Claire McDowell Movies

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée....

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...

10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.

A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three...

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up...

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in...

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge,...

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but...

A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.

Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate....