The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
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My Son, My Son! (1940) Charles Vidor, Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, Drama, Romance
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten Read More »
Hired Wife (1940) William A. Seiter, Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Comedy, Romance
Cement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Read More »
A Night to Remember (1942) Richard Wallace, Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village, thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. Read More »
My Sister Eileen (1942) Alexander Hall, Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, Comedy
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Read More »
The Lady in Question (1940) Charles Vidor, Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted dependent and invites her to move into his family’s home and his son soon falls in love with her.
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Vigil in the Night (1940) George Stevens, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne, Drama
Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. Prescott, who is battling with Mr. Bowly, the chairman of the local hospital board, who also makes Anne’s life miserable. But then a virulent epidemic begins…
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Lancelot and Guinevere / Sword of Lancelot (1963) Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
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Sylvia Scarlett (1935) George Cukor
Escaping to England from a French embezzlement charge, widower Henry Scarlett is accompanied by daughter Sylvia who, to avoid detection, “disguises” herself as a boy, “Sylvester.” They are joined by amiable con man Jimmy Monkley, then, after a brief career in crime, meet Maudie Tilt, a giddy, sexy Cockney housemaid who joins them in the new venture of entertaining at resort towns from a caravan. Through all this, amazingly no one recognizes that Sylvia is not a boy…until she meets handsome artist Michael Fane, and drama intrudes on the comedy.
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