Don Ameche
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 American adventure comedy film and a remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, which was based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Sheila Burnford. Directed by Duwayne Dunham, it was released on February 3, 1993. It grossed $57 million worldwide and was followed in 1996 by Homeward Bound II:...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Jane Darwell•Alice Brady•Mary Martin
Folks! (1992)
Folks! is a 1992 American comedy-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Robert Klane and starring Tom Selleck as a selfish yuppie who takes in his parents after their house burns down. It was panned by critics, earning Selleck a Razzie nomination for Worst Actor, and also underperformed at the box office.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•William Collier Sr.•Jean Hersholt
Oscar (1991)
Oscar is a 1991 American comedy film directed by John Landis. Based on the Claude Magnier stage play, it is a remake of the 1967 French film of the same name, but set in Depression-era New York City. Oscar stars Sylvester Stallone, in a rare attempt at a comedic role, as Angelo "Snaps" Provolone, a mob boss who promises his dying father that he wil...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Myrna Loy•Claudette Colbert•Loretta Young•Kay Francis•Joan Bennett•Jack Benny•Frances Dee•Ethel Merman•Ralph Bellamy
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
Cocoon: The Return is a 1988 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Stephen McPherson. The film serves as the sequel to the 1985 film Cocoon. All of the starring actors from the first film reprised their roles in this film, although Brian Dennehy only appears in one scene at the end of the film. Unlike i...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Don Ameche•Tyrone Power•Andrea Leeds•Lynn Bari•Carole Landis•Cesar Romero•Rosalind Russell•Cedric Hardwicke
Things Change (1988)
Things Change is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by David Mamet and starring Joe Mantegna and Don Ameche. It was co-written by Mamet and Shel Silverstein.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Henry Fonda
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed and produced by William Dear and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Lainie Kazan, and Kevin Peter Hall. Steven Spielberg served as its uncredited executive producer, while Rick Baker provided the makeup and the cre...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Simone Simon•Dorothy Lamour
Cocoon (1985)
Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Tom Benedek from a story by David Saperstein. The film stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison, and follo...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Don Ameche•Tyrone Power•Sonja Henie•Andrea Leeds•Arleen Whelan•Ritz Brothers•Lynn Bari•Virginia Dale•Carole Landis
Trading Places (1983)
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, with a screenplay by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives...
Starring: Carmen Miranda•Tahnee Welch•Mary Beth Hughes•Dana Andrews•Fred Allen
The Boatniks (1970)
The Boatniks is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar and starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Don Ameche and Phil Silvers. It was made by Walt Disney Productions, released by Buena Vista Distribution.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Roddy McDowall•Phil Silvers•Janet Blair•William Bendix
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came is a 1970 American drama-comedy film directed by Hy Averback, produced by Fred Engel, and starring Brian Keith, Don Ameche, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette, Ivan Dixon, and Pamela Britton. The plot is a mixture of comic and dramatic elements and concerns the reactions of a number of World War ...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Yvonne De Carlo•Catherine McLeod
Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Picture Mommy Dead is a 1966 American horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Susan Gordon and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Kirk Douglas•Martha Hyer
A Fever in the Blood (1961)
A Fever in the Blood is a 1961 American courtroom drama, produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film features a roster of the studio's television contract players, often miscast according to the film's producer and screenwriter Roy Huggins in his Archive of American Television interview. In fact, Huggins later complained that the film's s...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Efrem Zimbalist Jr.•Zsa Zsa Gabor
Slightly French (1949)
Slightly French is a 1949 American musical comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche and Janis Carter. The screenplay concerns a Hollywood director who recruits an American singer.
Starring: Brian Keith•Tahnee Welch
Sleep, My Love (1948)
Sleep, My Love is a 1948 American noir film directed by Douglas Sirk. It features Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings and Don Ameche.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone•Maureen Stapleton•Tahnee Welch
That's My Man (1947)
That's My Man is a 1947 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage, written by Steve Fisher and Bradley King, and starring Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely, Kitty Irish and Joe Frisco. It was released on June 1, 1947, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Robert Morse
So Goes My Love (1946)
So Goes My Love is an American 1946 comedy-drama film, produced by Universal Pictures. It is based on a true story, A Genius in the Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses on the relationship between Maxim and his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.
Starring: Jack Gilford•Clint Howard•Tahnee Welch
Guest Wife (1945)
Guest Wife is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood, written by Bruce Manning and John Klorer, and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, and Dick Foran. It is also known as What Every Woman Wants.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone•Tahnee Welch
It's in the Bag! (1945)
It's in the Bag! is a 1945 comedy film featuring Fred Allen in his only starring film role. The film was released by United Artists at a time when Allen was at the peak of his fame as one of the most popular radio comedians. The film has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Starring: John Lithgow•Tahnee Welch•Melinda Dillon
Greenwich Village (1944)
Greenwich Village is a 1944 American comedy-drama musical film from Twentieth Century Fox directed by Walter Lang. It stars Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Brian Dennehy•Jamie Lee Curtis
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American aircraft carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe. Although arguably a classic propaganda movie, it was appreciated fo...
Starring: Peter Riegert•Tahnee Welch•Wilford Brimley
Happy Land (1943)
Happy Land is a 1943 film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Don Ameche. A World War II home front drama, it was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor.
Starring: Joe Mantegna•Tahnee Welch
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Michael J. Fox
Something to Shout About (1943)
Something to Shout About is a 1943 Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The film stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Eddie Murphy
Girl Trouble (1942)
Girl Trouble is a 1942 comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Harold D. Schuster, and starring Don Ameche and Joan Bennett. It is also known as Between You and Me and Man from Brazil.
Starring: Benj Thall•Tahnee Welch
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
The Magnificent Dope is a 1942 American comedy film released by 20th Century Fox. It is also known as Lazy Galahad, Strictly Dynamite and The Magnificent Jerk.
Starring: Barret Oliver•Tahnee Welch•Courteney Cox
Confirm or Deny (1941)
Confirm or Deny is a 1941 film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Archie Mayo and Fritz Lang (uncredited), and starring by Don Ameche and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, based on a story by Samuel Fuller and Henry Wales.
Starring: Benj Thall•Tahnee Welch•John Barrymore
The Feminine Touch (1941)
The Feminine Touch is a 1941 American comedy film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Rosalind Russell and Don Ameche.
Starring: Jane Darwell•Alice Brady•Tahnee Welch
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye is a 1941 comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Mary Martin, Don Ameche and Oscar Levant. It is based on a play by Clare Boothe Luce which was inspired by the search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of Gone with the Wind. The score, under the musical direction of Victor Young, inclu...
Starring: Mary Martin•Tahnee Welch•Adolphe Menjou
Moon Over Miami (1941)
Moon Over Miami is a 1941 American musical film directed by Walter Lang, with Betty Grable and Don Ameche in leading roles and co-starring Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, and Charlotte Greenwood. It was adapted from the play by Stephen Powys.
Starring: Loretta Young•Tahnee Welch•Jean Hersholt
That Night in Rio (1941)
That Night in Rio is a 1941 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda. It is one of several film adaptations of the 1934 play The Red Cat by Rudolf Lothar and Hans Adler. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) and On the Riviera (1951).
Starring: Andrea Leeds•Tahnee Welch•Brian Dennehy
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Down Argentine Way is a 1940 American musical film made in Technicolor by Twentieth Century Fox. It made a star of Betty Grable in her first leading role for the studio although she had already appeared in 31 films, and it introduced American audiences to Carmen Miranda. It also starred Don Ameche, The Nicholas Brothers, Charlotte Greenwood, and J....
Starring: Loretta Young•Tahnee Welch•Brian Dennehy
Four Sons (1940)
Four Sons is a 1940 war film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Kay Francis•Ethel Merman
Lillian Russell (1940)
Lillian Russell is a 1940 American biographical film of the life of the singer and actress. The screenplay was by William Anthony McGuire. The film was directed by Irving Cummings and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It stars Alice Faye in the title role, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda and Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady.
Starring: Andrea Leeds•Barret Oliver•Tahnee Welch
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade is a 1939 American film featuring Alice Faye as a young performer making her way in the early days of Hollywood, from slapstick silent pictures through the transition from silent to sound.
Starring: Andrea Leeds•Tahnee Welch
Midnight (1939)
Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl stranded...
Starring: Gregory Ratoff•Sylvester Stallone•Tahnee Welch
Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox...
Starring: Tahnee Welch•Ann Sothern
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Three Musketeers is a 1939 musical comedy film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers directed by Alan Dwan and starring Don Ameche as d'Artagnan, with the Ritz Brothers as his cowardly helpers.
Starring: Alice Faye•Tahnee Welch•Katherine DeMille
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of "serious" music. The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularizati...
Starring: Cesar Romero•Tahnee Welch•Roddy McDowall
Gateway (1938)
Gateway is a 1938 American drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and written by Lamar Trotti. The film stars Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes, Gilbert Roland, Raymond Walburn and John Carradine. The film was released on August 5, 1938, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Betty Grable•Tahnee Welch•Simone Simon
Happy Landing (1938)
Happy Landing is a 1938 film directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Sonja Henie, Ethel Merman, Don Ameche and Cesar Romero.
Starring: Tyrone Power•Tahnee Welch•Sonja Henie
In Old Chicago (1938)
In Old Chicago is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of the cow which started the fire, and ...
Starring: Andrea Leeds•Tahnee Welch•Roddy McDowall
Josette (1938)
Josette is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young. Two brothers fall in love with the same nightclub singer.
Starring: Ritz Brothers•Virginia Dale•Tahnee Welch
Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Fifty Roads to Town is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Don Ameche and Ann Sothern. The film is based on a book of the same name by author Frederick Nebel. This is the third novel Nebel wrote.
Starring: Carole Landis•Eugenie Leontovich•Tahnee Welch
In Old Chicago (1937)
In Old Chicago is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of the cow which started the fire, and ...
Starring: Mary Beth Hughes•Tahnee Welch•Roddy McDowall
Love Is News (1937)
Love Is News is a 1937 romantic comedy film starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche. The movie was directed by Tay Garnett and was the first film for which Power had top billing. The picture was remade in 1947 as That Wonderful Urge, with Power again and Gene Tierney.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Tahnee Welch•Roddy McDowall
Love Under Fire (1937)
Love Under Fire is a 1937 American drama film based upon the play by Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by George Marshall and stars Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolph Sternad.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Janet Gaynor•Tahnee Welch
Ladies in Love (1936)
Ladies in Love (1936) is a romantic comedy film based upon the play by Leslie Bush-Fekete. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith and stars Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young. The film revolves around three roommates in exotic Budapest and their comical romantic adventures. Gaynor, Bennett, and Young were billed above the title, with ...
Starring: Loretta Young•Allen Jenkins•Tahnee Welch
One in a Million (1936)
One in a Million is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou and Don Ameche. It marked the Hollywood debut of the ice skater Henie. It was the first of a series of Twentieth Century-Fox musicals made by Henie, although she had previously made a silent film in her native Norway. The fil...
Starring: Katherine DeMille•Tahnee Welch•Sonja Henie
Ramona (1936)
Ramona is a 1936 American Drama Western film directed by Henry King, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound. It was the fourth American feature film using the new three strip Technicolor process. It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Tahnee Welch
Sins of Man (1936)
Sins of Man is a 1936 American drama film, directed by Otto Brower and released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Jean Hersholt, Don Ameche, and Allen Jenkins.
Starring: Jean Hersholt•Allen Jenkins•Tahnee Welch