Larry Steers

Lawrence Wells Steers (February 14, 1888 – February 15, 1951) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 550 films between 1917 and 1951. He was born in Indiana, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Steers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Hired Wife (1940)

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Seiter
CAST:  Rosalind Russell  •  Brian Aherne  •  Virginia Bruce  •  Robert Benchley

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William A. Seiter
CAST:  Rosalind Russell  •  Brian Aherne  •  Virginia Bruce  •  Robert Benchley

Magnificent Doll (1946)

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Borzage
CAST:  Ginger Rogers  •  David Niven  •  Burgess Meredith  •  Grandon Rhodes

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank Borzage
CAST:  Ginger Rogers  •  David Niven  •  Burgess Meredith  •  Grandon Rhodes

The Judge Steps Out (1947)

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Boris Ingster
CAST:  Alexander Knox  •  Ann Sothern  •  George Tobias  •  Sharyn Moffett

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Boris Ingster
CAST:  Alexander Knox  •  Ann Sothern  •  George Tobias  •  Sharyn Moffett

Race Street (1948)

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edwin L. Marin
CAST:  George Raft  •  William Bendix  •  Marilyn Maxwell  •  Frank Faylen

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edwin L. Marin
CAST:  George Raft  •  William Bendix  •  Marilyn Maxwell  •  Frank Faylen

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Melvyn Douglas  •  Joan Blondell  •  Walter Connolly  •  Alan Curtis

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Hall
CAST:  Melvyn Douglas  •  Joan Blondell  •  Walter Connolly  •  Alan Curtis

The Great Gambini (1937)

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Vidor
CAST:  Akim Tamiroff  •  Marian Marsh  •  John Trent  •  Genevieve Tobin

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Vidor
CAST:  Akim Tamiroff  •  Marian Marsh  •  John Trent  •  Genevieve Tobin

Exposed (1947)

A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Blair
CAST:  Adele Mara  •  Mark Roberts  •  Lorna Gray  •  Robert Armstrong

A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Blair
CAST:  Adele Mara  •  Mark Roberts  •  Lorna Gray  •  Robert Armstrong

Slightly French (1949)

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Douglas Sirk
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Dorothy Lamour  •  Janis Carter  •  Willard Parker

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Douglas Sirk
CAST:  Don Ameche  •  Dorothy Lamour  •  Janis Carter  •  Willard Parker

Central Park (1932)

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Adolfi
CAST:  Joan Blondell  •  Wallace Ford  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Henry B. Walthall

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John G. Adolfi
CAST:  Joan Blondell  •  Wallace Ford  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Henry B. Walthall

A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Joe E. Brown  •  Alice White  •  Robert Barrat  •  Alan Dinehart

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Joe E. Brown  •  Alice White  •  Robert Barrat  •  Alan Dinehart

Journal of a Crime (1934)

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley
CAST:  Ruth Chatterton  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  Claire Dodd  •  Douglass Dumbrille

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley
CAST:  Ruth Chatterton  •  Adolphe Menjou  •  Claire Dodd  •  Douglass Dumbrille

The Merry Frinks (1934)

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Aline MacMahon  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Hugh Herbert  •  Allen Jenkins

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Aline MacMahon  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Hugh Herbert  •  Allen Jenkins

Fireman, Save My Child (1932)

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Joe E. Brown  •  Evalyn Knapp  •  Lilian Bond  •  Guy Kibbee

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Bacon
CAST:  Joe E. Brown  •  Evalyn Knapp  •  Lilian Bond  •  Guy Kibbee

Seven Days' Leave (1930)

While a Canadian soldier recovers in London, a nurse tells him that a Scottish widow believes he is her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. Seven Days Leave is a screen adaption of one of James M. Barrie's plays, The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Wallace
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Beryl Mercer  •  Daisy Belmore  •  Nora Cecil

While a Canadian soldier recovers in London, a nurse tells him that a Scottish widow believes he is her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. Seven Days Leave is a screen adaption of one of James M. Barrie's plays, The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Wallace
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Beryl Mercer  •  Daisy Belmore  •  Nora Cecil

Forty Little Mothers (1940)

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Busby Berkeley
CAST:  Eddie Cantor  •  Bonita Granville  •  Judith Anderson  •  Rita Johnson

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Busby Berkeley
CAST:  Eddie Cantor  •  Bonita Granville  •  Judith Anderson  •  Rita Johnson

King for a Night (1933)

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Neumann
CAST:  Chester Morris  •  Helen Twelvetrees  •  Alice White  •  John Miljan

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Neumann
CAST:  Chester Morris  •  Helen Twelvetrees  •  Alice White  •  John Miljan

Brooklyn Orchid (1942)

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Neumann
CAST:  William Bendix  •  Joe Sawyer  •  Marjorie Woodworth  •  Grace Bradley

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kurt Neumann
CAST:  William Bendix  •  Joe Sawyer  •  Marjorie Woodworth  •  Grace Bradley

The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noel M. Smith
CAST:  Bert Wheeler  •  Marie Wilson  •  Gloria Dickson  •  William Demarest

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noel M. Smith
CAST:  Bert Wheeler  •  Marie Wilson  •  Gloria Dickson  •  William Demarest

Rock Island Trail (1950)

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Kane
CAST:  Forrest Tucker  •  Bruce Cabot  •  Adele Mara  •  Lorna Gray

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Kane
CAST:  Forrest Tucker  •  Bruce Cabot  •  Adele Mara  •  Lorna Gray

King of Burlesque (1936)

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Lanfield
CAST:  Warner Baxter  •  Alice Faye  •  Jack Oakie  •  Mona Barrie

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Lanfield
CAST:  Warner Baxter  •  Alice Faye  •  Jack Oakie  •  Mona Barrie
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