Hal K. Dawson Movies

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

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

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

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

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...

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.

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.