Matthew Beard Movies

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing...

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.

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...

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his...

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his...

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

The kids help capture a family of thieves.