William Newell Movies

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial...

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her...

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous...

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get...

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

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