Direction: Elliott Nugent
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Elliott Nugent. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 30
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
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Alan Ladd · Betty Field · Macdonald Carey · Ruth Hussey
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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Three Cornered Moon
1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Claudette Colbert · Richard Arlen · Mary Boland · Wallace Ford
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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
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Jimmy Durante · Lupe Velez · Norman Foster · William Gargan
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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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