Cast: James Dunn
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Dunn. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Dorothy McGuire · James Dunn · Joan Blondell · Peggy Ann Garner
Plot 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...
7.3
732 votes
7.3
732 votes
Bad Girl
1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Sally Eilers · James Dunn · Minna Gombell · Frank Darien
Plot 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...
6.4
105 votes
6.4
105 votes
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1962 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Richard Beymer · Diane Baker · Corinne Calvet · Fred Clark
5.8
127 votes
5.8
127 votes
The Living Ghost
1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast James Dunn · Joan Woodbury · Paul McVey · Vera Gordon
Plot 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...
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Hold That Woman!
1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Sam Newfield
Cast James Dunn · Frances Gifford · George Douglas · Rita La Roy
Plot 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...
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365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast James Dunn · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant
Plot 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...
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Arizona to Broadway
1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction James Tinling
Cast James Dunn · Joan Bennett · Herbert Mundin · Sammy Cohn
Plot 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...
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Society Girl
1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast James Dunn · Peggy Shannon · Spencer Tracy · Walter Byron
Plot Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
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That Brennan Girl
1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast James Dunn · Mona Freeman · William Marshall · June Duprez
Plot 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...
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Hold That Girl
1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast James Dunn · Claire Trevor · Alan Edwards · Gertrude Michael
Plot A woman pretends to be a man so she can play football
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Warner Baxter · Madge Evans · James Dunn · John Boles
Plot 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...
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford
Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King
Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.
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George White's 1935 Scandals
1935 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction George White
Cast Alice Faye · James Dunn · Ned Sparks · Lyda Roberti
Plot 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...
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Killer McCoy
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Roy Rowland
Cast Mickey Rooney · Brian Donlevy · Ann Blyth · James Dunn
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Have a Heart
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Jean Parker · James Dunn · Una Merkel · Stuart Erwin
Plot 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...
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Government Girl
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Dudley Nichols
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Sonny Tufts · Anne Shirley · Jess Baker
Plot 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...
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Change of Heart
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction John G. Blystone
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · James Dunn · Ginger Rogers
Plot 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.
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The Golden Gloves Story
1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast James Dunn · Dewey Martin · Gregg Sherwood · Kenny O'Morrison
Plot 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,...
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Guy Madison · Diana Lynn · James Dunn · Michael Chekhov
Plot 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...
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Mr. Broadway (TV)
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Mickey Rooney · James Dunn · Roberta Sherwood · Gloria DeHaven
Plot 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."
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