Douglas Shearer Movies

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

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...

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her...

Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his...

A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.

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...

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen...

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

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

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.

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...

A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.

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.