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1. Rock and Doris (try to) Write a Movie
Comedy | Completed
Rock Randall and his writing partner Doris Adams are desperate to break away from the drab routine of writing television sitcoms in order to focus on creating a feature film script. Freeman... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schlesinger | Stars: Marilu Henner, Joe Regalbuto, Sara Ballantine, Phil Baron
2. George M Cohan Tonight!
100 min | Musical | Completed
The spirit of George M Cohan periodically returns to the stages of his past triumphs, be they still a working theater, or else an abandoned void, to tell his story to anyone who can hear.
Director: Jon Peterson | Star: Jon Peterson
3. The Beetle!
Comedy, Horror | Announced
Billy Magee, a writer with a bizarre medical condition, has about 24 hours left to live and meet his last deadline. He travels to the remote Baldpate Inn for seclusion to complete his task, only to find himself interrupted and not alone.
Director: David Alan Ruben
4. Give My Regards (2024)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Musical, Sci-Fi
Space freighter captain Irina Ivanova must rescue her uncle/pilot from an attack of brain-eating worms. To keep his spirits up, she keeps him singing one of his favorite Broadway tunes.
Director: Tony Jonick | Stars: Andrea Lea Martzipan, Michael Patrick Gaffney, $anchez, Joel Griffin
5. Vinny Vino (2010)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Bordering on the absurd, this trailer-style comedy takes a look at a trigger-happy New York mob boss who needs to decide between blood... and wine.
Director: Bill Sorice | Stars: Vince Bandille, George Morafetis, Paul Bomba, Bobby Guarino
Votes: 13
6. House of the Long Shadows (1983)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An American author finds a dilapidated Welsh manor perfect for writing until the residents host a bizarre family reunion.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Votes: 4,620
7.
Broadway on Showtime (1979– )
Episode:
Little Johnny Jones
(1980)
Comedy, Drama, Horror
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jack Bittner, Maureen Brennan, Jane Galloway, Anna McNeely
8. Broadway on Showtime (1979– )
Comedy, Drama, Horror
Theatrical performances from Broadway are presented for TV.
Stars: Ernie Sabella, Ronald E. House, Marjoe Gortner, Brandis Kemp
9. George M! (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
The life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway."
Directors: Martin Charnin, Walter C. Miller | Stars: Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Jack Cassidy, Red Buttons
Votes: 43
10.
The DuPont Show of the Week (1961–1964)
Episode:
Seven Keys to Baldpate
(1962)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Magee, a writer, holes up at an isolated place in the country, Baldpate, where he hopes to have enough peace and quiet to complete a book. Unfortunately, some very alarming characters want to use the same place for less worthy endeavors.
Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Bruce Gordon, Jayne Meadows, Loring Smith
11.
Camera Three (1955–1980)
Episode:
Scenes from Plays
(1962)
Drama
Rosemary Harris and George Grizzard perform scenes from three plays: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The School for Scandal;" Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull;" and George Cohan's "The Tavern."
12. The DuPont Show of the Week (1961–1964)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An anthology weekly drama series.
Stars: Walter Matthau, Frank McGee, Art Carney, Gene Wilder
Votes: 185
13.
Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode:
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
(1959)
Drama, History, Music
The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
Directors: Gower Champion, William A. Graham | Stars: Larry Blyden, David Burns, Michael Clarke-Lawrence, Alistair Cooke
14.
Producers' Showcase (1954–1957)
Episode:
Mr. Broadway
(1957)
90 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy
Biography of Broadway impresario George M. Cohan.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Mickey Rooney, James Dunn, Roberta Sherwood, Gloria DeHaven
15. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
16.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
Pigeons and People
(1955)
60 min | Drama
A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Edward Andrews, Margaret Barker, Gage Clarke, Betty Furness
17. Producers' Showcase (1954–1957)
90 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy
This program aired once every fourth week, and was one of the most costly live shows of the 1950s. Many stars appeared on this show.
Stars: Cyril Ritchard, Claire Bloom, Mary Martin, David Wayne
Votes: 186
18. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
19. Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
This syndicated show presented adaptations of Broadway shows.
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Ernest Truex
Votes: 37
20.
Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
Episode:
Seven Keys to Baldpate
(1952)
Comedy, Drama
An American author finds a dilapidated Welsh manor perfect for writing until the residents host a bizarre family reunion.
Star: Buddy Ebsen
21. Studio One (1948–1958)
60 min | Drama
A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair
Votes: 330
22. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
Passed | 64 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A mystery writer gets caught up in a real mystery when he accepts a bet to write a book at Baldpate, a remote inn.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 446
23. Stiliga Augusta (1946)
78 min | Comedy
The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid.
Director: Elof Ahrle | Stars: Åke Grönberg, Emy Hagman, Ingrid Backlin, Bengt Logardt
Votes: 38
24. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1946 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Mystery
Stars: Vinton Hayworth, Eva Condon, Vaughn Taylor, Neal O'Malley
Votes: 10
25. The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy
A compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.
Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 352
26. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Votes: 16,881 | Gross: $11.80M
27. Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Douglas McPhail
Votes: 723
28. Ladies Must Live (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Comedy, Romance
When actress Pat Halliday gets out of a jam with the help of farmer Corey Lake, she invites him to come see her sometime in the big city. Corey, who is actually a millionaire who dabbles in... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Lee Patrick, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 97
29. The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets ... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson, William Demarest
Votes: 146
30. Times Square Playboy (1936)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama
A stock broker's best man thinks the bride-to-be and her family are just out for the groom's money, so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Warren William, June Travis, Barton MacLane, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 250
31. Song and Dance Man (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Musical
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Claire Trevor, Paul Kelly, Michael Whalen, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 45
32. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Directors: William Hamilton, Edward Killy | Stars: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 321
33. Gambling (1934)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The adopted daughter of New-York-City gambler, Al Draper, elopes from quarantine (key plot word) with another voyager from Europe. Later she is found murdered in a hotel room. Draper is ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George M. Cohan, Wynne Gibson, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton
34. Sons of the Desert (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch
Votes: 9,591
35. Elmer, the Great (1933)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Votes: 602
36. The Miracle Man (1932)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris, Robert Coogan, John Wray
Votes: 210
37. The Phantom President (1932)
78 min | Comedy, Musical
A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier
Votes: 187
38. The Great Lover (1931)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with her. To complicate matters, ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Irene Dunne, Ernest Torrence, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 230
39. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)
72 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. Peace and quiet are last things he gets, though, as there are some very strange things going on at the establishment.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 438
40. Fast Company (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Sport
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Jack Oakie, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Sam Hardy
Votes: 26
41. Little Johnny Jones (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cohan comedy about a jockey.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward Buzzell, Alice Day, Edna Murphy, Robert Edeson
Votes: 25
42. Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter (1929)
Drama
Directors: Ernst Laemmle, Joseph Levigard | Stars: Olaf Fønss, June Marlowe, Inge Landgut, Olga Engl
43. The Home Towners (1928)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of Vic Arnold (Richard Bennett), a man who falls in love with Beth Calhoun (Doris Kenyon), a girl half his age, much to the disapproval of an elderly friend, P.H. Bancroft (Robert... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert McWade, Gladys Brockwell
44. The Baby Cyclone (1928)
70 min | Comedy
"Lest you think this picture is a mystery thriller you should know that the baby cyclone is a dog--assuming that a Pekingese is really an honest to goodness dog. Neither the husband nor the... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Robert Armstrong, Gwen Lee
Votes: 13
45. The Song and Dance Man (1926)
70 min | Drama
Happy Farrell is caught trying to hold up two men--Charles Nelson, theatrical producer, and Joseph Murdock, a rich artist. He exonerates himself by relating his tribulations as a ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Tom Moore, Bessie Love, Harrison Ford, Norman Trevor
46. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925)
66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
William Magee, author, returns from Europe and declares that instead of writing while he was there he was buying presents for Mary Norton, daughter of his publisher, to whom he is engaged. ... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Edith Roberts, Anders Randolf, Crauford Kent
Votes: 19
47. George Washington, Jr. (1924)
60 min | Comedy
A senator is trying to get his niece to marry a foreign count. The senator's teenage son finds out that the count is not only a phony, but an international criminal. The boy sets out to ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Wesley Barry, Gertrude Olmstead, Léon Bary, Heinie Conklin
48. The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Bert Lytell is a kind lawyer who decides to get tough after losing all his clients but he discovers it's not that easy to be mean.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Lytell, Blanche Sweet, Bryant Washburn, Marion Aye
49. Little Johnny Jones (1923)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart to make him throw the race. Will he succeed?
Directors: Johnny Hines, Arthur Rosson | Stars: Johnny Hines, Wyndham Standing, Margaret Seddon, Herbert Prior
50. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
Con-men Wallingford and Chester decide to pull the money from a small town by posing as business men looking for an opportunity to invest. With the town's money they build a factory to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Sam Hardy, Norman Kerry, Doris Kenyon, Diana Allen