Movies by Actor - Dick Powell (58 [Missing: 4]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Blessed EventAl Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has | 1932 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (661 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
Too Busy to WorkA depression-era tramp named Jubilo goes looking for the wife that left him. While on his journey, he meets an assortment of characters. | 1932 | John G. Blystone | Drama | 6.8 (116 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
College CoachCoach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power. | 1933 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Sport | 5.8 (521 votes) | 76 | 20240530 |
Convention CityNA | 1933 | | Comedy,Music,Romance | | | Not Available |
Footlight ParadeChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 7.6 (5.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
42nd StreetWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show. | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 7.4 (11.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Gold Diggers of 1933A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 7.7 (8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
King's Vacation, TheA king finds himself with no purpose in his reign, abdicates his throne to return to the wife and child he left many years ago when he was called to duty to be the king of his country. | 1933 | John G. Adolfi | Comedy,Mystery,Romance | 6.8 (220 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
DamesA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows. | 1934 | Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Music,Musical | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Flirtation WalkA Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West | 1934 | Frank Borzage | Musical | 5.7 (715 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Happiness AheadSociety heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer. | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.7 (289 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Twenty Million SweetheartsUnscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star while Peggy, who has lost her own radio show, helps Clayton. | 1934 | Ray Enright | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 6.4 (391 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Wonder BarHarry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wa | 1934 | Lloyd Bacon | Crime,Drama,Musical | 6.6 (650 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Broadway GondolierDick Purcell is an American taxi driver who wants to become a singer promoting cheese products. Oddly he thinks the way to do it is to become a gondolier from Venice. Along the way he sings and woos a sassy secretary Alice. | 1935 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.4 (265 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Gold Diggers of 1935Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer. | 1935 | Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.9 (2.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Midsummer's Night Dream, ATwo couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest. | 1935 | William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 6.9 (3.4K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
Page Miss GloryA chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love. | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Romance | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Shipmates ForeverDick is watching the fleet come in when he sees June. Dick has no intention of joining the Navy, which is a family tradition, and June, having lost her father and brother in the Navy, does not want a Navy man. But Dick relents when h | 1935 | Frank Borzage | Drama,Musical,Romance | 6.1 (322 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Thanks a MillionEntertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes a | 1935 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.4 (226 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
ColleenThe Ames Company makes every effort to keep Uncle Cedric away from any decisions or work. This is in the best interests for him and the company. Trouble starts when he hires a schemer named Joe as his personal assistant and then a ga | 1936 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 5.9 (358 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Gold Diggers of 1937When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life. | 1936 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.5 (1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Hearts DividedNapoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour. At a Maryland H | 1936 | Frank Borzage | Drama,Romance | 6.1 (837 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Stage StruckBroadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell), a wealthy but untalented performer who is starring only because she is backing the show. Tempers flare | 1936 | Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 5.6 (312 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Hollywood HotelRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this la | 1937 | Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.4 (727 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
On the AvenueBroadway producer satirizes an important New York family. The family sues but their daughter falls in love with producer. | 1937 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.8 (590 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Singing Marine, TheBob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance | 1937 | Ray Enright | Comedy,Music,Mystery | 5.8 (249 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Varsity ShowA former student, who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student's stage show. | 1937 | William Keighley | Musical,Romance | 6.2 (438 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Cowboy from BrooklynAn actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy. | 1938 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 5.7 (306 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Going PlacesA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for. | 1938 | Ray Enright | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.0 (374 votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
Hard to GetWhen spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her | 1938 | Ray Enright | Comedy,Romance | 6.7 (615 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Naughty But NiceProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after | 1939 | Ray Enright | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 6.1 (343 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Christmas in JulyWhen the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered? | 1940 | Preston Sturges | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
I Want a DivorceComedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake. | 1940 | Ralph Murphy | Comedy,Drama | 6.0 (82 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
In The NavyRuss Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to get a | 1941 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy | 6.8 (3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Model WifeFred and Joan are a married couple working at the Benson's business. Mrs JJ Benson has a strict policy against married employees, so they keep it a secret while they save every penny as they wish to have a baby. Everything goes well | 1941 | Leigh Jason | Comedy | 6.0 (89 votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
Happy Go LuckyA gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo. | 1943 | Curtis Bernhardt | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.1 (194 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Riding HighIn order to help her father get his silver mine running, a burlesque queen returns home to Arizona and gets a job as an enterainer at a dude ranch and runs into a romantic mining engineer and a counterfeiter. | 1943 | George Marshall | Comedy | 5.1 (117 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
True to LifeA writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he b | 1943 | George Marshall | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (118 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
It Happened TomorrowA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act. | 1944 | René Clair | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Meet the PeopleA idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues. | 1944 | Charles Reisner | Comedy,Musical | 5.7 (423 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Murder My SweetAfter being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. | 1944 | Edward Dmytryk | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.6 (13K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
CorneredCanadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina. | 1945 | Edward Dmytryk | Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller | 6.7 (2.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Johnny O'ClockA high-class crook gets in trouble with the law. | 1947 | Robert Rossen | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
PitfallMarried insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result. | 1948 | André De Toth | Crime,Film-Noir,Thriller | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Rogues' RegimentA post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted. | 1948 | Robert Florey | Action,Adventure,Mystery | 6.5 (157 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Station WestAfter two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers. | 1948 | Sidney Lanfield | Western | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
To the Ends of the EarthAfter witnessing an incident on a foreign ship off California coast, a U.S. Treasury agent aboard a Coast Guard vessel decides to further investigate the matter by following a crime trail leading to China, Egypt, Lebanon and Cuba. | 1948 | Robert Stevenson | Crime,Film-Noir,Thriller | 6.9 (722 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Mrs. MikeWhile visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O'Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. They fall in love, marry, and go north to Mike's new posting. Together, they face and deal with many hardships, including crude li | 1949 | Louis King | Drama | 6.3 (131 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Reformer and the Redhead, TheHot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering local political corruption and dealing with a li | 1950 | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Comedy,Romance | 6.2 (372 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
Right CrossTwo boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury. | 1950 | John Sturges | Drama,Sport | 6.0 (445 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Cry DangerEx-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. | 1951 | Robert Parrish, Dick Powell | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Tall Target, TheA New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861. | 1951 | Anthony Mann | Adventure,Crime,Drama | 7.2 (2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
You Never Can TellAn ex-army dog inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner, and which is poisoned, asks the leader in the heaven for animals to send him back to Earth, as a human private investigator, to solve his own murder. | 1951 | Lou Breslow | Comedy,Crime,Fantasy | 7.1 (605 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Bad and the Beautiful, TheAn unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli | Drama,Romance | 7.8 (14.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Susan Slept HereA Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle. | 1954 | Frank Tashlin | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
The Road Is Open AgainNA | 1933 | | Musical,Short | | | Not Available |
Just Around the CornerNA | 1933 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
Sky SymphonyNA | 1933 | | Musical,Short | | | Not Available |