Douglas Shearer Movies

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses...

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the...

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...