James Gleason Movies

This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big...

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

The Falcon is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when the mysterious Rita Mara asks for his aid in disposing of a...

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized...

Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier...

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the freight-yard bulls and other drifters, find...

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

The Shannons, a vaudeville act, are performing in a New England town when the local hotel owner barges in and yanks his daughter Tessie, who is in...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

Two couples meet on the fairway for a golfing competition.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And...

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....