Charles Coburn
24 titles
Filmography
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The Devil and Miss Jones
(1941)John P Merrick, the world's richest man, is annoyed to hear workers at one of his stores are trying to form a union. Getting a menial job, he's determined to root out the troublemakers, but soon finds their grievances are genuine through the eponymous Miss Jones, Merrick's co-worker and O'Brien's girlfriend. Eventually, Merrick leads the fight for decent rights and also finds a girl of his own.

Colonel Effingham's Raid
(1946)At the dawn of America's entry into World War II, a retired Army colonel rallies his small Southern town against renaming its Confederate Square.
Edison, the Man
(1940)The More the Merrier
(1943)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953)Showgirl Lorelei and best friend Dorothy embark upon a boat trip to Paris, where Lorelei intends to marry millionaire Gus Esmond. En route, the girls are bedevilled by private detective Malone, hired by Esmond's father to make certain that Lorelei isn't just another gold-digger. When Dorothy falls in love with the poverty-stricken Malone, Lorelei decides to find her pal a wealthier potential husband.

Lured
(1947)British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

The Lady Eve
(1941)Card-playing conwoman Jean nearly dupes millionaire Charlie into marriage. He rumbles her scam in time, but does the dope still love her?

Impact
(1949)When an unfaithful wife’s murder plot with her lover kills him instead, her presumed dead husband hides out to let her face the criminal consquences.
George Washington Slept Here
(1942)
Monkey Business
(1952)Hilarity ensues when a research chemist's chimp puts the chemist's fountain of youth potion in the water cooler, dosing both the chemist and his wife.

Heaven Can Wait
(1943)Arriving at the gates of hell, a deceased playboy recounts tales from his carefree life as Satan reviews his eligibility to enter the underworld.

Made for Each Other
(1939)When a rising young lawyer marries a girl he's only known for one day, their love is tested by his disapproving boss and family and a baby on the way.

Three Faces West
(1940)A Viennese physician and his daughter, refugees from Hitler, become part of a group of North Dakota townspeople planning to relocate from the dust bowl to greener Oregon. The group's tireless leader falls in love with the girl, but she is already betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich.
Rhapsody in Blue
(1945)Robert Alda stars alongside musical greats Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant in this lavish fictionalized biography of composer George Gershwin. The film traces Gershwin's rise from a "song plugger" for a Manhattan music publishing company to the heights of international fame and fortune. Gershwin's first big hit is "Swanee," introduced on Broadway by Al Jolson. In collaboration with his lyricist brother, Ira, George pens hit after hit in show after show. But George's kindly old music teacher wants his prize pupil to aspire to something more artistic. Gershwin responds with "Rhapsody in Blue," which debuts at Aeolian Hall in 1924 under the baton of bandleader Paul Whiteman. As his fame and workload grows, George finds he has no time at all for romance; the two ladies in his life both eventually realize that they'll always have to play second fiddle to Gershwin's muse.

Trouble Along the Way
(1953)A famous football coach uses underhanded means to turn a bankrupt college's team into winners.

In Name Only
(1939)Alec’s wife Maida is a beauty, but also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie.
The Power and the Prize
(1956)H.M. Pulham, Esq.
(1941)
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.

Kings Row
(1942)Small-town scandals inspire an idealistic young man from a hypocritical provincial upbringing to take up psychiatry in turn-of-the-century America.