William Powell Movies

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor,...

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the...

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

Documentary that explores the parallel lives, dazzling professional heights, and untimely, tragic deaths of iconic Hollywood stars Jean Harlow and...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.