From there, Ameche quickly became one of the studio's top leading men. His most renowned films of that period include In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band, The Three Musketeers, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Moon Over Miami, Heaven Can Wait and Wing and a Prayer. Ameche's appearances became fewer in the 1950s and '60s, and he officially retired after The Boatniks (1970).
When director John Landis lured Ameche back for 1983's Trading Places, he enjoyed a career revival as a character actor, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar two years later for Cocoon. He died Dec. 6, 1993, just days after completing Corrina, Corrina.
Heaven Can WaitIn this restored digital transfer of Ernst Lubitsch's witty classic, newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) tries to convince Satan he's got what it takes to be a citizen of hell. Unsatisfied that Van Cleve's sins are hell-worthy, the devil listens as the dead man recounts his... Read More
MidnightEve Peabody has just arrived in Paris with only the gown on her back. So what's a girl to do? Pretend to be Hungarian baroness, of course! Claudette Colbert stars as the lovely lass who ditches a smitten cabbie (Don Ameche) to crash a regal affair. There, she meets the aristocratic John Barrymore,... Read More
Cocoon: The ReturnIn this sequel to the huge hit Cocoon, the seniors who exited Earth in exchange for eternal youth return to terra firma to visit with the loved ones they left behind. Meanwhile, their alien hosts plot the rescue of a cocoon retrieved from the ocean floor by a troublesome oceanographer (Courteney... Read More
Things ChangeIn David Mamet's acclaimed comedy, Jerry (Joe Mantegna), a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino (Don Ameche), a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly... Read More
Moon Over MiamiIrresistible girl-next-door Betty Grable stars as Kay Latimer, who, along with her sister Susan (Carole Landis), heads to Florida in search of a rich husband in this spirited musical comedy. The two Texan beauties come up with a foolproof scheme to land a Miami millionaire, but in the end, they... Read More
Hidden Hollywood (1997) | NR | |
Corrina, Corrina (1994) | PG | |
G | ||
Folks! (1992) | PG-13 | |
Oscar (1991) | PG | |
Coming to America (1988) | R | |
Things Change (1988) | PG | |
Cocoon: The Return (1988) | PG | |
PG | ||
Pals (1987) | PG | |
Cocoon (1985) | PG-13 | |
Trading Places (1983) | R | |
NR | ||
The Boatniks (1970) | G | |
PG | ||
NR | ||
Sleep, My Love (1948) | NR | |
It's in the Bag (1945) | NR | |
Wing and a Prayer (1944) | NR | |
Greenwich Village (1944) | NR | |
Heaven Can Wait (1943) | NR | |
Moon Over Miami (1941) | NR | |
That Night in Rio (1941) | NR | |
Lillian Russell (1940) | NR | |
Down Argentine Way (1940) | NR | |
Midnight (1939) | NR | |
The Three Musketeers (1939) | NR | |
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) | NR | |
NR | ||
NR | ||
In Old Chicago (1937) | NR | |
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