Cast: Barbara Bates

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


All About Eve

1950 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm

Synopsis All About Eve (1950) follows the story of Margo Channing, a celebrated but aging Broadway star, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Eve Harrington, a seemingly innocent and devoted fan. Eve quickly ingratiates herself into Margo's inner...

8.5

34K votes

8.5

34K votes

The Secret of Convict Lake

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Glenn Ford · Gene Tierney · Ethel Barrymore · Zachary Scott

Synopsis Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man who not only framed him, but committed the crime. But...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

6.8

26 votes

June Bride

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Bette Davis · Robert Montgomery · Fay Bainter · Betty Lynn

Synopsis Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to...

6.1

79 votes

6.1

79 votes

Let's Make It Legal

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Claudette Colbert · Macdonald Carey · Zachary Scott · Barbara Bates

Synopsis The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh wouldn't dream of calling it off, but can't abandon his rose garden. Things change that afternoon, though, when Miriam's old suitor Victor Macfarland checks into the hotel where...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

Quicksand

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Jeanne Cagney · Peter Lorre · Barbara Bates

Synopsis After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register to invite a waitress Vera (Jeanne Cagney), auto mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control.

6.0

150 votes

6.0

150 votes

Cheaper by the Dozen

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clifton Webb · Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Betty Lynn

Synopsis "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the...

5.9

222 votes

5.9

222 votes

Town on Trial

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Charles Coburn · John Mills · Barbara Bates · Derek Farr

Synopsis When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the...

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

The Inspector General

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he...

5.7

371 votes

5.7

371 votes

The Caddy

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Donna Reed · Barbara Bates

Synopsis The origin of Anthony and Miller, a wildly successful comedy team, can be traced back several years to Harvey Miller's stage fright on the golf links. Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his one...

5.7

166 votes

5.7

166 votes

Rhapsody

1954 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Vittorio Gassman · John Ericson · Louis Calhern

Synopsis A rich, young woman, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he plans to finish his study of violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with...

5.7

143 votes

5.7

143 votes

Apache Territory

1958 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

5.0

81 votes

5.0

81 votes

All Ashore

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Mickey Rooney · Dick Haymes · Peggy Ryan · Ray McDonald

Synopsis Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.

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House of Secrets

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Michael Craig · Anton Diffring · Gérard Oury · Brenda De Banzie

Synopsis Ship's officer Larry Ellis is asked by the CIA to help infiltrate a forgery ring in France as he is almost a double for a dead double-crossing gold courier who worked for the gang. Ellis realises his life is at...

Not rated

Not rated

The House Across the Street

1949 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Bare

Cast Wayne Morris · Janis Paige · Bruce Bennett · Alan Hale

Synopsis Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever,...

Not rated

Not rated

One Last Fling

1949 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast Alexis Smith · Zachary Scott · Douglas Kennedy · Ann Doran

Synopsis Larry and Olivia Pearce have been married less than a year and Olivia is anxious to return to her old job at her father's music store, but macho-Larry believes that a woman's place in in the home. As the store...

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April Showers

1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction James V. Kern

Cast Jack Carson · Ann Sothern · Robert Alda · S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble....

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Not rated