Frank P. Donovan

Five Times Five (1939)

Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Alexander Woollcott  •  Yvonne Dionne  •  Annette Dionne  •  Cécile Dionne

Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Alexander Woollcott  •  Yvonne Dionne  •  Annette Dionne  •  Cécile Dionne

Highway Mania (1937)

Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some that are doubtless stunts from Hollywood films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Lowell Thomas

Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some that are doubtless stunts from Hollywood films.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Lowell Thomas

The Mad Marriage (1925)

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive writer Walter Butler. They are about to marry when he is revealed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Rosemary Davies  •  Harrison Ford  •  Maurice Costello  •  Montagu Love

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive writer Walter Butler. They are about to marry when he is revealed ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Rosemary Davies  •  Harrison Ford  •  Maurice Costello  •  Montagu Love

Made in the USA (1939)

Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide washing across America at the dawn of World War II, to prepare the citizenry for the eventual process of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
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Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide washing across America at the dawn of World War II, to prepare the citizenry for the eventual process of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
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Bullin' the Bullsheviki (1919)

As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Marguerite Clayton  •  Patsy De Forest  •  Billy Ruge  •  Edward Elkas

As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank P. Donovan
CAST:  Marguerite Clayton  •  Patsy De Forest  •  Billy Ruge  •  Edward Elkas