Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 27, 1873
Deathday: May 14, 1946
Popularity:
1933-02-09
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
Popularity:
1933-11-27
Overview: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-27
Popularity:
1935-10-25
Overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
Popularity:
1935-04-11
Overview: A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-11
Popularity:
1932-12-31
Overview: Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
Popularity:
1920-12-31
Overview: Norine Lawton is a young woman living by her wits in New York City. When she becomes friendly with Count Bonzi, a swindler, he enlists her aid in his scheme to sell worthless Mercer oil company stock to wealthy Christopher Gibbons, a retired war hero.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-31
Popularity:
1933-02-14
Overview: Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-14
Popularity:
1935-07-03
Overview: While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-03
Popularity:
1935-04-20
Overview: A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
Popularity:
1935-01-14
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
Popularity:
1935-09-10
Overview: A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-10
Popularity:
1930-04-26
Overview: A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
Popularity:
1921-12-28
Overview: France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-28
Popularity:
1935-05-31
Overview: Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
Popularity:
1930-06-27
Overview: A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-27
Popularity:
1930-01-11
Overview: In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
Popularity:
1937-08-18
Overview: An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-18
Popularity:
1935-02-15
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
Popularity:
1936-12-04
Overview: Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
Popularity:
1932-07-08
Overview: A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
Popularity:
1932-11-12
Overview: During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
Popularity:
1936-08-28
Overview: Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
Popularity:
1932-12-22
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
Popularity:
1933-07-07
Overview: Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-07
Popularity:
1934-05-11
Overview: A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
Popularity:
1933-12-22
Overview: Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
Popularity:
1920-11-21
Overview: Criminals steal a death ray that concentrates the rays of the sun. The inventor's daughter and a government agent try to retrieve it. 18 episode adventure serial.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
Popularity:
1920-09-20
Overview: Jan Saxe and Peter Harlingen, two young men from Holland, arrive in America with little orphan Bertha Kruger whom they have befriended during the trip and whom they both love. Bertha has come to live with her blind Aunt Sophie, and when Jan secretly raises $500 for an operation to restore her aunt's sight, Bertha marries Peter, believing that he was the donor of the "secret gift."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
Popularity:
1934-07-18
Overview: The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-18
Popularity:
1932-05-06
Overview: A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-06
Popularity:
1932-05-14
Overview: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
Popularity:
1922-11-12
Overview: Thinking he has killed his friend Paul in a jealous rage, David Bergman flees his native Russia; becomes a successful lawyer in New York; and loses touch with his penniless family, who have followed him to the US.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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