Biography: Tom Ewell |
His parents wanted him to be lawyer, but S. Yewell Tompkins decided instead to major in liberal arts at the University of Wisconsin. A professional actor from 1928, he toured in stock companies then spent several lean years in New York, during which... more
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Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Bernard Herrmann Henry King Joan Fontaine Jennifer Jones
Tags: Romance Drama Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 146min
David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's -Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th...
Length: 100min
Terror at Alcatraz indeed! This 1982 TV movie is comprised of two never-shown pilot episodes for the short-lived TV series Fitz and Bones, which was telecast for a couple of months in 1981. Tom and Dick Smothers star as Fitz and Bones, a TV news team...
The Great American Pastime (1956)
Cast: Ann Miller
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 89min
Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league team, much to the dismay of his wife (Anne Francis), who can't stand baseball. Ewell finds that he must contend with pushy...
Cast: Julie London
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Rock Musical
Length: 99min
The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that is) in The Girl Can't Help It. Much of the film is dominated by Edmond O'Brien as mob boss Murdock, who while serving a term in...
Cast: Ann-Margret José Ferrer
Tags: Americana Musical Comedy Musical
Length: 118min
This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the traditional setting in rural Iowa. This film version contains five extra songs written exclusively by Richard Rodgers. Box...
Cast: Marilyn Monroe Billy Wilder
Tags: Sex Comedy Urban Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 105min
Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd...
Cast: Lou Costello Henry Mancini Bud Abbott Bruce Cabot
Tags: Comedy Slapstick Adventure Comedy
Length: 87min
One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not A&C's worst film, it's several miles removed from their best. Cast as firemen in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Bud and...
Tags: Comedy Action Military Comedy Spy Film
Length: 87min
Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the principal characters are woebegone GIs Willie and Joe: Tom Ewell is back as Willie, but Harvey Lembeck replaces David Wayne as Joe....
Cast: David Wayne
Length: 92min
Up Front is based on the wartime newspaper cartoons by Stars and Stripes contributor Bill Mauldin. Tom Ewell and David Wayne play Willie and Joe, the mud-caked, unshaven, war-weary protagonists of Mauldin's classic panels. The film is on the right...
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
Cast: Rita Moreno Frank Tashlin
Tags: Comedy Military Comedy Farce Slapstick
Length: 99min
Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer....
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