Ernest Truex Movies

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become...

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and...

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

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

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.