Frank Whitbeck was the longtime chief of publicity/exploitation at MGM. He also narrated several hundred theatrical trailers for MGM features.
Movies7.2 1940 HD
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Frank Whitbeck
Movies6.5 1937 HD
A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Dell Henderson
Movies7 1937 HD
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joseph Calleia
Movies5.8 1940 HD
This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Frank Whitbeck
Movies6.4 1939 HD
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Movies5.8 1938 HD
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Melvyn Douglas
Movies5 1940 HD
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Spencer Tracy
Movies6.7 1940 HD
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...
Genre: History
Cast: Spencer Tracy
Movies5.6 1940 HD
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Movies7.1 1940 HD
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Margaret Sullavan
Movies1 1938 HD
The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Edward Flanagan
Movies6 1944 HD
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Frank Whitbeck
Movies4.1 1942 HD
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Judy Garland
Movies5 1938 HD
This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jo Ann Sayers
Movies5.5 1940 HD
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ann Morriss
Movies7 1937 HD
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jack Dawn
Movies6.7 1940 HD
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Douglas Shearer
Movies7 1938 HD
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...
Genre:
Cast: Judy Garland
Movies1 1946 HD
This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works with her trainer.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Joe Adkinson
Movies6.1 1943 HD
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genre: Music
Cast: Judy Garland
Movies5.4 1942 HD
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Lew Ayres
Movies5 1938 HD
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew
Movies5.5 1941 HD
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Frank Whitbeck
Movies6 1937 HD
This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Louis B. Mayer
Movies1 1942 HD
In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Patricia Dane
Movies5.6 1939 HD
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...
Genre: Music
Cast: Joan Crawford
Movies7 1937 HD
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jack Dawn
Movies1 1937 HD
Genre: Documentary
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