Howard Lindsay Movie Trailers

The Sound of Music Trailer (1965)

02 March 1965

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Anything Goes Trailer (1954)

28 February 1954

On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love.

The Sound of Music Live! Trailer (2013)

05 December 2013

The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013.

Call Me Madam Trailer (1953)

25 March 1953

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Good Sport Trailer (1931)

12 December 1931

Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.

Tall Story Trailer (1960)

06 April 1960

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money.

Remains to Be Seen Trailer (1953)

15 May 1953

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Anything Goes Trailer (2021)

28 November 2021

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love.

Stop, You're Killing Me Trailer (1952)

10 December 1952

With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

A Slight Case of Murder Trailer (1938)

26 February 1938

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Life with Father Trailer (1947)

13 September 1947

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

The Sound of Music Live! Trailer (2015)

20 December 2015

The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.

Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! Trailer (1933)

01 October 1933

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.

The Big Broadcast of 1938 Trailer (1938)

11 February 1938

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Artists and Models Abroad Trailer (1938)

20 December 1938

Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out.

State of the Union Trailer (1948)

30 April 1948

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

Anything Goes Trailer (1956)

27 April 1956

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role.

Cinderella Trailer (1957)

31 March 1957

Julie Andrews was nominated for an Emmy for portraying the titular scullery maid who finds true love with a prince in this legendary adaptation of one of the most famous fairy tales of all time.

Swing Time Trailer (1936)

28 August 1936

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her.

Anything Goes Trailer (1936)

24 January 1936

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her.

Woman's World Trailer (1954)

30 September 1954

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Information Please Series 2, No. 2 Trailer (1940)

04 October 1940

This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star of the then-current Broadway play, "Life With Father", as a visiting guest expert.