Grant Mitchell Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected...

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick...

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they...

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party...

Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and...

Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their...

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.