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Mame (1974)
Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Richard Dix•Boris Karloff•Marx Brothers•Edward Everett Horton•Anne Shirley
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 American family comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. Before its release, it had three other working titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs.
Starring: Lizabeth Scott•Beatrice Arthur•Maureen O'Hara
Critic's Choice (1963)
Critic's Choice is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin, the movie stars Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and includes Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the cast.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Judy Garland•Phillips Holmes•Ginger Rogers
The Facts of Life (1960)
The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as married people who have an affair. Written, directed and produced by longtime Hope associates Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is more serious than many other contemporary Hope vehicles. The film features an opening animated title sequence created by Saul Bass...
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Judy Garland•Bradley Page
Forever, Darling (1956)
Forever, Darling is a 1956 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, written by Helen Deutsch, and starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason. In the film, Ball stars as a wife who tries to save her struggling marriage to a chemical engineer (Arnaz) with the help of her guardian angel (Mason). Louis Calhern and Natal...
Starring: Dick Powell•Beatrice Arthur•Lloyd Nolan
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
The Long, Long Trailer is a 1954 American Anscocolor road comedy film based on a novel of the same name written by Clinton Twiss in 1951 about a couple who buy a new travel trailer home and spend a year traveling across the United States.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Joe Penner•Lloyd Nolan
I Love Lucy (1953)
I Love Lucy is a 1953 American comedy film that is a spin-off of the sitcom I Love Lucy. Except for one test screening in Bakersfield, California, the film was never theatrically released and was shelved.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Lloyd Nolan
The Magic Carpet (1951)
The Magic Carpet is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Lew Landers and written by David Mathews. The film, shot in SuperCinecolor, stars Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, George Tobias, Raymond Burr, Gregory Gaye, Rick Vallin and Gary Klein. It was released on October 18, 1951 by Columbia Pictures, three days after Ball's I Love Luc...
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Wendy Barrie
Fancy Pants (1950)
Fancy Pants is a 1950 American romantic comedy western film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. It is a musical adaptation of Ruggles of Red Gap.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Judy Garland
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
The Fuller Brush Girl is a 1950 slapstick comedy starring Lucille Ball and directed by Lloyd Bacon. Animator Frank Tashlin wrote the script. Ball plays a quirky door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman for the Fuller Brush Company. The film also stars Eddie Albert and has an uncredited cameo by Red Skelton. The film reunites Lucille Ball with director Llo...
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Louis Hayward•Lily Pons
Easy Living (1949)
Easy Living is a 1949 American drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Victor Mature, Lucille Ball and Lizabeth Scott. The film features the real-life Los Angeles Rams football team.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Jane Connell•Louise Latimer
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Miss Grant Takes Richmond is a 1949 comedy film starring Lucille Ball and William Holden, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Columbia Pictures. It was released under the title Innocence is Bliss in the UK.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Patric Knowles
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Judy Garland
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Her Husband's Affairs is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lucille Ball and Franchot Tone.
Starring: Mantan Moreland•Ann Miller•Beatrice Arthur
Lured (1947)
Lured is a 1947 film noir directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, and Boris Karloff. The film is a remake of 1939 French film Pièges directed by Robert Siodmak, which was titled Personal Column in the United States; Personal Column was also the title of this film when it was originally released. It did no...
Starring: Fritz Feld•Beatrice Arthur•Charles Coburn
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Corner is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix and Mark Stevens. The film was not a commercial success but has since been described as a "Grade A example of film noir."
Starring: Marjorie Main•Beatrice Arthur•Edgar Bergen
Easy to Wed (1946)
Easy to Wed is a 1946 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley is an adaptation of the screenplay of the 1936 film Libeled Lady by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Maureen O'Hara•Virginia Vale
Lover Come Back (1946)
Lover Come Back is a 1946 romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter. The film stars George Brent, Lucille Ball and Vera Zorina in her last film role. Supporting actors include Raymond Walburn and Charles Winninger.
Starring: Eddie Albert•Beatrice Arthur
Two Smart People (1946)
Two Smart People is a 1946 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Lucille Ball and John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan and Hugo Haas.
Starring: Victor Mature•Beatrice Arthur•Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood is a 1945 American black-and-white comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello alongside Frances Rafferty. Made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was produced by Martin A. Gosch.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Red Skelton•Edmond O'Brien
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily directed by Vincente Minnelli, with segments directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, and George Sidney, the film's original director before Minnelli took over. Other directors that are claimed to have made uncredited contributions to the...
Starring: Jim Jordan•Beatrice Arthur•Van Johnson
Meet the People (1944)
Meet the People (1944) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film made, and set, during World War II, and starring Lucille Ball and Dick Powell and featuring Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Rags Ragland and June Allyson. The film takes its title from a successful Los Angeles musical revue, which ran on Broadway from December 25, 1940 to May 10, 1941...
Starring: Don Porter•Beatrice Arthur
Best Foot Forward (1943)
Best Foot Forward is a 1943 American musical film adapted from the 1941 Broadway musical comedy of the same title. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Edward Buzzell, and starred Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Chill Wills, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, and Nancy Walker.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Gloria DeHaven•Nancy Walker•Marilyn Maxwell
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Du Barry Was a Lady is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. It is based on the 1939 stage musical of the same name. Shot in Technicolor, the film was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Gale Robbins•John Hodiak
The Big Street (1942)
The Big Street is a 1942 American drama film starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, based on the 1940 short story "Little Pinks" by Damon Runyon, who also produced it. It was directed by Irving Reis from a screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass.
Starring: Rags Ragland•Lizabeth Scott•Beatrice Arthur
Seven Days' Leave (1942)
Seven Days' Leave is a 1942 musical comedy about a soldier who has seven days to marry an heiress in order to inherit $100,000.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Jane Connell
Valley of the Sun (1942)
Valley of the Sun is a 1942 American Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Lucille Ball and James Craig.
Starring: Bruce Davison•Beatrice Arthur•Adolphe Menjou
A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)
A Girl, a Guy and a Gob is a 1941 film produced by Harold Lloyd and starring George Murphy, Lucille Ball, and Edmond O'Brien.
Starring: Richard Dix•Beatrice Arthur•Marx Brothers
Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Look Who's Laughing is a 1941 film from RKO Radio Pictures. The film is built around a number of radio stars from the Golden Age of Radio and centers around radio personality Jim Jordan as Fibber McGee from the comic duo, Fibber McGee and Molly, who plans to build an aircraft factory in a small town. Look Who's Laughing was followed by Here We Go A...
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Anne Shirley•Frank Albertson
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph Bellamy. The film follows two dancers who strive to preserve their own integrity while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the affections of a wealthy young suitor.
Starring: Jack Oakie•Beatrice Arthur•Chester Morris
The Marines Fly High (1940)
The Marines Fly High is a 1940 action film, starring Richard Dix, Chester Morris and Lucille Ball and directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and Benjamin Stoloff from a story by A.C. Edington.
Starring: Phillips Holmes•George Murphy•Beatrice Arthur
Too Many Girls (1940)
Too Many Girls is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by George Abbott, who had also directed the hit Broadway musical on which it was based, which ran for 249 performances. The film's screenplay is by John Twist, and it stars Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Desi Arnaz and Hal Le Roy. It was rele...
Starring: Gene Raymond•Beatrice Arthur•Lloyd Nolan
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Ray McCarey and written by Jerome Cady. The film stars Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote, Virginia Vale, Emma Dunn and Elaine Shepard. The film was released on May 21, 1940, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Mantan Moreland•Beatrice Arthur•Ruth Donnelly
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Beauty for the Asking is a 1939 film drama produced by RKO Pictures, and starring Lucille Ball and Patric Knowles.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Joe Penner
Five Came Back (1939)
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Although considered a B movie, the positive noti...
Starring: George Murphy•Wendy Barrie•Beatrice Arthur
Panama Lady (1939)
Panama Lady is a 1939 film starring Lucille Ball.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Frances Langford
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
That's Right – You're Wrong is a 1939 American musical film directed by David Butler and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Kay Kyser and his band, with a cast that included Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns, and Ginny Simms. It was the first film to feature Kyser and his band, and its success led to thei...
Starring: James Ellison•Beatrice Arthur•Louis Hayward
The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
The Affairs of Annabel is a 1938 comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie. The film was followed by the sequel Annabel Takes a Tour the same year, also starring Oakie, Ball and Donnelly.
Starring: Louise Latimer•Owen Davis•Beatrice Arthur
Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
Annabel Takes a Tour is a 1938 comedy directed by Lew Landers, starring Lucille Ball and Jack Oakie. Annabel is on a promotional tour and, as a publicity stunt, leaks a story that she is having a romantic fling with a famous romance novelist. The film is a sequel to The Affairs of Annabel.
Starring: Louise Latimer•Moroni Olsen•Beatrice Arthur
Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Go Chase Yourself is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Paul Yawitz and Bert Granet. The film stars Joe Penner, Lucille Ball, Richard Lane, June Travis, Fritz Feld and Tom Kennedy. The film was released on April 22, 1938, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Patric Knowles•Beatrice Arthur•Allan Lane
Next Time I Marry (1938)
Next Time I Marry is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin and written by John Twist and Helen Meinardi. The film stars Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates and Mantan Moreland. The film was released on December 9, 1938, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Mantan Moreland•Beatrice Arthur•Ann Miller
Room Service (1938)
Room Service is a 1938 RKO film comedy directed by William A. Seiter, based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. The film stars the Marx Brothers and also features Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Frank Albertson.
Starring: Fritz Feld•Beatrice Arthur•Edgar Bergen
Bunker Bean (1936)
Bunker Bean is a 1936 American black-and-white comedy film adapted from a novel by Harry Leon Wilson and the subsequent play adapted by Lee Wilson Dodd. It was directed by William Hamilton and Edward Killy, produced by William Sistrom, and starred Owen Davis, Jr. as the title character. The cast included Lucille Ball as Mrs Kelly.
Starring: Beatrice Arthur•Maureen O'Hara•Virginia Vale
Chatterbox (1936)
Chatterbox is a 1936 American drama film directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and starring Anne Shirley as a young woman who dreams of becoming an actress. The film is based upon the play Long Ago Ladies by David Carb.
Starring: Kay Kyser•James Craig•Beatrice Arthur
The Farmer in the Dell (1936)
The Farmer in the Dell is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes from a screenplay by Sam Mintz and John Grey, adapted from Phil Stong's 1935 novel, which was similarly titled, Farmer in the Dell. The film was premiered by RKO Radio Pictures in New York City on March 6, 1936, and released widely later that month on March 27. It stars Fr...
Starring: Edmond O'Brien•Beatrice Arthur•Jim Jordan
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The fi...
Starring: Ginger Rogers•Jim Jordan•Beatrice Arthur
That Girl from Paris (1936)
That Girl from Paris is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, and Gene Raymond. The film made a profit of $101,000. John O. Aalberg was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.
Starring: Gene Raymond•Lily Pons•Beatrice Arthur
I Dream Too Much (1935)
I Dream Too Much is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earlier roles. It has been described as a "somewhat wispy operetta." Songs are by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.
Starring: Lizabeth Scott•Lily Pons•Beatrice Arthur