Cecil Kellaway
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1890-08-22
Locus Natus: Cape Town, South Africa
Et ut:
The Cardinal
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
release : 1963.12.12popularis : 8.179
Wuthering Heights
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged...
release : 1939.04.07popularis : 9.47
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
release : 1967.12.11popularis : 16.37
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
release : 1964.12.15popularis : 15.606
The Mummy's Hand
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...
release : 1940.09.20popularis : 15.456
Intermezzo: A Love Story
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music...
release : 1939.10.06popularis : 5.522
Portrait of Jennie
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
release : 1948.12.25popularis : 6.295
The Postman Always Rings Twice
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
release : 1946.05.02popularis : 11.594
I Married a Witch
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find...
release : 1942.10.30popularis : 7.839
Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 2.793
The House of the Seven Gables
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother...
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 3.847
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
release : 1953.06.13popularis : 10.161
The Invisible Man Returns
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
release : 1940.01.12popularis : 7.06
Getting Straight
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's,...
release : 1970.05.13popularis : 4.686
Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian,...
release : 1955.05.05popularis : 1.861
Joan of Arc
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of...
release : 1948.12.22popularis : 8.115
The Reformer and the Redhead
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
release : 1950.05.05popularis : 2.398
Easy to Wed
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head...
release : 1946.07.25popularis : 2.224
The Mummy's Tomb
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the...
release : 1942.10.23popularis : 5.291
Tammy Tell Me True
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds...
release : 1961.07.26popularis : 1.85
Female on the Beach
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn...
release : 1955.08.19popularis : 4.925
The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
release : 1940.11.21popularis : 17.646
Mrs. Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by...
release : 1944.10.12popularis : 4.414
Francis Goes to the Races
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They...
release : 1951.05.01popularis : 3.356
It Ain't Hay
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...
release : 1943.03.10popularis : 2.77
Unconquered
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a...
release : 1947.10.10popularis : 9.428
Birth of the Blues
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...
release : 1941.11.07popularis : 4.19
The Night of January 16th
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...
release : 1941.11.28popularis : 1.444
Bahama Passage
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...
release : 1941.12.10popularis : 1.605
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 2.561
The Lady Has Plans
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in...
release : 1942.01.20popularis : 1.96
The Proud Rebel
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned...
release : 1958.07.01popularis : 10.448
Francis of Assisi
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts...
release : 1961.07.12popularis : 2.686
Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...
release : 1942.05.06popularis : 3.436
Lady with Red Hair
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
release : 1940.11.30popularis : 3.319
Kitty
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...
release : 1945.10.16popularis : 4.921
Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...
release : 1942.03.05popularis : 3.857
Love Letters
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...
release : 1945.10.26popularis : 5.865
Katie Did It
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist,...
release : 1950.11.26popularis : 3.442
The Luck of the Irish
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
release : 1948.09.15popularis : 10.083
Mexican Spitfire
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a...
release : 1940.01.12popularis : 4.414
Night in New Orleans
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
release : 1942.07.01popularis : 4.267
The Cockeyed Miracle
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
release : 1946.10.26popularis : 1.77
Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...
release : 1951.05.05popularis : 3.978
Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...
release : 1947.08.29popularis : 5.669
Frenchman's Creek
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...
release : 1944.09.20popularis : 6.037
And Now Tomorrow
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
release : 1944.11.22popularis : 6.574
Adventure in Diamonds
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
release : 1940.03.08popularis : 5.366
The Decision of Christopher Blake
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson,...
release : 1948.12.23popularis : 4.067
Wise Girl
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 8.088
Down to the Sea in Ships
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard...
release : 1949.02.15popularis : 6.947
Blond Cheat
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...
release : 1938.06.17popularis : 3.884
Maid's Night Out
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom...
release : 1938.03.03popularis : 4.648
The Crystal Ball
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
release : 1943.01.22popularis : 6.952
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
release : 1942.11.07popularis : 3.058
Practically Yours
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...
release : 1944.12.20popularis : 2.902
Thunder in the East
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich....
release : 1952.12.04popularis : 6.972
This Marriage Business
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
release : 1938.04.08popularis : 2.506
My Wife's Best Friend
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 1.143
Tarnished Angel
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
release : 1938.10.28popularis : 2.198
Johnny Trouble
An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
release : 1957.09.24popularis : 2.133
Paris Model
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
release : 1953.11.10popularis : 1.928
It Isn't Done
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the...
release : 1937.02.24popularis : 0.716
Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he...
release : 1939.06.29popularis : 1.981
Toy Tiger
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's...
release : 1956.06.29popularis : 1.374
Law of the Underworld
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
release : 1938.05.06popularis : 3.144
Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 2.445
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but...
release : 1940.10.29popularis : 1.099
Everybody's Doing It
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
release : 1938.01.14popularis : 1.344
Double Danger
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston...
release : 1938.01.28popularis : 4.53
Night Spot
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality...
release : 1938.02.25popularis : 2.586
Monsieur Beaucaire
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the...
release : 1946.09.04popularis : 4.658
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.
release : 1960.01.20popularis : 2.879
Always Together
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...
release : 1947.12.10popularis : 2.732
Harvey
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few...
release : 1950.12.04popularis : 14.083
The Confession
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
release : 1964.05.22popularis : 3.164
Fitzwilly
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude...
release : 1967.12.20popularis : 5.351
Smashing the Rackets
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....
release : 1938.08.08popularis : 11.064
South of Suez
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger...
release : 1940.11.16popularis : 2.727
The Shaggy Dog
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by...
release : 1959.03.19popularis : 11.654
Small Town Deb
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
release : 1941.11.07popularis : 0.837
Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forcing the innocent man to become involved with...
release : 1939.04.01popularis : 1.033
Gunga Din
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While...
release : 1939.01.26popularis : 8.829
The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...
release : 1939.05.31popularis : 2.235
We Are Not Alone
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
release : 1939.11.25popularis : 7.25
The Hayseeds
Wealthy Mary Townleigh gets lost in the bush and hurts her ankle, but is rescued and stays with the Hayseed family. She starts a romance with their...
release : 1933.12.08popularis : 3.647
The Under-Pup
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...
release : 1939.08.31popularis : 1.27
Zotz!
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three...
release : 1962.10.03popularis : 2.187
Kim
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English...
release : 1950.12.07popularis : 6.961
Young Bess
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....
release : 1953.05.29popularis : 5.938
Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 4.932
Cruisin' Down the River
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his...
release : 1953.08.02popularis : 2.158
Burma Convoy
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
release : 1941.10.16popularis : 1.809
The Good Fellows
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he...
release : 1943.08.11popularis : 4.193
Spinout
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
release : 1966.10.06popularis : 6.834
Diamond Frontier
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
release : 1940.09.30popularis : 1.971
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
release : 1943.01.21popularis : 3.726
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his...
release : 1950.12.08popularis : 1.366
The Prodigal
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...
release : 1955.05.06popularis : 6.236
West Point Widow
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage...
release : 1941.06.20popularis : 2.43
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
Based on Charles Goodrum’s book, "I’ll Trade You an Elk." The mayor wants to close down the run-down city zoo and use the site for a...
release : 1970.10.18popularis : 1.5
A Very Young Lady
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
release : 1941.06.27popularis : 0.889
Kismet
The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical...
release : 1967.10.24popularis : 1.504
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives...
release : 1967.03.08popularis : 5.65
Just Across the Street
A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
release : 1952.06.15popularis : 2.031