Biography: Louis Calhern |
Born in New York City, Louis Calhern moved to St. Louis with his family as a child. There he played high-school football, and while engaged in gridiron activity he was spotted by a theatrical manager and hired as a supernumerary in a local stage... more
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Cast: James Mason Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz
Tags: Romance Comedy Heavenly Comedy
Length: 91min
When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beat the odds against TV stars succeeding on the big screen in The Long, Long Trailer (1954), MGM contracted America's favorite couple for a second theatrical feature. Forever Darling casts Desi as Lorenzo Xavier Vega,...
Cast: Sidney Poitier Glenn Ford Richard Brooks
Tags: Teen Movie Drama Urban Drama
Length: 101min
In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in inner-city New York. However, he soon discovers the school is overrun by delinquents, led by...
Cast: Edmund Gwenn
Tags: Romance Musical Operetta Musical Romance
Length: 107min
Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the 1927 Ernst Lubitsch silent picture based on the renowned 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly, which itself...
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama Romance
Length: 115min
Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on...
Tags: Religious Drama Drama
Length: 113min
One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the then-flagging MGM studios. In its retelling of the 22-verse Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, the film helpfully fills in the story...
Cast: Clark Gable
Tags: Spy Film War Drama Action War
Length: 107min
Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War II. Intelligence agent Gable is ordered to keep tabs on suspected Nazi collaborator Lana Turner (a brunette for the occasion)....
Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
Length: 81min
Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on the US aircraft career of the same name. Van Johnson stars as Lt. Howard Thayer, while other MGM stalwarts in the cast include...
Cast: Marlon Brando Joseph L. Mankiewicz John Gielgud William Shakespeare Deborah Kerr
Tags: Tragedy Historical Epic Historical Film
Length: 121min
Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed this exquisite version of William Shakespeare's play. Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him to rise to the status of Roman dictator. But his ascent to almost God-like status has given pause to...
Cast: Janet Leigh Walter Slezak
Tags: Comedy
Length: 74min
Confidentially Connie is an MGM factory product starring Janet Leigh and Van Johnson. Upon learning she is pregnant, Leigh tries to convince her husband Johnson, a humble teacher, to find a better-paying job. But Johnson is a proud man, so much so...
Cast: Van Johnson Angela Lansbury
Tags: Comedy Mystery Crime Whodunit
Length: 89min
June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is Allyson's wealthy uncle, and since she can't account for her actions at the time of the crime,...
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