Dorothy JordanFilmography

The Searchers

Actors: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle like such Ford classics as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) and a film about one man's troubling moral codes, a big-screen adventure of the 1950s that Read More

The Sun Shines Bright

Actors: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit, Russell Simpson

Synopsis: Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence Stalllings' screenplay is based on several short stories by Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb, some of which had previously been cinematized in Ford's 1934 Will Rogers vehicle Judge Priest Read More

Bondage

Actors: Dorothy Jordan, Alexander Kirkland, Merle Tottenham, Nydia Westman, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: In this drama a store clerk gets involved with a radio singer and ends up in a home for unwed mothers. The home is run by a cruel tyrant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strictly Personal

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Edward Ellis, Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Quillan, Louis Calhern

One Man's Journey

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee

Synopsis: Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's Journey. Though his efforts go unappreciated by his patients and even by his own family, the far-from-wealthy Dr. Eli Watt (Barrymore) continues to dedicate his life to 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

The Roadhouse Murder

Actors: Eric Linden, Bruce Cabot, Phyllis Clare, Roscoe Ates

Synopsis: An eager cub reporter visits a roadhouse, stumbles across a corpse and decides to drum up a little notoriety for himself by pretending to make it look as if he were the killer. He then plans to write a series of articles chronicling his experiences with the courts. Well, it seemed like a good idea Read More

The Wet Parade

Actors: Dorothy Jordan, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn, Robert Young

Synopsis: Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families from very different backgrounds. The Tarletons reside in New York City, where the family patriarch (Walter Huston) repeatedly drowns himself in liquor and local bars. The Read More

That's My Boy

Actors: Richard Cromwell, Dorothy Jordan, Arthur Stone, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising player who is working his way through college. He quickly becomes a star on the campus grid-iron, but when he gets entangled in a stock swindle, he nearly destroys his budding Read More

70,000 Witnesses

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star player, is killed just before making the winning touchdown, as the titular 70,000 witnesses look on. Wally's teammate Buck Buchanan (Phillips Holmes), the younger brother Read More

Down to Earth

Actors: Will Rogers, Dorothy Jordan, Irene Rich, Matty Kemp, Mary Carlisle

Synopsis: This sequel to the highly successful Will Rogers vehicles They Had to See Paris and So This is London details the further adventures of the nouveau riche Peters family of Claremore, Oklahoma. Oil millionaire Pike Peters (Will Rogers) remains his old "down to earth" self, but his family -- wife Idy Read More

The Cabin in the Cotton

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Percival, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their sharecroppers. While the landowners still don't come off too well in Warner Bros.' film version of Kroll's novel, the film tries to avoid stepping on powerful toes, even composing an Read More

The Lost Squadron

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Erich Von Stroheim, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Unable to find steady work after WWI, three former flying aces -- Gibson (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong) and Red (Joel McCrea) -- hire themselves out as stunt flyers for the movies. They find themselves employed by tyrannical director Von Furst (Erich Von Stroheim, playing what amounts to Read More

Young Sinners

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Hardie Albright, Dorothy Jordan, Cecilia Loftus, James Kirkwood

Synopsis: In this drama, a wild young punk is assigned to spend time with a man who specializes in helping juvenile delinquents. The boy is a tough nut to crack and the two engage in complex psychological and physical games. At one point, the man sticks the rebellious youth alone in a mountain cabin. Much Read More

A Tailor Made Man

Actors: William Haines, Dorothy Jordan, Joseph Cawthorn, Marjorie Rambeau, William Austin

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1922, the 1917 stage farce The Impostor was reheated in 1931 as the William Haines vehicle A Tailor Made Man. Essaying his usual brash wisecracker, Haines plays John Paul Bart, a pants-presser who tries to crash High Society by borrowing the dress suit owned by millionaire Read More

The Beloved Bachelor

Actors: Paul Lukas, Dorothy Jordan, Betty van Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Vivienne Osborne

Synopsis: The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas and his two bachelor pals kindheartedly adopt little orphan girl Betty Van Allen. Time passes, and awkward little Van Allen grows up to be lovely and graceful Dorothy Read More

Shipmates

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan, Hobart Bosworth, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in the 1931 MGM programmer Shipmates. When he's not being pushed around by chief petty officer Ernest Torrence, naval recruit Jonesy (Montgomery) is busily wooing Kit (Dorothy Jordan Read More

Min and Bill

Actors: Donald Dillaway, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman (Wallace Beery). The two are the guardians for a young girl (Dorothy Jordan) whose mother deserted her, but they lose custody of the girl to truant officers. The couple scrape Read More

In Gay Madrid

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Lottice Howell, Claude King, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off the singing talents of silent-screen idol Ramon Novarro. The star is cast as Ricardo, a young, headstrong student in love with cabaret girl Goyita (Lottice Howell). Trouble Read More

Call of the Flesh

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil, Renée Adorée

Synopsis: The last of three back-to-back Ramon Novarro musicals, Call of the Flesh (aka The Singer of Seville) casts the star as aspiring opera singer Juan. Juan is advised by his mentor Esteban (Ernest Torrence) that he will never truly be a great singer until his heart is broken. This comes about when our Read More

Love in the Rough

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, J.C. Nugent

Synopsis: A remake of the 1927 William Haines comedy Spring Fever, Love in the Rough was designed as a musical, though virtually all the songs were cut from the final release print (we see a chorus of secretaries typing rhythmically in the opening scene, yet this obvious song cue is cut short with nary a Read More

Black Magic

Actors: Josephine Dunn

Synopsis: Serial specialist George B. Seitz kept the wild-and-wooly proceedings in Black Magic moving at a fast clip. The film opens with a prologue, explaining how its three main characters found themselves outcasts of society. Doctor Henry B. Walthall performed an operation while drunk, killing his Read More

Devil May Care

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Marion Harris, John Miljan, William Humphrey

Synopsis: This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is arrested and slated for execution. He is before the firing squad, but manages to escape. To hide, he dashes into the bedroom of a bedazzling Royalist. He falls in love, but Read More

The Taming of the Shrew

Actors: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn, Clyde Cook

Synopsis: As the silent era drew to a close (along with their marriage), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks made this early talkie, appearing in their first film together as William Shakespeare's rambunctious couple Katherine and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. In this pared down, slapstick version Read More

Words and Music

Actors: John Wayne, Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing (though it's as Duke Morrison), Lois Moran stars as Mary, a pretty young singer who is sought after by two competing composers. Wayne plays Phil, one of the two rival songwriters Read More