Movies: J. C. Nugent

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.....

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Les...

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions....

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west....

On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of th...

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly....

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota....

An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio....

A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks....

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect....

Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling si...

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory....

A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter....

Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes...

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves....

Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way....

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club....

Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste....

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there....

In PRC's Follies Girl, Wendy Barrie plays dress designer Anne Merriday, who becomes the object of middle-aged millionaire J. B. Hamlin's (J.C. Nugent) affections. To save his dad from throwing his life away on a supposed golddigger, Hamlin's son, Arm...