Crauford KentFilmography

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Lucille Norman, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for comparison (though its first remake, Gold Diggers of 1933, has been safely preserved). Carol (Virginia Mayo), Abby (Lucille Norman) and June (Virginia Gibson) arrive in Las Vegas Read More

Tea for Two

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Patrice Wymore, Eve Arden, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as Nanette, a Roaring '20s Jazz Baby with showbiz aspirations. Nanette offers to put up $25,000 if producer Billy DeWolfe will star her in a Broadway Read More

Samson and Delilah

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Samson and Delilah is Cecil B. DeMille's characteristically expansive retelling of the events found in the Old Testament passages of Judges 13-16. Victor Mature plays Samson, the superstrong young Danite. Samson aspires to marry Philistine noblewoman Semadar (Angela Lansbury), but she is killed Read More

The Imperfect Lady

Actors: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Cedric Hardwicke, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in love with a music hall dancer. When his stodgy older brother finds out about the affair, he sternly counsels the dancer to jilt her lover, lest she damage his political Read More

The Fatal Witness

Actors: Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, George Leigh, Barbara Everest, Barry Bernard

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of a prominent matron. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kitty

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a guttersnipe (Paulette Goddard, complete with a cockney accent not to be believed). Milland and fellow conspirator Constance Collier aren't bothering with the girl out of the Read More

Devotion

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman

Synopsis: Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than as history. Not that it's great cinema, mind you, mainly because the filmmakers opted to replace historical fact with either tired dramatic clichés or wild improbabilities. Read More

The Dolly Sisters

Actors: Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career Read More

The Lodger

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was the best (even allowing for the excellence of the 1925 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation). Laird Cregar stars as the title character, a mysterious, secretive young man who rents a Read More

Four Jills in a Jeep

Actors: Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair

Synopsis: Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Carole Landis and Mitzi Mayfair play "themselves," recreating their recent whirlwind tour of Europe and North Africa. This wisp of a plot takes a back seat to Read More

The Mysterious Doctor

Actors: John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Lester Matthews, Forrester Harvey

Synopsis: A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece centering around a series of decapitations. These outrages are being committed in a cloistered English village, and the perpetrator is supposedly a legendary headless ghost. For a Read More

The Constant Nymph

Actors: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, Brenda Marshall

Synopsis: Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in Britain in 1928 and 1933 by producer Michael Balcon. The plot was substantially the same in all three versions: A self-centered European musician (Charles Boyer) is idolized by a Read More

Keeper of the Flame

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper of the Flame. War correspondent Spencer Tracy is assigned to write the life story of a recently deceased super-patriot. One would suppose that the much-beloved decedent's Read More

Flight Lieutenant

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Jonathan Hale, Minor Watson

Synopsis: There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any cliché is left unturned. Pat O'Brien plays air pilot Sam O'Doyle, who is professionally disgraced when he survives a crash in which his co-pilot is killed. He tries to get Read More

Journey for Margaret

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Read More

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Actors: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart

Synopsis: A Yank in the RAF is brash pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power), freshly arrived in London. Hoping to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend Carol Brown (Betty Grable), Tim joins the Royal Air Force, immediately alienating everyone with his cockiness and "What the Hell?" attitude concerning the war. Read More

Shining Victory

Actors: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Barbara O'Neil, Montagu Love

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He resettles in Scotland and soon resumes his work. His benefactors provide him a female assistant, and at first the stubborn scientist is not pleased. Eventually the two fall in Read More

International Squadron

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson, William Lundigan, Joan Perry

Synopsis: A remake of Ceiling Zero (1936), International Squadron stars Ronald W. Reagan (in the old James Cagney role) as a hotshot flying who joins the Royal Air Force in England. Reagan refuses to mend his barnstorming ways, and thanks to his recklessness two pilots are killed. The headstrong young flyer Read More

Paris Calling

Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When the German march into Paris, a polyglot of French patriots organize to undermine the Nazi occupation troops (represented by Lee J. Cobb, who plays his character with a Read More

Foreign Correspondent

Actors: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the property to the screen as Foreign Correspondent. What emerged was approximately 2 parts Sheehan and 8 parts director Alfred Hitchcock Read More

South of Suez

Actors: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias, James Stephenson, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is held for murder, forcing him to take it on the lam. With the reluctant aid of heroine Katherine Sheffield (Brenda Marshall), Gamble endeavors to prove his innocence. He is Read More

The Sea Hawk

Actors: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British crown -- are the most dedicated defenders of British interests in the face of the expanding power of Philip of Spain. And Captain Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) Read More

The Earl of Chicago

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn, E.E. Clive

Synopsis: The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert Montgomery. He plays Silky Kilmont, a Runyonesque American gangster who inherits a British title (Earl of Gorley) and mansion. Taking charge of his new estate, Silky has an amusing Read More

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Carlisle, Douglas Dumbrille, William Farnum

Synopsis: While James Stewart was filibustering from his senator's pulpit in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Gene Autry battled congressional bureaucracy in Rovin' Tumbleweeds, which barely could call itself a Western. Gene runs for a congressional seat in order to pass a flood control bill that would Read More

We Are Not Alone

Actors: Paul Muni, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson, Raymond Severn, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill herself after breaking her wrist. He hires the sad girl as a nanny for his bright son, whom he wants to keep away from his neurotic, overbearing wife. The trouble starts when Read More

A Letter of Introduction

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Edgar Bergen, George Murphy, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: A master blend of high comedy and tense emotional drama, A Letter of Introduction reteams Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, who'd previously costarred in the negligible Goldwyn Follies. Menjou plays John Mannering, a Barrymoresque actor who years earlier had Read More

Service De Luxe

Actors: Constance Bennett, Vincent Price, Charlie Ruggles, Helen Broderick, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does everything from handling mundane finances to putting on weddings. Her most recent client wants her to prevent his rube of a nephew from coming to New York to visit him. She does her Read More

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times Read More

Love, Honor and Behave

Actors: Wayne Morris, John Litel, Dick Foran, Mona Barrie, Donald Briggs

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a Yale tennis star endeavors to be a good sport at every turn. He finds a girl and together they elope. One day, while he is off on a business trip, she resumes a old fling. When he finds out, the tennis player discovers he is a sore loser, but not nearly as sore as the Read More

Navy Spy

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

The Toast of New York

Actors: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek

Synopsis: Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's The Toast of New York is a largely fanciful account of the career of 1870s financier "Jubilee Jim" Fisk. As played by Edward Arnold in his usual "tycoon" mode, Fisk was a Read More

Rich Relations

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Of the many film versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem, 1936's Charge of the Light Brigade has the least relationship to the facts concerning the famous 19th century British military blunder in the Crimea. Reflecting the popularity of 1935's Lives of A Bengal Lancer, the film uses the Read More

Down the Stretch

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Patricia Ellis, Dennis Moore, Willie Best, Gordon Hart

Synopsis: In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His father was also a rider, but he got involved with crime. The young rider soon finds himself being framed by gamblers who are using his father's reputation against him. Read More

It Couldn't Have Happened But It Did

Actors: Reginald Denny, Evelyn Brent, Jack LaRue, Inez Courtney, John Marlowe

Synopsis: Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals. Stone's new play is a murder mystery, but the various backstage habitues are every bit as suspicious and sinister as the characters onstage. Sure enough, life imitates art Read More

O'Malley of the Mounted

Actors: George O'Brien, Irene Ware, Stanley Fields, James Bush, Victor Potel

Synopsis: In this North western, a Mountie is assigned to patrol the Canadian and US border. He also stops the evil outlaws that have been terrorizing bordertowns by going undercover and infiltrating their gangs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hitch Hike to Heaven

Actors: Henrietta Crosman, Herbert Rawlinson, Russell Gleason, Polly Ann Young, Al Shean

Synopsis: Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character actors. It was Henrietta Crossman who headed the cast of the 1936 Chesterfield production Hitch Hike to Heaven, sharing star billing with former silent-movie matinee idol Herbert Rawlinson Read More

Daniel Boone

Actors: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes, Clarence Muse

Synopsis: The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that primarily centers on the big man's attempts to quell an Indian uprising and capture the ornery villain who has been stirring up all the trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Found Stella Parish

Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news correspondent Keith Lockridge (Ian Hunter) girdles the globe in search of Stella, who has left her beloved daughter Gloria (Sybil Jason) in the care of an aunt (Jessie Ralph). Finally Read More

Magnificent Obsession

Actors: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness, Sara Haden

Synopsis: 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 on a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. Bobby Merrick (Robert Taylor) is an alcoholic ne'er-do-well whose recklessness causes the death of Dr. Hudson, a respected Read More

Vanessa, Her Love Story

Actors: Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Otto Kruger, May Robson, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Adapted from the last of Hugh Walpole's "Herries Chronicles," Vanessa: Her Love Story is set in Victorian England. Vanessa (Helen Hayes) doesn't know it, but there's a strain of inherited insanity in the family of her husband Ellis (Otto Kruger). Disturbed by Ellis' bizarre behavior, poor Vanessa Read More

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Actors: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV as part of the "Shock Theater" package, even though the film is more melancholy than horrific. At the height of WW I, the trembling, near-lunatic Paul Verin (Claude Rains) Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty Read More

The Lost Jungle [Serial]

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Sid Saylor, Warner P. Richmond, Wheeler Oakman

The Lost Jungle

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Sid Saylor, Warner P. Richmond, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself, while Cecilia Parker portrays Beatty's screen sweetheart Ruth Robinson. When Ruth and her father are lost in the African jungle during a scientific Read More

We Live Again

Actors: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith, Sam Jaffe, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the same thing as Resurrection and was easier to understand. The film was meant as an introductory showcase for Goldwyn's latest discovery, Russian actress Anna Sten. The Read More

Little Miss Marker

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of Shirley Temple (although it was remade three times), this is the story of a little girl who is left as a marker for a $20.00 bet. Temple's father kills himself and the bookie doesn't Read More

Evelyn Prentice

Actors: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as another husband-and-wife team knee deep in a murder mystery. In this one, Powell is John Prentice, a prominent lawyer with an eye for women other than his own wife. His Read More

Humanity

Actors: Ralph Morgan, Boots Mallory, Alexander Kirkland, Irene Ware

Synopsis: In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious European medical school. The doctor, who raised the boy alone following his wife's death, dreams that the boy will join his humble practice and help the poor receive proper Read More

Her Resale Value

Actors: June Clyde, George Lewis, Noel Francis, Ralf Harolde, Gladys Hulette

Synopsis: Fed up with her doctor husband's ceaseless charity work, Mary Harris (June Clyde) leaves her Midwest "tank town" in favor of Big City excitement in this low-budget drama from Hollywood's sole woman producer at the time, Fanchon Royer. Boarding with her sophisticated friend, Milly (Noel Francis) Read More

The Eagle and the Hawk

Actors: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing

Synopsis: Eagle and the Hawk is a "war is hell" saga slightly reminiscent of All Quiet on the Western Front. Fredric March plays a British World War One flying ace suffering from emotional fatigue. March's happy-go-lucky pilot buddy (Cary Grant) tries to help his friend forget his problems by accompanying Read More

Only Yesterday

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Jimmy Butler, Benita Hume, Reginald Denny

Synopsis: Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to trace the years between 1917 and 1929. Wealthy New Yorker John Boles recalls a long-ago affair with southern belle Margaret Sullavan. She gave birth to his child without ever Read More

Sailor Be Good

Actors: Jack Oakie, Vivienne Osborne, George E. Stone, Lincoln Stedman, Max Hoffman, Jr.

Synopsis: A Navy boxer falls in love with a popular dance-hall girl in this romantic drama. The man really should be spending all his energy preparing for his upcoming championship bout, but one night he gets completely blotto and wakes up the next day to find that he has married a wealthy socialite. Though Read More

The Purchase Price

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright, David Landau

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price. Hard-boiled nightclub singer Joan Gordon (Stanwyck) gets fed up being the kept woman of her married boss, bootlegger Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot). Fleeing New York City, she ends Read More

Western Limited

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Edmund Burns, Lucien Prival, Gertrude Astor, Eddie Kane

Synopsis: Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at a Los Angeles society function, gentleman thief Edmund Burns boards a train bound for Chicago. A murder occurs during the journey, casting suspicion not only on Burns but Read More

The Menace

Murder at Dawn

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Josephine Dunn, Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: A judge investigating two Wall Street brokers accused of stock manipulations learns of a mysterious invention, a "DXL Accumulator" with which its inventor, Prof. Farrington, plans to harness solar power. The judge decides to visit the professor at his mountain hideaway. When he arrives, he finds Read More

Sally of the Subway

Actors: Huntly Gordon, Jack Mulhall, Dorothy Revier, Blanche Mehaffey, Harry Semels

Synopsis: Like many low-budgeters of the early talkie era, Sally of the Subway is not so much a film as a reunion of several former silent-screen favorites. The title character, played by Dorothy Revier, is a member of a criminal gang, intent on pulling off a huge swindle by using a genuine Grand Duke (Huntley Gordon Read More

Sinister Hands

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Phyllis Barrington, Crauford Kent, Mischa Auer, Louis Natheaux

Synopsis: This ultra-cheap murder mystery stars Jack Mulhall as Devlin, a dapper police detective with a quick wit and a way with the ladies. During a seance, much-hated millionaire Richard Lang (Philips Smalley) is murdered with a rare oriental dagger. Everyone present at the seance falls under suspicion Read More

The Thirteenth Guest

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, John Farrell MacDonald, James C. Eagles, Eddie Phillips

Synopsis: Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the dinner table. First to arrive is Ginger Rogers--who is promptly killed. It turns out that the dead woman was an impostor, hired to impersonate a real guest (Ginger Rogers Read More

The Fighting Gentleman

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Josephine Dunn, Natalie Moorhead, Crauford Kent, Lee Moran

File 113

Actors: Lew Cody, Mary Nolan, Clara Kimball Young, George E. Stone, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the well-known Gaborieu detective yarn File 113. Lew Cody stars as urbane Parisian detective Le Coq, who must contend with a bank robbery and blackmail scheme. Le Coq is anxious to Read More

Grief Street

Actors: Barbara Kent, John Holland, Dorothy Christy, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found strangled in his dressing room. The reporter also must deal with the death of the lead actress, who is shot. One more person dies before he can solve the murders and drag the Read More

Delicious

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien, Lawrence O'Sullivan

Synopsis: Delicious represents the first time that George and Ira Gershwin ever wrote a musical score exclusively for the screen. Unfortunately, the film fails to come up to the standards set by the music, though it's not from lack of trying. Janet Gaynor stars as Heather Gordon, a poor Scotch immigrant who Read More

Transatlantic

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, John Halliday, Greta Nissen, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the "multi-story" films of the early 1930s. As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe Read More

Women Men Marry

Actors: Sally Blane, Natalie Moorhead, Randolph Scott, Kenneth Harlan

Synopsis: Silent screen serial star Charles Hutchison produced and directed this low-budget marital drama, which benefitted from one of those icy performances by the platinum blond Natalie Moorhead. Slinking her way through scores of early talkies, Moorhead -- sexy slouch and all -- created havoc whenever Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Elissa Landi, Charles Farrell, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy, Donald Dillaway

Synopsis: This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men decided to do their part by working with the Royal Air Force. The German forces are using observation balloons to gather information about allied activities. Several American Read More

The Second Floor Mystery

Actors: Grant Withers, Loretta Young, H.B. Warner, Claire McDowell, Sidney Bracey

Synopsis: In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming Read More

The Devil to Pay

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Florence Britton, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from home as possible. Broke again, Colman auctions off his belongings and heads for London to the less-than-open arms of his father (Frederick Kerr). He begins to dally with a Read More

Ladies Love Brutes

Actors: George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Fredric March, Margaret Quimby, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic stereotype so prevalent in films of the early 1930s. Bancroft is cast as Joe Forziati, a rough-and-tumble building contractor who is suddenly thrust into great wealth. He tries to Read More

In the Next Room

Actors: Jane Winton, Crauford Kent, Edward Earle, Jack Mulhall, Alice Day

Synopsis: This thriller begins in 1889 as a lover kills another in a mansion. The film then jumps ahead to 1929 as an eccentric antique dealer, his daughter, maid and butler are moving in to the same mansion. Upon the arrival of the daughter's fiance, a reporter, a series of strange murders start. ~ Sandra Read More

Three Faces East

Actors: Constance Bennett, Erich Von Stroheim, Anthony Bushell, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of the film takes place in the London home of Sir Winston Chamberlain (sic), First Lord of the Admiralty. What Sir Winston doesn't know is that his faithful butler Erich Von Stroheim Read More

Sweethearts and Wives

Actors: Billie Dove, Sidney Blackmer, Clive Brook, Leila Hyams, Fletcher Norton

Synopsis: Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister French Inn, where a woman is murdered and a valuable necklace is stolen. Among the predatory types searching for the missing gems is philandering noblewoman Angela Read More

The Unholy Three

Actors: Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles, John Miljan

Synopsis: A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly strengthened Hollywood censors, but is still quite entertaining in a macabre sort of way. Chaney reprises his role as Professor Echo, a sideshow ventriloquist who moonlights Read More

Girl of the Port

Actors: Sally O'Neil, Reginald Sharland, Mitchell Lewis, Duke Kahanamoku, Donald MacKenzie

Synopsis: The Girl of the Port is a showgirl (Sally O'Neil), who finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home, she falls in love with an English nobleman (Reginald Sharland), who has come to Fiji to overcome his wartime-induced fear of fire. The nobleman's phobia again comes to Read More

The Wolf of Wall Street

Actors: Olga Baclanova, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas, Arthur Rankin, George Bancroft

Synopsis: The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut. George Bancroft stars as ruthless stock manipulator Jim Bradford, who plays his customers for suckers and laughs all the way to the bank. Cornering the copper market at the Read More

The Charlatan

Actors: Rockliffe Fellowes, Margaret Livingston, Crauford Kent, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife Florence (Margaret Livingston), a circus aerialist, walks out on him with their baby in tow. Adopting the guise of an Eastern mystic named Count Merlin, Dwight embarks upon a Read More

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Actors: Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1925, the evergreen George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers stage mystery Seven Keys to Baldpate was remade as a talkie in late 1929 (and there were still three more remakes to come). Richard Dix stars as novelist William Magee, who's having trouble completing his latest Read More

The Ace of Scotland Yard

Actors: Crauford Kent, Florence Allen, Herbert Prior, Monte Montague, Grace Cunard

Synopsis: A typical interim serial, the ten-chapter Ace of Scotland Yard was released in both a silent version and as a part-talkie. Dignified British actor Crauford Kent played Angus Blake, a retired Scotland Yard investigator who becomes involved in a tug-of-war between two desirable women, the virginal Read More

Come Across

Actors: Lina Basquette, Reed Howes, Flora Finch, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Come Across was based on The Stolen Lady, a short story by William Dudley Pelley. Debutante Lina Basquette, believing that handsome Reed Howes is a crook, is irresistibly attracted to the handsome rogue. Actually, Howes is no criminal but merely a playwright who is frequenting underworld hangouts Read More

Man, Woman and Wife

Careers

Actors: Billie Dove, Antonio Moreno, Thelma Todd, Noah Beery, Sr., Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous boss who requires that all wives sleep with him before he will promote their husbands. This wife refuses. Instead she marches into his office and demands an explanation. Her Read More

Into No Man's Land

Actors: Tom Santschi, Betty Blythe, Josephine Norman, Mary McAllister, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: A young woman grows up innocent of the fact that her gentlemanly father is the head of a notorious ring of thieves. This romantic drama follows what happens when a young attorney decides to investigate the crook. The lawyer's quest for truth gets temporarily derailed after he falls in love with Read More

Foreign Legion

Actors: Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, Crauford Kent, Walter Perry, June Marlowe

Manhattan Knights

Actors: Barbara Bedford, Walter Miller, Ray Hallor, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: In this silent crime drama, an innocent would-be gambler loses to card sharps and hands them a post-dated check for $50,000 causing his sister and her boy friend must overcome all obstacles to get the money back before the crooks spend it all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Show Folks

Actors: Carole Lombard, Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Robert Armstrong, Crauford Kent, Bessie Barriscale

Synopsis: The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with counter-girl Rita Carey (Lina Basquette), vaudeville hoofer Eddie Kehoe (Quillan) invites Rita to join his act. On the eve of their all-important Broadway debut, however, Eddie Read More

Wallflowers

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Mabel Julienne Scott, Jean Arthur, Lola Todd, Charles E. Stevenson

Synopsis: Wallflowers was based on a novel by Temple Bailey. The central character, a scheming social climber played by Mabel Julienne Scott, intends to force her stepson Hugh Trevor into a marriage of convenience. But Trevor has developed a fondness for shy Jean Arthur, the "wallflower" of the title. How Read More

Bitter Sweet

Actors: Barbara Bedford, Ralph Graves, Crauford Kent

The Olympic Hero

Actors: Charles Paddock, Julanne Johnston, Harvey Clark, Crauford Kent

Blindfold

Actors: George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Earl Foxe, Don Terry, Maria Alba

Synopsis: Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself knocked off by the villains so that the hero, ex-cop George O'Brien, will seek vengeance. Things get even more incredible when heroine Lois Moran develops amnesia and joins a Read More

Out with the Tide

Synopsis: Director Charles Hutchinson makes lemonade from the poverty-row lemon Out with the Tide. Cullen Landis plays a newspaper reporter who is framed for murder. He finds an unexpected ally in the form of Dorothy Dawn, the victim's daughter. Together, Landis and Dorothy head to Shanghai, where they Read More

See You in Jail

Actors: Jack Mulhall, Alice Day, Mack Swain, George Fawcett, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Jack Mulhall stars as Jerry Marsden, the wastrelly son of millionaire milk wholesaler J. Marsden Sr. (George Fawcett). After bailing Jerry out of one scrape too many, the elder Marsden cuts off the boy's allowance and tells him he's on his own. While looking for work, Jerry is hired by wealthy Read More

Mother

Actors: Belle Bennett, Mabel Julienne Scott, Crauford Kent, William Bakewell, Joyce Coad

Synopsis: Based on a story by Kathleen Norris, Mother stars Belle Bennett in the title role. In the tradition of her previous screen assignment in Stella Dallas, Bennett dedicates herself to improving the lot of her two rambunctious children. Using a $10,000 inheritance, she sets up her ne'er-do-well Read More

Little Mickey Grogan

Actors: Frankie Darro, Jobyna Ralston, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Pint-sized juvenile actor Frankie Darro essays the title role in FBO's Little Mickey Grogan. Though officially the leading character, Mickey Grogan is essentially a sidelines performer, showing up from time to time to help the "adult" hero and heroine. The main plot concerns an architect who, when Read More

The Missing Link

Actors: Sidney Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt, Tom McGuire, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: The talent Syd Chaplin once again proves that he was much, much more than merely Charlie Chaplin's brother in The Missing Link. This time Syd plays Arthur Wells, the valet to famed scientist-explorer Lord Dryden (Crauford Kent). Terribly shy around women, Dryden trades places with Arthur for Read More

Pirates of the Sky

Actors: Charles Hutchinson, Wanda Hawley, Crauford Kent, Jimmy Aubrey

Synopsis: It's not for nothing than action star Charles Hutchison was known as "Hurricane Hutch." In Pirates of the Sky, Hutchison plays daredevil pilot Bob Manning, who is pressed into service by the Government to track down a missing mail plane. He soon uncovers a gang of aerial hijackers, led by Bruce Read More

That Model from Paris

Actors: Eileen Percy, Marceline Day, Ward Crane, Miss Du Pont, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Directed in the manner of a lamp-lighted melodrama by Louis J. Gasnier, That Model From Paris was based on the old Goveneur Morris play The Right to Live. Heroine Marceline Day lands a job as a model at a fancy dress shoppe, through the auspices of wealthy rake Craufurd Kent. Coincidentally, Day's Read More

The Outsider

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Lane, Joan Standing

Synopsis: While studying dance in Hungary, British ballerina Leonide Sturdee (Jacqueline Logan) suffers a crippling accident. Enter faith healer Anton Ragatzy (Lou Tellegan), who assures Leonide that she'll walk again if only she places herself in his hands. But Leonide considers Ragatzy to be a fraud and Read More

College Days

Actors: Marceline Day, Charles Delaney, Jimmy Harrison, Duane Thompson, Brooks Benedict

Synopsis: Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the characters are seen in raccoon coats and flapper skirts. Yes, they do take an occasional swing from their hip flasks while partying at the local roadhouse. And, true, they Read More

Winning Wallop

Actors: William Fairbanks, Shirley Palmer, Charles French, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Former serial star Charles Hutchison warmed the director's chair for The Winning Wallop. Hero Rex Burton (William Fairbanks) wants to become a professional athlete, but his wealthy father has other ideas. To prove that he's made a good career choice, Rex hires himself out as a gym instructor at a Read More

Man and Maid

Actors: Lew Cody, Harriet Hammond, Renée Adorée, Paulette Duval, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: For this romantic drama, author and Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn began with the premise that a woman does one of three things to a man: she elevates him, degrades him, or bores him to death. Then Glyn does the obvious by introducing three women -- one to represent each possibility -- into the Read More

The Midshipman

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Harriet Hammond, Wesley Barry, Margaret Seddon, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the graduation ceremony -- were actually shot at Annapolis Naval Academy. James Randall (Ramon Novarro) enters the Academy and befriends freshman Ted Lawrence (Wesley Barry). Read More

Easy Money

Synopsis: Likeable Bud Parsons (Cullen Landis) commits a less-than-likeable robbery to impress a fickle cabaret dancer (Gladys Walton). The imprisoned Parsons is approached by shifty lawyer Lewis (Crauford Kent), who persuades the lad to pose as the long-lost heir to a fortune. Anxious to get out of jail Read More

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Edith Roberts, Crauford Kent, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with Cohan himself in the lead role) when this silent version was made. Light comedy star Douglas MacLean was a good choice for the role of William Magee, and the plot was changed Read More

The Pride of the Force

Actors: Tom Santschi, Edythe Chapman, Gladys Hulette, James Morrison, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in the small towns than in the sophisticated big cities. Danney Moore (Tom Santschi) is a cop who is well loved in the neighborhood he patrols. He suffers a disappointment Read More

Virtue's Revolt

Actors: Edith Thornton, Crauford Kent, Charles Cruz, Betty Morrissey, Florence Lee

Synopsis: A very minor show business melodrama from Poverty producer William Steiner, Virtue's Revolt starred Edith Thornton, the wife of action hero Charles Hutchison. Thornton played Streisa Crane, a stagestruck girl refusing to, as they say, "make personal concessions" to a sleazy theatrical manager (Crauford Kent Read More

Guilty One

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Edward Burns, Stanley Taylor, Crauford Kent, Cyril Ring

Synopsis: Irene Short (Agnes Ayers) tries to help her husband Donald (Edward Burns) further his career in architecture by running around with members of a fast society crowd. When one of the high-profile members of the set is murdered, first Irene and then Donald are accused of the killing. The Captain of Read More

Lilies of the Field

Actors: Conway Tearle, Alma Bennett, Sylvia Breamer, Myrtle Stedman, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith stars in this emotional drama based on the stage play by William Hurlburt. Although Walter Harker (Crauford Kent claims to be working overtime he is actually seeing Doris, a young flapper (Alma Bennett). Harker's neglected wife, Mildred (Griffith), attends a ball with Ted Conroy Read More

The Painted Flapper

Actors: Kathlyn Williams, James Kirkwood, Crauford Kent, Claire Adams, Pauline Garon

Synopsis: Divorcee Isabel Whitney (Kathlyn Williams) wants her eldest daughter, Eunice (Claire Adams), to marry Egbert Van Alyn (Crauford Kent), even though Jimmy Arnold (John Harron) has been her sweetheart since childhood. Eunice's younger sister, Arline (Pauline Garon), is a jazzy flapper who is creating Read More

Turned Up

Actors: Charles Hutchinson, Mary Beth Milford, Crauford Kent, Otto Lederer, Betty Morrisey

Synopsis: In this, one of his half-dozen potboilers for Poverty Row producer William Steiner, former serial ace Charles Hutchison played Bruce Pomroy, a young bank teller framed in a bond theft scheme actually conceived by supposedly respectable bank president Paul Gilmore (Crauford Kent). Bruce escapes Read More

Lover's Lane

Actors: Robert Ellis, Gertrude Olmstead, Maxine Hicks, Norval MacGregor

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from Warner Bros. was based on the stage play by Clyde Fitch. Although Mary Larkin (Gertrude Olmstead) loves Tom Singleton (Robert Ellis), she can't see herself as the wife of a country doctor. Since Singleton won't leave the little New England town where they live, Mary Read More

Flowing Gold

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, Alice Calhoun, Crauford Kent, John Roche

Synopsis: Because of the recent Tea Pot Dome scandal, oil fields were a big topic of discussion in early 1924. Even though this melodrama concerned a scandal of a different sort, its setting in the Texas oil lands gave it a timely feel. Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray Read More

Daddies

Actors: Mae Marsh, Harry Myers, Claude Gillingwater, Crauford Kent, Claire Adams

Synopsis: A bachelors' club is shaken when one of its members forfeits his five thousand dollar fee to wed. Then another member adopts the child of a dying friend. This inspires Robert Audrey (Harry Myers) to adopt, too -- he figures it will get his mother (Georgia Woodthorpe) off his back. Mrs. Audrey Read More

Mothers-In-Law

Actors: Gaston Glass, Ruth Clifford, Edith Yorke, Josef Swickard, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: One of the opening titles to this drama was "A mother-in-law is just a mother with another child to love" -- rather an unusual take on mothers-in-law (see Harold Lloyd's Hot Water for a difference in opinion). Edith Yorke portrays the mother-in-law heroine. When Vianna Courtleigh (Ruth Clifford) Read More

Self-Made Wife

Synopsis: This poorly made domestic drama was called "a program picture for program theaters" by trade paper Motion Picture News. Tim and Corrie Goodwin (Crauford Kent and Ethel Grey Terry) are a poverty-stricken married couple. But all that changes when Goodwin strikes it rich with an oil well. He quickly Read More

The Eagle's Feather

Actors: Mary Alden, James Kirkwood, Lester Cuneo, Elinor Fair

Synopsis: Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran D. W. Griffith actress Mary Alden. Miss Alden plays a bossy female rancher who hires a war veteran (Kirkwood) as a ranch hand. She falls in love with him, of course, but he Read More

The Abysmal Brute

Synopsis: Since his British accent remained conveniently unheard during the silent era, Reginald Denny made a wonderful all-American hero. He's nicely cast in this romance based on the novel by Jack London. Pat Glendon (Denny) has been raised in the California mountains by his ex-pugilist father (Charles K. Read More

Shirley of the Circus

Actors: Shirley Mason, George O'Hara, Crauford Kent, Alan Hale, Lule Warrenton

Synopsis: Shirley Mason is well-cast as Nita, an acrobatic circus dancer, in this romantic melodrama. Nita's guardian is Max, owner of the circus and its chief acrobat (Alan Hale), and her sweetheart is another acrobat, Pierre (George O'Hara). While the circus is traveling through France, Nita attracts the Read More

Silas Marner

Actors: Crauford Kent, Marguerite Courtot

Synopsis: George Eliot's tale of redemption had been filmed before in the silent era, most notably in 1917 by the underrated Thanhouser Studios. This version, put out by Associated Exhibitors, starred Crauford Kent, a British actor who was well cast as the man whose faith in humanity is renewed by an Read More

Women's Clothes

Actors: Mabel Ballin, Raymond Bloomer, Crauford Kent, William Strauss

Shadows of the Sea

Actors: Conway Tearle, Jack Drumier, Crauford Kent, Arthur Houseman, J. Barney Sherry

Synopsis: Stalwart Conway Tearle is a soldier of fortune in this seafaring adventure film. Captain Dick Carson (Tearle) is headed for California while attempting to elude government officers who want to arrest him. He comes ashore near the home of Dr. Jordan (J. Barney Sherry), whose wife, Dorothy (Doris Read More

Plaything of Broadway

Actors: Justine Johnston, Crauford Kent, Macey Harlam, Edwards Davis, George Cowl

Synopsis: Former Follies girl Justine Johnston is well cast as the star of this drama, which contrasts the bright lights of Broadway with the poverty of New York's Lower East Side. Lola (Johnston) is a dancer who performs at a wealthy pleasure club. Some of the men have made a bet whether Lola can win a Read More

Jane Eyre

Synopsis: Hugo Ballin directed his wife Mabel Ballin in this slow and unmoving adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's oft-filmed novel. Jane Eyre (Mabel Ballin) is sent to an orphanage because her aunt hates her willful nature. Now that she is a young woman, she is sent to the home of Fairfax Rochester (Norman Read More

The Love Flower

Synopsis: A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to Griffith's usual Dickensian approach to storytelling. There's an early outrage (the murder of a man), a child with a clouded past (the murderer's daughter), a decades-long Read More

Sinners

Synopsis: Like all small town girls in the movies, Mary Horton (Alice Brady), has to make a go of it in the big city. She can't find work, but she does find a good friend in a young woman of questionable morality. Mary makes a life with her friend and her compatriots until the straightlaced Horace Worth Read More

The Danger Mark

Synopsis: The always reliable Elsie Ferguson stars in Danger Mark. Made before the advent of nationwide Prohibition, the film is a hard-hitting indictment of the evils of alcohol. Ferguson plays a society girl whose life is ruined by her fondness for the grape. She manages to pull herself together in time Read More

The Trap

Synopsis: Alice Brady stars in this ordinary little programmer. Naive Doris Shaw (Brady) lives in a fishing village with her father, a religious fanatic. When artist Stuart Kendall (Crauford Kent) comes to the town, a romance develops between the two. But gossip forces Doris to leave home, so she goes to Read More

Ordeal of Rosetta

Synopsis: Written by Edmund Goulding (who later went on to a substantial directing career), The Ordeal of Rosetta was tailor-made to the talents of Alice Brady, seen here in a dual role. The story begins in Italy, where Lola and Rosetta, the twin daughters of a professor, prepare to emigrate to America. Read More

Better Half

Synopsis: This drama was based on the Miriam Michelson novel Michael Thwaite's Wife, and it gave Alice Brady the chance to play a dual role (something that was practically de rigueur for nearly every star in the 1910s). Although Louise and Trixie (both Brady) are identical twins, their temperaments Read More

The Knife

Synopsis: The Knife was adapted from the same-named stage play by Eugene Walter. Alice Brady headed the cast as Southern belle Kate Tarleton, who comes to New York in search of her destiny. Unwise in the ways of the Wicked City, Kate is soon picked up by a no-good who plies her with drugs and then seduces Read More

Kildare of Storm

Synopsis: Kate Leigh (Emily Stevens) is forced by her mother (Helen Lindroth) into a loveless marriage with the wealthy Basil Kildare (King Baggot). What neither of them know is that Kildare is a rat who had already "married" a servant girl, Mahaly (Florence Short). To keep Mahaly quiet when he weds Kate Read More

The Antics of Ann

Synopsis: Ziegfeld Follies star Ann Pennington, she of the dimpled knees, stars in The Antics of Ann. There's a plot lurking about somewhere concerning the hoydenish Pennington's attempts to crash society. But who cared about a plot, so long as the ebullient Ms. Pennington was seen dancing away while Read More

Thais

Synopsis: Anatole France's famous Egyptian courtesan came to the screen in December of 1917, courtesy of the Goldwyn company and opera diva Mary Garden, the latter making a much heralded screen debut. Garden had received accolades singing the part at the Manhattan Opera House, but a Thais without the Garden Read More

Love's Toll

Synopsis: Less than two reels into Love's Toll, heroine Marian Lane (Rosetta Brice) joins the ranks of those simple-minded country girls who are lured to the Big City by seductive cads, only to be dumped when they find themselves a wee bit pregnant. After the death of her baby, Marian's despondency is Read More

Little Miss Brown

Synopsis: Vivian Martin, one of the most attractive and successful of Mary Pickford's professional rivals, played the title role in Little Miss Brown. Adapted from a play by Philip Bartholomae, the story takes place in a busy Connecticut hotel. Through no fault of her own, Betty Brown (Martin) gets Read More

Simon the Jester

Synopsis: Edwin Arden stars as British member of Parliament Simon de Gex, known as "Simon the Jester" because of his biting, cynical wit. But Simon finds nothing to laugh at when his doctor informs him that he hasn't much longer to live. Quitting his political post, Simon journeys out into the world, trying Read More