Archie Mayo

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Archie Mayo (29 January 1891, New York City – 4 December 1968, Guadalajara, Mexico) was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917. His films include Is Everybody Happy? (1929) with Ted Lewis, Night After Night (1932) with Mae West, The Doorway to Hell (1930) with James Cagney and Lew Ayres, Convention City (1933) with Joan Blondell, The Mayor of Hell (1933) with James Cagney, The Petrified Forest (1936) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) with Gary Cooper. Mayo retired in 1946, shortly after completing A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers and Angel on My Shoulder with Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, and Claude Rains. Mayo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Archie Mayo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

2 3

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Groucho Marx  •  Harpo Marx  •  Chico Marx  •  Charles Drake

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Groucho Marx  •  Harpo Marx  •  Chico Marx  •  Charles Drake

Orchestra Wives (1942)

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  George Montgomery  •  Ann Rutherford  •  Glenn Miller  •  Lynn Bari

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  George Montgomery  •  Ann Rutherford  •  Glenn Miller  •  Lynn Bari

The Mayor of Hell (1933)

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  James Cagney  •  Madge Evans  •  Frankie Darro  •  Arthur Byron

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  James Cagney  •  Madge Evans  •  Frankie Darro  •  Arthur Byron

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Leslie Howard  •  Bette Davis  •  Genevieve Tobin  •  Dick Foran

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Leslie Howard  •  Bette Davis  •  Genevieve Tobin  •  Dick Foran

Crash Dive (1943)

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Tyrone Power  •  Anne Baxter  •  Dana Andrews  •  James Gleason

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Tyrone Power  •  Anne Baxter  •  Dana Andrews  •  James Gleason

Sonny Boy (1929)

Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Davey Lee  •  Edward Everett Horton  •  Betty Bronson  •  Gertrude Olmstead

Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Davey Lee  •  Edward Everett Horton  •  Betty Bronson  •  Gertrude Olmstead

Night After Night (1932)

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  George Raft  •  Constance Cummings  •  Wynne Gibson  •  Mae West

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  George Raft  •  Constance Cummings  •  Wynne Gibson  •  Mae West

Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Frank Jenks  •  Dorothea Kent

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Frank Jenks  •  Dorothea Kent

Give Me Your Heart (1936)

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Kay Francis  •  George Brent  •  Roland Young  •  Patric Knowles

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Kay Francis  •  George Brent  •  Roland Young  •  Patric Knowles

I Married a Doctor (1936)

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Pat O’Brien  •  Josephine Hutchinson  •  Ross Alexander  •  Guy Kibbee

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Pat O’Brien  •  Josephine Hutchinson  •  Ross Alexander  •  Guy Kibbee

Call It a Day (1937)

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Olivia de Havilland  •  Ian Hunter  •  Anita Louise  •  Alice Brady

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Olivia de Havilland  •  Ian Hunter  •  Anita Louise  •  Alice Brady

The Man with Two Faces (1934)

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Edward G. Robinson  •  Mary Astor  •  Ricardo Cortez  •  Mae Clarke

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Edward G. Robinson  •  Mary Astor  •  Ricardo Cortez  •  Mae Clarke

Slightly Used (1927)

Slightly Used film  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  May McAvoy  •  Conrad Nagel  •  Robert Agnew  •  Audrey Ferris

Slightly Used film  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  May McAvoy  •  Conrad Nagel  •  Robert Agnew  •  Audrey Ferris

The Doorway to Hell (1930)

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Lew Ayres  •  Dorothy Mathews  •  Leon Janney  •  James Cagney

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Lew Ayres  •  Dorothy Mathews  •  Leon Janney  •  James Cagney

They Shall Have Music (1939)

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Jascha Heifetz  •  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Gene Reynolds

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Jascha Heifetz  •  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Gene Reynolds

Under Eighteen (1931)

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Marian Marsh  •  Anita Page  •  Regis Toomey  •  Warren William

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Marian Marsh  •  Anita Page  •  Regis Toomey  •  Warren William

The College Widow (1927)

Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Dolores Costello  •  William Collier Jr.  •  Douglas Gerrard  •  Anders Randolf

Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign. Acting upon the suggestion of Professor Jelicoe, Jane, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Dolores Costello  •  William Collier Jr.  •  Douglas Gerrard  •  Anders Randolf

Bought! (1931)

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Constance Bennett  •  Ben Lyon  •  Richard Bennett  •  Dorothy Peterson

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Constance Bennett  •  Ben Lyon  •  Richard Bennett  •  Dorothy Peterson

Wide Open (1930)

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Edward Everett Horton  •  Patsy Ruth Miller  •  Louise Beavers  •  Louise Fazenda

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Edward Everett Horton  •  Patsy Ruth Miller  •  Louise Beavers  •  Louise Fazenda

State Street Sadie (1928)

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Conrad Nagel  •  Myrna Loy  •  William Russell  •  George E. Stone

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Conrad Nagel  •  Myrna Loy  •  William Russell  •  George E. Stone
2 3