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William Demarest
Actor
Films to Rent
Great McGinty, The (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest… - The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Christmas in July (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn… - Dir. Sturges second film is a short, sweet and sharp satire on 'success', in which a gullible office clerk (Powell) is fooled by his colleagues into…
Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn… - One of the greatest Hollywood screwball comedies ever, this begins with naïve zoologist Henry Fonda (“Snakes are my life”) falling in love with…
Sullivan's Travels (1941)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick… - Hailed as dir. Sturges most reflective statement on his comic art, this finds lightweight Hollywood director Joel McCrea dressing as a tramp in order…
Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor… - Another fine Preston Sturges comedy, this concerns a gifted but struggling architect (McCrea), whose wife (Colbert) abandons him for the hope of…
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest… - Crazed comedy from dir. Sturges, with Bracken starring as a WW2 soldier, who never actually saw any action because of his hay fever, but who upon…
Great Moment, The (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest… - An oddly serious drama for dir. Sturges, this biopic of WTG Morgan (who discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether in the 19th century), played…
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn… - Madcap screwball comedy from genius writer–director Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE), following a small–town girl from the Midwest (Betty…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe… - Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Whispering Smith (1948)- Dir. Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
Feat. Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall… - Swish, action–packed western features Alan Ladd chasing train robbers and sentimental skirt. Good stuff.
Sorrowful Jones (1949)- Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest… - Buddy comedy with Bob Hope as an inveterate gambler who fins himself the guardian for a young girl.
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