Cast: Edward Everett Horton

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Cary Grant · Priscilla Lane · Peter Lorre · Raymond Massey

Synopsis In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), a drama critic discovers his sweet but eccentric aunts have a sinister secret involving their charitable acts. As he prepares for his wedding, he uncovers their macabre hobby, leading to chaotic and darkly comedic...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Herbert Marshall · Miriam Hopkins · Kay Francis · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis In Venice, Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a pickpocket pretending to be a countess, meets the famous thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), who is posing as a Baron, and they fall in love. Gaston robs aristocrat François Fileba and flees with Lily...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Melvyn Douglas · Herbert Marshall · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Bored and neglected by her husband, the British nobleman Sir Frederick Barker, Maria angrily sets off to Paris without telling her husband. There she meets Anthony Halton, an American with whom she dines and visits the Parisian sights. But when...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution. He leaves the airport in the...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan

Synopsis Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick

Synopsis In Top Hat (1935), a charming American dancer, Jerry Travers, travels to London to star in a new show. There, he meets the lovely Dale Tremont, and their instant spark leads to a whirlwind of romantic misunderstandings. After Jerry's tap-dancing...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Gary Cooper · Claudette Colbert · David Niven · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Michael Brandon is a spoilt millionaire who has had seven wives, all attracted to his fortune. Visiting a shop in the Riviera, he meets and is rebuffed by Nicole de Loiselle, the daughter of impoverished French parents with noble origins....

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both men are immediately smitten by the girl, she can't make...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Lillian Gish · John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Roy D'Arcy

Synopsis It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Rodolphe...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Edward Everett Horton · Una Merkel

Synopsis Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves to Paris in the quest to find a husband, the...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady

Synopsis Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent. The plot is really...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Robert Montgomery · Evelyn Keyes · Claude Rains · Rita Johnson

Synopsis Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a dying criminal reveals the location of hidden treasure to a group of strangers. This sparks a frenzied, cross-country race as greed takes over, with each participant resorting to outrageous schemes...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Eric Blore

Synopsis Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Linda Darnell · Edward Everett Horton · Anna Lee

Synopsis In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Lionel Atwill · Cesar Romero · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Coquettish Spanish vixen Concha (Marlene Dietrich) toys with long-suffering lover "Pasqualito" (Lionel Atwill, in a surprisingly sympathetic role for once) while entertaining the advances of hot-blooded revolutionary Cesar Romero, in what would prove to be the last of the Dietrich/von...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Mary Astor · Robert Ames · John Halliday · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Sexist tale in which Mrs. Nancy Gibson is blamed for husband Donald's philandering because she takes a trip without him. To make him jealous, she turns her attentions to another man (Sir Guy Harrington).

Direction James Whale

Cast Brian Aherne · Olivia de Havilland · Edward Everett Horton · Melville Cooper