Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses...

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial...

A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934...

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's...

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company...

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

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

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...