Hal K. Dawson Movies

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by...

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob...

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.