Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 25, 1878
Deathday: September 09, 1975
Popularity:
1963-03-28
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
Popularity:
1942-07-03
Overview: Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
Popularity:
1932-08-18
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
Popularity:
1933-10-13
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
Popularity:
1933-12-18
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
Popularity:
1963-08-15
Overview: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
Popularity:
1935-05-13
Overview: A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-13
Popularity:
1942-02-02
Overview: Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
Popularity:
1940-08-16
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
Popularity:
1941-03-28
Overview: When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
Popularity:
1945-04-28
Overview: A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-28
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
Popularity:
1946-04-05
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
Popularity:
1935-02-04
Overview: A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-04
Popularity:
1933-03-03
Overview: A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
Popularity:
1931-09-01
Overview: In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
Popularity:
1942-01-29
Overview: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
Popularity:
1939-10-12
Overview: Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-12
Popularity:
1932-03-01
Overview: A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
Popularity:
1943-08-24
Overview: An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
Popularity:
1932-03-21
Overview: WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
Popularity:
1933-01-21
Overview: A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
Popularity:
1940-02-05
Overview: A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-05
Popularity:
1934-08-15
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
Popularity:
1933-11-10
Overview: A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
Popularity:
1935-02-01
Overview: Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
Popularity:
1934-11-01
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
Popularity:
1947-05-04
Overview: A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-04
Popularity:
1938-10-01
Overview: London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
Popularity:
1932-01-14
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
Popularity:
1945-05-23
Overview: A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-23
Popularity:
1931-11-07
Overview: A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
Popularity:
1930-08-12
Overview: An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-12
Popularity:
1942-10-01
Overview: In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
Popularity:
1931-09-02
Overview: A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-02
Popularity:
1932-05-27
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
Popularity:
1933-06-01
Overview: Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
Popularity:
1934-08-15
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
Popularity:
1935-09-13
Overview: The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
Popularity:
1941-09-26
Overview: An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
Popularity:
1934-11-23
Overview: The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
Popularity:
1931-12-24
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
Popularity:
1941-05-30
Overview: Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
Popularity:
1939-12-01
Overview: A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
Popularity:
1939-11-25
Overview: A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-25
Popularity:
1943-07-29
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
Popularity:
1934-03-15
Overview: Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-15
Popularity:
1941-10-10
Overview: Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
Popularity:
1937-02-01
Overview: A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
Popularity:
1944-03-31
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
Popularity:
1942-09-04
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
Popularity:
1933-04-28
Overview: Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
Popularity:
1935-03-01
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
Popularity:
1940-05-17
Overview: On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
Popularity:
1945-11-21
Overview: An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
Popularity:
1940-04-23
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
Popularity:
1943-01-21
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
Popularity:
1945-05-25
Overview: A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
Popularity:
1941-10-28
Overview: A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-28
Popularity:
1933-09-22
Overview: In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
Popularity:
1942-12-24
Overview: Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
Popularity:
1941-12-25
Overview: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
Popularity:
1944-05-11
Overview: American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
Popularity:
1965-03-24
Overview: Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
Popularity:
1935-08-30
Overview: In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
Popularity:
1933-07-28
Overview: With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Standing) sends two of his officers (Billy Bevan and Charles McNaughton) to the Midnight Club to check up on a couple of shady characters - Colin Grant (Clive Brook) and Arthur Bradley (Allan Mowbray) and a girl, Iris Witney (Helen Vinson). There have been a number of jewel robberies around town recently, but, unknown to the police, these three have the perfect alibis!!! They have found "doubles", and while they are out committing the robberies, their doubles spend the night at the club, confusing the two officers who are on their tail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
Popularity:
1931-07-18
Overview: Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-18
Popularity:
1943-12-24
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
Popularity:
1944-05-01
Overview: A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-01
Popularity:
1946-07-25
Overview: Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but she acquires the song, the job, and Johnny.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
Popularity:
1936-05-11
Overview: A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
Popularity:
1934-01-26
Overview: Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
Popularity:
1944-12-18
Overview: Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
Popularity:
1947-03-20
Overview: An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-20
Popularity:
1945-08-17
Overview: George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-17
Popularity:
1934-05-09
Overview: A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
Popularity: