Ernest Cossart Movies

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also...

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In...

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business....

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by...

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel...

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World...

Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her...