Hal K. Dawson Movies

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by...

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

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

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.