Hal K. Dawson Movies

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope"...

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his...

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.