Movies: William Powell

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

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The on...

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the ...

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue....

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

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process....

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and ...

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 Captain Morton....

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

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 numbers....

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....

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

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

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....

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Ha...

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner...

After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband....

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

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