Hal K. Dawson Movies

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of...

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

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