Billie Burke
19 titles
Filmography
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Eternally Yours
(1939)A clergyman's daughter is swept off her feet by a debonair magician. But when the magic wears off, she attempts a disappearing act of her own.

The Boy From Indiana
(1950)An affable wannabe sportswriter befriends a gambler who fixes horse races, but when a scheme targets a wealthy rancher, he steps in to stop it.

Sergeant Rutledge
(1960)A proud cavalry soldier (Golden Globe-nominee Woody Strode - "The Professionals," "Spartacus") and former slave is accused of rape and murder but defended during a court martial by his superior officer. Directed by four time Academy Award-winner and Golden Globe-winner John Ford ("The Quiet Man," "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Searchers").

The Barkleys of Broadway
(1949)After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and smoothly directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many sources, mirrors real-life creative tensions the two shared. Astaire plays driven hoofer Josh Barkley. Rogers is his wife, Dinah, who longs to forsake the clackety-clap-tapping of Bouncin' the Blu...

Topper Returns
(1941)When fun-loving Gail is mistakenly murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend, her ghost seeks aid from Topper to find the killer.
Topper
(1937)George (Cary Grant) and Marion Kerby (Constance Bennett) are a young, happy-go-lucky couple who love to party. But after a car accident kills them both, they discover that they haven't done enough good deeds to earn a trip to heaven. To remedy this problem, they decide to help their old uptight boss, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), live a little. While Topper begins to take their ghostly advice and enjoy life for a change, his controlling wife finds her husband's laid-back behavior infuriating.

Navy Blue and Gold
(1937)Three very different young men find themselves rooming together during their first year at the Naval Academy of Annapolis. Here they learn the real meaning of teamwork and competition.

They All Kissed the Bride
(1942)While running her late father’s trucking company with an iron fist, Margaret falls for a reporter intent on exposing her ruthless business practices.

Merrily We Live
(1938)Handsome gentleman vagabond Wade Rawlins shows up on the doorstep of flighty society matron Billie Burke who hires him as a butler and chauffeur.
Hullabaloo
(1940)Eager to make a name in radio, ex-vaudevillian Frank Merriweather (Frank Morgan) hits the airwaves by playing all the roles in a skit about Martian invaders. He plays the parts too well, raising panic in the streets and causing station brass to fire him. Hullabaloo's spoof of the Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds radio event is an antic highlight of this movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather's attempt to restore his career – all while reuniting with his three children (from his three alimony-seeking ex-wives!). Joining Morgan for the fun is a mix of screen veterans (Billie Burke, Donald Meek), rising talents (Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Jr.) and specialty performers that include deadpan song stylist Virginia O'Brien and 31-year-old tenor Charles Holland as a singing bellhop. Holland would find operatic success in Europe and make his long-overdue debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 73.

Father of the Bride
(1950)Oscar-winner Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") received his fourth nomination as an exasperated banker who has misgivings about his engaged daughter's groom. Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "National Velvet") portrays the daughter.

Father's Little Dividend
(1951)Shortly after coming to terms with his daughter's marriage, dad must adjust to his new role as a grandfather in this sequel to Father of the Bride.

Hi Diddle Diddle
(1943)When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

Forsaking All Others
(1934)Here comes the bride - there goes the groom! The night before Mary Clay's (Joan Crawford) wedding, her flaky fiancé Dillon elopes with someone else. Mary's friend Jeff grabs his chance to buck up the jilted bride - and pitch some woo. Then Dillon reenters Mary's life and she must choose between the two men. Since Clark Gable plays Jeff and Robert Montgomery plays Dillon, it's a choice any woman would love to make! The three stars prove marriage is a funny affair in this snappy, sophisticated comedy. Director W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man), scriptwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) and supporting comedy virtuosos Rosalind Russell, Billie Burke and Arthur Treacher put extra sparkle in the wedding punch.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1941)After an accident, a literary critic recovers at the home of the family he was visiting, but his unplanned stay turns their lives upside down.

Breakfast in Hollywood
(1946)The host of a radio program plays Cupid to a discharged serviceman and a young woman with a far-off fiancé who meet at his Hollywood restaurant.

The Wizard of Oz
(1939)Farm girl Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfil the others' wishes.

In This Our Life
(1942)Spoiled heiress Stanley Timerlake seduces and steals her sister's husband, driving him to alcoholism and suicide. Returning home, she kills a mother and daughter in a hit-and-run, then blames the crime on an innocent servant while feeling no remorse.

Small Town Girl
(1953)Sentenced to 30 days cooling his heels in the Duck Creek cooler for speeding, Rick Belrow decides he doesn’t like anything about small towns until he meets small town girl Cindy.