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Sadie McKee (1934)

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clarence Brown
CAST:  Joan Crawford  •  Gene Raymond  •  Franchot Tone  •  Edward Arnold

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clarence Brown
CAST:  Joan Crawford  •  Gene Raymond  •  Franchot Tone  •  Edward Arnold

Morning Glory (1933)

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lowell Sherman
CAST:  Katharine Hepburn  •  Douglas Fairbanks Jr.  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  C. Aubrey Smith

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lowell Sherman
CAST:  Katharine Hepburn  •  Douglas Fairbanks Jr.  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  C. Aubrey Smith

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  D.W. Griffith
CAST:  Walter Huston  •  Una Merkel  •  Kay Hammond  •  William L. Thorne

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  D.W. Griffith
CAST:  Walter Huston  •  Una Merkel  •  Kay Hammond  •  William L. Thorne

Flaming Gold (1932)

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Ince
CAST:  William Boyd  •  Pat O’Brien  •  Mae Clarke  •  Rollo Lloyd

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Ince
CAST:  William Boyd  •  Pat O’Brien  •  Mae Clarke  •  Rollo Lloyd

Girl Missing (1933)

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Florey
CAST:  Glenda Farrell  •  Mary Brian  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Lyle Talbot

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Florey
CAST:  Glenda Farrell  •  Mary Brian  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Lyle Talbot

The Warrior's Husband (1933)

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Elissa Landi  •  David Manners  •  Ernest Truex  •  Lionel Belmore

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Elissa Landi  •  David Manners  •  Ernest Truex  •  Lionel Belmore

Party Husband (1931)

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clarence G. Badger
CAST:  Dorothy Mackaill  •  Dorothy Peterson  •  Joe Donahue  •  Donald Cook

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clarence G. Badger
CAST:  Dorothy Mackaill  •  Dorothy Peterson  •  Joe Donahue  •  Donald Cook

Secret of the Chateau (1934)

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  Claire Dodd  •  Alice White  •  Osgood Perkins  •  Jack La Rue

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  Claire Dodd  •  Alice White  •  Osgood Perkins  •  Jack La Rue

Tol'able David (1930)

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Blystone
CAST:  Richard Cromwell  •  Noah Beery  •  Joan Peers  •  Henry B. Walthall

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Blystone
CAST:  Richard Cromwell  •  Noah Beery  •  Joan Peers  •  Henry B. Walthall

The Reckless Hour (1931)

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Francis Dillon
CAST:  Dorothy Mackaill  •  Conrad Nagel  •  H.B. Warner  •  Joan Blondell

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Francis Dillon
CAST:  Dorothy Mackaill  •  Conrad Nagel  •  H.B. Warner  •  Joan Blondell

Soul-Fire (1925)

Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John S. Robertson
CAST:  Richard Barthelmess  •  Bessie Love  •  Percy Ames  •  Charles Esdale

Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John S. Robertson
CAST:  Richard Barthelmess  •  Bessie Love  •  Percy Ames  •  Charles Esdale

She Had to Say Yes (1933)

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Busby Berkeley  •  George Amy
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Winnie Lightner  •  Lyle Talbot  •  Regis Toomey

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Busby Berkeley  •  George Amy
CAST:  Loretta Young  •  Winnie Lightner  •  Lyle Talbot  •  Regis Toomey

The Keyhole (1933)

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Curtiz
CAST:  Kay Francis  •  George Brent  •  Glenda Farrell  •  Monroe Owsley

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Curtiz
CAST:  Kay Francis  •  George Brent  •  Glenda Farrell  •  Monroe Owsley

Napoleon's Barber (1928)

Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Ford
CAST:  Otto Matieson  •  Natalie Golitzen  •  Frank Reicher  •  Helen Ware

Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Ford
CAST:  Otto Matieson  •  Natalie Golitzen  •  Frank Reicher  •  Helen Ware

Thieves' Gold (1918)

Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead. In a romantic subplot, Harry's fiancée Alice leaves him, but finally returns.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Ford
CAST:  Harry Carey  •  Molly Malone  •  L.M. Wells  •  Helen Ware

Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead. In a romantic subplot, Harry's fiancée Alice leaves him, but finally returns.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Ford
CAST:  Harry Carey  •  Molly Malone  •  L.M. Wells  •  Helen Ware

The Virginian (1929)

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Walter Huston  •  Richard Arlen  •  Mary Brian

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Walter Huston  •  Richard Arlen  •  Mary Brian

Romance in Manhattan (1935)

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stephen Roberts
CAST:  Francis Lederer  •  Ginger Rogers  •  Arthur Hohl  •  Jimmy Butler

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stephen Roberts
CAST:  Francis Lederer  •  Ginger Rogers  •  Arthur Hohl  •  Jimmy Butler

One Night at Susie's (1930)

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Francis Dillon
CAST:  Billie Dove  •  Douglas Fairbanks Jr.  •  Helen Ware  •  Tully Marshall

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Francis Dillon
CAST:  Billie Dove  •  Douglas Fairbanks Jr.  •  Helen Ware  •  Tully Marshall

The Night of June 13 (1932)

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stephen Roberts
CAST:  Clive Brook  •  Frances Dee  •  Charles Ruggles  •  Gene Raymond

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Stephen Roberts
CAST:  Clive Brook  •  Frances Dee  •  Charles Ruggles  •  Gene Raymond

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley  •  Howard Bretherton
CAST:  Barbara Stanwyck  •  Preston Foster  •  Lyle Talbot  •  Dorothy Burgess

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley  •  Howard Bretherton
CAST:  Barbara Stanwyck  •  Preston Foster  •  Lyle Talbot  •  Dorothy Burgess
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