Douglas Shearer Movies

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he...

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has...

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself...

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an...

An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.