The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Walter Lang
Casts & Crew
John Barrymore
Mary Beth Hughes
Gregory Ratoff
John Payne
Anne Baxter
Lionel Atwill
Edward Brophy
Willie Fung
Joan Valerie
Charles Lane
Dorothy Dearing
Marc Lawrence
Hal K. Dawson
William Pawley
Eddie Dunn
James Flavin
Paul Brochard
Ralph Brooks
Robert Conway
Sidney De Gray
John Dilson
George Dobbs
John Elliott
John Hiestand
Arthur Stuart Hull
Arthur Stuart Hull
Bert Moorhouse
William Newell
The Pina Troupe
Russell Saunders
Robert Shaw
Brick Sullivan
Stanley Taylor
Billy Wayne
Larry Wheat
Also Directed by Walter Lang
In this fast-paced remake of the Muarice Chavlier vehicle Folies Bergere, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarries because of the pleading of his people. His new queen is a beautiful, but evil woman who soon becomes jealous of Snow White's beauty.
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Jimmy Stewart's Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Released on July 24, 1927
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.