Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she...

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

In ancient Baghdad, penniless beggar Hafiz dotes on his beautiful daughter, Marsinah, at home and adopts the dashing and wealthy persona of the...

A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears...

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad...

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs,...

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a...

Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting...

Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former...