Screenplay: Melville Shavelson

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Doris Day · Danny Thomas · Frank Lovejoy · Patrice Wymore

Synopsis Danny Thomas and Doris Day star in this delightful musical portrait of the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. This film focuses on the enduring relationship between the composer and his wife Grace.

Direction Raja Gosnell

Cast Dennis Quaid · René Russo · Jerry O'Connell · Linda Hunt

Synopsis In this family comedy, single parents Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen (Rene Russo) plan to tie the knot... but with 18 children between them trying to sabotage the marriage, they discover that weddings -- and families -- can't be built...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Signe Hasso · William Bendix · George Coulouris

Synopsis In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Bob Hope. After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Bob is not happy with becoming...

Direction Melville Shavelson · Frank Tarloff · Ray Austin · Ralph Levy

Cast Shirley MacLaine · John Gregson · Rodney Bewes · Stuart Damon

Synopsis Shirley Logan is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer and Dennis Croft, her London based editor.

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · William Demarest · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked...

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Franco Nero · Suzanne Pleshette · Judd Hirsch · Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis A "dramatization" of the life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.

Direction David Butler

Cast June Haver · Gordon MacRae · James Barton · Gene Nelson

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Bob Hope · Vera Miles · Paul Douglas · Alexis Smith

Synopsis The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s. Used by professional politicians and money-grabbers, Walker himself was "stupid but clean", although his open affair with Betty Compton cost him dear.

Direction William D. Russell

Cast Robert Benchley · Humphrey Bogart · Carmen Cavallaro · Bing Crosby

Synopsis A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

Direction Robert Chenault · Melville Shavelson

Cast Stefanie Powers · Barry Bostwick · Jeremy Brett · James Faulkner

Synopsis Stephanie and Sabrina are twin sisters. Stephanie is a housewife, who doesn't seem content with her life, while Sabrina is a jetsetter who lives in London. They go to Venice for their birthday and they decide to see how the...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Milton Berle · Virginia Mayo · Ruth Roman · Bert Lahr

Synopsis Kip Cooper, a successful comedy star and the hot of the nation starring on his own television show. His agent, in flashback, tells a young, inexperienced comedian how Cooper rose to the top, mostly running over others on the way....

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Bob Hope · Milly Vitale · George Tobias · Angela Clarke

Synopsis Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little...

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Paul Michael Glaser · Sally Struthers · Ruth Gordon · Vivian Vance

Synopsis A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Barbara Harris · Joseph Bologna · Tom Bosley · Lisa Gerritsen

Synopsis Joseph Bologna portrays a racially prejudiced basketball coach who is persuaded to adopt three (more!) kids of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Frustrated and angry at first, his feelings soon turn to love.

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast James Ellison · Jerry Colonna · Dorothy Lewis · Barbara Jo Allen

Synopsis Newsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid exhibition of Karen Vadja, the Swiss ice Queen. He misses his plane and fails to get the footage needed for a newsreel. Deciding that if...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Bob Hope · Rhonda Fleming · Roland Young · Roland Culver

Synopsis The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of...

Direction Melville Shavelson · John Rich · Sheldon Leonard · Danny Arnold

Cast William Windom · Joan Hotchkis · Lisa Gerritsen · Harold J. Stone

Synopsis TV Series (1969-1970). 26 Episodes. Was a half-hour situation comedy based on the writings of humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, and episodes of the show incorporated stories and cartoons by Thurber. The show used a combination of live action and...