Gordon Hollingshead Movies

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine",...

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.

Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the...

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but...

A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the...

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns...

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this...

Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him....

Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war...