Melville Cooper Movies

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...

When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle...

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at...

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.