Melville Cooper Movies

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...

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

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

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

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...

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 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 rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

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

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....

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...

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

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

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

Miss Moffat, a schoolteacher in Wales, realizes that one of her working-class pupils is extremely gifted.

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.

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...