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Sherry Hall

Actor
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08-08-1892

Birthday

Leo

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Genres

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Total Films

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Eureka, California, USA

Place of Birth

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111 Works

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The Well

The Well

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
7.0

Year:

1951

The Tall Target

The Tall Target

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
6.8

Year:

1951

The Prowler

The Prowler

Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
6.8

Year:

1951

Gambling House

Gambling House

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
6.1

Year:

1950

Frenchie

Frenchie

Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
5.7

Year:

1950

Mister 880

Mister 880

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
6.9

Year:

1950

Force of Evil

Force of Evil

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
6.6

Year:

1950

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
7.3

Year:

1950

Mystery Street

Mystery Street

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
6.7

Year:

1950

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
7.0

Year:

1950

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
5.0

Year:

1949

White Heat

White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
7.7

Year:

1949

The Lady Gambles

The Lady Gambles

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
6.0

Year:

1949

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
5.4

Year:

1947

Backlash

Backlash

In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
4.9

Year:

1947

Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
6.0

Year:

1946

Accomplice

Accomplice

A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
5.3

Year:

1946

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
7.6

Year:

1945

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
6.5

Year:

1945

Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
6.0

Year:

1945

On Stage Everybody

On Stage Everybody

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
0.0

Year:

1945

The Brighton Strangler

The Brighton Strangler

After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
5.9

Year:

1945

Betrayal from the East

Betrayal from the East

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
5.8

Year:

1945

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
4.8

Year:

1945

Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
5.6

Year:

1944

Blonde Fever

Blonde Fever

Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
4.4

Year:

1944

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
6.0

Year:

1944

Around the World

Around the World

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
5.0

Year:

1943

Sleepers West

Sleepers West

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
6.3

Year:

1941

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
6.5

Year:

1940

Charter Pilot

Charter Pilot

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
6.0

Year:

1940

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
6.1

Year:

1940

Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
4.0

Year:

1940

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
6.3

Year:

1940

We Who Are Young

We Who Are Young

A man violates company policy by getting married.
5.8

Year:

1940

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
6.7

Year:

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
4.0

Year:

1940

The Gentleman from Arizona

The Gentleman from Arizona

The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a successful racetrack career. Everything comes to a head during the climactic Big Race, with the expected (but still satisyfing) results. Ruth Reece and Joan Barclay share the leading-lady responsibilities, while the villainy is in the capable hands of Monogram's ace utility actor Craig Reynolds.
0.0

Year:

1939

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
0.0

Year:

1939

Sergeant Madden

Sergeant Madden

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
6.0

Year:

1939

Kentucky

Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
5.7

Year:

1938

Adventure in Sahara

Adventure in Sahara

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
5.5

Year:

1938

Men with Wings

Men with Wings

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
6.0

Year:

1938

Woman Against Woman

Woman Against Woman

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
6.5

Year:

1938

One Wild Night

One Wild Night

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
5.5

Year:

1938

Call of The Yukon

Call of The Yukon

Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
4.7

Year:

1938

Walking Down Broadway

Walking Down Broadway

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
5.7

Year:

1938

International Settlement

International Settlement

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
5.0

Year:

1938

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
5.1

Year:

1937

Missing Witnesses

Missing Witnesses

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
5.5

Year:

1937

Portia on Trial

Portia on Trial

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
5.3

Year:

1937

The Lady Escapes

The Lady Escapes

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
0.0

Year:

1937

Step Lively, Jeeves!

Step Lively, Jeeves!

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
4.7

Year:

1937

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
7.4

Year:

1937

Wings Over Honolulu

Wings Over Honolulu

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
5.3

Year:

1937

Midnight Taxi

Midnight Taxi

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
5.0

Year:

1937

Love Is News

Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
6.0

Year:

1937

Mama Steps Out

Mama Steps Out

A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
6.0

Year:

1937

Man Of The People

Man Of The People

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
7.0

Year:

1937

Mad Holiday

Mad Holiday

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
6.0

Year:

1936

Theodora Goes Wild

Theodora Goes Wild

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
6.6

Year:

1936

Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
7.3

Year:

1936

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
5.3

Year:

1936

36 Hours to Kill

36 Hours to Kill

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
5.3

Year:

1936

The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
6.8

Year:

1936

High Tension

High Tension

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
5.4

Year:

1936

Fury

Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
7.5

Year:

1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
7.5

Year:

1936

Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).
6.8

Year:

1936

In Person

In Person

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
6.3

Year:

1935

Hot Money

Hot Money

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.
0.0

Year:

1935

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
4.8

Year:

1935

3 Kids and a Queen

3 Kids and a Queen

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
6.0

Year:

1935

It's in the Air

It's in the Air

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
5.0

Year:

1935

Here Comes the Band

Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
5.0

Year:

1935

China Seas

China Seas

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
6.3

Year:

1935

Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
6.2

Year:

1935

The Winning Ticket

The Winning Ticket

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
3.5

Year:

1935

I Sell Anything

I Sell Anything

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
4.5

Year:

1934

Student Tour

Student Tour

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
5.0

Year:

1934

Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
8.0

Year:

1934

The Thin Man

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
7.5

Year:

1934

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
5.8

Year:

1934

Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
6.8

Year:

1934

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
7.0

Year:

1934

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
7.8

Year:

1934

Above the Clouds

Above the Clouds

Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
6.0

Year:

1933

Night Flight

Night Flight

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
5.8

Year:

1933

My Woman

My Woman

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
3.4

Year:

1933

Broadway to Hollywood

Broadway to Hollywood

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
4.6

Year:

1933

Made on Broadway

Made on Broadway

A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
6.5

Year:

1933

Men Must Fight

Men Must Fight

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
5.7

Year:

1933

What! No Beer?

What! No Beer?

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
5.4

Year:

1933

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
6.7

Year:

1932

American Madness

American Madness

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
7.1

Year:

1932

Attorney for the Defense

Attorney for the Defense

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
6.0

Year:

1932

The Miracle Man

The Miracle Man

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
5.7

Year:

1932

The Wet Parade

The Wet Parade

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
5.8

Year:

1932

Lady with a Past

Lady with a Past

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
5.8

Year:

1932

Emma

Emma

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
6.5

Year:

1932

Manhattan Parade

Manhattan Parade

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
2.0

Year:

1931

Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
6.5

Year:

1931

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
7.0

Year:

1931

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
6.1

Year:

1931

The Great Lover

The Great Lover

An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
5.3

Year:

1931

Dance, Fools, Dance

Dance, Fools, Dance

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
6.4

Year:

1931

Wild Company

Wild Company

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
5.0

Year:

1930

Jazz Heaven

Jazz Heaven

A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
5.0

Year:

1929

The Quitter

The Quitter

Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
0.0

Year:

1929

Weary River

Weary River

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
5.5

Year:

1929

The Calendar Girl

The Calendar Girl

Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries on a rejected bathing suit and by adding a touch here and there, makes it into a beautiful creation. Madame then sends her to the beach to carry out a clever advertising scheme. At the shore, Middy is pursued by a reporter and photographer, who have been commissioned by Madame to photograph the girl for calendar advertising. In her flight from the publicity men, Mildred takes refuge in a car owned by lawyer Philip Gordon, who gets into the vehicle and drives off with Middy. Middy has him drop her off where she doesn't live, and he ends up having to try to track her down.
0.0

Year:

1917