Movies by Actor - Jack Carson (79 [Missing: 14]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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High FlyersTwo men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very | 1937 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy,Crime,Musical | 6.0 (177 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Stand-inA New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio. | 1937 | Tay Garnett | Comedy,Romance | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Too Many WivesBetty Jackson, a socialite, and Barry Trent are attracted to each other upon first sight. They met running into each other in the park as they walked their respective dogs day after day. Betty doesn't know what Barry does for a livin | 1937 | Ben Holmes | Comedy | 5.6 (120 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
CarefreeA psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else. | 1938 | Mark Sandrich | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Crashing HollywoodAn ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be better than starting a duck farm. Things get | 1938 | Lew Landers | Comedy,Crime | 6.0 (247 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Having Wonderful TimeTeddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland. | 1938 | Alfred Santell | Comedy,Romance | 6.0 (826 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Mr. Doodle Kicks OffEllory Bugs has offered a huge donation to his old alma mater, Taylor Tech, which is to be paid only if his son, Jimmie "Doodle" Bugs, becomes a football hero. But "Doodle" tips the scales at 143 pounds and is more interested in the | 1938 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 3.8 (67 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Night SpotNA | 1938 | | Comedy,Crime,Film-Noir | | | Not Available |
Quick MoneyBluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to | 1937 | Edward Killy | Comedy | 5.9 (113 votes) | 59 | 20220414 |
Saint in New York, TheSimon Templar, the Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of "the Big Fellow" takes him through many dangerous situations. | 1938 | Ben Holmes | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.3 (914 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
This Marriage BusinessNA | 1938 | | Adventure,Comedy,Crime | | | Not Available |
Vivacious LadyA professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home. | 1938 | George Stevens | Comedy,Romance | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
The Honeymoon's OverNA | 1939 | | Comedy,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
I Take This WomanA doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a suicidal woman (Hedy Lamarr) but begins to doubt her fidelity. | 1940 | W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.4 (655 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
The Kid from TexasNA | 1939 | | Comedy,Romance,Sport | | | Not Available |
Alias the DeaconA hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game. | 1940 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure,Comedy | 5.5 (20 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Girl in 313A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. | 1940 | Ricardo Cortez | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 5.9 (80 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
Love Thy NeighborJack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also en route to the dock to meet | 1940 | Mark Sandrich | Comedy,Musical | 6.5 (144 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Lucky PartnersTwo strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings". | 1940 | Lewis Milestone | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.4 (909 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Queen of the MobMobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas Eve, Ma, George and her sons Eddie, Charlie | 1940 | James P. Hogan | Crime,Drama | 6.7 (56 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Sandy Gets Her ManFireman Bill Carey and police officer Tom Gerrity are rivals for the hand of Nan Clark. Each hopes to marry Nan so that her father, Councilman Clark, the city finance commissioner, will award their respective departments huge appropr | 1940 | Otis Garrett, Paul Gerard Smith | Comedy | 5.6 (47 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Shooting HighA movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead. The grandson's friend scares the actor out of town so he can get the role. | 1940 | Alfred E. Green | Drama,Music,Western | 5.8 (122 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Blues in the Night"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play 'blues' music. The dedication is | 1941 | Anatole Litvak | Crime,Drama,Music | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Bride Came COD, TheA financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader. | 1941 | William Keighley | Comedy,Romance | 7.0 (3.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Love CrazyA wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding. | 1941 | Jack Conway | Comedy,Romance | 7.4 (3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Mr. & Mrs. SmithA couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid. | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock | Comedy,Romance | 6.4 (10.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Navy BluesOn a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. Wha | 1941 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 5.9 (291 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Strawberry Blonde, TheQuick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh | Comedy,Romance | 7.3 (3.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Gentleman JimAs bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world. | 1942 | Raoul Walsh | Biography,Drama,Romance | 7.6 (3.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Hard Way, TheEmbittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister. | 1943 | Vincent Sherman | Drama,Musical,Romance | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Larceny, Inc.Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... | 1942 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy | 7.3 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Male Animal, TheIt's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six years of alumnus All-American Joe Ferguson, w | 1942 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy,Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Wings for the EagleAircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle. | 1942 | Lloyd Bacon | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 5.8 (282 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Princess O'RourkeA pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess. | 1943 | Norman Krasna | Comedy,Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Arsenic And Old LaceA Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. | 1944 | Frank Capra | Comedy,Crime,Thriller | 8.0 (69.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Doughgirls, TheWhile sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid. | 1944 | James V. Kern | Comedy | 6.2 (642 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Hollywood CanteenTwo soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place. | 1944 | Delmer Daves | Comedy,Music,Romance | 7.2 (2.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
Make Your Own BedWalter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. The only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to t | 1944 | Peter Godfrey | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 5.5 (319 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Shine on Harvest MoonBiographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. | 1944 | David Butler | Biography,Musical,Romance | 6.4 (363 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Mildred PierceA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter. | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.0 (25K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Roughly SpeakingIn 1902, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. Although the two have little in comm | 1945 | Michael Curtiz | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.0 (709 votes) | 117 | 20220414 |
One More TomorrowShiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party--until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine which opposes everything his family represen | 1946 | Peter Godfrey | Drama,Romance | 6.4 (458 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Time, the Place and the Girl, TheThe stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies man, Jeff | 1946 | David Butler | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.0 (294 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Two Guys From MilwaukeeIn the midst of a political vote, a Balkan prince comes to New York City to observe "ordinary" life, where he befriends a cabby and falls for his girlfriend. | 1946 | David Butler | Comedy | 6.3 (510 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Live, Love and LearnA wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business. | 1947 | Frederick De Cordova | Comedy,Music | 6.0 (136 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
So You Want to Be in PicturesNA | 1947 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
April ShowersThe 'Two Tymes', Joe and June, need to change up their dogeared vaudeville act - fast. Cue their son Buster; a cocky hoofer who bolts from boarding school and joins them, propelling the trio into the big time. But success brings trou | 1948 | James V. Kern | Musical | 6.0 (333 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Romance on the High SeasRomantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity. | 1948 | Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 7.0 (2.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Two Guys from TexasTwo performers become stranded in Texas after their car breaks down, and become embroiled in criminal and romantic misadventures. | 1948 | David Butler, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin | Comedy,Musical,Western | 5.8 (347 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
It's a Great FeelingA waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when two actors agree to help her. | 1949 | David Butler | Comedy,Music | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
John Loves MaryA GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else | 1949 | David Butler | Comedy | 6.2 (444 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
My Dream Is YoursAn agent must search for a new personality to replace a popular singer who refuses to renew his radio contract. He finds one in the form of a single mother, but complications soon occur. | 1949 | Michael Curtiz, Friz Freleng | Comedy,Music,Musical | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Bright LeafIn 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes. | 1950 | Michael Curtiz | Drama,Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Good Humor Man, TheAn ice-cream seller unwittingly gets involved with a femme-fatale, leading to murder-charges, gangsters and factory payroll robberies. | 1950 | Lloyd Bacon | Action,Adventure,Comedy | 6.5 (398 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Groom Wore Spurs, TheAn attorney is hired to keep a dumb cowboy out of trouble. | 1951 | Richard Whorf | Comedy | 5.3 (340 votes) | 81 | 20220414 |
Mister UniverseA gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter. He wins match after match, legitimately, and then balks when he is told he must lose a match, as all in the p | 1951 | Joseph Lerner | Comedy,Romance,Sport | 6.7 (63 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Dangerous When WetA young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel. | 1953 | Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.3 (948 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Phffft!While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into one another all over town. | 1954 | Mark Robson | Comedy,Romance | 6.6 (1.6K votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
Red GartersA man visits a frontier town seeking to avenge his brother's murder. | 1954 | George Marshall | Musical,Western | 5.9 (400 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Star is Born, AA film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. | 1954 | George Cukor | Drama,Musical,Romance | 7.6 (17.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
Ain't MisbehavinRowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her. | 1955 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 5.7 (141 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Bottom of the Bottle, TheIn the border town of Nogales, Arizona, a wealthy attorney and rancher is solicited by his escaped convict brother in aiding him to cross the border into Mexico where his wife and children are living in poverty. | 1956 | Henry Hathaway | Drama | 6.5 (281 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Magnificent RoughnecksNA | 1956 | | Comedy,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
Tarnished Angels, TheStory of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot. | 1957 | Douglas Sirk | Action,Adventure,Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Tattered Dress, TheWhen top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for a man who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case. | 1957 | Jack Arnold | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.6 (475 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. | 1958 | Richard Brooks | Drama | 8.0 (48.7K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
Rally Round the Flag BoysAll about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an Army missile base in their backyard. | 1958 | Leo McCarey | Comedy | 6.0 (1.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Bramble Bush, TheA handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. However, his friend wants to die because he is suffering so much from his illness, and he manages to convince t | 1960 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | 5.5 (235 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
King of the Roaring 20'sThe story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein. | 1961 | Joseph M. Newman | Biography,Crime,Drama | 5.7 (275 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
A Rented RiotNA | 1937 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
Food and MagicNA | 1943 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
The Road to VictoryNA | 1944 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
The SoundmanNA | 1950 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
How to Operate Behind Enemy LinesA training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc. | 1944 | John Ford | Drama,War | 6.1 (391 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Picketing for LoveNA | 1938 | | Comedy,Musical,Short | | | Not Available |
Harris in the SpringNA | 1937 | | Comedy,Musical,Romance | | | Not Available |
This Is... Jack CarsonNA | 2020 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
Camera AnglesNA | 1948 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
Shining Future, TheStar-studded propaganda short aimed at persuading Canadians to buy Victory Bonds. A 1960 family looks back at 1944. | 1944 | LeRoy Prinz | Music,Musical,Short | 6.2 (55 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |