Movies by Leslie Goodwins

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.

Ladies' Day

Ladies' Day

A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.

Hi, Beautiful

Hi, Beautiful

Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."

Once Over

Once Over

A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.

Genius at Work

Genius at Work

Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

Fireman Save My Child

Fireman Save My Child

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress will have a job.

Why Babies Leave Home

Why Babies Leave Home

After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home. He saves their home and, while chasing a runaway pancake, saves a kidnapped girl as well.

Who's Looney Now

Who's Looney Now

Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.

Murder in the Blue Room

Murder in the Blue Room

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.

The Day the Bookies Wept

The Day the Bookies Wept

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

Gals, Incorporated

Gals, Incorporated

The story of a nightclub.

Silver Skates

Silver Skates

The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.

Riverboat Rhythm

Riverboat Rhythm

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.

The Singing Sheriff

The Singing Sheriff

In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.

What a Blonde

What a Blonde

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.

His Pest Friend

His Pest Friend

Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.

Almost a Gentleman

Almost a Gentleman

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Paris Follies of 1956

Paris Follies of 1956

Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.