William Powell Movies

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

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.

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

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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

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

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....

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

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

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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...

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

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

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

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

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

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.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.