Movies: Hobart Cavanaugh

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs....

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work......

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive....

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife ...

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."...

In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is....

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract....

Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize...

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella....

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse....

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch....

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible....

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies....

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman....

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man....

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title....

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

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger....

Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde....

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success....