George Lessey Movies

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose...

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from...

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have....

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by...

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.

Robert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice, a working-class girl, and weds her in secret.