Ernest Truex Movies

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get...

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

A rebellious young inductee has trouble toeing the line until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and...

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she...

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.