William Powell

Visiting Sycamore Springs, Nick and Nora are parched and pestered by Nick's disapproving parents. But when a painter turns up dead, the sleuthing couple dive into small-town gossip, espionage and art intrigue -- solving murders with style and champagne.

In 1880s New York, a curmudgeonly stockbroker demands the strictest order in his household. But his wife and four sons have demands of their own.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Una señorita de la crema y nata de la sociedad contrata al vagabundo que se encontró en el basurero municipal como mayordomo de su excéntrica familia.

While visiting Manhattan for Christmas, retired detective Nick and his wealthy wife Nora try to crack the case of a missing inventor.

Philo Vance—the impeccably dressed and discerning detective—investigates a baffling death at a dog show involving a competitor with a slew of enemies.

William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this romantic mystery thriller about a trial attorney who is so busy with his career that he doesn't realize that mysterious in his current case.

Caught in Paris, a fashion thief and his helpers put on a show.

Nick and Nora are summoned to New Year's dinner at Nora's aristocratic family in San Francisco where they learn that cousin Selma's husband Robert is missing. Nick agrees to look for him but when Robert is shot Selma is accused of murder.

A dancer disappears from a theather and then William Powell and society beauty Ginger Rogers solve the murder.

Bitterness, affairs, rumors, and deceit offer amateur sleuth Philo Vance clues-a-plenty when members of a wealthy family get picked off one by one.

Intrigue, plot twists and romantic jealousy drive this riveting WWI thriller starring Powell as a decoding expert assigned to office work instead of the combat role he longed to play.

An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.

When a blackmailing nightclub singer is murdered, the investigating detective must uncover her killer among the numerous suspects she had exploited.

When a crooked stockbroker is killed at his country estate, amateur sleuth Philo Vance must wade through a motley band of suspects to find whodunnit.

William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this romantic comedy as a married couple whose relation goes terribly wrong when a mother-in-law's visit drives the pair Love Crazy. Everything seems perfect for Susan and Stephen Ireland (Loy and Powel -- The Thin Man films) until Susan's mother (Florence Bates) stays for an extended visit. Now, a mother-in-law's misunderstanding of Stephen's call on a form...

On his deathbed, Florenz Ziegfeld, in the throes of a delirium, reportedly cried out: “Curtain! Fast music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good! The show looks good!” ZIEGFELD FOLLIES takes its cue from there. The film opens with the great showman (played by William Powell, reprising his role from THE GREAT ZIEGFELD [1936]) up in heaven, sitting in his swanky apartment, where he dreams about putting on a new show. A group of puppets (featuring caricatures of some of the original Ziegfeld Follies stars) entertain him. Fred Astaire appears to pay tribute to the great showman, and then a grand review begins. The following twelve sequences, a variety of sketches and musical numbers, are all in the Ziegfeld tradition.

A dress designer tries to break her sister's engagement to a free-living artist, only to discover the man is falling for her instead.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury, of being a home-wrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, must find a way to turn the tables on her.

Jean Harlow stars as an ambitious showgirl loved by two very different men in the dramatic musical Reckless. Theatrical promoter Bob Harrison (Franchot Tone) loves Mona (Harlow), but he cannot compete with wealthy socialite Ned Riley (William Powell) when Riley buys every seat in the theater to be able to watch Mona's performance alone. Ned and Mona wed, but Ned's family rejects Mona as a shameless gold digger. Torn between his family's rejection and his love for Mona, Ned commits suicide--leaving Mona to put her life and career back together. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern, Jack King and Burton Lane.