Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 16, 1905
Deathday: September 11, 1947
Popularity:
1940-11-22
Overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
Popularity:
1934-04-01
Overview: In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents are strict, but pay little real attention to their kids, therefore the kids turn to their high school biology teacher who is willing to really listen to their confidences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
Popularity:
1939-11-24
Overview: When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
Popularity:
1934-06-01
Overview: Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
Popularity:
1934-10-28
Overview: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
Popularity:
1938-02-24
Overview: A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-24
Popularity:
1937-12-07
Overview: A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-07
Popularity:
1935-03-14
Overview: A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-14
Popularity:
1940-07-27
Overview: A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
Popularity:
1938-09-14
Overview: Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-14
Popularity:
1938-10-29
Overview: Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
Popularity:
1938-09-09
Overview: Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-09
Popularity:
1937-11-17
Overview: Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
Popularity:
1934-07-20
Overview: A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
Popularity:
1938-09-23
Overview: A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
Popularity:
1938-12-30
Overview: 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 the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
Popularity:
1937-05-16
Overview: A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-16
Popularity:
1938-02-09
Overview: Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-09
Popularity:
1938-10-12
Overview: A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
Popularity:
1940-12-20
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
Popularity:
1940-04-15
Overview: When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-15
Popularity:
1933-03-31
Overview: A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
Popularity:
1940-07-19
Overview: A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
Popularity:
1934-05-18
Overview: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
Popularity:
1932-01-30
Overview: A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-30
Popularity:
1946-06-05
Overview: A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-05
Popularity:
1942-01-06
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
Popularity:
1941-11-21
Overview: The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
Popularity:
1937-02-28
Overview: A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-28
Popularity:
1934-01-31
Overview: Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-31
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