Melville Cooper Movies

Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...

A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...

During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester...

While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author faces the wrath of a socialite after stealing her chef.

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out...

A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.