Direction: Archie Mayo

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Archie Mayo. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Great American Broadcast

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Cesar Romero · Alice Faye · Jack Oakie · John Payne

Plot After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is...

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Four Sons

1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Don Ameche · Eugenie Leontovich · Mary Beth Hughes · Alan Curtis

Plot When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot (Ameche), Nazi supporter (Curtis), artist in America (Lowery), and heroic German soldier (Ernest)....

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Go Into Your Dance

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast Al Jolson · Ruby Keeler · Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane

Plot Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants...

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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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Street of Women

1932 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Kay Francis · Roland Young · Alan Dinehart · Gloria Stuart

Plot A married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for...

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Wide Open

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Patsy Ruth Miller · Louise Fazenda · Vera Lewis

Plot A nervous woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, suddenly has to deal with a very forward and attractive young woman who has sneaked into his apartment...

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Confirm or Deny

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Don Ameche · Joan Bennett · Roddy McDowall · John Loder

Plot Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in...

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Charley's Aunt

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Jack Benny · Kay Francis · James Ellison · Anne Baxter

Plot In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

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The Expert

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Give Me Your Heart

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Roland Young · Patric Knowles

Plot An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father.

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Sweet and Low-Down

1944 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Benny Goodman · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Lynn Bari

Plot After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman (Himself) and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when...

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan

1933 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Loretta Young · Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee

Plot Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. He hides out at a health farm for invalid children and begins to lose his cynicism under the...

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Youth Takes a Fling

1938 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Joel McCrea · Andrea Leeds · Frank Jenks · Dorothea Kent

Plot McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a...

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Under 18

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Marian Marsh · Anita Page · Regis Toomey · Warren William

Plot A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't realize that the lecherous fellow is planning to do much more than...

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Desirable

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Jean Muir · George Brent · Verree Teasdale · John Halliday

Plot A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

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Call It a Day

1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Ian Hunter · Anita Louise · Alice Brady

Plot The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. The father, an accountant, finds himself unable to work, and when he tries to work, he is...

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I Married a Doctor

1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

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The Case of the Lucky Legs

1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Warren William · Genevieve Tobin · Patricia Ellis · Lyle Talbot

Plot Frank Patton is the promoter of the Lucky Legs Contest. The problem is that he always skips town before paying the $1000 to the winner...

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The Crimson City

1928 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

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Vengeance

1930 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

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