Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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Aunt Jessie
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1942
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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1941
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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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Sunny was one of three RKO Radio Broadway-musical adaptations tailored to the talents of British favorite Anna Neagle by her...
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1941
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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1941
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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Mrs. Brunot
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1941
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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Mrs. Frazier
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1940
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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Anais
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1939
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1938
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The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
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Countess Sandor
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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Aunt Miranda Wilkins
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1938
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The plot of She Married an Artist is summed up by the title, as was often the case in such 1930s romantic comedies. European...
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Martha Moriarity
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1938
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In this comedy a young girl dreams of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The plucky gal decides to grab the bull's horns one...
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1938
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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Blind Anna
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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1937
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Madame Della
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1937
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A strong-willed young man creates a rift with his father when turns down a safe position in the family business and becomes...
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Mrs. Henty
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1937
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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Grandma
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1936
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In this murder comedy, a young woman is no sooner acquitted of poisoning her father when she finds herself suspected of...
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Mrs. Hargraves
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1936
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Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by...
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Mrs. Hope
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1936
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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Mrs. Caroline Drew
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1936
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1936
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Roberta (Aunt Minnie)
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1935
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American opera baritone George Houston, who later gained a measure of fame as a western hero, made his film debut in The...
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Manzoni
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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Abbie
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1935
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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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Therese
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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Mrs. Lorrimore
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1935
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In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover why men fear him. Posing as...
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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1934
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Mrs. Morris
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1934
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Marilla Cuthbert
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1934
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At his 1875 engagement party, Newland Archer (John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), now...
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Granny Mingott
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1934
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