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Crew: Director
Actors: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Fritz Leiber, Erville Alderson
Synopsis: With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII "underground" films. Merle Oberon plays Nicole Larsen, a member of the Norwegian resistance. To obtain important war information, Nicole romances Nazi major Paul Dichter Carl Esmond Read More
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Virginia Field
Synopsis: Based on a story by Vicki Baum (of Grand Hotel) fame, Dance, Girl Dance finds innocent young Judy (Maureen O'Hara) journeying to the Big Apple in hopes of gaining fame as a classical dancer. Instead she ends up as the "stooge" for raucous strip-tease artist Bubbles (Lucille Ball), who attempts to Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen
Synopsis: Based on The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnar, The Bride Wore Red stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine. A singer in a seedy Budapest dive, Anni (Crawford) is mistaken for a socialite thanks to a practical joke perpetrated by the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco). Though a bit Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph
Synopsis: Based on a popular drawing-room drama by Frederick Lonsdale, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney stars Joan Crawford as a jewel thief who poses as an aristocrat. It is Crawford's intention to pilfer a valuable pearl necklace while attending a society party in the company of partner-in-crime William Powell. Read More
Actors: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson
Synopsis: After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife. Russell plays Harriet Craig, whose obsession with keeping her house and its furnishings spotless has driven away most of Read More
Actors: Anna Sten, Phillips Holmes, Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett, Mae Clarke
Synopsis: In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted by noted theatrical producer Gaston Greiner (Richard Bennett). Greiner is so impressed by Nana's beauty that he gives her a part in his latest revue. Almost overnight, Nana Read More
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes
Synopsis: A prize-winning aviator (Katharine Hepburn) falls for the title character (Colin Clive), a British politician who is happily married. Both fall into a tempestuous affair, but are able to resist their urges. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Synopsis: If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) elopes with reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March). Unfortunately, Corbett is not only irresponsible, but also an abusive drunkard. To make matters worse, predatory Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charlie Ruggles, Ginger Rogers
Synopsis: Trailblazing female director Dorothy Arzner helmed this well-crafted romantic drama. Julia Traynor (Claudette Colbert) is a secretary working for Jerry Stafford (Frederic March), a successful stock broker. Jerry has taken a decidedly non-professional interest in Julia, and when he asks her to join Read More
Synopsis: Working Girls is a slight, dated, but still entertaining comedy, typical of its era. Louise Adams (Frances Dee) and her friend (Claire Dodd) travel to the city in order to get jobs and hopefully find husbands. There they face the usual complications, but the women persevere and all ends well. The Read More
Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, William Austin, Clara Bow, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft
Synopsis: Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of practically everyone on the Paramount Pictures payroll. Under the supervision of British musical-comedy favorite Elsie Janis, 11 top directors contributed to the project: Dorothy Arzner Read More
Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Gilbert Emery, Doris Lloyd
Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife is devastated to discover that her husband has sold their son to a wealthy couple and left her. The woman begs the couple to return the infant, but the heartless duo refuses. The woman goes on to become an opera star and at the peak of her fame, again goes to the Read More
Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Gilbert Emery, Philippe DeLacy
Synopsis: Wiegenlied is the German-language version of the early-talkie weepie Sarah and Son. The plot remains substantially the same, with the heroine losing her child when her no-good husband gives the kid up for adoption. Becoming a world-famous opera singer in Europe, she returns to America to fight for Read More
Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntly Gordon, Virginia Hammond
Synopsis: In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is out drowning his sorrows when he meets Pansy Gray (Ruth Chatterton), a high-spirited chorus girl. Neil and Pansy hit the town, and a brutally hung-over Neil wakes up the next Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Shirley O'Hara, Joyce Compton, Virginia Thomas
Synopsis: In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying. However, when she ends up in the difficult class of the handsome, but stern, Professor Gil Gilmore (Fredrick March), she develops a crush on him which creates a series of Read More
Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Danny O'Shea, Paul Lukas, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Maude Truax, Romaine Fielding, El Brendel
Synopsis: Originally titled 10 Modern Commandments, this sophisticated romantic comedy-drama was the third directorial effort by Dorothy Arzner -- not to mention her third picture of 1927. Unabashedly a "woman's" picture, this is the story of Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston), a humble maidservant in her aunt's Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn
Synopsis: Only a few months earlier Clara Bow had been seen in Wings. The same with Charles "Buddy" Rogers -- in fact, his one film between Wings and this film was My Best Girl with future wife Mary Pickford. But apparently Paramount wasn't too concerned with keeping up this level of quality for its stars; Get Your Man Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Raymond Hatton, Edward Martindel, Agostino Borgato
Synopsis: Former film editor Dorothy Arzner made her directorial debut with the Esther Ralston vehicle Fashions for Women. Ralston stars as Celeste de Givray, renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont (Raymond Hatton) concocts an Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Esther Ralston, Charles Farrell, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, George Godfrey
Synopsis: Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past artistic sins with his rousing Old Ironsides. Per its title, this 11-reel silent film is set at the time of Stephen Decatur's defeat of the Barbary pirates in Tripoli. Read More
Actors: Forrest Stanley, Maude Wayne, Ethel Wales, Dorothy Revier
Synopsis: This early directorial effort by William Wellman focuses on two married couples: Violet and Henry Gilbert (Dorothy Revier, Forrest Stanley) and Violet's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Belcher (Tom Ricketts, Ethel Wales). The Gilberts are newlyweds, while the Belchers have been spliced for years. When Mr. Read More
Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Priscilla Bonner
Synopsis: Three of Hollywood's more enterprising women created this sentimental treatise on sin and redemption: Mrs. Wallace Reid (the former actress Dorothy Davenport) produced and co-directed (with Walter Lang) and Dorothy Arzner's screenplay was based on a story by influential journalist Adela Rogers St. Read More
Crew: Editor
Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Astor, Rose Dione
Synopsis: Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent (Harry Depp), and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Read More
Actors: Maurice B. Flynn, Gloria Grey, William Quinn
Synopsis: A rugged detective is hired by a bank to infiltrate a gang of robbers in this very average silent Western starring former Yale football star Maurice "Lefty" Flynn. Although handsome and a capable actor, Flynn never reached top stardom in Westerns (or anywhere else, for that matter) and was always Read More
Actors: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Ernest Torrence, Charles Ogle, Alan Hale, Ethel Wales
Synopsis: James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The Covered Wagon, chronicling the largest wagon train to ever cross the valley of the Platte River. The film takes place in 1848, when two wagon trains -- one led by Jesse Read More
Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, George Field, Walter Long
Synopsis: Both animal and human nostrils flare, and passion reigns in this classic romantic tragedy with Rudolph Valentino. Valentino is Juan Gallarde, an aspiring bullfighter, married to his loving childhood sweetheart Carmen (Lila Lee). But as his fame rises as a matador, so does his hot Spanish blood Read More
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