Jack Oakie Movies

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil...

A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with...

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon...

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.

Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head...

Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress...

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get...

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love...

Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

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 press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together...

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.