Nathaniel Shilkret Movies

Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan....

After the wealthy and married William Judson meets young, attractive Marie Skinner, he's flattered by her attention. What he fails to realize is that...

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....

Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast 4,000-square-mile parish in rural New...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of...

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of...

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different...

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples...

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child,...

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Directed by MJ Weisfeldt and starring Ranny Weeks and Eva Lorraine is a remake of the lost 1915 Theda Bara film "Two Orphans".

In this Traveltalk series short we learn that four million ethnic French, German and Italian people live in Switzerland. The Alps and their important...

At the 1991 Winkie and Munchkin Conventions, part of the programs was the 1948 Capitol Records audio-only adaptation of “Dorothy and the Wizard...

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.