Stepin Fetchit Movies

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrés de Segurola

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Belle Bennett

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Warner Oland

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Murray

Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patsy Ruth Miller

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Donlevy

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Stewart

Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glenn Tryon

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Craven

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Slappy White

The study of crazy brilliance and flamboyant sincerity. a.k.a. Cassius Clay presents a fascinating look at the incredible life and achievements of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Winninger

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George O’Brien

Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse....

Genre: Western

Cast: Hoot Gibson

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Harold 'Red' Grange

A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sheila Guyse

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lola Lane

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained...

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Cast: Stepin Fetchit

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

Genre: Music

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc...

Genre: Music

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Breeden

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Talmadge

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Hardy

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura La Plante

Private eye searches for a missing football quarterback in Chicago.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter De Anda

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dick Powell

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lawrence Tibbett

The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Chaney

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madeleine Carroll

A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyrone Power

Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mable Lee

Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets...

Genre: Music

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Duncan

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Terris

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Spencer Tracy

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter C. Kelly

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s.

Genre: Music

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

Miriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by her late uncle. A team of crooks is following her,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Dern

Gloria Parker plays a station news agent who sings about a well-dressed man who comes to her asking directions to Broadway and Main. A janitor sweeps...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gloria Parker