George Lessey Movies

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and...

At the express wish of her father, Lucy Martin marries Leo Noakes, a stingy man and one twice her age. When they are at church one Sunday a fire...

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US...

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His...

The story of the romance behind the iconic blue willow china design.

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model. Hedder...

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

Bruce Larnigan, in connection with Jack Stevens, is editing the "Independent," the newspaper which Ben Travers had bought to assist the fight against...

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing...

A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.