Charles Tannen Movies

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts...

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a...

When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to what Grover's aerial reconnaissance team is...

An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a...

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird,...

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American...

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears