James BartonFilmography

Born:: November 1, 1890 in Gloucester City, NJ
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of the "grand old men" of vaudeville and burlesque, James Barton was the type of performer who could split your sides with a well-timed punchline, then seconds later break your heart with a plaintive rendition of "You Made Me Love You." An attempt to make Barton a middle-aged film favorite a...Read More

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The Misfits

Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Read More

1961
Quantez

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, James Barton, Sydney Chaplin, John Gavin

Synopsis: Fred MacMurray plays the head of an outlaw band trying to escape across the Mexican border. The gang is able to elude the law and to navigate the rough terrain, but the flight comes to a halt in an all-but-deserted desert town. Here MacMurray and company are forced to stave off an Indian attack Read More

1957
The Naked Hills

Actors: David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Marcia Henderson, Jim Backus

Synopsis: The talented David Wayne is afforded a rare movie starring role in Allied Artists' The Naked Hills. Wayne plays prospector Tracy Powell, whose all-consuming lust for gold motivates the plot. Heading to California during the '49 Gold Rush to try his luck in the mineral-rich mountains, Powell is Read More

1956
Studio One: The Tale of St. Emergency

Synopsis: An original story by no less than Jackie Gleason was the basis of this one-hour drama, originally telecast live on the CBS dramatic anthology Studio One. Decked out in white robes and a cute little halo, comedian Red Buttons stars as St. Emergency, a celestial troubleshooter whose aid is summoned Read More

1956
Here Comes the Groom

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton

Synopsis: Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially relevant" as previous Capra productions, the film is a thoroughly likeable yarn about a happy-go-lucky newspaperman named Pete (Bing Crosby). In order to legally adopt a Read More

1951
The Scarf

Actors: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Emlyn Williams, James Barton, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep the viewer's interest, but in fact the film has much to please the eye and ear. John Ireland stars as John Barrington, an escapee from a institution for the criminally Read More

1951
Golden Girl

Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day, James Barton, Una Merkel

Synopsis: Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a luckless gambler (James Barton), young Lotta (Mitzi Gaynor) supports herself and her dad by singing and dancing in mining camps during the California Gold Rush of 1849. She Read More

1951
Wabash Avenue

Actors: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, James Barton, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to Chicago, but the plot remains basically the same. Once again, the star is cast as a honky-tonk singer, Ruby Summers, who is groomed for classier show-business endeavors by Read More

1950
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Actors: June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton, Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: This Gay-90s musical interweaves a number of fictional characters with real-life theatrical impresario Tony Pastor (played by Gordon MacRae, who resembles the real Pastor not at all). The plot involves a roisterous Irish papa (James Barton) who, when not on a drunk, tries to keep his two daughters Read More

1950
Yellow Sky

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell

Synopsis: William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne Baxter. Read More

1948
The Time of Your Life

Actors: Marlene Ammes, James Cagney, James Barton, William Bendix, Reginald Beane, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney, Broderick Crawford, Gladys Blake

Synopsis: After turning down several other Hollywood producers, playwright William Saroyan sold the film rights of his whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life to James and William Cagney. The scene is a rundown San Francisco waterfront bar, populated by a group of lovable eccentrics. Joe Read More

1948
The Shepherd of the Hills

Actors: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton

Synopsis: Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount offered the first talkie version in 1941. In one of his least typical roles, John Wayne plays a young Ozark backwoodsman forsworn to kill his father, who years earlier Read More

1941
Hideaway Girl

Actors: Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Robert Cummings, Monroe Owsley, Louis Da Pron

Synopsis: Paramount's resident "big mouth" Martha Raye was afforded her first top-billed screen assignment in Hideaway Girl. The script would have us believe that rambunctious heroine Helen (Raye) is a high-society debutante with a fondness for singing. The plot is set in motion by a stolen necklace Read More

1937
His Family Tree

Actors: James Barton, Margaret Callahan, Addison Randall, William Harrigan, Maureen Delaney

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a worried Irish father, leaves his Erin pub and heads for middle America to find out why his son has suddenly stopped writing him. He finds his son married to a snobbish uppercrust wife and embroiled in a heated mayoral election. At his wife's suggestion, the young man has Read More

1936
Captain Hurricane

Actors: James Barton, Helen Westley, Helen Mack, Gene Lockhart, Douglas Walton

Synopsis: James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out. Planning to stay with his ship only long enough to pay his mortgage, Barton finds himself on the bounding main a lot longer than expected due to bad weather and unexpected Read More

1935
Why Women Remarry

Actors: Milton Sills

Synopsis: A woman and her two children are left alone after her husband is murdered in this sentimental society melodrama. A wealthy politician turns his back on his son to avoid scandal when the offspring is accused of the killing. Dan Hampton (Milton Sills) is the kind-hearted policeman who carefully Read More

1923