George Abbott Movies

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Vaudeville is a 1997 PBS documentary under its American Masters program. Using film clips and photos, the art and history of vaudeville (1890-1930s)...

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even...

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers'...

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win...

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

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

Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The...

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her....

Rodger & Hart's Shakespearean musical put on by the Stratford Festival in their first musical endeavor.

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff...

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young...

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio,...

The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Very early sound version of a one-act play based on the "Bishop" sequence in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables". The first filming of any portion of "Les...

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.