Movies: Lee Tracy

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits....

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas....

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton......

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job....

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press....

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss....

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a reb...

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood....

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer....

A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending...

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident....

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war....

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster....

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy....

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire...

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and h...

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff...

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows un...