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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Inspired by the films Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character named Tom Baxter who...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Buster Keaton•Louis Calhern•Walter Pidgeon•Loretta Young•Rudy Vallée•Humphrey Bogart•Irene Dunne
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
The Kidnapping of the President is a 1980 Canadian-American political thriller film starring William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson and Ava Gardner. It was produced and directed by George Mendeluk and co-produced by John Ryan from a screenplay by Richard Murphy, based on Charles Templeton's 1974 novel of the same name. The original music is by ...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Clark Gable•Franchot Tone
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1976 American television miniseries based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw that aired on ABC in one or two-hour episodes mostly on Monday nights over seven weeks, beginning February 1. It was produced by Universal Television and was the second time programming of this nature had been attempted. The first TV m...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•George Murphy•Henry Fonda•Lucille Ball•Marsha Hunt•Tony Martin•Judy Garland•Thomas Mitchell•Jane Wyman•Joseph Cotten
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: Frances Gifford•Gene Tierney•Dianne Wiest
Wives and Lovers (1963)
Wives and Lovers is a 1963 comedy film based on the play The First Wife by Jay Presson Allen. Directed by John Rich, it stars Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters and Martha Hyer. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1964 for costume design.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Ed Asner
The Last Blitzkrieg (1959)
The Last Blitzkrieg is a 1959 American war film directed Arthur Dreifuss and filmed at Veluwe and the Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam for a Columbia Pictures release.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Van Johnson
Action of the Tiger (1957)
Action of the Tiger is a 1957 British CinemaScope action film directed by Terence Young and starring Van Johnson and Martine Carol. It was distributed by MGM.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Gig Young•June Allyson
Kelly and Me (1957)
Kelly and Me is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Everett Freeman. The film stars Van Johnson, Piper Laurie, Martha Hyer, Onslow Stevens, Herbert Anderson, Douglas Fowley and Frank Wilcox. The film was released on April 10, 1957, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Dorothy McGuire•Margaret O'Brien
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an American musical film that became the first television film when it first aired on NBC on November 26, 1957. It preempted that evening's telecasts of The Nat King Cole Show and The Eddie Fisher Show. Based on the famous poem of the same name by Robert Browning and using the music of Edvard Grieg, arranged by Pete Kin...
Starring: Ava Gardner•Dianne Wiest•Ann Blyth
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color mystery thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was released by 20th Century Fox and filmed in Cinemascope on location in London. The screenplay by Nigel Balchin was based on the 1938 novel Warrant for X, original UK title The Nursemaid Who Disappeared by Philip MacDonald. The film focus...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Angela Lansbury
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
The Bottom of the Bottle is a 1956 CinemaScope American drama film based on the novel written by Georges Simenon during his stay in Nogales, Arizona. The novel was adapted for film by Sydney Boehm and directed by Henry Hathaway.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor•Dianne Wiest•Joanne Dru
Slander (1956)
Slander is a 1957 American drama film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Van Johnson and Ann Blyth.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Arlene Dahl
The End of the Affair (1955)
The End of the Affair is a 1955 British-American drama romance film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on Graham Greene's 1951 novel of the same name. The film stars Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills and Peter Cushing. It was filmed largely on location in London, particularly in and around Chester Terrace. The film was entered into the 1955 Cann...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Martha Hyer•Cyd Charisse
Brigadoon (1954)
Brigadoon is a 1954 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film made in CinemaScope and Metrocolor based on the 1947 Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse. Brigadoon has been broadcast on American television and is availa...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Paul Douglas•Patricia Neal
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American military trial film directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, and starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, and Fred MacMurray. It is based on Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel of the same name.
Starring: Howard Keel•Dianne Wiest•Piper Laurie
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 American Technicolor romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epste...
Starring: Lane Nakano•Dianne Wiest•Lori Nelson
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Men of the Fighting Lady is a 1954 American war drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn. The screenplay was written by U.S. Navy Commander Harry A. Burns, who had written a Saturday Evening Post article, "The Case of the Blinded Pilot", an account of a U.S. Navy pilot in the Korea...
Starring: Vera Miles•Dianne Wiest•John Mills
Siege at Red River (1954)
Siege at Red River is a 1954 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and written by Sydney Boehm. The film stars Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow, and Craig Hill. The film was released on May 1, 1954, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Dick York•Robert Reed
Confidentially Connie (1953)
Confidentially Connie is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell. It stars Van Johnson as a dedicated but poorly paid college professor, Janet Leigh as his pregnant wife, and Louis Calhern as Johnson's father, whose schemes to get his son to return to the family ranch in Texas widen the previously existing gulf between fathe...
Starring: William Shatner•Dianne Wiest•Ed Asner
Easy to Love (1953)
Easy to Love is a 1953 Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters with choreography by Busby Berkeley. It stars Esther Williams, Van Johnson and Tony Martin. It was Williams' final aquatic film set in the United States.
Starring: Bill Bixby•Dianne Wiest•Peter Strauss
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Remains to Be Seen is a 1953 crime musical comedy film directed by Don Weis and starring June Allyson, Van Johnson and Louis Calhern. It is based on the 1951 Broadway play Remains to Be Seen by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Kay Lenz•Danny Aiello
Invitation (1952)
Invitation is a 1952 American melodrama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and starring Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire and Ruth Roman. Johnson and McGuire play a happily married couple, until the wife learns a secret about her husband. The film was based on the short story "R.S.V.P." by Jerome Weidman. The theme song "Invitation" has since become a...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Fionnula Flanagan
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 Technicolor drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch from the 1950 novel The Voyage of the Mayflower by Ernest Gébler. The supporting c...
Starring: Edward Herrmann•John Wood•Dianne Wiest
Washington Story (1952)
Washington Story is a 1952 American drama film directed by Robert Pirosh and starring Van Johnson and Patricia Neal. The screenplay concerns a reporter in search of government corruption who falls for a congressman.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Deborah Rush
When in Rome (1952)
When in Rome is a 1952 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, and Joseph Calleia. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was based on a story by Robert Buckner, Dorothy Kingsley, and Charles Schnee. The picture opens with the following text: ”1950 was a Holy Year. Three million pilgrims from every part of...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Lionel Barrymore
Go for Broke! (1951)
Go for Broke! is a 1951 black-and-white war film directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starring Van Johnson and six veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The film co-stars Henry Nakamura, Warner Anderson, and Don Haggerty in its large cast.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Buster Keaton
Grounds for Marriage (1951)
Grounds for Marriage is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Written and produced by Samuel Marx, the film stars Van Johnson and Kathryn Grayson.
Starring: Loretta Young•Dianne Wiest
Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, and Barry Sullivan. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Patricia Kirkwood•Dianne Wiest•Rudy Vallée
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 American comedy film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Van Johnson and June Allyson. The film, in which the 34-year-old Allyson's Cynthia Potter masquerades as a 14-year-old child prodigy, was directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Irene Dunne•Kay Lenz
The Big Hangover (1950)
The Big Hangover is a 1950 American comedy film released by MGM. The film starred Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor and was written and directed by Norman Krasna. Supporting players include Percy Waram, Fay Holden, Leon Ames, Edgar Buchanan, Selena Royle, Gene Lockhart, and Rosemary DeCamp.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Lori Nelson
Duchess of Idaho (1950)
Duchess of Idaho is a musical romantic comedy produced in 1950 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, it was the fourth film pairing Esther Williams and Van Johnson. It was filmed at the MGM Studios lot and exteriors shot in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Peter Strauss
Battleground (1949)
Battleground is a 1949 American war film that follows a company in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they cope with the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, in World War II. It stars Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, and George Murphy, features James Whitmore, and was directed by William A. Wellm...
Starring: Clark Gable•Dianne Wiest•Franchot Tone
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 American Technicolor musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It stars Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, and Buster Keaton in his first featured film role at MGM since 1933.
Starring: George Murphy•Marsha Hunt•Dianne Wiest
Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
Mother Is a Freshman is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson.
Starring: Judy Garland•Thomas Mitchell•Dianne Wiest
Scene of the Crime (1949)
Scene of the Crime is a 1949 film noir directed by Roy Rowland, starring Van Johnson, and featuring Gloria DeHaven, Arlene Dahl, and Tom Drake. The film's screenplay, by Charles Schnee, is based on a non-fiction article by John Bartlow Martin, "Smashing the Bookie Gang Marauders". It was the only property sold by Martin to be made into a film. Scen...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Frances Gifford
The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
The Bride Goes Wild is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Kay Lenz
Command Decision (1948)
Command Decision is a 1949 war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, and Brian Donlevy, and directed by Sam Wood, based on the 1948 stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling 1947 novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George Froeschel...
Starring: Vera Miles•Kathryn Grayson•Dianne Wiest
High Barbaree (1947)
High Barbaree is a 1947 American drama war film directed by Jack Conway. It stars Van Johnson and June Allyson, in the third of their six screen pairings. The screenplay based on the novel High Barbaree (1945) by authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Kay Lenz
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 American Western film directed by Roy Rowland, about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War. It stars Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, and Janet Leigh in her film debut. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor.
Starring: Faye Emerson•Dianne Wiest•Ed Asner
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: Gene Tierney•Dianne Wiest•Peter Strauss
No Leave, No Love (1946)
No Leave, No Love is a 1946 American musical film directed by Charles Martin and starring Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Pat Kirkwood.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Susan Peters
Between Two Women (1945)
Between Two Women, made in 1945, was the sixteenth film in the Dr Kildare series. This was the fourteenth of fifteen in which Lionel Barrymore starred as Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie. The film following was Dark Delusion (1947), which was the last in the Dr. Kildare series released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). This was the last of Van Johnson's charac...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Gig Young•Patricia Kirkwood
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Thrill of a Romance is an American Technicolor romance film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945, starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and Carleton G. Young, with musical performances by Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra and opera singer Lauritz Melchior. The film was directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman.
Starring: Margaret O'Brien•Dianne Wiest•Peter Strauss
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack o...
Starring: Edward Herrmann•Dianne Wiest
3 Men in White (1944)
Three Men in White is a 1944 American comedy-drama film in the Dr Kildare series directed by Willis Goldbeck. It stars Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, and Marilyn Maxwell. Ava Gardner has a supporting role.
Starring: Ricardo Montalbán•Dianne Wiest•Patricia Kirkwood
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 American musical film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Van Johnson, June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven. Set on the American homefront during World War II, it's about two singing sisters who create a lavish canteen to entertain members of the military, thanks to financial contributions from a mysterious donor. Th...
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Kay Lenz
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case is a 1943 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Based on characters created by Max Brand. The third of MGM's Dr. Gillespie series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare after Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942).
Starring: Ricardo Montalbán•Dianne Wiest•Arlene Dahl
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin, and starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, was adapted from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm, for which they were nominat...
Starring: Paul Douglas•Edward Herrmann•Dianne Wiest
Pilot No. 5 (1943)
Pilot #5 is a 1943 black-and-white World War II propaganda film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by B.P. Fineman, directed by George Sidney, that stars Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, and Van Johnson. Pilot #5 marked Gene Kelly's dramatic film debut.
Starring: Howard Keel•Lane Nakano•Dianne Wiest•Paul Douglas
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant is a 1942 feature film from MGM in their long-running Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Willis Goldbeck, it introduced two new doctors, Dr. Randall Adams and Dr. Lee Wong How.
Starring: Ricardo Montalbán•Faye Emerson•Dianne Wiest
Murder in the Big House (1942)
Murder in the Big House is a black-and-white American crime drama, released by Warner Bros in April 1942. Structured as an hour-long second feature, it is directed by the prolific specialist in low-budget action productions, B. Reeves Eason, and stars Van Johnson, who is top-billed above the title, in his first credited film role which represents t...
Starring: Susan Peters•Dianne Wiest