Cast: James Dunn

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dorothy McGuire · James Dunn · Joan Blondell · Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as the mother, with an Oscar-winning performance by Dunn as her alcoholic husband. Garner won a...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Sally Eilers · James Dunn · Minna Gombell · Frank Darien

Synopsis Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, Bad Girl stars Sally Eilers as heroine Dot Haley. The title notwithstanding, Dot isn't bad at all. She enters into a decent marriage with a decent guy, radio store clerk Eddie (James Dunn),...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Richard Beymer · Diane Baker · Corinne Calvet · Fred Clark

Direction William Beaudine

Cast James Dunn · Joan Woodbury · Paul McVey · Vera Gordon

Synopsis Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving him in a zombified state. Trayne and his perky assistant...

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast James Dunn · Frances Gifford · George Douglas · Rita La Roy

Synopsis A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.

Direction George Marshall

Cast James Dunn · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant

Synopsis Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie...

Direction James Tinling

Cast James Dunn · Joan Bennett · Herbert Mundin · Sammy Cohn

Synopsis In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast James Dunn · Peggy Shannon · Spencer Tracy · Walter Byron

Synopsis Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast James Dunn · Mona Freeman · William Marshall · June Duprez

Synopsis The film begins on Mother's Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy's youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and finds her mother, Natalie (June Duprez), drinking with a strange man....

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast James Dunn · Claire Trevor · Alan Edwards · Gertrude Michael

Synopsis A woman pretends to be a man so she can play football

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Warner Baxter · Madge Evans · James Dunn · John Boles

Synopsis President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford

Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King

Synopsis Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.

Direction George White

Cast Alice Faye · James Dunn · Ned Sparks · Lyda Roberti

Synopsis A vacationing Broadway producer, George White, stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram. He sees his name in lights on a local theater and is scandalized over the unauthorized use. He goes to the theater to...

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Mickey Rooney · Brian Donlevy · Ann Blyth · James Dunn

Direction David Butler

Cast Jean Parker · James Dunn · Una Merkel · Stuart Erwin

Synopsis Sally sits by her window earning money for an operation so she can be a dance teacher again. Jimmie is an ice cream salesman hoping to advance. Their romance is sidetracked when she uses her savings to help him in...

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Sonny Tufts · Anne Shirley · Jess Baker

Synopsis Washington DC in the war. The machinery of government is a hive of endless if not seamless activity. Arnament production is the name of the game, by fair means or foul. Ed Browne, more used to making cars in Detroit,...

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · James Dunn · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis Catherinde and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast James Dunn · Dewey Martin · Gregg Sherwood · Kenny O'Morrison

Synopsis Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur prizefighters) contestants Nick Martel, a tough, pugnacious kid from Chicago who has had to...

Direction William Castle

Cast Guy Madison · Diana Lynn · James Dunn · Michael Chekhov

Synopsis Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Mickey Rooney · James Dunn · Roberta Sherwood · Gloria DeHaven

Synopsis A musical television special chronicling the early career of playwright George M. Cohan, focusing primarily on his vaudeville years as part of his family singing group "The Four Cohans."