William Powell Movies

Documentary that explores the parallel lives, dazzling professional heights, and untimely, tragic deaths of iconic Hollywood stars Jean Harlow and...

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his...

Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers. Her rich husband, Franz, seems...

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss...

Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...