From there, Ameche quickly became one of the studio's top leading men. His most renowned films of that period include In Old Chicago, Alexander's Ragtime Band, The Three Musketeers, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Moon Over Miami, Heaven Can Wait and Wing and a Prayer. Ameche's appearances became fewer in the 1950s and '60s, and he officially retired after The Boatniks (1970).
When director John Landis lured Ameche back for 1983's Trading Places, he enjoyed a career revival as a character actor, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar two years later for Cocoon. He died Dec. 6, 1993, just days after completing Corrina, Corrina.
AddCorrina, CorrinaMolly Singer (Tina Majorino) hasn't spoken a word since her mother passed away when her father, a jingle writer named Manny (Ray Liotta), hires Corrina Washington (Whoopi Goldberg) to help care for her. Although the prejudiced neighbors balk when the African-American Corrina begins a romantic... Read More
AddCocoon: The ReturnIn this sequel to the huge hit Cocoon, the seniors who exited Earth in exchange for eternal youth return to terra firma to visit with the loved ones they left behind. Meanwhile, their alien hosts plot the rescue of a cocoon retrieved from the ocean floor by a troublesome oceanographer (Courteney... Read More
AddMidnightEve Peabody has just arrived in Paris with only the gown on her back. So what's a girl to do? Pretend to be Hungarian baroness, of course! Claudette Colbert stars as the lovely lass who ditches a smitten cabbie (Don Ameche) to crash a regal affair. There, she meets the aristocratic John Barrymore,... Read More
AddThings ChangeIn David Mamet's acclaimed comedy, Jerry (Joe Mantegna), a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino (Don Ameche), a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly... Read More
AddHeaven Can WaitIn this restored digital transfer of Ernst Lubitsch's witty classic, newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) tries to convince Satan he's got what it takes to be a citizen of hell. Unsatisfied that Van Cleve's sins are hell-worthy, the devil listens as the dead man recounts his... Read More
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