Direction: Robert Z. Leonard

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Pride and Prejudice

1940 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Plot Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy...

6.7

639 votes

6.7

639 votes

The Bribe

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Robert Taylor · Ava Gardner · Charles Laughton · Vincent Price

Plot In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by...

6.6

177 votes

6.6

177 votes

The Great Ziegfeld

1936 · Movie · 176 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan

Plot At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout...

6.5

687 votes

6.5

687 votes

When Ladies Meet

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Taylor · Greer Garson · Herbert Marshall

Plot Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the...

6.5

54 votes

6.5

54 votes

The Divorcee

1930 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Norma Shearer · Chester Morris · Conrad Nagel · Robert Montgomery

Plot Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York 'in-crowd'. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his...

6.4

157 votes

6.4

157 votes

Dancing Lady

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Fred Astaire

Plot Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a...

6.4

179 votes

6.4

179 votes

B.F.'s Daughter

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Charles Coburn · Van Heflin · Richard Hart

Plot Polly Fulton (Barbara Stanwyck) is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton (Charles Coburn). She is about to marry the man of her dreams, attorney Robert Tasmin (Richard Hart),...

6.3

59 votes

6.3

59 votes

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greta Garbo · Clark Gable · Jean Hersholt · John Miljan

Plot A farm girl runs from her abusive father to a series of affairs in the big city.

6.3

133 votes

6.3

133 votes

In the Good Old Summertime

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard · Buster Keaton

Cast Judy Garland · Van Johnson · S.Z. Sakall · Spring Byington

Plot It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on,...

6.3

60 votes

6.3

60 votes

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast James Stewart · Judy Garland · Hedy Lamarr · Lana Turner

Plot Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer...

6.2

133 votes

6.2

133 votes

When Ladies Meet

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ann Harding · Robert Montgomery · Myrna Loy · Alice Brady

Plot Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

The King's Thief

1955 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ann Blyth · Edmund Purdom · David Niven · George Sanders

Plot Lady Mary's father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king's evil chancellor, the duke of Brompton, who has found a way of getting rich by...

5.8

115 votes

5.8

115 votes

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ginger Rogers · Lana Turner · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson

Plot Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that...

5.7

42 votes

5.7

42 votes

Small Town Girl

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Robert Taylor · Binnie Barnes · Andy Devine

Plot Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin,...

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

Duchess of Idaho

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Esther Williams · Van Johnson · John Lund · Paula Raymond

Plot Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to step in,...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Strange Interlude

1932 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan

Plot The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who...

5.4

28 votes

5.4

28 votes

Naughty Marietta

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · Frank Morgan · Douglass Dumbrille

Plot Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain is a beautiful, young, sophisticated French princess of 23, who finds more worth in true love than a title. On the eve of...

5.3

27 votes

5.3

27 votes

5.3

119 votes

The Firefly

1937 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Allan Jones · Warren William · Billy Gilbert

Plot Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's...

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The Restless Sex

1920 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Leon D'Usseau · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Marion Davies · Ralph Kellard · Carlyle Blackwell Productions · Charles Lane

Plot A young woman is torn between two men, her childhood sweetheart and a handsome art student.

Not rated

Not rated