Hal K. Dawson Movies

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

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

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,...

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out. However, when he's found murdered,...

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

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

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

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

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"...

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

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.