Douglas Shearer Movies

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an...

Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his...

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself...

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that...

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married...

A madcap inventor tries to market a razor-less shaving cream.

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her...

The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife. This film is believed lost.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with...

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.