John Nesbitt

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage...

Genre: War

Cast: John Nesbitt

The saga of the Normandie is recounted from her life as a luxury liner, the horrific fire that nearly destroyed her, and her resuscitation to join in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Baragrey

A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the...

Genre: History

Cast: Leon Ames

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Nesbitt

Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made...

Genre: Animation

Cast: John Nesbitt

A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dean Stockwell

This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help design aptitude tests for men applying for work.

Genre: War

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Warren

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

The "unseen guardians" of the title are the Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' Laboratories,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this somewhat whitewashed documentary on Manhattan's Bowery a newcomer to the area takes his first step toward redemption after a meal, bed, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a...

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...

Genre: History

Cast: Lloyd Bridges

In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Nesbitt

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Narrator John Nesbitt reminisces about his hometown and childhood in this Passing Parade series short.

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of a destitute little girl who sells matches, and uses them to escape the cold on Christmas Eve,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Rural Minnesota school teacher, Miss Enter (Bette Davis) becomes a courageous survivor during a snow blizzard that leaves her stranded with several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man traces his history by the succession of cars his father owned. [This short appears in its entirety...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

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Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

The "new roadways" of the title refer to various projects, carried out in the USA's research laboratories, that benefit mankind. These include solar...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short tells the story of Norwegian explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). After a life of adventure, he was instrumental in...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

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Cast: John Nesbitt

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

Genre: War

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

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Cast: John Nesbitt

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Genre: War

Cast: Edward Arnold

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

A film recreating a broadcast of the Westinghouse Radio Program starring John Charles Thomas and John Nesbitt. Program narrator was Gayne Whitman and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Charles Thomas

This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Shows how important luck can be in a person's life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short film focuses on the mysterious and legendary Seri Indians who live in a utopian colony off the west coast of Mexico.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.

Genre: History

Cast: Jonathan Hale

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

This short looks at the odd bequests that people have made in their wills over the years. They include a woman who left her fortune to her pet cat...

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Three specific and separate stories of life's passing parade are presented.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

This entry in John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series is about the great moments in the lives of famous men who found found an answer or made a great...

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

A "Passing Parade" MGM short featuring tennis star Alice Marble

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt takes a look at hobbies in this Passing Parade short.

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: Leon Ames

Genre: History

Cast: Leon Ames

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Baragrey

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dean Stockwell

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Flanagan

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: Lloyd Bridges

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Warren

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Family

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: War

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

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Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shepperd Strudwick

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: Jonathan Hale

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Will Lyman