Conrad NagelFilmography

A Stranger in My Arms

Actors: June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor

Synopsis: Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a neurotically possessive mother who'll stop at nothing to win a posthumous medal of honor for her son. But air force major Jeff Chandler knows that the dead boy was a coward Read More

The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

Hidden Fear

Actors: John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Natalie Norwick, Anne Neyland

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Copenhagen, Hidden Fear stars John Payne as an American lawman whose Denmark-based sister Natalie Norwick is in big, big, trouble. Arrested for the murder of her music hall partner, Natalie hopes that Payne can clear her name. Following the evidence trail, the detective meets Read More

All That Heaven Allows

Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woman, attractive widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), is considerably older than the man, handsome gardener-landscaper Read More

Stage Struck

Actors: Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel, Ralph Byrd, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's Stage Struck. Double-dyed villain Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) manages to make a good living by preying on young girls who've come to the Big City in hopes of becoming Read More

The Circle

Actors: David Alexander, Sam Bernard, Peter Brocco, Rudolph Cameron, Robert Cherry

Synopsis: The positive public response to such productions as Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement led to a mini-cycle of postwar anti-prejudice films. One of these was The Vicious Circle, based on a true incident which had previously been dramatized in G. W. Pabst's The Trial. In the late-19th century, an Read More

Adventures of Rusty

Actors: Ted Donaldson, Margaret Lindsay, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: Just when it didn't seem possible that Columbia had any room left for another B-picture series, along came The Adventures of Rusty. The title character is a German police dog, trained to be a vicious killer. Lonlely little Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson) believes that there's still some kindness Read More

Forever Yours

Actors: Gale Storm, C. Aubrey Smith, Johnny Mack Brown, Frank Craven, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical favorite Gale Storm goes dramatic as Joan Randall, a young debutante who is confined to a wheelchair after contracting infantile paralysis. Neither her doctor father (Conrad Read More

Dangerous Journey

Actors: Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: Released by 20th Century-Fox, Dangerous Journey is a feature-length documentary of the famed Armand Denis-Leila Roosevelt expedition of the mid-1930s. Much of the footage was culled from such previously released short subjects as Wheels Across Africa and Wheels Across India, originally distributed Read More

The Mad Empress

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Conrad Nagel, Guy Bates Post, Evelyn Brent

Synopsis: In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their brief reign as figureheads for Napoleon III. The two doomed rulers were terribly naive and had no idea that they were universally despised by the native population. Upon her Read More

I Want a Divorce

Actors: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Frank Fay, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in Paramount's I Want a Divorce. The film manages to sustain two plotlines, with newlyweds Alan and Geraldine MacNally (Powell and Blondell) beginning to have second thoughts Read More

One Million B.C.

Actors: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Hubbard, Mamo Clark

Synopsis: Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever undertaken by producer Hal Roach. Told in flashback, this is the highly fanciful tale of the prehistoric feud between the Rock Tribe and Shell People. Tumak (Victor Mature) Read More

Bank Alarm

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Frank Milan, Wilma Francis

Synopsis: Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as Federal agents Alan O'Connor and Bobbie Reynolds. On this occasion, the two G-people are on the trail of a gang of desperate bank robbers. Making their job slightly easier is the Read More

Navy Spy

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Judith Allen, Phil Dunham

The Gold Racket

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Fuzzy Knight, Frank Milan, Charles Delaney

Synopsis: Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a beautiful, talented singer, goes undercover as a singer in one of the Mexican clubs. Using her considerable wiles she then begins trying to seduce the ring leader. ~ Sandra Read More

Love Takes Flight

Crew: Director

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

The Girl from Mandalay

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook, Esther Ralston, Harry Stubbs

Synopsis: The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title character is Mandalay resort entertainer Jeanie, played by Kay Linaker. When his aristocratic sweetheart gives him the air, Britisher John Foster (Conrad Nagel) marries Jeanie Read More

Ball at Savoy

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Marta Labarr, Lu-Anne Meredith, Fred Conyngham, Aubrey Mather

Synopsis: Hollywood's Conrad Nagel heads cast of the British Ball at Savoy. The tux-garbed Nagel plays a baron who, while vacationing in Cannes, falls in love with opera star Marta Labarr. The prideful Labarr will have nothing to do with Nagel because of his wealth, so he poses as a waiter. When he's Read More

Wedding Present

Actors: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of one of two reporters. The joker ends up the new editor. Soon after taking the job, his personality changes dramatically and soon he has become a pompous and excessively harsh Read More

Yellow Cargo

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Jack LaRue, Claudia Dell

Synopsis: Having peaked as a big-studio leading man, Conrad Nagel accepted a brief contract at cost-conscious Pacific Pictures in 1936. Yellow Cargo is the first of the quartet, with Nagel costarring with Eleanor Hunt as a dog-and-cat team of government agents. Their job is to halt the activities of a gang Read More

Hell in a Circus

Synopsis: As a father prepares to remarry, his son's bitterness increases. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

One New York Night

Actors: Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Conrad Nagel, Harvey Stephens, Steffi Duna

Synopsis: In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating the mysterious death of a man in the hotel room next to his. In the corpse's room, the cowpoke found a lost bracelet. He and the hotel phone operator use this clue to solve Read More

The Marines Are Coming

Actors: William Haines, Esther Ralston, Conrad Nagel, Armida, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars William Haines, Esther Ralston and Conrad Nagel are game, but all three are a bit long in tooth for their characters. In a throwback to his silent films, Haines plays a wise-guy Read More

One Hour Late

Actors: Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees, Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge, Ray Walker

Synopsis: Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is cast as shipping clerk Eddie Blake, whose girlfriend Betty Dunn (Helen Twelvetrees) is secretary to big boss Stephen Barclay (Conrad Nagel). A trusting soul, Betty sees Read More

Death Flies East

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Florence Rice, Raymond Walburn, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia Pictures. The latter plays Evelyn Vail, a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate Carl Peters Read More

Dangerous Corner

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, Melvyn Douglas, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by telling the unvarnished truth. A burned-out radio tube is the catalyst for a series of painful and potentially dangerous revelations during a weekend party. The upshot of Read More

Ann Vickers

Actors: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by her soldier sweetheart (Bruce Cabot), Ann turns her life around by devoting herself to social work. A frustrating tenure as psychologist in a poorly maintained woman's Read More

The Constant Woman

Kongo

Actors: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait of a bitter, crippled and insane megalomaniac who vents his rage via mental torture against all those who get too near. Walter Huston plays the madman who lost the use of his Read More

The Man Called Back

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Doris Kenyon, John Halliday, Julie Compton, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married Read More

The Huddle

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge

Synopsis: In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football field to become popular. His ploy doesn't work. He cannot even con the girl of his dreams into going out with him. After four years, he finally grows up and his future begins Read More

Hell Divers

Actors: Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom Gable disliked in real life) ended up with more screen time. They played Naval officers training in the newfangled art of dive bombing while spending a great deal of time Read More

Divorce in the Family

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Maurice Murphy

Synopsis: A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is permissive; his new father is quite strict. His real father wants him back, but ultimately, the boy opts to stay with the stepfather because he understands that the discipline is good Read More

Fast Life

Actors: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel, Arthur Byron, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries test out his new invention in the big race and finds he needs a sponsor. Fortunately, the beautiful but haughty daughter of a prominent shipwright is around to help and Read More

Three Who Loved

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Robert Ames, Robert E. O'Connor, Dickie Moore

Synopsis: Silent star Betty Compson takes on a Swedish accent in this romantic melodrama based on a story by Martin Flavin. She is immigrant Helga Larson, arriving in New York to marry John Hanson (Conrad Nagel), a bank teller rooming with her aunt (Bodil Rosing). But while good dependable John slaves away Read More

Bad Sister

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Bette Davis, ZaSu Pitts, George "Slim" Summerville

Synopsis: A naive, wealthy small-town girl, bored with her routine life, falls for a dashing con artist who has come looking for fresh marks to swindle. He soon charms her into faking her prominent father's name on a letter of endorsement, which he presents to the other local merchants. They willingly give Read More

The Reckless Hour

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, Walter Byron, H.B. Warner, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her the moon, but ends up leaving her with a baby and a very bitter aftertaste. She then becomes cynical, and angry at all men until a sensitive, gentle artist helps her through Read More

The Right of Way

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, Fred Kohler, William Janney, Snitz Edwards

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1915 and 1920, Sir Gilbert Parker's novel The Right of Way was exhumed once more in 1931. Conrad Nagel stars as Conrad Steele, a Canadian lawyer saddled with a nagging wife (Olive Tell) and a lazy brother-in-law (William Janney). When the latter steals some of Conrad's money Read More

Son of India

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Conrad Nagel, Marjorie Rambeau, Madge Evans, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally wounded. Just before he dies, he hands his son a large diamond. The boy then continues on to the city. By the time he gets there he is ragged and dirty. A crooked merchant Read More

Pagan Lady

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Conrad Nagel, Charles Bickford, Roland Young, William Farnum

Synopsis: Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut Hunter. In the tradition of Somerset Maugham's Rain, Dut is everybody's sexual plaything on a remote tropical island. When young, comparatively innocent Ernest Todd (Conrad Nagel Read More

East Lynne

Actors: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne." To many playgoers, this hoary stage adaptation of Mrs. Henry Wood's 1861 novel represented the height of Victorian nonesuch. Still, there were several silent film versions Read More

Second Wife

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee, Hugh Huntley, Mary Carr, Freddie Burke Frederick

Synopsis: The first of two film versions of Fulton Oursler's domestic-conflict yarn, Second Wife stars Lila Lee as the bride of Conrad Nagel. Lee's ex-beau Hugh Hunley insists that Nagel's heart is still with his first wife, who now has custody of Nagel's son. When her husband leaves for Switzerland to Read More

The Ship from Shanghai

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Zeffie Tilbury

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure, a ship's steward goes 'round the bend, mutinies, throws the captain into the briny, and turns into an utter tyrant. He is protected by the simple-minded, enormously strong cook. Fortunately for the crew, the crazed steward goes completely mad and ends up leaping to his Read More

Numbered Men

Actors: Bernice Claire, Raymond Hackett, Tully Marshall, William Holden, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage play Jail Break, the film is hardly a paragon of credibility: more than one critic noted that the prison depicted herein is more like a country club than a house of corrections. The party-like Read More

Redemption

Actors: John Gilbert, Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Boardman, Renée Adorée, Claire McDowell

Synopsis: Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, Redemption was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but was held from release until distribution of his second, One Glorious Night. The official reason, as handed down by the MGM publicity hacks, was that Gilbert's efforts to tackle a role Read More

Dynamite

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye, Muriel McCormac

Synopsis: Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has noted, this 128-minute opus has enough plots for seven pictures. The basic storyline here involves spoiled heiress Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) who will lose her fortune if Read More

One Romantic Night

Actors: Lillian Gish, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great Lillian Gish. The star plays Alexandra, a mittel-European princess who falls in love with Dr. Hafler (Conrad Nagel), her brother's tutor. Alas, affairs of state demand that Read More

Free Love

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Conrad Nagel, Monroe Owsley, Bertha Mann, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The story focuses on a troubled married couple. At first the wife turns to a therapist, but she finds herself paying a lot of money for nothing. In desperation, she decides to pack Read More

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being fished from a pond by her future lover. Next she is seen as a hostess in the gambling house. She then becomes the King's mistress. Meanwhile she continues to carry on with her Read More

The Divorcée

Actors: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on Ex-Wife, a 1929 Ursula Parrott novel. Shearer is Jerry, a socialite who marries handsome Ted (Chester Morris) after a whirlwind courtship. But Ted is not exactly the faithful type Read More

Today

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Catherine Dale Owen, Sarah Padden, Judith Vosselli

Synopsis: Wiped out in the 1929 Wall Street crash, Fred Warner (Conrad Nagel) is no longer able to support his spendthrift wife Eve (Catherine Dale Owen) in the manner to which she is accustomed. At first resistant to readjusting her lifestyle, Eve finally relents, selling her jewels to help Fred get back Read More

Dubarry

Actors: Norma Talmadge, William Farnum, Hobart Bosworth, Conrad Nagel, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.

Synopsis: Silent film star Norma Talmadge's last film was the 100 percent all-talkie Dubarry. Adapted from the popular stage play by David Belasco, the film traces the life of notorious French adventuress Madame DuBarry, turning one of the most famous "kept women" in history into a sympathetic heroine. She Read More

A Lady Surrenders

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Genevieve Tobin, Basil Rathbone, Rose Hobart, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a husband gets on with his life after his wife goes to Europe to get a divorce. Thinking the deed done, the husband marries another. Unfortunately, his first wife returns and tells him that she never went through the procedure and that she has no intention of ever freeing him. Read More

Hollywood Revue of 1929

Synopsis: With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting their top stars performing specialty numbers. MGM's entry in this all-star genre was Hollywood Revue of 1929, which, though a box-office smash and a "Best Picture" Oscar Read More

The Thirteenth Chair

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first collaboration with Bela Lugosi, whom he would launch to stardom two years later. Lugosi plays Inspector Delzante, who investigates a series of murders near a British mansion in Read More

The Kiss

Actors: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Holmes Herbert, Lew Ayres

Synopsis: MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding courtroom melodrama to have been made as a silent. Released with a synchronized score and two important sound effects, The Kiss would prove to be Garbo's, and Metro's, final Read More

The Sacred Flame

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee, Pauline Frederick, William Courtenay, Walter Byron

Synopsis: In this early sound film, adapted from a play by Somerset Maugham, a WW I veteran is left crippled after a plane crash that occurred on his wedding day. He must spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Meanwhile his loving wife begins an affair with his brother. When his mother finds out about Read More

The Idle Rich

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love, Leila Hyams, Robert Ober, James Neill

Synopsis: In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the happy couple comes to call, they spend much of their time lecturing him about class equality. The wealthy husband is particularly moved by a speech from his bride's cousin and Read More

The Redeeming Sin

Actors: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, Philippe DeLacy, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: In this drama, a dancer's brother is wounded during a church robbery; the town doctor appears, rats on the boy and then lets him die. Later the doctor and the dancer become lovers which makes the boy's partner insane with jealousy. He attacks the physician, and believing he is dead, blackmails the Read More

Kid Gloves

Synopsis: One of those transitional Vitaphone productions with a few dialogue scenes and a canned music score, the underworld melodrama The Kid Glove starred one of the period's busiest actors, Conrad Nagel, in the title role of a prohibition hijacker. When lovely Ruth Darrow (Lois Wilson) is hurt in the Read More

Caught in the Fog

Actors: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Mack Swain, Charles Gerrard, Ruth Cherrington

Synopsis: This late silent effort from Warner Bros. stars Conrad Nagel and May McAvoy. Nagel plays a wealthy young sprout who makes an unannounced visit to his mother's houseboat. Here he confronts a gang of thieves, including the lovely McAvoy. Somewhat amused, Nagel offers no protest when the crooks Read More

State Street Sadie

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: When unassuming clerk Tom Blake (Conrad Nagel) is framed with the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery, the innocent pawn briefly eludes the authorities before committing suicide. Arriving at the scene just as Tom breathes his final breath, twin brother Ralph vows to avenge Read More

Red Wine

Actors: June Collyer, Conrad Nagel, Arthur Stone, E. Alyn Warren

Synopsis: In one of his last silent films, Conrad Nagel stars as Charles H. Cook, a sober-sided young man who is persuaded by his buddies to visit a nightclub. Partaking of spirits for the first time in his life, Cook proceeds to get totally plastered and ends up passing out on the floor. Upon awakening, he Read More

The Mysterious Lady

Actors: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edward Connelly, Richard Alexander

Synopsis: Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of Greta Garbo. The divine Miss G plays an alluring Russian spy, directly answerable to satanic-featured general Gustav von Seyffertitz. While she's accustomed to fomenting suicides and Read More

The Michigan Kid

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Lloyd Whitlock

Synopsis: This silent adventure is best remembered for its spectacular forest fire scenes that were staged and shot by extraordinary cinematographer Stumar. The story is routine and centers on the romantic rivalry between two Alaskan men in love with the same woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tenderloin

Actors: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim

Glorious Betsy

Actors: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Betty Blythe

Synopsis: The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner Bros., who starred their leading purveyors of cinematic passion, Conrad Nagel and Dolores Costello, both fresh from Tenderloin (1927). Like that crook melodrama, Glorious Betsy Read More

Diamond Handcuffs

Actors: Lena Malena, Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Boardman, Gwen Lee, Charles Stevens

Synopsis: German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners. In South Africa, a miner (Charles Stevens) loses his life after stealing a valuable diamond. Before he expires, he gives the stone to Musa Read More

Slightly Used

Actors: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Robert Agnew, Audrey Ferris, Anders Randolf

Synopsis: The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be allowed to go out with men. To help her sisters out, Cynthia pretends to be married to famous aviator Major John Smith (Conrad Nagel), who is far far away in Nicaragua. When Read More

London After Midnight

Actors: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent years, especially since so many critics of the 1930s considered the film as vastly superior to its 1935 remake, Mark of the Vampire. Clearly inspired by the stage version of Read More

Heaven on Earth

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Gwen Lee

Synopsis: Most sources agree that MGM's Heaven on Earth was actually a re-edited version of the 1926 Josef Von Sternberg production The Exquisite Sinner. Both films starred Renee Adoree and Conrad Nagel; both concerned the scion of a silk-manufacturing family who joins a band of gypsies; and both were 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

If I Were Single

Actors: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, André Beranger

Synopsis: Though he's perfectly happy with his wife May (May McAvoy), Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) isn't above a little flirtation with another girl named Joan (Myrna Loy). Not too pleased with Ted's roving eye -- especially since her "rival" is also her best friend -- May cooks up a plan to cure him of his Read More

Quality Street

Actors: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch, Margaret Seddon

Synopsis: A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street turned out to be one of the star's best and most likeable films. Davies is cast as Phoebe, a pretty young thing who agrees to be faithful to her sweetheart Dr. Valentine Read More

Dance Madness

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Claire Windsor, Douglas Gilmore, Hedda Hopper, Mario Carillo

Synopsis: The madness begins when J.P. and May Smith (Conrad Nagel, Claire Windsor) celebrate their second wedding anniversary with a trip to Paris. Succumbing to the charms of the City of Light, J.P. forsakes fidelity to pursue a sexy masked cabaret dancer. Finding out about her husband's galavanting, May Read More

There You Are!

Tin Hats

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Claire Windsor, George Cooper, Bert Roach, Tom O'Brien

Synopsis: The fact that the advertising posters for Tin Hats were designed by John Held Jr. is the most memorable aspect of this minor WWI comedy. Conrad Nagel, George Cooper and Tom O'Brien star as Jack, Lefty and Sarge, three American doughboys who manage to get lost behind enemy lines on Armistice Day. Read More

The Exquisite Sinner

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Paulette Duval, Frank Currier, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen. Adapted by Alice Duer Miller Read More

Memory Lane

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, William Haines, John Steppling

Synopsis: Memory Lane is a vehicle for stars-in-the-making Eleanor Boardman and William Haines, both winners of an extensive MGM talent search. Boardman plays Mary, in love with poor-but-honest working stiff Joe Field (William Haines). But when Joe leaves town to seek his future in the Big City, Mary Read More

The Waning Sex

Actors: Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel

Synopsis: According to playwrights Frederic and Fanny Hatton, The Waning Sex was the male -- and this hypothesis was carried over to the film version of the Hattons' stage comedy. Norma Shearer stars as female lawyer Nina Duane, who has quite a time overcoming the chauvinist "good old boy" network in the Read More

Excuse Me

Actors: Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, John Boles, Bert Roach

Synopsis: Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel star in this farce based on the successful stage play by Rupert Hughes. Lieutenant Harry Mallory (Nagel) wins a promotion for his valor and is ordered to go to the Philippines. His fiancée, Marjorie Newton (Shearer), wants to go with him so they decide to get Read More

Sun-Up

Actors: Lucille La Verne, Pauline Starke, Conrad Nagel, Sam de Grasse, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only have played a hillbilly with his glorious voice silenced. He's the star of this silent drama, based on the play by Lula Vollmer. Lucille LaVerne, who played Ma Cagle on Read More

Lights of Old Broadway

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Frank Currier, George K. Arthur, Marion Davies

Synopsis: Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put Marion Davies into another picturesque tale of New York in the 1800s -- this time a few decades later, circa 1870. The idea actually worked. The film, based on the Laurence Read More

Pretty Ladies

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall

Synopsis: This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie (ZaSu Pitts) is the Follies comedienne, and she envies all the other girls in the show -- the pretty ladies with their sweethearts. She knows she's only there for the Read More

Only Thing

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, Edward Connelly, Louis Payne, Arthur Edmund Carewe

Synopsis: This is yet another costume drama written and supervised by the eccentric Elinor Glyn, who was a Hollywood tastemaker during the silent era. Harry Vane, the Duke of Chevenix (Conrad Nagel), travels from England to the mythical kingdom of Chekia, where he falls in love with Princess Thyra (Eleanor Read More

Cheaper to Marry

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Paulette Duval, Marguerite de la Motte, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris (Marguerite de la Motte). Jim Knight (Lewis Stone) disapproves of the marriage -- he points out to Tyler that a wife interferes with business. When Dick and Doris attend a dinner Read More

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Stuart Holmes, Conrad Nagel, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Marshall Neilan may not have been the best director for this Thomas Hardy tragedy; he was better with subject matter that wasn't quite so heavy. But he and his then-wife Blanche Sweet still made a good and financially successful film. Tess (Sweet) comes from a poor family. When her father, the 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

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

Name the Man

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Creighton Hale, Patsy Ruth Miller, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: This powerful drama, based on the novel The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor Sjorstrom made a film in America. When her stepfather (De Witt Jennings) locks her out of the house, Bessie Collister (Mae Busch) finds refuge with Victor Stowell (Conrad Read More

Sinners in Silk

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an early release from the newly formed MGM, it also featured a great cast, headed by the suave Adolphe Menjou. Menjou plays Arthur Merrill, whose fast lifestyle has made him Read More

The Snob

Actors: John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Phyllis Haver, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Although John Gilbert became famous for playing the romantic lover, there was something inside him that occasionally rebelled at his glossy image. He leapt at the chance to play the exceedingly unsympathetic title character in this drama, which was based on the novel by Helen R. Martin. After her Read More

The Rejected Woman

Actors: Alma Rubens, Conrad Nagel, Wyndham Standing, George MacQuarrie, Bela Lugosi

Synopsis: John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes infatuated with Diane DuPrez (Alma Rubens), although her father (George MacQuarrie) wants her to marry Jean Gagnon (Bela Lugosi, who had just recently begun making films in the Read More

So This Is Marriage?

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Boardman, Warner Oland

Synopsis: This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar films. When Beth (Eleanor Boardman) marries Peter Marsh (Conrad Nagel), they find their ideas of domestic bliss are very different. Peter dreams of power and a large family Read More

The Rendezvous

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Lucille Ricksen, Richard Travers, Kathleen Key, Emmett Corrigan

Synopsis: Marshall Neilan's fame as a director of quality films was at its peak during the period this romantic melodrama was made. Because he married without the czar's consent, Prince Sergei (Richard Travers) is banished to Siberia. After having a baby girl, Sergei's wife dies. His enemies have ordered Read More

Lawful Larceny

Actors: Hope Hampton, Conrad Nagel, Nita Naldi, Lew Cody, Russell Griffin

Synopsis: This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her husband Andrew (Conrad Nagel) becomes involved with Vivian Hepburn (Nita Naldi). The scheming Vivian has a partner, Guy Tarlow (Lew Cody), who runs a gambling club and they get Read More

Bella Donna

Actors: Pola Negri, Conway Tearle, Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Claude King

Synopsis: In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel by Robert Hichens; as her first role in an American production, Negri felt it would typecast her as a vamp. In spite of her doubts, critics felt that the role of Ruby Read More

Grumpy

Actors: Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Casson Ferguson, Bertram Johns

Synopsis: Even as a supporting player, character actor Theodore Roberts often dominated the scenes in which he performed. When he had an excellent starring vehicle, as he does here, every other actor practically becomes invisible. Old Bullivant, otherwise known as Grumpy (Roberts) is a crusty old man who Read More

The Ordeal

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Clarence Burton, Conrad Nagel, Edna Murphy

Synopsis: W. Somerset Maugham's first original story for the screen proves one thing -- Maugham could not translate his inspiration to film on his own. All he could come up with was this hackneyed drama. Agnes Ayres plays Sybil Bruce, one of those long-suffering maidens found by the dozens in silent Read More

Nice People

Actors: Wallace Reid, Conrad Nagel, Bebe Daniels, Julia Faye

Synopsis: Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations, it was his older brother William C. DeMille who had taste and class. His pictures were smaller and more intimate, and they were also often more sophisticated. This picture Read More

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Robert Cain, Conrad Nagel, Richard Wayne, Frank Elliott

Synopsis: As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a glamorous woman who wears lots of fancy gowns and place her in romantic and domestic situations of high drama. Swanson was not terribly happy being on this treadmill and this Read More

Trip To Paramountown

Actors: Wallace Reid, Marion Davies, Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, May McAvoy

Saturday Night

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts, Jack Mower, Julia Faye

Synopsis: Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille. Plus, the class-conscious attitude reflected the attitudes of the pre-World War I era -- mores started changing during the 1920s. A young society couple, Iris Van Suydam Read More

Singed Wings

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Brower

Synopsis: What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments here were all created inadvertently. Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou and Ernest Torrence are among the other capable actors who are also wasted. Bonita (Daniels), a Spanish Read More

Sacred and Profane Love

Actors: Elsie Ferguson, Conrad Nagel, Thomas Holding, Helen Dunbar, Winifred Greenwood

Synopsis: Elsie Ferguson, who played the role of Carlotta Peel on stage, also starred in the film. Carlotta's aunt (Helen Dunbar has kept her innocent of the facts of life, but then the girl meets pianist Emilie Diaz (Conrad Nagel), who is all-too willing to show them to her. On the night he seduces Read More

Lost Romance

Actors: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Fontaine La Rue, Conrad Nagel, Mickey Moore

Synopsis: In contrast to the spectacles of his brother Cecil, William DeMille's directorial efforts tended more towards small, simple stories. Here, he takes the eternal triangle and instead of making it into a seamy sex story, he gives it a dose of humanity. Sylvia Hayes (Lois Wilson) is being courted by Read More

Unseen Forces

Actors: Sylvia Breamer, Rosemary Theby, Conrad Nagel, Robert Cain, Sam de Grasse

Synopsis: Miriam Holt (Sylvia Breamer) is an innkeeper's daughter who is born with psychic abilities. She falls for a young hunter who lodges at the inn, but he goes away when he mistakenly believes she loves another man. Miriam moves to the city to make use of her unusual abilities for the benefit of Read More

What Every Woman Knows

Actors: Lois Wilson, Conrad Nagel, Charles Ogle, Fred Huntley, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by James M. Barrie. If he remained faithful to Barrie, he risked having a wordy, rather static picture. If he took cinematic liberties, Barrie disciples would be furious -- as Read More

Fool's Paradise

Actors: Dorothy Dalton, Mildred Harris, Conrad Nagel, Theodore Kosloff, John Davidson

Synopsis: Although this expensive drama was "suggested by" a short story, The Laurels and the Lady, by Leodard Merrick, one can't help but think filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille would not be satisfied until he made it completely his own. After returning from World War I, Arthur Phelps (Conrad Nagel) meets Poll Read More

Midsummer Madness

Synopsis: The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story, His Friend and his Wife. Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. Read More

Redhead

Synopsis: This fluffy picture was probably not too taxing on the talents of its formidable star, Alice Brady. By the time it was released, Brady was off performing in Forever After on Broadway. Dazie Mellows, otherwise known as "Redhead" (Brady), works as a dancer in a cabaret. Matt Thurlow, a wealthy but Read More