Don Ameche

The Don Ameche Collection

The Feminine Touch
Starring: Don Ameche, Rosalind Russell, Kay Francis
& Van Heflin

John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. He leaves college to go to New York to have his manuscript on jealousy published. John and Julie go to Elliott Morgan Publishing to discuss his book. Being that it is highly technical and boring, Nellie wants to focus on the small part about couples that she thinks will sell. But it soon becomes apparent that everyone is more intrigued by Julie than the book. Elliott tries to make advances on Julie while Nellie is more interested in John than his book. Julie, however, is worried about John, while John, who wrote the book on jealousy, seems oblivious to it and thinks that he knows everything about jealousy.

Gidget Gets Married
Starring: Don Ameche, Michael Burns, Monie Ellis
& Joan Bennett

After more than a year of engagement, and after Jeff (moondoggie) secures a good job with a large company, he and Gidget set a date for their wedding. After a blissful but all too short honeymoon they set off across country to florida where Jeff's job is waiting for him. Gidget soon discovers, however, that the companies influence extends too far into the personal lives of its employees and she sets about trying to correct things, much to the horror of the companies management.

Greenwich Village
Starring: Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, Vivian Blaine
& William Bendix

In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas, hoping to publish his concerto; he meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a Broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer Bonnie Watson. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties

The Happy Land
Starring: Don Ameche, Francis Dee & Harry Carey

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by the ghost of his grandfather, who through flashbacks details the good things about the son's short term on Earth, and the wonderful life that the druggist himself has enjoyed.

In Old Chicago
Starring: Don Ameche, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye,
Brian Donlevy & Andy Devine

Alice Brady Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other a lawyer (Ameche). One of the most expensive films of its time ($1.8 million).

Ladies in Love
    Starring: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Tyrone Power,
                        Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett
                        & Simone Simon

Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.

Lillian Russell
Starring: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda & Alice Faye

Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

The Magnificent Dope
Starring: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda & Lynn Bari

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson capitalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

Moon Over Miami
Starring: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings,
Carol Landis & Charlotte Greenwood

Kay, Barbara and Susan Latimer come into a small legacy when they expected a large one, then abandon the Texas greasy-spoon where they work to hunt in Miami for rich husbands, said to be plentiful there. Barbara and Susan posing as the secretary and maid of "wealthy" Kay, they check into a posh hotel, and soon Kay is in the delightful predicament of being pursued by two handsome, wealthy bachelors at once. But Musical Comedy Complications arise. Much singing and dancing including the number "You Started Something".

Ramona
Starring: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Kent Taylor
& John Carradine

Half-Indian girl (Young) brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house (Taylor) against his family's wishes and loves another Indian (Ameche) employed by the household.

That Night in Rio
Starring: Don Ameche, Alice Faye & Carmen Miranda

Another Funny and Musical Work From the 40's. An entertainer (Ameche) in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat (also Ameche). When the aristocrat's wife (Faye) asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

Wing and a Prayer
Starring: Don Ameche & Dana Andrews

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at their avoidance of combat, for reasons unknown to them. But in the end, all get their chance to fight.

You Can't Have Everything
Starring: Don Ameche, Alice Faye & the Ritz Brothers

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, Gordon Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

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