William Austin
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

It
(1927)A department store sales clerk and โit girlโ uses a dinner date with an unsuspecting suitor to get close to her new manager and man of her dreams.

Alice in Wonderland
(1933)Little Alice (Charlotte Henry) meets the Cheshire Cat (Richard Arlen), Humpty Dumpty (W.C. Fields) and other Lewis Carroll characters in a surreal world.
County Hospital
(1932)With nothing else to do, Stan pays banged-up Ollie a visit in the hospital, bringing a gift of hardboiled eggs and nuts. The wild ride at the end was intended to top the one from HOG WILD, but economic conditions dictated otherwise. After a screening at his home in 1986, Hal Roach explained, โWe tried to make a gag out of the rear projection by showing we knew the thing looked phony. โ This is the last of five shorts re-released by M-G-M in 1937, when it was fitted with a lively new musical score by Roy Shield. The production credits cards and the opening gag titles (deemed a relic of the silent era) were deleted, then the main title was modernized. Only this reissue adaptation remains today. Directed by James Parrott. With Billy Gilbert.

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
(1929)
The Private Life of Henry VIII
(1933)The complex and controversial British monarch marries five more times after breaking with the church to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon

Corsair
(1931)Fed up with the treatment by his employer and employer's daughter, a young stockbroker sets out to become a pirate on the high seas.

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
(1930)After fleeing his own funeral, the hypnotic master criminal sets out to destroy the British families he holds responsible for the death of his family.

The Gay Divorcee
(1934)Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sing, dance and find romance in one of their greatest films. While returning home from a job in Paris, American dancer Guy Holden (Astaire) is swept into a whirlwind romance with Mimi Glossop (Rogers), who thinks he is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to hasten her divorce. Features โThe Continental,โ which won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song.