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Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his...
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42nd Street
42nd Street is a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour,...
Cornered
Cornered (1945) is a film noir starring Dick Powell and directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Adrian Scott. This is the second teaming of Powell and Dmytryk (after Murder, My Sweet).
Many scenes shot by cinematographer Harry J. Wild and Dmytryk...
Cry Danger
Cry Danger is a 1951 film noir thriller shot in twenty-two days in Los Angeles, including the Bunker Hill section of the city. The film was directed by Robert Parrish.
Dick Powell plays bookie Rocky Mulloy, who was sentenced to life in prison for a...
Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade (1933) is a Warner Bros. musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The movie was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour...
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Ginger...
Gold Diggers of 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. movie musical directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Winifred Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh. The film is best known for the...
Johnny O'Clock
Johnny O'Clock (1947) is a American crime film noir directed by Robert Rossen and written by Robert Rossen, based on a story written by Milton Holmes. The drama features Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, among others.
Slick, egotistical Johnny...
Murder, My Sweet
Murder, My Sweet (1944) is a film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley. The film was originally released in the United Kingdom under the title Farewell, My Lovely, which is the title of the 1940...
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Pitfall
Pitfall is a black-and-white 1948 film noir drama directed by André De Toth. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Jay Dratler, and was titled Tragedia a Santa Monica for its Italian release.. The drama features Dick Powell, Lizabeth...
Riding High
Riding High (1943) was a Technicolor film starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour played a city girl who goes out West to star in a nightclub act and meets gold prospector Powell.
Flirtation Walk
Flirtation Walk is a 1934 black and white American musical romance about a soldier (Dick Powell) who falls in love with the general's daughter (Ruby Keeler), but her father ships her off before their relationship can blossom. The film was nominated...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from the play by William Shakespeare.
Many of the actors in this...
Dames
Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs...
Right Cross
Right Cross is a 1950 drama film directed by John Sturges, written by Armand Deutsch and starring June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Dick Powell, Lionel Barrymore, and (in a small role) Marilyn Monroe.
The dramatic score for the film was composed by...
It Happened Tomorrow
It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 fantasy film starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and Sig Ruman. It was directed by René Clair.
Powell plays a reporter who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man, a...
Christmas in July
Christmas in July is a 1940 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges based on his 1931 play A Cup of Coffee. It was Sturges' second film as writer-director, after The Great McGinty, and stars Dick Powell and Ellen Drew.
Jimmy...
Varsity Show
Varsity Show is a 1937 feature film from Warner Brothers about a group of students at "Winfield College" who butt heads with their faculty advisor while producing an annual stage show.
The film was directed by William Keighley from a script by Jerry...
In The Navy
In The Navy is a 1941 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
Popular crooner Russ Raymond (Dick Powell) abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts (Claire Dodd), a...
Wonder Bar
Wonder Bar is a 1934 pre-code movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. It stars Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee,...
Susan Slept Here
Susan Slept Here (1954) is a romantic comedy film starring Dick Powell (in his last film role) and Debbie Reynolds. It was based on the play of the same name by Steve Fisher and Alex Gottlieb. The film's plotline was later used again by director...
College Coach
College Coach (UK title Football Coach) is a 1933 film starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak. This would be John Wayne's last bit-part role.
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is a MGM melodramatic film, directed by Vincente Minnelli, which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, and...
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Twenty Million Sweethearts is a 1934 American musical film comedy directed by Ray Enright. The film stars Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.
The film was remade in 1949 starring Doris Day and Jack Carson as My Dream Is Yours.
Agent Russell...
Hearts Divided
Hearts Divided is a 1936 musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It starred Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple. The film was a remake of the 1928...
Colleen
Colleen is a 1936 Warner Bros. musical film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Joan Blondell.
Colleen is the manager of a dress shop named "The Ames Company", owned by Donald Ames. They trie to keep Uncle Cedric away...
I Want a Divorce
I Want a Divorce is a 1940 Paramount comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy. The story is written by Frank Butler and stars the married Joan Blondell and Dick Powell.
Alan and Geraldine MacNally are a married couple who are doubting if they did the...
On the Avenue
On the Avenue is a 1937 musical film starring Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, and Alice Faye. All of the songs in this film were composed by Irving Berlin.
Gary Blake (Powell) stars in a new show, On the Avenue, with Mona Merrick (Faye). The show...
Page Miss Glory
Paging Miss Glory is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, and Dick Powell. It was based on the play of the same name by Joseph Schrank and Phillip Dunning.
Country girl Loretta Dalrymple (Marion Davies) arrives in New...
Meet the People
Meet the People was a 1944 MGM patriotic film made during World War II with Lucille Ball and Dick Powell about a woman who works at a factory.
It features Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra, as well as Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
The phrase ...
Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a 1936 Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, and Victor Moore. The film...
Convention City
Convention City (1933) is a pre-Code film produced by First National and released by Warner Bros. It was later banned by the Hollywood Production Code. No copies of the film are known to exist, making it the last missing feature from First National...
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American film.
Ronald Reagan starred in the film.
Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified of animals, ends up broke along with his two musical partners at Hardy's Dude Ranch in Two Bits, Wyoming. The Hardys...
Hollywood Party
Hollywood Party is a musical film starring Jimmy Durante. It was directed by Roy Rowland and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was not a financial or critical success and is mostly remembered today because it features 31 stars such as...
Thanks A Million
Thanks a Million is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen, and features Patsy Kelly, David Rubinoff and Paul Whiteman and his band with singer...
Hollywood Hotel
Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American film, directed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, and Ted Healy. Ronald Reagan and Benny Goodman also appear.
Louella Parsons, a famous gossip columnist, created the concept of...
