William Powell Movies

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

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

Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his...

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...

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...

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she...

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

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

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the...

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

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and...

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed...