William Powell Movies

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.

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his...

Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss...

While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When...

Documentary that explores the parallel lives, dazzling professional heights, and untimely, tragic deaths of iconic Hollywood stars Jean Harlow and...

Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is...

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

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

Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.

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

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...

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

Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers. Her rich husband, Franz, seems...

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.