Direction: Elliott Nugent

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


The Cat and the Canary

1939 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · John Beal · Douglass Montgomery

Plot Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the...

6.0

76 votes

6.0

76 votes

The Crystal Ball

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Ray Milland · Paulette Goddard · Gladys George · Virginia Field

Plot Toni Gerard lands in New York with 38 cents to her name and is befriended by fortune teller Madame Zenobia and a neighboring shooting gallery owner. Toni is smitten with...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

The Great Gatsby

1949 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

Up in Arms

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Danny Kaye · Dinah Shore · Dana Andrews · Constance Dowling

Plot Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in...

5.8

57 votes

5.8

57 votes

The Male Animal

1942 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Henry Fonda · Olivia de Havilland · Joan Leslie · Jack Carson

Plot The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because...

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

My Favorite Brunette

1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Dorothy Lamour · Peter Lorre · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot A private eye asks photographer Ronnie Jackson to keep an eye on his office while he's away. Ronnie agrees, but gets more than he bargained for when he meets beautiful...

5.4

262 votes

5.4

262 votes

And So They Were Married

1936 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Mary Astor · Edith Fellows · Jack Moran

Plot A bitter divorcée and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting...

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Life Begins

1932 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction James Flood · Elliott Nugent

Cast Loretta Young · Eric Linden · Aline MacMahon · Glenda Farrell

Plot At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running...

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Never Say Die

1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Martha Raye · Bob Hope · Andy Devine · Alan Mowbray

Plot Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her...

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Whistling in the Dark

1933 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Ernest Truex · Una Merkel · Edward Arnold · John Miljan

Plot A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to get writer's help in devising the "perfect crime"

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She Loves Me Not

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Miriam Hopkins · Kitty Carlisle · Edward J. Nugent

Plot Curly Flagg, Philadelphia nightclub dancer, witnesses a murder and runs away to avoid being held as material witness. Landing in Princeton, she hides out in a college dorm, decked out...

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My Girl Tisa

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Lilli Palmer · Sam Wanamaker · Akim Tamiroff · Alan Hale

Plot 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival....

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Strictly Dynamite

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Splendor

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Joel McCrea · Paul Cavanagh · Helen Westley

Plot The once-great Lorrimore family faces bankruptcy unless older son Brighton marries wealthy Edith Gilbert. When Brighton instead returns from a trip with his new wife Phyllis, she receives a cool...

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It's All Yours

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Francis Lederer · Mischa Auer · Grace Bradley

Plot Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk...

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Love in Bloom

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast George Burns · Gracie Allen · Joe Morrison · Dixie Lee

Plot A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York City and becomes involved with a handsome young songwriter. George Burns and Gracie Allen play...

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Nothing But the Truth

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · Edward Arnold · Leif Erickson

Plot Stockbroker T.T.Ralston has promised his neice Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than...

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Just for You

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Jane Wyman · Ethel Barrymore · Robert Arthur

Plot Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to...

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Two Alone

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Jean Parker · Tom Brown · ZaSu Pitts · Arthur Byron

Plot Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. When reform school runaway Adam arrives, he is put to work by...

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