William Newell Movies

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner...

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy...

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating...

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

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...

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to...

Told in flashback, Out of the Depths strives to explain why its four male protagonists are bobbing around the Pacific in a lifeboat. The story proper...

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the...

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.