William Powell Movies

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying...

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his...

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

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...

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...