Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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Professor
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Louie Fairweather
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1944
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious...
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Dr. Tilford
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1944
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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Eddie Dibble
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1943
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In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father...
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Sultan
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1943
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The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns...
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Col. Winchester
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1943
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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Prof. Woof
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1942
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A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans....
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Edward Wallace
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1942
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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1942
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Harry Whitman
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1941
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Bittsy Conway
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1941
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Previously filmed with Mabel Normand in 1920, the old Rose Melville stage property Sis Hopkins was trotted out in 1941 for...
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Horace Hopkins
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1941
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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Mr. Chisholm
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1940
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Duke of Ephesus
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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Biney
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1938
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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Larmadou Graves
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1937
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Harry
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1937
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We Went to College is a perceptive spoof of alumni "homecoming" reunions. Hugh Herbert plays a daffy economics professor, who...
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Glenn Harvey
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1936
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In this murder comedy, a young woman is no sooner acquitted of poisoning her father when she finds herself suspected of...
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Felix
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1936
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Horace Van Steedan
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1936
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Baby Face Harrington features actor Charles Butterworth as Willie, a meek clerk who unintentionally...
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Willie
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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Tommy Masterson
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1935
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For 20 years, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable) has been in love with his childhood playmate Mary Clay (Joan Crawford). Alas, Jeff...
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Shep
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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Teddy Stuyvesant
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1935
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Willy
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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Harvey Clemp
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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Algy Longworth
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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Prof. Lippincott
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1934
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Charles
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1934
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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Layton, butler
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1933
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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Gerald Gregory
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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Floppy Phil
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1933
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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Count de Savignac
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1932
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The old reliable Paul Frank/Ladislaus Fodor stage play The Church Mouse was streamlined for the movies in the form of Beauty...
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Ludwig Pfeffer
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1932
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The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members...
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Sidney
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1931
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Geoffrey
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1931
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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Herbert
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1931
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Few actresses exuded as much raw sensuality as the pre-Production Code Barbara Stanwyck. In Illicit, Anne Vincent (Stanwyck)...
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Georgie Evans
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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Karminsky
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1931
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In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his...
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Barrett Butler
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1930
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In this comedy, one of the first to be completely shot in Technicolor, two shop clerks go out on the town to look for...
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Col. Joy
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1930
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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1930
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