Carroll NyeFilmography

The Trail Blazers

Actors: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Pauline Moore, Weldon Heyburn

Synopsis: An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as unusual as a Christmas western that includes comic sidekick Rufe Davis' rendition of "Jingle Bells". The Mesqueteers -- who in addition to Davis' Lullaby Joslin also numbered Read More

Kentucky Moonshine

Actors: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Tony Martin, Marjorie Weaver, George "Slim" Summerville, John Carradine

Synopsis: Those zany Ritz Brothers are at it again--good news or bad, depending on one's feelings toward the team. This time they're a trio of Manhattan entertainers who can't get anywhere because hillbilly acts are "in" with radio and theatrical producers. Also left out in the cold by the new fad is singer Marjorie Weaver Read More

City Girl

Actors: Phyllis Brooks, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook Read More

Hold That Co-Ed

Actors: John Barrymore, George Murphy, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Davis, Jack Haley

Synopsis: This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate (aka Louisiana's Huey Long). He sees opportunity knocking when he learns how desperate his constituents have become to build their miserable state college football team Read More

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and completely, totally, utterly rewritten--as a vehicle for 10-year-old Shirley Temple. Unable to land a radio contract for himself and his niece Rebecca Winstead (Temple) Read More

Sing and Be Happy

Actors: Tony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, Helen Westley

Synopsis: A strong-willed young man creates a rift with his father when turns down a safe position in the family business and becomes a traveling musician. Eventually he returns to his father's ad agency to settle down, but he proves to be a trouble maker. When he falls in love with the daughter of his Read More

The Traveling Saleslady

Actors: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan, Hugh Herbert, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste." The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at Read More

Temptation's Workshop

Actors: Tyrell Davis, Helen Foster, Dorothy Granger, Carroll Nye, John Ince

Synopsis: British supporting actor Tyrell Davis earned a rare starring role in this low-budget family drama from Poverty Row company Action Pictures. Davis plays Count Emile Borosko, an impoverished European nobleman who comes to the aid of his unfortunate in-laws, a family of former society swells living Read More

King of the Wild

Synopsis: Set in India, Arabia, and Darkest Africa, this 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial had been created for Harry Carey and Edwina Booth, the stars of MGM's highly anticipated Trader Horn (1930). That film, however, needed quite a bit of re-tooling and producer Nat Levine had to settle for lesser names Walter Miller Read More

The One Way Trail

Actors: Tim McCoy, Doris Hill, Carroll Nye, Polly Ann Young, Al Ferguson

Synopsis: In his first Western for Columbia, Tim McCoy played one of his favorite characters, the reformed professional gambler. Returning home to visit with brother Terry (Carroll Nye), Tim Allen (McCoy) finds Terry mortally wounded by a man he identifies as the supposedly honest gambler George Beck Read More

Hell Bent for Frisco

Actors: Charles Delaney, Vera Reynolds, Carroll Nye, Wesley Barry, William Desmond

Synopsis: Charles Delaney, an all-purpose actor who appeared in several Poverty Row productions of the early 1930s, assumes the role of a newspaper reporter in Hell Bent for Frisco. Delaney intends to prove that the deceptively charming Carroll Nye was the murderer of the brother of heroine Vera Reynolds. Read More

Neck and Neck

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: Though he spent the bulk of the talkie era at mighty MGM, director Richard Thorpe put in three solid years' service on Poverty Row. In Thorpe's Neck and Neck, Glenn Tryon plays Bill Grant, a boastful young chap who claims to be an expert horseman. When he falls in love with wealthy Norma Rickson (Vera Reynolds Read More

The Bishop Murder Case

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis, George F. Marion

Synopsis: Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's dilettante detective Philo Vance in The Bishop Murder Case. The murderer this time is a mysterious figure known only as "The Bishop." Plotting his killings in the systematic manner Read More

Sons of the Saddle

Actors: Doris Hill, Francis Ford, Joseph W. Girard, Carroll Nye, Harry Todd

Synopsis: The dashing Ken Maynard, who always warned that he sang loudly rather than well, finished his 1929-1930 stay at Universal with this average early sound western. Maynard sang several heart-felt prairie ballads in the film and even cut a record for Columbia. One of his songs, Down the Home Trail Read More

The Lottery Bride

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, Joe E. Brown, ZaSu Pitts, Robert Chisholm

Synopsis: Based on "Bride 66", a tone poem by composer Herbert Stothart, The Lottery Bride takes place in a distinctly Hollywoodized Norway. Ever on the lookout for extra cash, heroine Jenny Swanson (Jeanette MacDonald) coerces her sweetheart Chris Svenson (John Garrick) to participate with her in a Read More

The Girl in the Glass Cage

Actors: Loretta Young, Matthew Betz, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Sellon, Julia Swayne Gordon

Synopsis: In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a small-town movie house. Although she's sweet on socialite Terry Pomfret (Carrol Nye), Gladys is ardently pursued by gangster Doc Striker (Matthew Betz). This results in a loud and very public confrontation Read More

The Flying Fleet

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Eddie Nugent, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the crippling accident that ended his naval career (Wead's life story was later romanticized in the 1957 John Ford picture The Wings of Eagles). Evidently, Wead's favorite story Read More

Light Fingers

Actors: Ian Keith, Dorothy Revier, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: "Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief played by Ian Keith. Falling in love with virtuous Dorothy Madison (Dorothy Revier), Light Fingers promises to give up his life of crime if only she will marry him. He tries hard to keep his Read More

Madame X

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone, Raymond Hackett, John P. Edington, Holmes Herbert, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.

Synopsis: Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut. Ruth Chatterton stars as a low-born wife of a socialite, whose aristocratic in-laws kick her out when she gives birth to a baby boy of dubious parentage. The boy, who has been led Read More

The Squall

Actors: Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce, Carroll Nye, Loretta Young

Synopsis: Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The Squall. Myrna Loy stars as Nubi, a sexy and seductive Hungarian gypsy girl who is caught in a torrential downpour. Taking refuge in a farmhouse, Nubi wreaks havoc on the male Read More

Race for Life

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Carroll Nye, Bobby Gordon, James Mason, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin topped the cast of Warner Bros.' A Race for Life. The combination of star and title was in itself enough to pack theaters, but Warners insisted upon adding a plot, if only to appease the critics. In this one, Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea (Bobby Gordon Read More

While the City Sleeps

Actors: Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the misbehavior of heroine Myrtle (Anita Page), who enjoys rubbing shoulders with gangsters like Skeeter (Wheeler Oakman). When she learns too much about Skeeter's set-up, Myrtle Read More

Sporting Age

Actors: Belle Bennett, Holmes Herbert, Carroll Nye, Josephine Borio

Synopsis: Belle Bennett, the long-suffering leading lady of Stella Dallas (1926), heads the cast of Columbia's The Sporting Age. The story is motivated by a train wreck which causes racetrack owner Holmes Herbert to temporarily lose his eyesight. Taking advantage of this, Herbert's straying wife Bennett Read More

Land of the Silver Fox

Actors: Leila Hyams, John Miljan, Carroll Nye, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Land of the Silver Fox was one of the last silent starring vehicles for celebrated canine star Rin Tin Tin. In this one, Rinty heads to the Canadian Northwest, where he befriends likeable fox trapper Carroll Nye. The "human" hero is in love with Leila Hyams, the ward of duplicitous trading-camp Read More

The Perfect Crime

Actors: Clive Brook, Irene Rich, Ethel Wales, Carroll Nye, Gladys McConnell

Jazzland

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: Silent stars Bryant Washburn and Vera Reynolds had both seen better days by the time they made the inexpensive programmer Jazzland. The story is set in motion by newspaper reporter Carroll Nye, (remember him as Frank Kennedy in Gone With the Wind?) who opposes the construction of a nightclub in Read More

Craig's Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these was filmed in 1928, with Cecil B. DeMille's talented brother William in the director's chair. Irene Rich stars as Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and Read More

Powder My Back

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, André Beranger, Anders Randolph, Carroll Nye

The Black Diamond Express

Actors: Monte Blue, Edna Murphy, Myrtle Stedman, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: The screenplay for Warner Bros.' Black Diamond Express was credited to "Mark Canfield," one of the many pseudonyms of Warner workhorse Darryl F. Zanuck. Monte Blue heads the cast as a muscular railroad worker, in love with heroine Edna Murphy. Several obstacles are placed in the path of true Read More

The Brute

Actors: Monte Blue, Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, Carroll Nye, Paul Nicholson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's true professionals, Irving Cummings showed little of his later directorial sophistication in this terrible silent comedy-Western about a con man (Monte Blue) trying to fleece a group of wealthy but gullible Indians out of a fortune in oil. Along the way, Blue and his Runyonesque Read More

The Girl From Chicago

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Carroll Nye, Paul Panzer

Synopsis: The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than from the silent era. It's an early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy. Southern girl Mary Carlton (Loy) finds out that her brother, Bob (Carroll Nye), is going to the electric Read More

Death Valley

Actors: Carroll Nye, Rada Rae, Sam Allen, Raymond Wells

Synopsis: This obscure, locally-lensed silent Western starred became a minor cause célèbre for a scene in which the villain punched the heroine several times in the face! Carroll Nye and Rex, the Dog save the girl (Rada Rae) from her brutal father (Sam Allen). Young Nye's only memorable role came more than Read More

What Every Girl Should Know

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller

Synopsis: In this instance at least, What Every Girl Should Know doesn't come in a plain brown wrapper. Patsy Ruth Miller stars as 17-year-old Mary Sullivan, who is shipped off to an orphanage with her kid brother Bobby (Mickey McBan) when their older brother-guardian Dave (Carroll Nye) is framed on a Read More

The Silver Slave

Actors: Irene Rich, Audrey Ferris, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: The Silver Slave is Bernice Randall (Irene Rich), who marries for money rather than love. This she has done for the sake of her daughter Janet (Audrey Ferris), who nonetheless grows up despising her mother. As an act of defiance, Janet becomes engaged to Philip Caldwell (John Miljan), a no-good Read More

Rose of Kildare

Actors: Pat O'Malley, Helene Chadwick, Henry B. Walthall, Lee Moran

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, Rose of Kildare begins in Ireland, where Rose (Helene Chadwick) and Barry (Pat O'Malley) fall in love. Alas, hero and heroine are separated by a combination of Cruel Fate and False Pride. Emigrating to America, Rose becomes a successful nightclub owner, but she never gets over Read More

Kosher Kitty Kelly

Actors: Viola Dana, Tom B. Forman, Vera Gordon, Kathleen Myers, Nat Carr

Synopsis: Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kosher Kitty Kelly stars Viola Dana in the title role. The story is a variation on the Abie's Irish Rose theme, detailing the marriage between an Irish Catholic and a Jew. Much of the humor is of the roughhouse variety, though there are a few touches Read More

Her Honor the Governor

Actors: Pauline Frederick, Carroll Nye, Tom Santschi, Stanton Heck

Synopsis: Adele Fenway (Pauline Frederick) is Her Honor the Governor in this complex silent drama. Upon winning the gubernatorial election, Adele discovers that her campaign was a sham: Crooked senator Jim Dornton (Stanton Heck) intends to go on running the state as he's always done, using Adele as a mere Read More

Wolf Hunters

Actors: Alan Roscoe, Virginia Brown Faire, Mildred Harris, Robert McKim, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew, the "lone rider" of the Mounties, at present on the prowl for illegal wolf trappers. Before he's able to get his man, Sgt. Steve spends a lot of time in the company of two Read More

Earth Woman

Actors: Mary Alden, Russell Simpson, Priscilla Bonner, Carroll Nye, Joe Butterworth

Synopsis: The Earth Woman was one of several films produced by Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), who after the drug-induced death of her movie-idol husband dedicated herself to saving impressionable filmgoers from the evils and pitfalls of modern life. The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where Read More

Classified

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Jack Mulhall, Ward Crane, Carroll Nye, Charlie Murray

Synopsis: This comedy was based on a novel by author Edna Ferber. Although she is merely a classified ads employee, Babs Comet (Corinne Griffith) is determined to have the finer things in life. She spends all her money on clothes and eschews the subway, preferring instead to entice wealthy young men into Read More