Ernest Truex Movies

A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.

The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

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

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

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous...

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

A young American broker at large in London.

Ernest Truex's wife is in the hospital to give birth to their first child, and she wants him there. But his boss, Montagu Love, is in a typically...