Cast: Eleanor Parker

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


Scaramouche

1952 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Stewart Granger · Eleanor Parker · Janet Leigh · Mel Ferrer

Synopsis In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Caged

1950 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Eleanor Parker · Agnes Moorehead · Ellen Corby · Hope Emerson

Synopsis Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. A sympathetic prison head (Agnes Moorehead) tries to help, but her efforts are subverted by cruel matron Evelyn Harper (Hope...

7.3

710 votes

7.3

710 votes

The Man With the Golden Arm

1955 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Frank Sinatra · Eleanor Parker · Kim Novak · Arnold Stang

Synopsis Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Synopsis On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Escape From Fort Bravo

1953 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast William Holden · Eleanor Parker · John Forsythe · William Demarest

Synopsis A ruthless Union captain is renowned throughout his prison fort as the toughest soldier in the business, capable of capturing every escaped convict under his supervision. However, when he falls in love with a visiting woman some of the prisoners...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Sound of Music

1965 · Movie · 172 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Julie Andrews · Christopher Plummer · Richard Haydn · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis 'The Sound of Music' is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria (Julie Andrews) is a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to...

6.9

57K votes

6.9

57K votes

Mission to Moscow

1943 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Walter Huston · Ann Harding · Oskar Homolka · George Tobias

Synopsis Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the...

6.8

198 votes

6.8

198 votes

Interrupted Melody

1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

Three Secrets

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Eleanor Parker · Patricia Neal · Ruth Roman · Frank Lovejoy

Synopsis A five-year-old-boy survives a plane crash in which his foster parents die. During the search for him, three women turn up, Susan, Phyllis and Ann, each of whom had given up a son to adoption five years earlier and believes...

6.5

240 votes

6.5

240 votes

The Naked Jungle

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Charlton Heston · Eleanor Parker · William Conrad · Abraham Sofaer

Synopsis A plantation owner, living in a South American jungle, sends off to New Orleans for a mail-order-bride. When the woman finally arrives, she finds life difficult in the steamy, uncivilized landscape. In addition to bearing the pain of a loveless...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

Pride of the Marines

1945 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast John Garfield · Eleanor Parker · Dane Clark · John Ridgely

Synopsis Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. The two hit it off and begin dating. A welder, one day at the workplace, Al learns of a friend's...

6.4

88 votes

6.4

88 votes

Of Human Bondage

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Henreid · Eleanor Parker · Alexis Smith · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Lizzie

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Eleanor Parker · Richard Boone · Joan Blondell · Hugo Haas

Synopsis Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes to a Dr. Wright who hypnotizes her. Deep in her...

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

A Hole in the Head

1959 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Frank Sinatra · Eddie Hodges · Edward G. Robinson · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible...

6.2

734 votes

6.2

734 votes

The King and Four Queens

1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Clark Gable · Eleanor Parker · Jean Willes · Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe (Gable) arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch and only one of the women...

6.1

662 votes

6.1

662 votes

Above and Beyond

1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama

Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · James Whitmore · Larry Keating

Synopsis "Above and Beyond" depicts the events leading up to the use of the first atomic bomb at the end of World War II. Colonel Paul Tibbetts is chosen by the Air Force to test the new long-range planes and to...

6.1

130 votes

6.1

130 votes

Eye of the Cat

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich

Cast Michael Sarrazin · Gayle Hunnicutt · Eleanor Parker · Tim Henry

Synopsis A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.

6.0

28 votes

6.0

28 votes

Many Rivers to Cross

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Parker · Victor McLaglen · Jeff Richards

Synopsis A coonskin-hat-wearing, fur-trapping frontiersmen (Robert Taylor) is set on making his fortune in the Northwest Territory. But that's easier said the done, especially when he passes through Barren River, Kentucky, and meets Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). She's a beautiful...

6.0

322 votes

6.0

322 votes

Return to Peyton Place

1961 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction José Ferrer

Cast Carol Lynley · Jeff Chandler · Eleanor Parker · Mary Astor

Synopsis The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most outraged is malicious Roberta Carter, who wants the book banned from...

5.8

47 votes

5.8

47 votes