Douglas Shearer Movies

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...

Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.

Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton...

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses...

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny...

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that...