Frank TuttleFilmography

A Cry in the Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson, Carol Veazie, Mary Lawrence

Synopsis: Natalie Wood plays what was touted as her first "grown up" role in the tense melodrama A Cry in the Night. Based loosely on the Caryl Chessman case, the film showcases Raymond Burr as a psycho who stalks and attacks young couples on Lover's Lane. Overpowering Wood's boyfriend, Burr kidnaps the Read More

Hell on Frisco Bay

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, Joanne Dru, William Demarest, Paul Stewart, Fay Wray

Synopsis: Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. Alan Ladd plays ex-cop Steve Rollins, who serves five years on a manslaughter rap. Upon his release, Rollins dedicates himself to finding the real killer. He soon learns that Read More

The Magic Face

Crew: Director

Actors: Luther Adler, Patricia Knight, William L. Shirer, Ilka Windish, Heinz Moog

Synopsis: Having previously portrayed Adolf Hitler in 1951's The Desert Fox, Luther Adler once more dons the postage-stamp moustache of Der Fuhrer in The Magic Face. This time, however, Adler essays a dual role, playing both Hitler and a famed theatrical impersonator known as Janus the Great. While Read More

Gunman in the Streets

Crew: Director

Actors: Simone Signoret, Dane Clark, Fernand Gravey, Robert Duke

Synopsis: Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris after a ten-month delay when he is sprung on his way to court in a pitched gun battle. A manhunt ensues with the police just a few paces behind, including a nicely staged scene in a department store in Read More

Swell Guy

Crew: Director

Actors: Sonny Tufts, Ann Blyth, Ruth Warrick, William Gargan, Thomas Gomez, John Litel, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the story of an unprincipled war correspondent, Jim Duncan (Sonny Tufts). Jim has returned to his hometown following the war and tries to milk his wartime status and pose as a Read More

Suspense

Crew: Director

Actors: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by the enterprising King Brothers, Suspense takes place in an ice-skating emporium owned by Frank Leonard (Albert Dekker). No-good heel Joe Morgan (Barry Sullivan) not only Read More

Don Juan Quilligan

Crew: Director

Actors: William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Anne Revere, B.S. Pully

Synopsis: In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his late mother. He married the other because she cooks like his mom. He soon finds himself in over his head. A good friend helps extricate him by devising an ingenious plot. Read More

The Great John L.

Crew: Director

Actors: Greg McClure, Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, J.M. Kerrigan, Lee Sullivan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston Strong Boy," Sullivan was a bare-knuckle brawler who rose from humble circumstances to become the world's heavyweight champion from 1882 to 1892. While Sullivan was a skilled Read More

The Hour Before the Dawn

Crew: Director

Actors: Franchot Tone, Binnie Barnes, John Sutton, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting accident and reaches adulthood as a sincere and dedicated pacifist -- like many of his generation in England. He makes his way through life as a schoolteacher with a Read More

Hostages

Crew: Director

Actors: Arturo de Cordova, Luise Rainer, William Bendix, Roland Varno, Oscar Homolka

Synopsis: Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan Heym, the story is set in a Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakian village. Rainer plays Milada, the daughter of collaborationist Lev Preissinger (Oscar Homolka). Totally apolitical Read More

This Gun for Hire

Crew: Director

Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Read More

Lucky Jordan

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Mabel Paige, Marie McDonald

Synopsis: Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service. Despite his efforts, Jordan is drafted, but soon goes AWOL, with a lovely USO worker (Helen Walker) dogging his heels. She tries to arouse Jordan's patriotism, but he is Read More

I Stole a Million

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta, Victor Jory

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. Finally he becomes a wanted criminal and escapes to California where he meets the girl who will become his wife. She helps him go straight by helping Read More

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore, John Sutton, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Having proven their box-office value in such films as A Letter of Introduction, Goldwyn Follies and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wise-lipped dummy Charlie McCarthy were awarded with a starring vehicle of their own. While entertaining at the home of magazine Read More

Paris Honeymoon

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Franziska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Shirley Ross, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian honeymoon with the noblewoman he has been romancing are interupted when he visits the city itself. Though he had intended only to make the proper arrangements, he falls in love Read More

Doctor Rhythm

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine, Rufe Davis

Synopsis: Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the policeman's latest assignment and becomes the bodyguard for a loopy but wealthy matron (Bea Lillie). Bing falls in love with the lady's niece (Mary Carlisle), expressing Read More

Waikiki Wedding

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, George Barbier

Synopsis: This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple company (Bing Crosby) and his pal as they escort a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her loudmouthed friend (Martha Raye) on a tour of the islands. Unfortunately, the Read More

College Holiday

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland, Martha Raye

Synopsis: The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer resort, opening her doors to college students of both sexes--but only those collegiates with extra-special physical and mental skills. She hopes to encourage these select Read More

Two for Tonight

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Lynne Overman, Thelma Todd

Synopsis: Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright Gilbert Gordon. Hired by music publisher Alexander Myers (Maurice Cass) to write a musical for temperamental stage star Lilly Bianca (Thelma Todd), Gordon is less than Read More

The Glass Key

Crew: Director

Actors: George Raft, Edward Arnold, Claire Dodd, Ray Milland, Rosalind Keith

Synopsis: Adapted from one of Dashiell Hammett's best novels, The Glass Key is a lively and straightforward melodrama of political corruption and urban intrigue. George Raft plays Ed Beaumont, the right-hand man to genial ward heeler Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), who wants to clean up his political act. On Read More

All the King's Horses

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis, Edward Everett Horton, Katherine de Mille, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the frothy operetta All the King's Horses. Brisson does the "Prisoner of Zenda" bit as a movie star who is forced by circumstances to impersonate a look-alike king. Ms. Ellis is Read More

Here Is My Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, Roland Young, Alison Skipworth, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Adapted from the 1925 stage hit The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (previously filmed in 1926), Here is My Heart has been subtly reshaped into a Bing Crosby vehicle. Der Bingle plays J. Paul Jones, a wealthy radio crooner (what a stretch!) who falls in love with icy Russian princess Alexandra (Kitty Carlisle Read More

Springtime for Henry

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the Read More

Ladies Should Listen

Crew: Director

Actors: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Arnt, Rosita Moreno

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a Parisian businessman heads for South American for a busman's holiday. There he hopes to have some fun and negotiate a deal concerning the mining of valuable nitrate deposits. Naturally, he carries the necessary contract with him. Knowing this, two con-artists conspire to Read More

Roman Scandals

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, Veree Teasdale

Synopsis: Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the middle-America community of West Rome, where our hero Eddie (Cantor) is employed as a delivery boy. A self-styled authority of Ancient Roman history, Cantor bemoans the fact that Read More

Pleasure Cruise

Crew: Director

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young, Ralph Forbes, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin

Dangerously Yours

Crew: Director

Actors: Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan, Herbert Mundin, Florence Eldridge, Florence Roberts

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Broadcast

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Sharon Lynne, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Leila Hyams

Synopsis: This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of the most popular radio stars of the day. George (George Burns) manages a radio station that is on the brink of bankruptcy. Leslie McWhinney (Stuart Erwin), a carefree Read More

This Reckless Age

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Bennett, Peggy Shannon, Charlie Ruggles, Frances Dee

Synopsis: An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and direct films such as Guys and Dolls and Cleopatra. Director Frank Tuttle co-wrote the script, based on a successful play called The Goose Hangs High by Lewis Beach. Donald Ingals Read More

This Is the Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Lili Damita, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant

Synopsis: Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd, who in turn is the object of desire for Parisian millionaire Roland Young. To keep Grant from catching on, Young hires Lily Damita to pose as his wife. Later, Young arranges Read More

Dude Ranch

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, June Collyer

Synopsis: Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer (sic!), the head of a travelling troupe of repertory actors. Finding themselves on the premises of a dude ranch, Jennifer and his actors strike up a deal with ranch Read More

It Pays to Advertise

Crew: Director

Actors: Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy It Pays to Advertise stars comedienne Carol Lombard in one of her early Paramount talkies. Rodney Martin (Norman Foster) is the son of wealthy soap manufacturer Cyrus Read More

No Limit

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Dixie Lee, Stuart Erwin, Norman Foster, Harry Green

Synopsis: In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and eventually marries. Soon after the ceremony, she learns that he is a jewel thief about to go to jail. She then moves into a girlfriend's ultra-modern apartment that is really a front for gamblers. Again Read More

Love among the Millionaires

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Mitzi Green, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A humble (but dazzlingly beautiful) waitress, Pepper Green (Bow) wins the heart of Jerry (Stanley Smith), the son of a wealthy railroad magnate Hamilton (Claude King). The Read More

Paramount on Parade

Crew: Director

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

Only the Brave

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Cooper, Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading as a Confederate sympathizer who has obtained important Union plans, he eventually lands at the plantation of home of a southern belle with whom he falls in love. Her love Read More

Men Are Like That

Crew: Director

Actors: Hal Skelly, Charles Sellon, Clara Blandick, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926, the George Kelly stage comedy The Show-Off was remade in 1930 as Men Are Like That. Broadway star Hal Skelly steps into the role of chronic braggart Aubrey Piper, incapable of either telling the truth or shutting up. Insinuating himself into the home of his wife Amy's (Doris Hill Read More

True to the Navy

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green, Rex Bell, Eddie Fetherstone

Synopsis: Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays Ruby Nolan, owner of a drug store frequented by she-sick sailors. Each of the gobs assumes that he's the only man in Ruby's life, and when several of her boyfriends converge Read More

The Benson Murder Case

Crew: Director

Actors: William Powell, Natalie Moorhead, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas

Synopsis: After briefly relinquishing the role to Basil Rathbone, William Powell was back as S. S. Van Dine's amateur detective Philo Vance in The Benson Murder Case. Keeping abreast of the times, the film uses the 1929 Stock Market Crash as a plot motivator. Crooked stockbroker Anthony Benson (Richard Tucker Read More

Her Wedding Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Clara Bow's career as one of Hollywood's liveliest leading ladies was drawing to a close when she made this early sound farce, one of her few talkies. Larry Charters (Ralph Forbes) is a highly successful songwriter who is growing weary of life in the public eye. Hoping for a break, Larry convinces Read More

The Canary Murder Case

Crew: Director

Actors: William Powell, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it centers upon a conniving "canary" (a nightclub singer) who takes on wealthy lovers and then blackmails them into giving her money. If they don't cooperate, she will tell Read More

Sweetie

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Stanley Smith, Jack Oakie, William Austin

Synopsis: In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy friend attends the school where he is a big football hero. The trouble begins when the star begins trying to convince the young man to forget about school and elope with her Read More

The Studio Murder Mystery

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Chester Conklin, Warner Oland, Florence Eldridge, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery. Fredric March stars as Richard Hardell, a silent-screen idol whose transition to talkies is threatened by his inability to remember his lines. Driven to distraction Read More

His Private Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Kathryn Carver, Eugene Pallette, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private Life, Menjou is cast as Georges St. Germain, whose sexual peccadilloes are so frequent and plentiful that he is forced to bribe practically every civil servant in Paris to Read More

Marquis Preferred

Crew: Director

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Nora Lane, Chester Conklin, Lucille Powers

Synopsis: Adolphe Menjou's final silent film was the imitation-Lubitsch Marquis Preferred. Characteristically dressed up like a million dollars (before taxes), Menjou is cast as the Marquis D'Argenville, a dapper but impoverished nobleman. Hoping for a quick financial turnover, the Marquis agrees to wed Read More

The Greene Murder Case

Crew: Director

Actors: William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Jean Arthur, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the killing of multi-millionaire Tobias Greene. Vance brings together a handful of likely suspects, but it soon becomes apparent he hasn't found the guilty party when all nine of Read More

Varsity

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Rogers, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: Charles Rogers and Mary Brian, Paramount Pictures' cutest couple, are starred in the collegiate drama Varsity. Amazingly, the film does not include a football game, or even a football team. The story concerns the romance between college boy Jimmy Duffy (Arlen) and carnival girl Fay (Mary Brian). Read More

Easy Come, Easy Go

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dix, Nancy Carroll, Charles Sellon, Frank Currier, Arnold Kent

Synopsis: Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from Read More

Love and Learn

Crew: Director

Actors: Esther Ralston

Synopsis: Like many of Esther Ralston's late-1920s vehicles, Love and Learn is primarily an excuse to show off its star in as few clothes as possible. In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles (Lane Chandler), heroine Nancy Blair (Ralston) gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' Read More

Something Always Happens

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Sojin, Charles Sellon, Lawrence Grant

Synopsis: Esther Ralston stars as Diana, the American houseguest of the stuffy Earl of Rochester (Lawrence Grant). Finding her host and her surroundings deadly dull, Diana isn't exactly looking forward to her impending marriage to the Earl's son Roderick (Neil Hamilton). When master criminal Chang-Tzo (Sojin Read More

Blind Alleys

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Evelyn Brent, Greta Nissen, Hugh Miller, Thomas Chalmers

Synopsis: Blind Alleys is basic comic material paced like a melodrama by Paramount's workhorse director Frank Tuttle. Thomas Meighan stars as a Merchant Marine captain who returns to New York with his new South American bride Gretta Nissen (a Swede playing a South American-well, it was a silent film). No Read More

Love 'em and Leave 'em

Crew: Director

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Louise Brooks, Lawrence Gray, Osgood Perkins, Marcia Harris

Synopsis: Based on a play by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em stars Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks as sisters in competition over the affections of Lawrence Gray. One sister covers for the other when a large amount of money is stolen, but her selflessness is rewarded when "bad" sis Read More

Spotlight

Crew: Director

Actors: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Nicholas Soussanin, Arlette Marchal, Arthur Houseman

Synopsis: The Paramount backstage drama Spotlight was based on Footlights, a novel by Rita Weiman. Hoping to become a star, Lizzie Stokes (Esther Ralston) haunts the offices of wheeler-dealer theatrical manager Daniel Hoffman (Nicholas Soussanin). Though he's not interested in Lizzie per se, Hoffman manages Read More

One Woman to Another

Crew: Director

Actors: Florence Vidor, Theodore Von Eltz, Marie Shotwell, Hedda Hopper, Roy Stewart

Synopsis: Rita Farrell (Florence Vidor) and John Bruce (Theodore von Eltz) want nothing more out of life than to get married. Unfortunately, the road to the altar is festooned with unexpected obstacles, both natural and man-made. The limit comes when Rita, left in charge with a group of children, is Read More

Time to Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Raymond Griffith, William Powell, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a passing boat owned by the Countess Elvire (Vera Voronina Read More

Kid Boots

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove, Lawrence Gray, Natalie Kingston

Synopsis: Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kid Boots was the first of two silent vehicles for irrepressible Ziegfeld Follies star Eddie "Banjo Eyes" Cantor. Old "Banjo Eyes" stars as a tailor's assistant named Kid Boots, who tries to save his pal Tom Sterling (Lawrence Gray) from the clutches Read More

The American Venus

Crew: Director

Actors: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Louise Brooks

Synopsis: The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty contests gets under way when two competing cosmetic companies seek the endorsement of the winner of the American Venus pageant (Ralston, of course). Complication ensue when it Read More

The Untamed Lady

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Joseph Smiley, Charles Graham

Synopsis: A novel by Fannie Hurst was tailored to the talents of Gloria Swanson in The Untamed Lady. La Swanson plays St.Clair Van Tassell, a spoiled-rotten millionairess. After several outrageous examples of wealth-flaunting, St. Clair's new husband Larry Gastien vows to "tame" her. This he does by Read More

Lovers in Quarantine

Crew: Director

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Harrison Ford, Alfred Lunt, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the F. Tennyson Jesse stage play Quarantined. Although Pamela Gordon (Eden Gray) is engaged to explorer Tony Blunt (Harrison Ford), she gets tired of waiting for him to come Read More

A Kiss in the Dark

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Aileen Pringle, Lillian Rich, Kenneth MacKenna

Synopsis: Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount the following year. Menjou played Walter Grenham, a confirmed boulevardier stranded in Havana with his best friend's (Kenneth MacKenna) flirtatious wife (Lillian Rich). Read More

Miss Bluebeard

Crew: Director

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Robert W. Frazer, Raymond Griffith, Martha Madison

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the train she meets Gloria's fiancé, Bob Hawley (Kenneth MacKenna). Hawley is posing as his friend, Larry Charters (Robert Frazer), a musician who is trying to dodge his many Read More

The Manicure Girl

Crew: Director

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Edmund Burns, Dorothy Cumming, Hale Hamilton, Charlotte Walker

Synopsis: Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they are saving up to buy a home and get married, but Maria isn't blind to what is going on around her. She watches the other girls take money and favors from their wealthy men Read More

Lucky Devil

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edna May Oliver, Tom Findley, Anthony Jowitt

Synopsis: If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a reason -- the story was penned by Byron Morgan, who wrote most of Reid's racing films. Dandy Farnan (Richard Dix) works in a department store demonstrating camping gear. He Read More

Manhattan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Dix, Jacqueline Logan, Edna May Oliver, George Siegmann, "Gunboat" Smith, James Bradbury, Alice Chapin

Synopsis: With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for director R.H. Burnside, who was better known for staging spectacles at New York's Hippodrome. Peter Minuit (Dix) comes from an old and very rich New York family, but he is Read More

Grit

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Helenka Adamowska, Roland Young, Osgood Perkins, Townsend Martin

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of this, the finished film was poor and did nothing for anyone's career -- except Hughes' co-star, a fresh young thing named Clara Bow. As she did in nearly all her early motion Read More

Manhandled

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Frank Morgan, Lilyan Tashman, Ian Keith, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening Post story by Arthur Stringer. Tessie McGuire (Gloria Swanson) is a department store clerk. When her sweetheart, auto mechanic Johnny Hogan (Tom Moore) goes to Detroit with a Read More

Her Love Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Ian Keith, George Fawcett, Mario Majeroni

Synopsis: Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian tale by Mary Roberts Rinehart wasn't really up her alley -- it certainly had a lot of spectacular touches. Swanson wears a 100,000-dollar bridal outfit (that was more than Read More

Dangerous Money

Crew: Director

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Tom Moore, William Powell, Dolores Cassinelli, Mary Foy

Synopsis: There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It is ultimately awarded to Adele (Bebe Daniels), the last of the Clarks. Although Adele is in love with Tim (Tom Moore), the son of Sheamus Sullivan (Edward O'Connor), their Read More

Youthful Cheaters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Glenn Hunter plays Ted MacDonald, who is traveling from Asia, where he and his father Edmund MacDonald (William Calhoun) have been conducting relief work amongst cholera victims. Their ship is visited by Lois Brooke (Marie Burke), who is stuck there when the vessel is quarantined. Ted and Lois Read More

Second Fiddle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor

Synopsis: Glenn Hunter, who, with his shy, bashful persona would take off where Charles Ray left off, was the perfect starring choice for this thriller. Jim Bradley (Hunter) has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert (Townsend Martin), goes off to college, Jim becomes Read More

Puritan Passions.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This fantasy tale uses the Salem witch hunts as its backdrop and was based on the play The Scarecrow by Percy Mackaye. Goody Rickby (Maude Hill) has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate (Frank Tweed), refuses to acknowledge the child or help the mother get medical Read More

The Cradle Buster

Crew: Director, Presented by, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Marguerite Courtot, William H. Tooker, Mary Foy

Synopsis: Stage favorite Glenn Hunter plays one Benjamin Franklin Read. Since birth, Benjamin has been coddled and protected by his loving mama (Beatrice Morgan). In adulthood, he must withstand the slings and arrows of his contemporaries, who (not without justification) consider him a pantywaist. How Read More

The Kentuckians

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Monte Blue, Wilfred Lytell, Diana Allen, Frank Joyner, J.H. Gilmore

Synopsis: Author John Fox was known for his tales of the Blue Grass State and its mountain people. This romantic drama was based on one of his novels. Two men, the rugged Boone Stallard (Monte Blue) and aristocratic Randolph Marshall (Wilfred Lytell), are rivals for the heart of Anne Bruce (Diana Allen) Read More