Hobart Cavanaugh Movies

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"...

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to...

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

A reporter desperate for a story tries to interview a gangster's girlfriend jailed in a small town. He gets himself thrown in the same jail and runs...

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So...

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a...

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former...

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and...

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....