Movies: Jerry Wald

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer....

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created....

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love....

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family....

After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their ef...

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer....

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company....

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff ...

A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career....

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show....

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base....

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married....

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police....

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation....

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base,...

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend....

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print....

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is ...

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals....