Cast: Mary Wickes

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


The Man Who Came to Dinner

1942 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · Ann Sheridan · Monty Woolley · Elisabeth Fraser

Plot A pompous writer and critic forced to stay with a midwestern family during the winter thoroughly disrupts their well-ordered lives. Original play (1939) by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

6.9

830 votes

6.9

830 votes

Cimarron

1960 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Maria Schell · Anne Baxter · Arthur O'Connell

Plot Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the life of an American family, from the 1890s through the 1920s, who move to Oklahoma territory. The epic western chronicles the founding of...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Columbo: Suitable for Framing (TV)

1971 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Peter Falk · Ross Martin · Don Ameche · Kim Hunter

Plot Noted art critic Dale Kingston kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. Despite Columbo's suspicions, all the clues point to the dead man's ex-wife. Can the lieutenant reveal...

6.7

377 votes

6.7

377 votes

The Music Man

1962 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

Direction Morton da Costa

Cast Robert Preston · Shirley Jones · Buddy Hackett · Hermione Gingold

Plot Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip...

6.5

288 votes

6.5

288 votes

How to Murder your Wife

1965 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Virna Lisi · Terry-Thomas · Eddie Mayehoff

Plot A man who has set up the perfect lifestyle for himself makes the mistake of marrying while drunk... and his fantasies of murder are used against him.

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Actress

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jean Simmons · Teresa Wright · Anthony Perkins

Plot Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her...

6.2

239 votes

6.2

239 votes

White Christmas

1954 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bing Crosby · Danny Kaye · Rosemary Clooney · Vera-Ellen

Plot After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, form a successful partnership eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act...

6.2

699 votes

6.2

699 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Toby (TV)

1956 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Jessica Tandy · Robert H. Harris · George Mathews

Plot New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't...

6.2

27 votes

6.2

27 votes

Little Women

1994 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Gillian Armstrong

Cast Winona Ryder · Susan Sarandon · Gabriel Byrne · Trini Alvarado

Plot LITTLE WOMEN is based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 novel about a family's struggles during the Civil War while the father, a Union army chaplain, is away. Together, the...

6.2

11K votes

6.2

11K votes

June Bride

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

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

Plot 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...

6.1

79 votes

6.1

79 votes

Good Morning, Miss Dove

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Jennifer Jones · Robert Stack · Kipp Hamilton · Robert Douglas

Plot A devoted teacher sacrifices personal happiness to stay with her students. Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness....

5.9

56 votes

5.9

56 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Baby Sitter (TV)

1956 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Thelma Ritter · Mary Wickes · Carole Mathews · Theodore Newton

Plot When Clara Nash is murdered, her baby-sitter Lottie Slocum is excited to be the center of attention, and she also hopes to become closer to Clara's husband.

5.8

146 votes

5.8

146 votes

Destry

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Audie Murphy · Mari Blanchard · Lyle Bettger · Thomas Mitchell

Plot In the old West, a small frontier town is being controlled by ruthless mob boss Decker and his cronies. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to...

5.8

107 votes

5.8

107 votes

Postcards from the Edge

1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Meryl Streep · Shirley MacLaine · Simon Callow · Gene Hackman

Plot Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

It Happened to Jane

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Doris Day · Ernie Kovacs · Steve Forrest

Plot Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides...

5.8

417 votes

5.8

417 votes

Dear Heart

1964 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Geraldine Page · Angela Lansbury · Barbara Nichols

Plot Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to...

5.8

66 votes

5.8

66 votes

The Trouble with Angels

1966 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Ida Lupino

Cast Rosalind Russell · Hayley Mills · Binnie Barnes · Camilla Sparv

Plot Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.

5.7

123 votes

5.7

123 votes

The Sins of Rachel Cade

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Angie Dickinson · Peter Finch · Roger Moore · Errol John

Plot While the Nazis regime subjugates European Nations, in Belgian Congo the doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. The colonel Derode falls in love with her but a...

5.7

102 votes

5.7

102 votes

On Moonlight Bay

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Jack Smith · Leon Ames

Plot The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has...

5.5

25 votes

5.5

25 votes

Napoleon and Samantha

1972 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Bernard McEveety

Cast Michael Douglas · Will Geer · Arch Johnson · Johnny Whitaker

Plot 11-year old Napoleon lives with his grandfather. He has a good friend who is a clown at a circus. When the clown returns to Europe, Napoleon takes care of lion...

5.4

46 votes

5.4

46 votes