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Ghost Story (1981)
Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub, it follows a group of elderly businessmen in New England who gather to recount their involvement in a...
Starring: Alice Krige•H. B. Warner•Reginald Denny•Erich von Stroheim•Ina Claire
Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
Tell Me a Riddle is a 1980 American drama film directed by actress Lee Grant. The screenplay by Joyce Eliason and Alev Lytle is based on the 1961 O. Henry Award novella from Tillie Olsen's collection of short stories of the same name. Tell Me a Riddle was Grant's first film as director.
Starring: Alice Krige•Clarence Kolb•Thurston Hall
Being There (1979)
Being There is a 1979 American satire film directed by Hal Ashby. Based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Jerzy Kosiński, it was adapted for the screen by Kosiński and the uncredited Robert C. Jones. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas and features Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, and Richard Basehart.
Starring: Alice Krige•Lionel Atwill•Conrad Nagel•Norma Shearer•Boris Karloff•Mary Astor
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
The Seduction of Joe Tynan is a 1979 American political drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and produced by Martin Bregman. The screenplay was written by Alan Alda, who also played the title role.
Starring: Alice Krige•Constance Bennett•Jean Arthur•Bela Lugosi•Joan Crawford
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. The film was a West German/American co-production, shot mainly at the Bavaria Studios.
Starring: Alice Krige•Greta Garbo•Fay Wray•Conrad Veidt•Claudette Colbert•Lupe Vélez•Loretta Young•Ann Harding
The Death Squad (1974)
The Death Squad is a 1974 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Harry Falk and starring Robert Forster, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, Mark Goddard and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Alice Krige•Barbara Stanwyck•Leo Carrillo•Grace Moore•Irene Dunne
The Candidate (1972)
The Candidate is a 1972 American political comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle, and directed by Michael Ritchie. The Academy Award–winning screenplay, which examines the various facets and machinations involved in political campaigns, was written by Jeremy Larner, a speechwriter for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy during McCarthy's...
Starring: Alice Krige•Joan Blondell•Spencer Tracy
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American drama film, based on the 1968 play of the same name. It tells the story of a widowed college professor who feels dominated by his aging father, yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he remarries and moves to California. It stars Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Est...
Starring: Alice Krige•Jackie Cooper•Robert Young
Hotel (1967)
Hotel is a 1967 American Technicolor drama film, an adaptation of Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name. The film stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas. It is directed by Richard Quine.
Starring: Alice Krige•Wanda Hendrix•Beulah Bondi•Melvyn Douglas•Katharine Hepburn•Charles Laughton•Tala Birell
Rapture (1965)
Rapture is a 1965 drama film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and Dean Stockwell. It is reportedly Guillermin's own favorite among his films. His widow Mary said it "was the only film he directed that wholly satisfied his vision as an artist."
Starring: Alice Krige•Preston Foster•Virginia Bruce
Advance to the Rear (1964)
Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 American Western comedy film set in the American Civil War. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, and Melvyn Douglas. The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, whose inspiration was an article by William Chamberlain, published in the Saturday ...
Starring: Alice Krige•Fred Astaire•Claire Dodd
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American black-comedy film, written by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, and Melvyn Douglas. The black-and-white film also features James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, and Keenan Wynn.
Starring: Alice Krige•Margaret Sullavan•Binnie Barnes•Ruth Donnelly
Hud (1963)
Hud is a 1963 American Western film starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal. Directed by Martin Ritt, it was produced by Ritt and Newman's recently founded company, Salem Productions, and was their first film for Paramount Pictures. Hud was filmed on location on the Texas Panhandle, including Claude, Texas. Its scre...
Starring: Alice Krige•Rosalind Russell•Florence Rice•Merle Oberon
On the Loose (1951)
On the Loose is a 1951 American drama film directed by Charles Lederer and written by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert. The film stars Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari, Robert Arthur and Hugh O'Brian. The film was released on September 28, 1951 by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Alice Krige•Robert Taylor
The Great Sinner (1949)
The Great Sinner is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. Based on the 1866 short novel The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the film stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Frank Morgan, Ethel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Agnes Moorehead and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Alice Krige•Luise Rainer•Raymond Walburn
My Own True Love (1949)
My Own True Love is a 1949 American drama film directed by Compton Bennett and written by Arthur Kober, Josef Mischel and Theodore Strauss. The film stars Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix, Philip Friend, Binnie Barnes and Alan Napier. The film was released on February 2, 1949, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Alice Krige•James Stewart•Edith Fellows
A Woman's Secret (1949)
A Woman's Secret is a 1949 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame and Melvyn Douglas. The film was based on the novel Mortgage on Life by Vicki Baum.
Starring: Alice Krige•nominee)•Best Actress
The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
The Guilt of Janet Ames is a 1947 American sentimental film noir directed by Henry Levin, based on a story by Lenore Coffee, and starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Alice Krige•James Coburn
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Sea of Grass is a 1947 American Western film set in the American Southwest. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Alan Marshal•Alice Krige•Joseph Cotten
Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
Three Hearts for Julia is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas. The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Alice Krige•Glenn Ford
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
They All Kissed the Bride is a 1942 American screwball comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Richard A. Dysart•Alice Krige
We Were Dancing (1942)
We Were Dancing is a 1942 MGM romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, written by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel, and starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas. It is based loosely on Noël Coward's 1935 play of the same name, together with ideas from Ways and Means, another play in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 play cycle, an...
Starring: Ava Gardner•Alice Krige•Gloria Grahame
Our Wife (1941)
Our Wife is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by John M. Stahl and starring Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew. When a composer comes up with a hit, his ex-wife sets out to break up his romance with another woman and get him back.
Starring: Alice Krige•Burt Lancaster•Richard Widmark
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
That Uncertain Feeling is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas and Burgess Meredith. The film is about the bored wife of an insurance salesman who meets an eccentric pianist and seeks a divorce. The screenplay by Walter Reisch and Donald Ogden Stewart was based on the 1880 French play Divo...
Starring: Alice Krige•Wanda Hendrix•Phyllis Calvert
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
Two-Faced Woman is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Greta Garbo in her final film role, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. The movie was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Richard Basehart•Alan Alda•Alice Krige
A Woman's Face (1941)
A Woman's Face is a 1941 American drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. It tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of her appearance, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon corrects this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope...
Starring: Richard A. Dysart•Michael Rennie•Alice Krige
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
He Stayed for Breakfast is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, based on the 1934 play Ode to Liberty by Sidney Howard, itself adapted from the French play Liberté provisoire by Michel Duran.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine•Alice Krige•Brandon deWilde
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Third Finger, Left Hand is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. The screenplay concerns a woman who pretends to be married to fend off would-be suitors and jealous wives, then regrets her deception when she meets an artist.
Starring: Jack Warden•Alice Krige•William Marshall
This Thing Called Love (1940)
This Thing Called Love is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas as newlyweds with an odd arrangement: the wife insists on not sleeping together for a trial period. It is the second film adaptation of the play of the same name by Edwin Burke: the 1929 version, which shares th...
Starring: Alice Krige•Rip Torn•James Coburn
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: Stella Stevens•Alice Krige•Robert Redford
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a 1939 American screwball comedy film produced by Everett Riskin for Columbia Pictures and directed by Alexander Hall. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell and Clarence Kolb. It was written by Dwight Taylor, Sy Bartlett and Richard Maibaum. The film is about a police lieutenant who is too busy solving crimes to m...
Starring: Julie Andrews•Lila Kedrova•Alice Krige•Gene Hackman
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris is a 1939 American romantic comedy film starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell.
Starring: Lila Kedrova•Alice Krige
Ninotchka (1939)
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film; ...
Starring: Catherine Spaak•Robert Forster•Alan Alda•Alice Krige
Tell No Tales (1939)
Tell No Tales is a 1939 American crime film directed by Leslie Fenton, written by Lionel Houser, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart and Douglass Dumbrille. Fenton's feature-film directorial debut, it was released on May 12, 1939, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Alice Krige•John Houseman•Burt Young
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns is a 1938 American mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by James Kevin McGuinness, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Harmon Coxe. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, and Monty Woolley. The film was released on February 25, 1938 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Michelle Philips•Alice Krige•Charles Durning
Fast Company (1938)
Fast Company is a 1938 mystery film starring Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice as married rare-book dealers who try to solve a murder case. It is based on the novel of the same name by Marco Page. It was followed by two 1939 films featuring the fictional couple, Fast and Loose and Fast and Furious, although different actors played the leads in each ...
Starring: Alice Krige•Brooke Adams•Craig Wasson
The Shining Hour (1938)
The Shining Hour is a 1938 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, based on the 1934 play The Shining Hour by Keith Winter, and starring Joan Crawford and Margaret Sullavan. The supporting cast of the MGM film features Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter and Hattie McDaniel.
Starring: Richard A. Dysart•Alice Krige•Lionel Barrymore
That Certain Age (1938)
That Certain Age is a 1938 American musical film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Deanna Durbin and Melvyn Douglas. Based on a story by Aleen Leslie (Wetstein) that was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert, the film is about a dashing reporter who returns from covering the Spanish Civil War and is invited to spend time at his publisher's home, where hi...
Starring: H. B. Warner•Alice Krige•Reginald Denny
There's Always a Woman (1938)
There's Always a Woman is a 1938 American comedy mystery film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas. Seeing the potential for a series, Columbia Pictures quickly made a sequel, There's That Woman Again, released the same year, with Douglas reprising his role, but with Virginia Bruce as Sally. No further sequels we...
Starring: Lupe Vélez•Lila Kedrova•Alice Krige
The Toy Wife (1938)
The Toy Wife is a 1938 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Luise Rainer and Melvyn Douglas. The period film was produced by Merian C. Cooper and written by Zoë Akins.
Starring: Adolphe Menjou•Alice Krige•Thurston Hall
Angel (1937)
Angel is a 1937 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson and Frederick Lonsdale. It was adapted by Guy Bolton and Russell Medcraft from the play Angyal by Melchior Lengyel. The music score was by Frederick Hollander, Werner R. Heymann and John Leipold with additional music by Gioacchi...
Starring: Lila Lee•Lionel Atwill•Alice Krige
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
I Met Him in Paris is a 1937 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, written by Claude Binyon, and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young.
Starring: Robert Taylor•Boris Karloff•Alice Krige
I'll Take Romance (1937)
I'll Take Romance is a 1937 romantic musical film directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley, Stuart Erwin and Margaret Hamilton.
Starring: Mary Astor•Fay Wray•Alice Krige
Women of Glamour (1937)
Women of Glamour is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Gordon Wiles and starring Virginia Bruce, Melvyn Douglas and Reginald Denny.
Starring: Claudette Colbert•Alice Krige•Charles Durning
And So They Were Married (1936)
And So They Were Married is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent that features Melvyn Douglas and Mary Astor. The film was released by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Lupe Vélez•Alice Krige•Ann Harding
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 American period film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Ainsworth Morgan, which was based on a 1934 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore and James Stewart.
Starring: Stuart Erwin•Richard A. Dysart•Barbara Stanwyck•Alice Krige•Leo Carrillo•Grace Moore•Irene Dunne•Marlene Dietrich•Herbert Marshall•Beulah Bondi
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski. The film was written by M...
Starring: Robert Young•Ralph Bellamy•Alice Krige•Herbert Marshall•Beulah Bondi•Charles Laughton
Annie Oakley (1935)
Annie Oakley is a 1935 American Western film directed by George Stevens and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas and Moroni Olsen. The film is based on the life of Annie Oakley.
Starring: Tala Birell•Alice Krige•Margaret Sullavan
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)
The Lone Wolf Returns is a 1935 American crime film starring Melvyn Douglas as jewel thief Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf. Retired, the Lone Wolf is forced back into crime, but turns the tables on his enemies. It is based on the 1923 Louis Joseph Vance novel The Lone Wolf Returns, which had previously been made into a 1926 film of the same name...
Starring: Alice Krige•Gloria Grahame
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive is a 1935 American drama film directed by William K. Howard.
Starring: Preston Foster•Alice Krige
The People's Enemy (1935)
The People's Enemy is a 1935 American crime film directed by Crane Wilbur, from a screenplay by Gordon Kahn and Edward Dean Sullivan, based on Sullivan's story. The film stars Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, and Charles Coburn.
Starring: Franchot Tone•Alice Krige•Margaret Sullavan
She Married Her Boss (1935)
She Married Her Boss is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Claudette Colbert.
Starring: Robert Taylor•Alice Krige•Luise Rainer
Dangerous Corner (1934)
Dangerous Corner is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen, using a screenplay by Anne Morrison Chapin, Madeleine Ruthven, Ralph Berton, and Eugene Berton, which was based on a novel and play of the same name by J. B. Priestley. It starred Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, and Melvyn Douglas.
Starring: Jean Dixon•Alice Krige•Charles Durning
Woman in the Dark (1934)
Woman in the Dark is a 1934 American crime drama film directed by Phil Rosen and based on a 1933 short story by Dashiell Hammett. It was filmed at Biograph Studios by Select Pictures and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Starring: Best Actress•Edith Fellows•Alice Krige
Nagana (1933)
Nagana is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ernst L. Frank and written by Don Ryan and Dale Van Every. The film stars Tala Birell, Melvyn Douglas, Miki Morita, Onslow Stevens, Everett Brown and Billy McClain. The film was released on February 1, 1933, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Alice Krige•(
The Vampire Bat (1933)
The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye.
Starring: nominee)•Best Actress•Alice Krige
As You Desire Me (1932)
As You Desire Me is a 1932 American pre-Code film adaptation of the 1929 play by Luigi Pirandello released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced and directed by George Fitzmaurice with Irving Thalberg as co-producer. The adaptation was by Gene Markey, the cinematography by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons and the costume de...
Starring: Deanna Durbin•Alan Alda•Alice Krige
The Broken Wing (1932)
The Broken Wing is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt, adapted from the play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. The film stars Lupe Vélez, Leo Carrillo, Melvyn Douglas, George Barbier, Willard Robertson, Claire Dodd and Arthur Stone. The Broken W...
Starring: Adolphe Menjou•Boris Karloff•Alice Krige
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore. Set in interwar Wales, the film f...
Starring: Lupe Vélez•Alice Krige•Ann Harding
Prestige (1932)
Prestige is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Tay Garnett and written by Tay Garnett, Rollo Lloyd and Francis Edward Faragoh. The film stars Ann Harding, Adolphe Menjou, Melvyn Douglas and Guy Bates Post. The film was released on January 22, 1932, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Leo Carrillo•Charles Laughton•Alice Krige
The Wiser Sex (1932)
The Wiser Sex is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and Victor Viertel and starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Lilyan Tashman, William "Stage" Boyd and Ross Alexander. Made by Paramount Pictures, its working title was The Weaker Sex.
Starring: Robert Taylor•Alice Krige