John Payne Movies

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can...

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A...

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.

This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant...

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr....

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist...

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.