Astrid Allwyn Filmography

Puddin' Head

Actors: Judy Canova, Francis Lederer, Raymond Walburn, George "Slim" Summerville, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this cornball musical comedy, a hillbilly gal and her uncle struggle to keep sly city slickers from getting their land. It is an uphill battle as their farm is located on Fifth Avenue, New York City. The slickers then resort to trickery by offering the girl a phony singing gig on the radio. Read More

No Hands on the Clock

Actors: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart, Dick Purcell, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts his investigation of a kidnap case. It appears that the abduction has some tenuous connection with a recent bank robbery. As Morris digs deeper, he finds that virtually all Read More

Melody for Three

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Fay Wray, Walter Woolf King, Schuyler Standish, Patsy Lee Parsons

Synopsis: For some reason or other, Melody for Three seems to be the most frequently revived of RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian." As ever, Jean Hersholt stars as Christian, kindly general practitioner of the town of River's End. In this one, Dr. Christian takes an avuncular interest in young Billy Stanley Read More

Cracked Nuts

Synopsis: No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart Erwin as Lawrence Trent, a country rube who wins a refrigerator-slogan contest and gets some money for his efforts. Meanwhile, mad scientist Boris Kabikoff (Mischa Auer) builds Read More

City of Missing Girls

Actors: H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, John Archer, Sarah Padden, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made potboiler directed by former silent screen actor Elmer Clifton. When several naive young girls turned "nightclub entertainers" end up dead, snoop sister Nora Page (Astrid Read More

Unexpected Uncle

Actors: Anne Shirley, James Craig, Charles Coburn, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected Uncle. Living in retirement in Florida, ex-tycoon Seton (Charles Coburn) gets bored with sitting around doing nothing, and decides to extend himself to others for the first Read More

There's Magic in Music

Actors: Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman, Grace Bradley

Synopsis: The illustrious National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan provides the backdrop for this musical that chronicles the ups and downs of overseeing such an establishment. The story centers on a young burlesque singer who is discovered and taken to the camp. At first the uncultured girl rebels Read More

Meet the Missus

Actors: Roscoe Karns, Ruth Donnelly, Spencer Charters, George Ernest, Lois Ranson

Synopsis: The Higgins family gets in another comical bind when Ernest loses the fortune in bonds he was hired to deliver. In order to recoup the lost $5,000, Papa Higgins decides to try and marry Grandpa to the wealthiest old widow in town by sending her a steamy love letter and signing his own father's Read More

Gangs of Chicago

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most of his clients are criminals and he soon finds himself involved with a mob boss. Together they build a new crime syndicate. Unfortunately, the attorney's partner is secretly Read More

The Leather-Pushers

Actors: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Astrid Allwyn, Douglas Fowley, Charles D. Brown

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who is training Andy Grogan to wrestle, really packs a wallop, he suggests that Dick try boxing. Slick, the promoter then fixes Dick's fights to ensure that he wins. When Pat, a Read More

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Actors: Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore, Alan Baxter, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl necklace has been stolen by other thieves. Using his consummate skill, the Wolf pulls a deft switcheroo and substitutes the real ones for fakes. He then brings the real necklace Read More

Honeymoon in Bali

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: My Love for Yours is the alternate title for Paramount's Honeymoon in Bali. Madeline Carroll pulls a "Rosalind Russell" as a hard-shelled businesswoman with no time for romance. Fred MacMurray is determined to melt down her resistance, hoping to do so during a vacation to Nassau. Carroll almost Read More

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Actors: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior Read More

Love Affair

Actors: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Leo McCarey's classic tale of romance stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer as two strangers who fall in love on an ocean voyage. Charles Boyer is Michel Marnet, engaged to be married to Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn). Irene Dunne is Terry McKay, also engaged to be married, in this case to Kenneth Read More

Reno

Actors: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Anita Louise, Paul Cavanagh, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and ends when it becomes a divorce center and garishly lit gambling town. The film also follows the exploits of a young attorney who comes to town to build a thriving divorce Read More

Miracles for Sale

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull, Lee Bowman

Synopsis: Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared in a mere two films, "starring" in only one. Miracles for Sale compounds the oversight by rechristening Merlini as "Michael Morgan", in the person of Robert Young. The Read More

Woman-Wise

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Michael Whalen, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: An earnest, honest newspaper sports editor single-handedly launches a campaign to clean up the shadowy, crooked world of professional prizefighting in this drama. He focuses most of his energy on one shady promoter and proves his point by easily punching out the lights of the promoter's "champ." Read More

The Westland Case

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Carolyn Hughes, Barbara Pepper, Frank Jenks, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a novel by Jonathan Latimer which had to be toned down considerably for the filmgoers' consumption. Latimer's cynical private-eye team of Bill Crane and Doc Williams are here Read More

Venus Makes Trouble

Actors: James Dunn, Patricia Ellis, Gene Morgan, Thurston Hall, Beatrice Curtis

Synopsis: James Dunn stars as Buzz Martin, a hot-air balloon ascensionist who's plenty full of hot air himself. Hired by the owners of the bank and movie theater in a tiny Pennsylvania town, Buzz stages an aerial stunt to draw customers, succeeding primarily in making a mess of things. Undaunted, our hero Read More

Murder Goes to College

Actors: Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt, Astrid Allwyn, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide with higher learning. When the titular murder occurs, detective Hank Hyer (Lynne Overman) shows up to investigate, with vacationing reporter Sim Perkins (Roscoe Karns) Read More

Love Takes Flight

Actors: Bruce Cabot, Beatrice Roberts, John Sheehan, Astrid Allwyn, Elliot Fisher

Synopsis: Though he would later dismiss it as "just a ten-day job," actor Conrad Nagel made a remarkably smooth directorial debut with Grand National's Love Takes Flight. Bruce Cabot stars as Neil Bradshaw, an egotistical commercial pilot in love with stewardess Joan Lawson (Beatrice Roberts). Somewhat Read More

International Crime

Actors: Rod La Rocque, Astrid Allwyn, Oscar O'Shea, William Von Brincken

Synopsis: International Crime is the second of two Grand National programmers inspired by the popular "Shadow" pulp novels by Maxwell Grant. Rod La Rocque plays Lamont Cranston, famed criminologist and (in this film at least) radio crime reporter. This time around Cranston does not "cloud men's minds" Read More

It Could Happen to You

Actors: Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis, Jr., Astrid Allwyn, Walter Kingsford

Synopsis: It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth. Alan Baxter and Owen Davis Jr. star as Bob and Fred, the sons of immigrant Pa Barrett (Al Shean). Fred is a dutiful offspring, but Bob, an adoptee, is a no-good, stealing money from Read More

Dimples

Actors: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Delma Byron

Synopsis: This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace Appleby works the crowd, his talented granddaughter Dimples (Temple) dances for pennies. Dimples demands that Appleby stop his thieving ways, but every time he tries to follow Read More

Flying Hostess

Actors: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, William Hall, Astrid Allwyn, Ella Logan

Synopsis: Flying Hostess stars Judith Allen as the title character, rookie airline stewardess Helen Brooks. William Gargan co-stars as Hal Cunningham, the tough-but-likeable man in charge of the stewardess training program. Helen proves she's stayed awake during classes when a pilot is knocked out by a Read More

Follow the Fleet

Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, Fred and Ginger are virtually supporting players here, spending most of their time trying to patch up the romance between Fred's fellow sailor Randolph Scott Read More

Star for a Night

Actors: Claire Trevor, Jane Darwell, Arline Judge, Evelyn Venable, J. Edward Bromberg

Synopsis: Star for a Night is Lady for a Day in reverse. Jane Darwell plays Frau Lind, a blind Austrian woman who comes to the United States to visit her three children Nina (Claire Trevor), Anna (Evelyn Venable) and Fritz (Dean Jagger). The three siblings have written regularly to their mother, claiming Read More

Stowaway

Actors: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). Through a series of unbelievable but entertaining circumstances, Ching-Ching inadvertently stows away on a boat bound for San Francisco Read More

One More Spring

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell, Roger Imhof

Synopsis: One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street crash are an odd assortment of lost souls: Former antique dealer Otkar (Warner Baxter), concert violinist Rosenberg (Walter Woolf King) and unemployed actress Elizabeth (Janet Gaynor Read More

Accent on Youth

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: Based on Samson Raphaelson's stage play, Accent on Youth focuses on a May-December romance. Herbert Marshall (46 years old at the time) is a successful middle-aged playwright; Constance Cummings is his young secretary, who prefers the company of mature men. She sets her cap on marrying the Read More

Hands Across the Table

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis: After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands Across the Table. Reasoning that the way to a man's heart is through his cuticles, Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) takes a job as a manicurist at a fancy barbershop, unabashedly Read More

Charlie Chan's Secret

Actors: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman, Edward Trevor

Synopsis: A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of a will is delayed until one of the principal heirs to the fortune, can be located. He shows up at the family mansion, only to be promptly murdered. It is now up to Read More

Way Down East

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, George "Slim" Summerville, Edward Trevor, Margaret Hamilton

Synopsis: This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished gamin who lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by Read More

Dante's Inferno

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Rita Hayworth, Alan Dinehart, Scotty Beckett

Synopsis: Carnival barker Spencer Tracy befriends elderly concessionaire Henry B. Walthall, who owns a picturesque but stodgy display depicting Dante's Inferno. Walthall is more interested in the spiritual aspects of Man's fascination with Hell, but Tracy uses hoopla and exaggeration to get the suckers into Read More

It's a Small World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: It's a Small World was the latest in a long line of It Happened One Night clones, this time starring Spencer Tracy and Wendy Barrie as rough approximations of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It all begins when spoiled socialite Jane Dale (Barrie) and abrasive lawyer Bill Shevlin (Tracy) "meet Read More

Beggars in Ermine

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Henry B. Walthall, Betty Furness, Jameson Thomas, James Bush

Synopsis: The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both legs in an accident, steel-mill owner John Dawson (Lionel Atwill) disconsolately goes among "the people" in hopes of finding a reason for living. Upon befriending blind peddler Marchant (Henry B. Walthall Read More

The White Parade

Actors: Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox Studios who put this highly entertaining, highly predictable film together. The film chronicles the probationary period of a new team of student nurses in a midwestern Read More

Servants' Entrance

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Louise Dresser

Synopsis: Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden. Heiress Hedda Nillson (Janet Gaynor) certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in Read More

Mystery Liner

Actors: Cornelius Keefe, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edwin Maxwell

Synopsis: A rather nifty little science fiction-thriller/murder mystery from Poverty Row company Monogram, Mystery Liner was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by British pulp writer Edgar Wallace. Noah Beery starred as John Holling, the captain of an ocean liner equipped with a powerful scientific Read More

He Couldn't Take It

Actors: Ray Walker, Virginia Cherrill, George E. Stone, Stanley Fields, Dorothy Granger

Synopsis: Ray Walker plays Jimmy Case, a combustible young man who loses one job after another because he can't keep his fists to himself. On the verge of losing his girl friend Grace (Dorothy Granger), Walker agrees to hold his temper and try once more. He lands a job as a process server, only to find out Read More

Monte Carlo Nights

Synopsis: In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Iron Master

Actors: Reginald Denny, Lila Lee, John Farrell MacDonald, Esther Howard, Virginia Sale

Synopsis: In this drama, a bright young mill worker is left in charge of his late employer's estate. This causes many hard feelings from the surviving family. He forces the boss's son and daughter to work in the factory. They do not want to. For revenge they begin divulging trade secrets to a competitor. Read More

Hello Sister!

Actors: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, Minna Gombell, ZaSu Pitts, Terrance Ray

Synopsis: Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends who leave behind the small town where they were raised to try their luck in New York City. Before long, Millie and Peggy meet Jimmy (James Dunn) and Mac (Terrance Ray); Read More

Bachelor Mother

Actors: Evelyn Knapp, Margaret Seddon, Paul Page, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this grim drama, a conniving young man is brought up on charges of reckless driving. To "prove" his innocence and good character, he goes to a nursing home and adopts an old woman whom he presents as his loving mother. Unfortunately for him, she really gets into her role and when he falls in Read More

Hat Check Girl

Actors: Sally Eilers, Ben Lyon, Ginger Rogers, Monroe Owsley, Arthur Pierson

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry Marsh. Despite her lowly station in life, Gerry manages to fall in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins (Ben Lyon). The fly in the ointment is blackmailing newspaper Read More

The Girl From Calgary

Actors: Paul Kelly, Astrid Allwyn, Robert Warwick, Edwin Maxwell

Synopsis: That charming supporting player, Fifi D'Orsay, got a rare starring role in this obscure show business melodrama produced by I.E. Chadwick for release by Monogram. The perky actress played -- of all things -- a Canadian rodeo rider. Persuaded by an ambitious press agent (Paul Kelly), she enters the Read More

The Night Mayor

Actors: Lee Tracy, Evelyn Knapp, Warren Hymer, Donald Dillaway

Synopsis: This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a big-city mayor who loves sports, the theater, the night life, and a beautiful actress. When the press gets a hold of this information and a scandal ensues, he has the actress Read More

Lady with a Past

Actors: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners, Don Alvarado, Albert Conti

Synopsis: This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and very little romance in her life. Hoping to overcome her bashfulness during a trip to Europe, she invents a lurid history for herself, then engages the services of paid escort Read More

Love Affair

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Kennedy, Barbara Leonard, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Based on a story by Ursula Parrott, this romantic drama from Columbia Pictures was one of Humphrey Bogart's first leading roles. Working-class pilot and mechanic Jim Leonard (Bogart) gives flying lessons to wealthy heiress Carol Owen (Dorothy Mackaill).They fall in love throughout the teaching Read More