William Demarest Movies

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than s...

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the...

A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is i...

A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on...

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes),prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance wh...

The Crash (1928)

A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...

William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to his daughter Betty and wife, writ...

Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental...

Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for...

Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But...

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual...

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.