons

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Hanson

Cast Charles Lane · Ann Sothern · Chris Petersen · Pat Petersen

Synopsis Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.

Not rated

Not rated

Congo Maisie

1940 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Ann Sothern · John Carroll · Rita Johnson · Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis Showgirl Maisie Ravier is left stranded in an African village. She's given refuge by Michael Shane, an attractive, but hard-boiled local doctor. She soon finds herself playing Dear Abby for a visiting doctor and his wife, warding off an attack...

Not rated

Not rated

Up Goes Maisie

1946 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Ann Sothern · George Murphy · Hillary Brooke · Stephen McNally

Synopsis After graduating college Maisie becomes involved both professionally and personally Joe Morton, who's just developed a revolutionary helicopter.

Not rated

Not rated

Fifty Roads to Town

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Don Ameche · Ann Sothern · Slim Summerville · Jane Darwell

Synopsis A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.

Not rated

Not rated