William Powell Movies

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

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...

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

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

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

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

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

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...

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...

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an...

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...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's...