Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 28, 1883
Deathday: July 15, 1956
Popularity:
1938-11-17
Overview: Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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1922-05-14
Overview: Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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1920-07-18
Overview: Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-18
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1937-02-12
Overview: A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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1933-03-03
Overview: Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
Popularity:
1923-07-08
Overview: The story of a man -- accused of a crime he didn't commit and wounded by the posse -- who hides out on a desert ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-08
Popularity:
1942-07-03
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
Popularity:
1937-02-12
Overview: Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get herself in hot water with the French version of Actors' Equity and is forced to take a series of jobs under a series of assumed names. Meanwhile, a romantic triangle involving American film star Norma (Helen Whitney Bourne) and gangsters Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and Marcel (Louis Borrell) spells big trouble for all concerned -- including the plucky Jeanne. Highlighted by six sprightly song numbers, Head Over Heels in Love is our girl Jessie's vehicle all the way, and never mind the "main" plot. The film was directed by Sonnie Hale, who just so happened to be the star's husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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1923-06-01
Overview: 1923 parody short of the Douglas Fairbanks Robin Hood with children in the lead roles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
Popularity:
1935-08-30
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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1936-05-06
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
Popularity:
1939-03-03
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
Popularity:
1939-05-05
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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1935-11-22
Overview: A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
1943-01-15
Overview: A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
Popularity:
1921-03-20
Overview: The Allen spinsters adopt Bradley Nickerson, who grows up with Gussie Baker, the little girl next door. Fifteen years later he is first mate of the Thomas Doane, owned by Granny Baker. A plot to sink the ship is averted by Bradley and a sailor, but ultimately the ship is sabotaged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-20
Popularity:
1937-02-10
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
Popularity:
1937-06-25
Overview: Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
Popularity:
1937-02-26
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
Popularity:
1938-05-20
Overview: A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
Popularity:
1940-11-15
Overview: When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
Popularity:
1936-08-01
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
Popularity:
1940-05-31
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
Popularity:
1940-03-28
Overview: Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-28
Popularity:
1931-05-20
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
Popularity:
1936-05-15
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
Popularity:
1932-04-01
Overview: Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip looks up to John and while incarcerated maintained contact with him through a continental mailing agency. As John has no idea he was in prison, Phillip tells him that he has just returned from Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-01
Popularity:
1943-08-13
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
Popularity:
1933-09-08
Overview: When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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1933-02-03
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
Popularity:
1935-01-25
Overview: Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
Popularity:
1935-09-07
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
Popularity:
1935-12-10
Overview: Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-10
Popularity:
1933-04-20
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
Popularity:
1945-01-19
Overview: A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
Popularity:
1943-07-26
Overview: General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Genres: War Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-26
Popularity:
1944-09-20
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
Popularity:
1945-10-16
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
Popularity:
1922-01-30
Overview: Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz, an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
Popularity:
1933-11-11
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
Popularity:
1933-04-01
Overview: 'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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