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Shane (1953)
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949...
Starring: Jack Palance•Warner Oland•Jack Holt•William Collier Jr.•Ralph Lewis•Dorothy Phillips
A Foreign Affair (1948)
A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, and John Lund. The screenplay by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari.
Starring: Jack Palance•Franklyn Farnum
The Impatient Years (1944)
The Impatient Years is a 1944 romance film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Irving Cummings, and written by Virginia Van Upp.
Starring: Jack Palance•Jack Mulhall
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
A Lady Takes a Chance is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne. Written by Robert Ardrey and based on a story by Jo Swerling, the film is about a New York working girl who travels to the American West on a bus tour and meets and falls in love with a handsome rodeo cowboy. The film...
Starring: Jack Palance•Louis Wolheim•Betty Compson
The More the Merrier (1943)
The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film by Columbia Pictures starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles Coburn, and directed by George Stevens. The film script — from "Two's a Crowd", an original screenplay by Garson Kanin (uncredited) — was written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross and Robert Russell. Set in Washingt...
Starring: Jack Palance•Hugh Herbert•Warren William
The Talk of the Town (1942)
The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman, with a supporting cast featuring Edgar Buchanan and Glenda Farrell. The screenplay was written by Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman from a story by Sidney Harmon. The picture was released by Columbia Pictures. Th...
Starring: Hal Taliaferro•Jack Palance•Gary Cooper
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 comedy film starring Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross. Their short-lived production company released two films through RKO Radio Pictures. The fi...
Starring: Jack Palance•Charles Delaney•Warren William
Arizona (1940)
Arizona is a 1940 American Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William.
Starring: Ronald Colman•Jack Palance•Jean Arthur
Too Many Husbands (1940)
Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear—yet another variation on the 1864 poem Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play Home and B...
Starring: Jack Palance•Clive Brook•Bob Custer
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold. The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foste...
Starring: Jack Palance•Bill Cody•Jack Oakie
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings is a 1939 American adventure drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks. Its plot follows the manager of an air freight company in a remote South American port town who is forced to risk his pilots' lives while vying for a major contract. It features supp...
Starring: Louise Brooks•Jack Palance•Gary Cooper•Richard Arlen
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
You Can't Take It with You is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the film is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becom...
Starring: James Stewart•Jack Palance•Jack Oakie
Easy Living (1937)
Easy Living is a 1937 American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. Many of the supporting players became a major part of Sturges' regular stock company of character actors in his subsequent films.
Starring: Ruth Donnelly•Jack Palance•Edward G. Robinson
History Is Made at Night (1937)
History Is Made at Night is a 1937 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, and Colin Clive. Its plot follows a woman who falls in love with a Parisian waiter who saves her from a set-up her possessive ship magnate husband has hatched to keep her under his control.
Starring: Jack Palance•Reginald Owen•Charles Rogers
Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Adventure in Manhattan is a 1936 American screwball comedy thriller film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. The screenplay was written by Sidney Buchman, Harry Sauber, Jack Kirkland, and John Howard Lawson. The story was written by Joseph Krumgold, suggested by the novel Purple and Fine Linen by May Edginton. The su...
Starring: Jack Palance•Hugh Herbert•Colin Clive
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford is a 1936 American comedy-mystery film. William Powell and Jean Arthur star as a divorced couple who investigate a murder at a racetrack. This was the last film directed by Stephen Roberts before his untimely death from a heart attack.
Starring: Marlene Dietrich•Jack Palance•Eric Linden
More Than a Secretary (1936)
More Than a Secretary is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and written by Dale Van Every and Lynn Starling. The story was adapted by Ethel Hill and Aben Kandel, based on the magazine story "Safari in Manhattan" by Matt Taylor. It tells the story of a health magazine secretary who is in love with her boss.
Starring: Jack Palance•George Brent•Donald Cook
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in The American Magazine, the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth col...
Starring: Jack Palance•Claude Rains•Arthur Byron•Melvyn Douglas•Cary Grant•Victor Jory
The Plainsman (1936)
The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, and General George Custer, with a gun-runner named Lattimer as the main villain. The fil...
Starring: Jack Palance•Claude Rains•Binnie Barnes
Diamond Jim (1935)
Diamond Jim is a 1935 biographical film based on the published biography Diamond Jim Brady by Parker Morell. It follows the life of legendary entrepreneur James Buchanan Brady, including his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell, and stars Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Cesar Romero and Binnie Barnes.
Starring: Ruth Donnelly•Jack Palance•Charley Grapewin
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
If You Could Only Cook (1935) is a screwball comedy of mistaken identity starring Herbert Marshall as a frustrated automobile executive and Jean Arthur as a young woman who talks him into posing as her husband so they can land jobs as a butler and a cook.
Starring: Jack Palance•Rita Hayworth
Party Wire (1935)
Party Wire is a 1935 drama film starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory. It was based on the novel of the same name by Bruce Manning. In a small town, an overheard conversation on a telephone party line results in gossip that causes a great deal of trouble for a young woman and a wealthy man.
Starring: Jack Palance•Joseph Calleia•Eric Blore
Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
Public Hero ﹟1 is a 1935 American crime film starring Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris and Joseph Calleia. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production was directed by J. Walter Ruben.
Starring: James Stewart•Jack Palance•Robert Cummings
The Public Menace (1935)
The Public Menace is a 1935 American black-and-white romantic drama film starring Jean Arthur, George Murphy and Douglass Dumbrille. A newspaper reporter keeps losing and regaining his job due to a manicurist he is persuaded to marry.
Starring: Jack Palance•nominee)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
The Whole Town's Talking is a 1935 American comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding man who bears a striking resemblance to a killer, with Jean Arthur as his love interest. It was directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin based on a story by W.R. Burnett originally published in Collier's in August 193...
Starring: Jack Palance•Van Heflin•Lee Bowman
The Defense Rests (1934)
The Defense Rests is a 1934 American film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, and Nat Pendleton. The movie was produced in May 1934 and released on 15 July 1934.
Starring: Ben Johnson•Jack Palance
The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
The Most Precious Thing in Life is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, and Mary Forbes.
Starring: Jack Palance•Phil Silvers
Whirlpool (1934)
Whirlpool is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Jack Holt and Jean Arthur. The screenplay concerns a carnival owner convicted of manslaughter after a man is killed in a fight.
Starring: Ben Johnson•Jack Palance•Brandon De Wilde
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
The Past of Mary Holmes is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film, directed by Harlan Thompson and Slavko Vorkapich, and released by RKO. The film is a remake of the silent film The Goose Woman (1925), which is based on a short story by Rex Beach, partly based on the Hall-Mills murder case.
Starring: Jack Palance•Warner Oland
Ex-Bad Boy (1931)
Ex-Bad Boy is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Vin Moore and written by Fred Niblo, Jr. and Dale Van Every. The film stars Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Jason Robards, Sr., Spencer Charters, Grayce Hampton and Lola Lane. The film was released on July 15, 1931, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Jack Palance•William Collier Jr.
The Gang Buster (1931)
The Gang Buster is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and written by Percy Heath and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film stars Jack Oakie, Jean Arthur, William "Stage" Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Morris and Francis McDonald. The film was released January 17, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Ralph Lewis•Jack Palance•Dorothy Phillips
The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
The Lawyer's Secret is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin and written by Lloyd Corrigan, James Hilary Finn, and Max Marcin. The film stars Clive Brook, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Jean Arthur, Francis McDonald, and Harold Goodwin. The film was released on June 6, 1931, by Paramount P...
Starring: Jack Palance•Evelyn Brent•Franklyn Farnum
The Virtuous Husband (1931)
The Virtuous Husband is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Vin Moore and written by Jerry Horwin, Edward Ludwig, Fred Niblo, Jr. and Dale Van Every. The film stars Betty Compson, Elliott Nugent, Jean Arthur, J. C. Nugent, Alison Skipworth and Tully Marshall. The film was released on April 12, 1931 by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Jack Mulhall•Jack Palance•Louis Wolheim
Danger Lights (1930)
Danger Lights is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman. It stars Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur.
Starring: Betty Compson•Jack Palance•Monty Banks
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Paramount on Parade is a 1930 all-star American pre-Code revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf, Frank Tuttle, and Victor Schertzinger—all supervised by the production supervisor, s...
Starring: Jack Palance•Claude Rains•Mae Busch
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Rowland V. Lee. It is the second of three films starring Warner Oland as the fiendish Fu Manchu, who returns from apparent death in the previous film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), to seek revenge on those he holds responsible for the death of his wife and child.
Starring: Jay Wilsey•Jack Palance
The Silver Horde (1930)
The Silver Horde is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by top-billed Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur.
Starring: Hal Taliaferro•Jack Palance•Hugh Herbert
Street of Chance (1930)
Street of Chance is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by John Cromwell and starring William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis and Regis Toomey. Howard Estabrook was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Achievement.
Starring: Marlene Dietrich•Jack Palance•Clara Bow
Young Eagles (1930)
Young Eagles is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William A. Wellman for Paramount Pictures. It stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jean Arthur, and Paul Lukas. The story is based on the stories "The One Who Was Clever" and "Sky-High", written by American aviator and war hero Elliott White Springs. The film's hero is a "heroic comb...
Starring: Jack Palance•William Boyd•Charles Delaney
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American Pre-Code crime-mystery film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by S.S. Van Dine. The film was directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with a screenplay by Wright, Albert Shelby LeVino, and Florence Ryerson. William Powell starred in the role of detective Philo Vance, with Louise Brooks co-starred as "The Canar...
Starring: Marlene Dietrich•Jack Palance•Buddy Roosevelt
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first Fu Manchu film of the talkie era. Since this was during the transition period to sound, a silent version was also released in the United States, although only the sound version exists today. The...
Starring: Jay Wilsey•Jack Palance
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
The Saturday Night Kid is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic comedy film about two sisters and the man they both want. It stars Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, and in her first credited speaking role, Jean Harlow. The film was based on the play Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) by George Abbott and John V. A. Weaver. The movie still survives. The fi...
Starring: Clive Brook•Jack Palance
Warming Up (1928)
Warming Up is a 1928 American baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, and released by Paramount Pictures in the Movietone sound system as Paramount's first sound film.
Starring: Bob Custer•Jack Palance
The Broken Gate (1927)
The Broken Gate is a lost 1927 American silent drama film directed by James C. McKay and starring Dorothy Phillips, William Collier Jr. and Jean Arthur. It was produced and distributed by Tiffany Pictures.
Starring: Maurice Bennett Flynn•Bill Cody•Jack Palance
Flying Luck (1927)
Flying Luck is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Monty Banks, Jean Arthur and Jack W. Johnston.
Starring: Louise Brooks•Jack Palance
Horse Shoes (1927)
Horse Shoes is a 1927 silent American comedy. Directed by Clyde Bruckman, the film stars Monty Banks and Jean Arthur. In 1928 it was given a German release by Bavaria Film.
Starring: Louise Brooks•Jack Palance
Husband Hunters (1927)
Husband Hunters is a 1927 American comedy-drama silent film released by Tiffany Productions, directed by John G. Adolfi, and starring Mae Busch, Charles Delaney and Jean Arthur.
Starring: Hugh Allan•Richard Arlen•Jack Palance
The Poor Nut (1927)
The Poor Nut is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Richard Wallace and written by Paul Schofield. It is based on the 1925 play The Poor Nut by J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent. The film stars Jack Mulhall, Charles Murray, Jean Arthur, Jane Winton, Glenn Tryon and Cornelius Keefe. The film was released on August 7, 1927, by First National Pictur...
Starring: Robert Armstrong•Jack Palance
The Block Signal (1926)
The Block Signal is 1926 silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Jean Arthur and Hugh Allan. It was produced by the independent company Gotham Pictures.
Starring: Jack Oakie•Jack Palance•Paul Lukas
Born to Battle (1926)
Born to Battle is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey and starring Tom Tyler, Jean Arthur and Frankie Darro. Tyler also starred in the 1935 film of the same name, but that western film has a different plot and is unrelated to the 1926 film.
Starring: Jack Palance•Charles Rogers
The College Boob (1926)
The College Boob is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Harry Garson and written by Gerald Duffy. The film stars Maurice Bennett Flynn, Jean Arthur, Jimmy Anderson, Bob Steele, Cecil Ogden and Dorothea Wolbert. The film was released on August 15, 1926, by Film Booking Offices of America.
Starring: Jack Palance•Maurice Chevalier
The Cowboy Cop (1926)
The Cowboy Cop is a 1926 American silent Western romance film produced by Robertson-Cole and released through Film Booking Offices of America, better known as FBO. The young female lead is played by Jean Arthur.
Starring: Jack Palance•Charles Rogers
Double Daring (1926)
Double Daring is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hal Taliaferro, Jean Arthur and Toby Wing. It is now considered to be a lost film.
Starring: Eric Linden•Jack Palance
The Fighting Cheat (1926)
The Fighting Cheat is a 1926 American silent Western film. Directed by Richard Thorpe, the film stars Hal Taliaferro, Jean Arthur, and Ted Rackerby. It was released on February 11, 1926.
Starring: Eric Linden•Jack Palance
Twisted Triggers (1926)
Twisted Triggers is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Hal Taliaferro, Jean Arthur and William Bertram.
Starring: Eric Linden•Jack Palance
Bringin' Home the Bacon (1924)
Bringin' Home the Bacon is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Jay Wilsey, Jean Arthur and Bert Lindley.
Starring: Jack Palance•Elliott Nugent
Fast and Fearless (1924)
Fast and Fearless is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe, written by Betty Burbridge and starring Buffalo Bill, Jr. and Jean Arthur. The film is mostly lost: only reel 2 out of 5 has been saved at the Library of Congress.
Starring: Jack Palance•Elliott Nugent
Thundering Romance (1924)
Thundering Romance is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Jay Wilsey, Jean Arthur and Harry Todd.
Starring: Jack Palance•Elliott Nugent