Aileen PringleFilmography

A Wave, a Wac and a Marine

Actors: Elyse Knox, Ramsay Ames, Ann Gillis, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and Costello's agent Eddie Sherman and Lou Costello's father Sebastian Cristillo. Though Elyse Knox, Sally Eilers and Ann Gillis head the cast, the film is a showcase for Read More

Since You Went Away

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 "home front". Claudette Colbert plays the wife of a businessman who, though well past draft age, volunteered to serve Read More

The Happy Land

Actors: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford, Cara Williams, Richard Crane

Synopsis: An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence. The grieving father is shown the error of his assumption by the ghost of his Read More

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Keye Luke

Synopsis: The third of MGM's Dr. Kildare series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case stars crusty old Lionel Barrymore in the title role. The first half of the film concerns Gillespie's efforts to expedite the romance of Army sergeant Orisin (Michael Duane) Read More

The Youngest Profession

Actors: Virginia Weidler, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Ann Ayars, Marta Linden

Synopsis: In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is collecting the autographs of major stars. Led by their determined president, the gals stalk the streets and train stations of New York in search of big-name stars. Their Read More

They Died With Their Boots On

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Regis Toomey, Charles Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate it up like cotton candy. In the gospel according to Warners, General George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) is neither an arrogant fool nor a rabid Indian hater. Instead, he Read More

The Women

Actors: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard

Synopsis: Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Read More

The Hardys Ride High

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs. The complacently middle-class family (middle class by Hollywood standards, that is!) inherits a large estate, compelling them to move in different social circles. Judge Read More

Should a Girl Marry?

Actors: Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Mayo Methot, Weldon Heyburn, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Should a Girl Marry? never completely answers its own question, inasmuch as the story concentrates primarily on the male lead. Warren Hull stars as Dr. Robert Benson, so dedicated to his profession that he sorely neglects his ever-loving wife Margaret (Anne Nagel). Things come to a sorry pass when Read More

Calling Dr. Kildare

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Lana Turner, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: The second of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Calling Dr. Kildare finds the title character (Lew Ayres) transferred to Blair General's downtown outpatient clinic by his crusty superior Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore). It is Gillespie's hope that Kildare will gain valuable experience by working in Read More

The Night of Nights

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, this backstage drama stars Pat O'Brien as Dan O'Farrell, a boozy Broadway producer who makes his way back to show-business after a long absence. As a young man, O'Farrell Read More

Man-Proof

Actors: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of Manhattan, circa 1938. Mimi Swift (Myrna Loy), the daughter of a successful romance novelist, is having no luck in getting the man she loves. Although she has made her Read More

Too Hot to Handle

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on her search for her missing brother, sensing a Read More

John Meade's Woman

Actors: Edward Arnold, Francine Larrimore, Gail Patrick, George Bancroft, John Trent

Synopsis: Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman. Starting with a second-rate tree-cutting business, Meade rapidly becomes a powerful lumber tycoon, using underhanded methods to rise to the top and crushing anyone who gets in Read More

She's No Lady

Actors: Ann Dvorak, John Trent, Harry Beresford, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Not only is "she" no lady, but heroine Jerry (Ann Dvorak) doesn't even have a ladylike name. Jerry is an insurance investigator who moonlights as a jewel thief, making life difficult for professional diamond-swiper Carter (John Trent). It turns out that at least one of these two reprobates is Read More

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Actors: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Based on a popular drawing-room drama by Frederick Lonsdale, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney stars Joan Crawford as a jewel thief who poses as an aristocrat. It is Crawford's intention to pilfer a valuable pearl necklace while attending a society party in the company of partner-in-crime William Powell. Read More

Thanks for Listening

Actors: Pinky Tomlin, Maxine Doyle, Aileen Pringle, Claire Rochelle, Henry Roquemore

Synopsis: Pinky Tomlin, the bespectacled crooner responsible for turning "The Object of My Affections" into a hit, is back again in Thanks for Listening. This time, Tomlin plays feckless Homer Tompkins, an easy target for confidence trickster Lulu (Aileen Pringle). Hired as a "professional listener," Homer Read More

Nothing Sacred

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: "This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred Read More

The Unguarded Hour

Actors: Franchot Tone, Loretta Young, Roland Young, Lewis Stone, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his conviction, while his wife, Lady Helen (Loretta Young), sits furrow-browed on the sidelines. Helen had witnessed the murder and thus can prove that the condemned man (Dudley Read More

Piccadilly Jim

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore, Billie Burke

Synopsis: British humorist P. G. Wodehouse wrote the story upon which Piccadilly Jim was based. Frank Morgan and Robert Montgomery play a well-to-do father and son, who find themselves rivals in love. The object of their affection is Madge Evans, who likes them both but favors the son. Everything could have Read More

Wife vs. Secretary

Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may have once harbored a secret desire for her boss, but she's perfectly content with boyfriend James Stewart. Accompanying Gable on a crucial business trip, Jean answers the Read More

Sons of Steel

Actors: Charles Starrett, Polly Ann Young, William Bakewell, Walter Walker, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful steel mill, but that is about all they have in common. One of them is a social climber while the other is a hard worker. The trouble begins because the fathers insist on Read More

Love Past Thirty

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Theodore Von Eltz, Phyllis Barry, John Marston

Synopsis: Some people never know what they have until someone else is about to get it as can be seen in this romance that centers upon a city slicker who returns home to finally marry the woman he's been engaged to for 16 years. When he sees her, he is disappointed to find her a tad matronly looking. His Read More

Once to Every Bachelor

Actors: Marian Nixon, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Raymond Hatton, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor. Nixon plays a young innocent who through no fault of her own has become involved with gangsters. Seeking a way out, she latches on to a wealthy playboy (Neil Hamilton). Having Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, Jameson Thomas, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles the romantic travails of a troubled orphan girl who grows up to be a governess in love with her employer who returns her affections. She has finally found happiness. Alas Read More

By Appointment Only

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Sally O'Neil, Edward Morgan, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old daughter Judy (Sally O'Neil), whom he makes his ward. Against the wishes of his fiancée, socialite Diane Manners (Aileen Pringle), Michael leaves for an extended business trip to Read More

The Phantom of Crestwood

Actors: Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, H.B. Warner, Pauline Frederick, Robert McWade

Synopsis: Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from gold digger Jenny Wren (Karen Morley). She, in turn, announces her retirement, but not before cajoling noted banker Priem Andes (H. B. Warner) into hosting a farewell party at Read More

Fame Street

Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Aileen Pringle, King Baggot, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram Pictures. D.W. Griffith's erstwhile "Little Colonel" is Nathaniel Barry, a once admired actor now facing a magistrate (Edmund Breese) on a charge of drunken disorder. Barry's Read More

The Age of Consent

Actors: Dorothy Wilson, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden, Arline Judge, John Halliday

Synopsis: Dorothy Wilson, who'd previously been a stenographer at RKO Radio studios, plays the lead in RKO's Age of Consent. Wilson and co-star Richard Cromwell play a couple of green-as-grass college coeds, whose puppy love blossoms into genuine romance. But with love comes responsibilities, and soon it Read More

Subway Express

Actors: Jack Holt, Aileen Pringle, Fred Kelsey, Alan Roscoe, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a murder is committed, the passengers are ordered to stay put while police inspector Killian (Jack Holt) investigates. From all appearances, it would seem that the victim was Read More

Convicted

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Harry Myers, Richard Tucker, Dorothy Christy

Synopsis: Seldom was there a less appropriately named film company than Artclass Pictures, a firm which specialized in the lowest of low-budget productions. In Artclass's Convicted, silent-film favorite Aileen Pringle plays Barbara Norvelle, a stage actress who is being ardently pursued all over an ocean Read More

Murder at Midnight

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliott, Clara Blandick

Synopsis: A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a play. The highlight of the production is a realistic on-stage murder, wherein the victim is shot point-blank, right through the heart, as the clock strikes 12. The audience Read More

Prince of Diamonds

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Ian Keith, Fritzi Ridgeway, Tyrell Davis, Claude King

Synopsis: The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay (Aileen Pringle), Endon battles over her affections with far-from-wealthy squire Lord Adrian (Tyrrell Davis). Though Eve is fond of his lordship, she allows her head to be Read More

Puttin' on the Ritz

Actors: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub superstar Harry Richman) begins his career with nothing but his ambition, his talent and the support of friends and loved ones. Eventually he hits the big time and becomes a Read More

Soldiers and Women

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Grant Withers, Helen Johnson, Walter McGrail, Emmett Corrigan

Synopsis: In this mystery set at an Army post, two women are having a passionate affair with a soldier. The trouble begins when one of the women's husbands is mysteriously killed. The conniving daughter of the commanding officer is behind the death, but she tries to frame her lover. Later when the Read More

Wall Street

Actors: Ralph Ince, Sam de Grasse, Philip Strange, Ernest Hilliard, James Finlayson

Synopsis: A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Read More

A Single Man

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Marceline Day, Eddie Nugent, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: In this comedy, an aging fellow falls in love with a free-spirited flapper. His crush causes the normally dignified middle-ager to begin trying to act as young as the flapper, and he becomes a fool. One day, the fellow's secretary, who has secretly loved him for years, fixes herself up and reveals Read More

Night Parade

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Lloyd Ingraham, Dorothy Gulliver, Aileen Pringle, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: A young boxer on his way to the top is scheduled for an important championship fight in this sports melodrama. He meets a beautiful woman and, wanting to impress her but not having any money, finds himself being pressured to throw the fight for a huge bribe. What he doesn't know, though, is that Read More

Show People

Actors: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli, Tenen Holtz

Synopsis: This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue Read More

Beau Broadway

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Hugh Trevor, Kit Guard

The Baby Cyclone

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Gwen Lee, Robert Armstrong, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: The Baby Cyclone was adapted from the George M. Cohan stage play of the same name, which originally starred Grant Mitchell and an up-and-comer named Spencer Tracy. The popular MGM screen team of Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle top the cast in this pleasant domestic comedy, wherein two suburban wives Read More

Wickedness Preferred

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Mary McAllister, Bert Roach, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: Wickedness Preferred was another of MGM's popular Lew Cody-Aileen Pringle star vehicles. This time around, Cody is cast as novelist Anthony Dare, while Pringle is his efficiency-expert wife Kitty. When their money runs out, the Dares set up housekeeping in Central Park, which is fun for a while Read More

Dream of Love

Actors: Joan Crawford, Nils Asther, Aileen Pringle, Warner Oland, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: The venerable French stage drama Adrienne Lecouvreur was redressed by MGM as the Joan Crawford vehicle Dream of Love. It's a rags-to-riches yarn, as a fiery gypsy girl (Crawford) becomes an internationally popular actress. Loved by thousands of fans, Adrienne Lecouvreur is unable to find true love Read More

Tea for Three

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Dorothy Sebastian

Synopsis: Previously teamed for the popular MGM farce Adam and Evil, stars Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle and director Robert Z. Leonard were reunited for Tea for Three. Cody plays Carter Langford, who has good reason to suspect that his wife Doris (Pringle) is stepping out on him in favor of family friend Read More

Adam and Evil

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Gwen Lee, Gertrude Short, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: 'That's either your wife or your sister-in-law!" declares Gwen Lee to Aileen Pringle in the middle of Adam and Evil. This should be indication enough that this silent feature was a comedy, despite its title. Lew Cody, married to Aileen Pringle, pretends to be his own twin brother so that he can Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Norman Kerry, Lionel Barrymore, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Body and Soul was a remake of the heavy-breathing 1920 melodrama The Branding Iron. Lionel Barrymore is shameless in his portrayal of double-dyed villain Dr. Leyden. After disgracing his profession, Leyden escapes to Switzerland, where he is smitten by inn servant Hilda (Aileen Pringle). Tricking Read More

The Wilderness Woman

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Lowell Sherman, Chester Conklin, Henry Vibart, Robert Cain

Synopsis: Aileen Pringle tackles a dual role in the comedy actioner Wilderness Woman. Actually, both heroines -- hoydenish Junie and sophisticated Juneau MacLean -- are the same person. Here's the lowdown: Junie, the hard-fightin', hard-drinkin' daughter of cantankerous Alaska gold miner Kodiak MacLean (Chester Conklin Read More

Tin Gods

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Renée Adorée, Aileen Pringle, William Powell, Hale Hamilton

Synopsis: With a star-director combination like Tommy Meighan and Allan Dwan, how could Tin Gods not succeed at the box office? After the death of his child in an accident, engineer Roger Drake (Meighan) parts company with his politically ambitious wife Janet (Aileen Pringle). Unable to hold onto a job in Read More

Great Deception

Actors: Ben Lyon, Aileen Pringle, Basil Rathbone, Sam Hardy, Charlotte Walker

Synopsis: The Great Deception is set during WWI. Educated in Germany, British youth Cyril Mansfield (Ben Lyon) is seemingly uncertain of his loyalties when the War breaks out. Refusing to enlist in the British army, Cyril is accused of being a slacker and a coward. He then commits the ultimate betrayal by Read More

Mystic

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, Mitchell Lewis, Robert Ober, Stanton Heck

Synopsis: Returning to one of his favorite themes, crooks bilking the gullible nouveau riche, Tod Browning both co-wrote (with Waldemar Young) and directed this evocative silent melodrama starring Conway Tearle as Michael Nash, an American criminal who imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control Read More

Wildfire

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Edna Murphy, Holmes Herbert, Edmund Breese, Mary Thurman

Synopsis: This horse racing meller was based on the play by George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst. Claire Barrington (Aileen Pringle) wants to see her sister, Myrtle (Edna Murphy), make a fortuitous marriage to Ralph Woodhurst (Antrim Short). Woodhurst's father opposes horse racing, so Claire keeps it a Read More

Thief in Paradise

Actors: Doris Kenyon, Aileen Pringle, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Maurice Blake (Ronald Colman) and Philip Jardine (Charles Youree) are pearl fishers on a tropical island. The two of them are fighting underwater for a pearl, when Jardine is killed by a shark. His mistress, Carmina (Aileen Pringle), has a letter from Jardine's wealthy father (Claude Read More

Soul Mates

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Edmund Lowe, Phillips Smalley, Antonio D'Algy, Edythe Chapman

Synopsis: Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material gain or for love. This choice is put before the young heroine Velma (Aileen Pringle). For Velma, it is no choice at all. She steadfastly refuses an arranged marriage to a Read More

One Year to Live

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam de Grasse, Rosemary Thebv, Leo White

Synopsis: Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star (Aileen Pringle). She falls ill, and to keep her by his side, he tells her that she only has a year to live. Instead of making Elise a homebody, it inspires her to make a stab at Read More

A Kiss in the Dark

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Aileen Pringle, Lillian Rich, Kenneth MacKenna

Synopsis: Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount the following year. Menjou played Walter Grenham, a confirmed boulevardier stranded in Havana with his best friend's (Kenneth MacKenna) flirtatious wife (Lillian Rich). Read More

His Hour

Actors: Aileen Pringle, John Gilbert, Emily Fitzroy, Bertram Grassby

Synopsis: Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine (Aileen Pringle). While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko. And for the Read More

Wife of the Centaur

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, John Gilbert, Aileen Pringle, William Haines, Kate Price

Synopsis: John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode within a year, when he starred in The Merry Widow and The Big Pararde back-to-back. Even though The Wife of the Centaur (based on the novel by Cyril Hume) wasn't a brilliant Read More

Married Flirts

Actors: Pauline Frederick, Conrad Nagel, Mae Busch, Huntly Gordon, Patterson Dial

Synopsis: Pauline Frederick stars in this romance, based on the Louis Joseph Vance novel Mrs. Paramor. Nelly (Frederick) is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne (Huntly Gordon). Jill Wetherell (Mae Busch), who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to Read More

True As Steel

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Huntly Gordon, Cleo Madison, Eleanor Boardman, Norman Kerry

Synopsis: Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose nephew was a teenager named Howard R. Hughes) wrote and directed this drama for MGM. Aileen Pringle stars as the businesswoman in question, Eva Boutelle, whose husband, Harry (Norman Kerry Read More

Three Weeks

Actors: Aileen Pringle, John St. Polis, Helen Dunbar, Stuart Holmes

Synopsis: Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily married to the brutish King Constantine II (John Sainpolis). She takes a break from her duties to vacation in Switzerland, where she meets Englishman Paul Verdayne (Conrad Read More

Stranger's Banquet

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, Rockliffe Fellowes, Ford Sterling, Eleanor Boardman

Synopsis: As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the screen. He put together an amazing cast, which included such luminaries as Jean Hersholt, Philo McCullough, Stuart Holmes, Claude Gillingwater and Hobart Bosworth, but a Read More

The Tiger's Claw

Actors: Jack Holt, Eva Novak, George Periolat, Bertram Grassby, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a Read More

In the Palace of the King

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Edmund Lowe, Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Starke, Sam de Grasse

Synopsis: This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous of his powerful and popular brother, Don John (Edmund Lowe), so he sends him to fight in the Moors, hoping that he will not return. John leaves behind the woman he loves Read More

Souls for Sale

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix, Frank Mayo

Synopsis: This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story of a young woman's rise in Hollywood; the film uses real stars and productions (even Charles Chaplin filming A Woman of Paris) as its backdrop. Eleanor Boardman plays Read More

Don't Marry for Money

Actors: House Peters, Rubye DeRemer, Aileen Pringle, Cyril Chadwick, Christine Mayo

Synopsis: After receiving excellent training through working alongside Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown became a full-fledged director in his own right with this sophisticated, independently made drama (although he had already really shown his mettle by taking over for an ill Tourneur on The Last of the Mohicans Read More

My American Wife

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Antonio Moreno, Josef Swickard, Eric Mayne, Gino Corrado

Synopsis: Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher Josef Swickard, Gloria is romanced by handsome aristocrat Antonio Moreno. This one has the whole shootin' match: duels, blood feuds, midnight trysts, and a pulse-pounding Read More

Oath-Bound

Actors: Dustin Farnum, Ethel Grey Terry, Fred Thomson, Maurice B. Flynn, Norman Douglas Selby

Synopsis: The real draw of this suspenseful drama was the yacht race and the motor boat chase, which included a hydroplane. No one cared much about the plot, but here it is anyway: Wealthy Lawrence Bradbury (a miscast Dustin Farnum) owns a transatlantic line which is being plagued by silk thieves. When he Read More