Jean RogersFilmography

Fighting Back

Actors: Paul Langton, Jean Rogers, Joe Sawyer, Morris Ankrum, John Kellogg

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a job at a factory. The criminal is almost completely reformed when he is visited by an old partner in crime. The shady pal's dog steals the factory owner's bracelet and the Read More

Speed to Spare

Actors: Richard Arlen, Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Pat Phelan, Nanette Parks

Synopsis: Speed to Spare is an efficient entry from the Pine-Thomas Productions assembly line. Ricard Arlen, who'd been a "regular" with the P-T output since the early 1940s, stars as daredevil auto racer Cliff Jordan. Opting for a safer profession, Jordan forms a trucking firm with his somewhat more Read More

Backlash

Actors: Jean Rogers, Larry Blake, John Eldredge, Leonard Strong

Synopsis: This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the audience learns that attorney John Morland (John Eldredge) has given a lift to a hitchhiker (Douglas Fowley) who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is Read More

Gay Blades

Actors: Allan Lane, Jean Rogers, Edward Ashley, Frank Albertson, Ann Gillis

Synopsis: The biggest surprise in Republic's Gay Blades is that the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston doesn't appear. Allan Lane plays hockey star Andy Buell, whose prowess on the rink brings him to the attention of Hollywood leading lady Nancy Davis (played not by the real Nancy Davis Read More

Hot Cargo

Actors: William Gargan, Jean Rogers, Phillip Reed, Larry Young, Harry Cording

Synopsis: In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family nearly destitute and their trucking business on the brink of ruin, the friends decide to stay and help them fight the rival companies behind the mayhem. Unfortunately, the Read More

Tournament Tempo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Hollywood talent scout talks a moody hockey player into becoming an actor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rough, Tough and Ready

Actors: Chester Morris, Victor McLaglen, Jean Rogers, Amelita Ward

Synopsis: Rough, Tough, and Ready looks a great deal like all those Victor McLaglen - Edmund Lowe "friendly enemy" actionfests of the 1920s and 1930s. Indeed, McLaglen stars in the film as Owen McCarey, though the "Edmund Lowe" part, Brad Crowder, goes to Chester Morris. The story is the old bromide about Read More

The Strange Mr. Gregory

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Donald Douglas, Frank Reicher, Marjorie Hoshelle

Synopsis: With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with projects like The Strange Mr. Gregory. The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin Read More

Swing Shift Maisie

Actors: Jim Davis, Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen

Synopsis: In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the swing shift in an airplane factory. Taking in a seemingly suicidal co-worker, Iris (Jean Rogers), Maisie can only watch as the girl steals her beau, handsome pilot James Read More

A Stranger in Town

Actors: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: All but forgotten today, A Stranger in Town serves as an excellent showcase for the dramatic talents of Frank Morgan. The star plays Supreme Court justice John Josephus Grant, who decides to take a break from his hectic schedule by going on a hunting vacation. Travelling incognito, Grant stops Read More

Whistling in Brooklyn

Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers, Ray Collins

Synopsis: The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with Fox and girl friend Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford) making final preparations for a trip to Niagara Falls, where they intend to get married. Of course, they've made these Read More

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Actors: Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Richard Ney, Jean Rogers, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pacific Rendezvous

Actors: Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Carl Esmond, Paul Cavanagh, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays the old William Powell role as a American naval intelligence operative (this time named Lt. Bill Gordon) assigned to decipher enemy code. His mission is compromised by his Read More

Sunday Punch

Actors: William Lundigan, Jean Rogers, Dan Dailey, Guy Kibbee, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film for the studio in Sunday Punch. The harmless but diverting story concerns the rivalry, in and out of the ring, between prizefighters Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Olaf Read More

Dr. Kildare's Victory

Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars, Robert Sterling, Jean Rogers

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals. The trouble begins when an intern rushes a beautiful girl to Kildare's hospital. She has a shard of glass imbedded in her heart. The girl survives the surgery, and the intern Read More

Design for Scandal

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Rosalind Russell stars as a no-nonsense judge who dabbles in sculpting in her spare time. Walter Pidgeon costars as a reporter assigned to discredit Rosalind after she rules against his boss (Edward Arnold) in a divorce case. Pidgeon plans to frame the judge in a compromising situation, then Read More

Don't Get Personal

Actors: Hugh Herbert, Mischa Auer, Jane Frazee, Anne Gwynne, Robert Paige

Synopsis: Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars Hugh Herbert as a ditzy pickle manufacturer whose favorite radio program stars Jane Frazee and Robert Paige. The couple plays a bickering husband and wife on the air, and Read More

Viva Cisco Kid

Actors: Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers, Chris-Pin Martin, Minor Watson, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: While Cesar Romero could usually be relied upon to ladle out the charm in his film roles, Romero's handful of appearances as O. Henry's "Cisco Kid" were disturbingly cold and distant. In Viva Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the Old West" and his sidekick Pancho (Chris-Pin Martin) save a stagecoach Read More

Let's Make Music

Actors: Jean Rogers, Bob Crosby & Orchestra, Elizabeth Risdon, Joseph Buloff, Joyce Compton

Synopsis: Though he lacked the casual charisma of his brother Bing, bandleader Bob Crosby starred in a series of reasonably successful films of his own. In Let's Make Music, Crosby and his "Bobcats" turn a dreadful football-victory song penned by elderly schoolmistress Malvina Adams (Elisabeth Risdon) into Read More

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Onslow Stevens, Eric Blore

Synopsis: The Valiant, a stage play by Holworthy Hall and Robert M. Middlemass, starred Paul Muni in the 1929 film version. The play was filmed a second time in 1940 as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk, this time with Lloyd Nolan in the lead. Nolan is peripherally involved in a crime; he accidentally kills the Read More

Yesterday's Heroes

Actors: Jean Rogers, Robert Sterling, Ted North, Kay Aldridge, Russell Gleason

Synopsis: While paging through a scrapbook, Dr. Wyman (Robert Sterling) recalls his college days. Though preferring to stick to his studies, Wyman was strong-armed into joining the football team because of his athletic abilities. Sure enough, his gridiron activities caused his grades to drop, while his Read More

Charlie Chan in Panama

Actors: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash

Synopsis: Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental sleuth, who on this occasion must weed out an elusive enemy saboteur named Ryner, who plans to destroy the Panama Canal. Any one of the supporting characters might be the Read More

Brigham Young

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members of the Church of Latter Day Saints are subjected to religious persecution by the people of Nauvoo, Illinois, where they've settled; so under the leadership of Brigham Young Read More

The Man Who Couldn't Talk

Synopsis: This crime drama tells the tale of a man who declines to defend himself against murder charges. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Stop, Look, and Love

Actors: Jean Rogers, William Frawley, Robert Kellard, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: In this domestic comedy, a young woman's mother keeps frightening her beaus right out the door with her incessant critical comments. Naturally this is quite frustrating to the girl. But when the maiden falls in love with one of the boy friends, she goes to her father for assistance. He obliges by Read More

Hotel for Women

Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Actors: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford, Nicholas Conte

Synopsis: In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land in Arizona. Unable to afford a car, Ford hitchhikes to his new home, and along the way teams up with a transient (Richard Conte) and an illegal alien (Jean Rogers). The girl Read More

Inside Story

Actors: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In this heartwarming drama, a good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm. He meets a woman whom he thinks is a stenographer. In reality she is a hard-bitten nightclub owner with no Christmas spirit at all. By Read More

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars [Serial]

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon, Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis: Universal Pictures' second Flash Gordon serial was even more opulent than its first, offering better special effects, more impressive sets, a bigger cast, and a more complicated story. When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe Read More

Time out for Murder

Actors: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley, Robert Kellard

Synopsis: In this witty comedy mystery, a dim-bulbed news photographer and an equally dull-witted reporter try their hand at sleuthing when they begin investigating a murder to prove that the prime suspect is innocent. Things get really sticky when the accused's bill-collector gets involved. The real killer Read More

Mars Attacks the World

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Shannon, Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis: This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Deadly Ray From Mars

Synopsis: You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars. Space traveller Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), his lady love Dale Arden (Jean Rogers), and scientific genius Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), blast off for Read More

While New York Sleeps

Actors: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, Robert Kellard, Joan Woodbury

Synopsis: While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great metropolitan newspaper. At present, Callahan is trying to find out who's responsible for a series of baffling murders. The victims were all bond carriers, and the cops have Read More

Always in Trouble

Actors: Jane Withers, Jean Rogers, Arthur Treacher, Robert Kellard, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: Arranging to leave her father J.C. Darlington (Andrew Tombes) behind, frisky teenager Jerry (Jane Withers) convinces Pete Graham (Robert Kellard), from her father's New York office, to pilot the family yacht. They're recently rich, but thoroughly spoiled, including Jerry's mother (Nana Bryant) Read More

The Wildcatter

Actors: Scott Colton, Jean Rogers, Suzanne Kaaren, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: Scott Colton, a good-looking young fellow whom Universal was grooming for stardom (unsuccessfully as it turned out) heads the cast of Wildcatter. Colton plays "Lucky" Conlon, who makes his living as a wildcat oil rigger, taking his young wife Helen (Jean Rogers) to wherever he can find work. Lucky Read More

When Love Is Young

Actors: Virginia Bruce, Kent Taylor, Walter Brennan, Greta Meyer, Christian Rub

Synopsis: In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge. Songs include: "When Love Is Young," Read More

Secret Agent X-9 [Serial] [1937]

Actors: Scott Kolk, Jean Rogers, David Oliver, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Supporting actor Scott Kolk was elevated to playing the title role in this Graustarkian spy thriller, serialized in 12 chapters by Universal. Reportedly based on characters created by Dashiell Hammett, the serial featured an American secret agent assigned to recover the crown jewels of Belgravia. Read More

Mysterious Crossing

Actors: James Dunn, Jean Rogers, Andy Devine, John Eldredge, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America, Murphy finds a chance for redemption when he stumbles into a mysterious murder case. Most of the story takes place during a train-ferry ride down the Mississippi. By the time Read More

Conflict

Actors: John Wayne, Jean Rogers, Tommy Bupp, Eddie Borden, Frank Sheridan

Synopsis: Another entry from John Wayne's non-western series at Universal, Conflict casts Wayne as Pat, a bare-knuckle boxer in turn-of-the-century New York. Not the most honest of pugilists, Pat reforms for the sake of an orphaned kid named Tommy (Tommy Bupp), whom he has saved from drowning. He sets out Read More

Night Key

Actors: Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers, Warren Hull, Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a security company. The scientist invents a superior alarm to provide for his daughter and sells it to the company for royalties, but his partner refuses to sell it. The Read More

Reported Missing

Actors: William Gargan, Jean Rogers, Dick Purcell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Michael Fitzmaurice

Synopsis: In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run plane crashes as do all the other flights that use the device. Interestingly, all the crashes are followed by robberies of the dead passengers. The inventor pursues the Read More

Ace Drummond: Chapter 11 - The Dragon Commands

Ace Drummond: Chapter 10 - The Mountain of Jade

Ace Drummond: Chapter 03 - The Doorway of Doom

Ace Drummond: Chapter 13 - The Worlds Akin

Ace Drummond: Chapter 02 - The Invisible Enemy

Ace Drummond: Chapter 12 - The Squadron of Death

Ace Drummond: Chapter 07 - The Trackless Trail

Ace Drummond: Chapter 06 - Evil Spirits

Ace Drummond: Chapter 05 - Bullets of Sand

Ace Drummond: Chapter 09 - Secret Service

Ace Drummond: Chapter 04 - The Radio Riddle

Ace Drummond: Chapter 08 - The Sign in the Sky

Ace Drummond: Chapter 01 - Where East Meets West

Rocketship

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil Emperor Ming from destroying Earth. The film is also titled Flash Gordon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Get Personal

Actors: Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Pinky Tomlin, Spencer Charters, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash by auctioning off their services in Central Park. A pretty woman makes the highest bid. She hires the boys to drive her and her car to Ohio. The adventure culminates with Read More

My Man Godfrey

Actors: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump. Godfrey Read More

Ace Drummond [Serial]

Synopsis: Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13 chapters, this fanciful serial depicted the travails of a globe trotting airline company. It seems that a villain known only as The Dragon (Arthur Loft) is determined to sabotage Read More

Spaceship to the Unknown

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton, Priscilla Lawson

Synopsis: In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic strip of the day about a dare-devil do-gooder in outer space. Flash Gordon: Rocketship is a condensed version of that original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes Read More

Two in a Crowd

Actors: Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Elisha Cook, Jr., Alison Skipworth, Reginald Denny

Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat broke, each find one-half of a $1000 banknote. They decide to invest their windfall in a race horse and jockey, in hopes of financing a theatrical career for Julia and a new Read More

Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his planet-hopping exploits to the big screen in the 13-episode serial Flash Gordon, one of the most lavishly produced and wildly popular "chapter-plays" of its day. Flash Read More

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell [Serial]

Synopsis: Based on the turn-of-the-century dimestore novels of Bert L. Standish (real name: William Patton Gilbert), this slow-moving serial featured husky Donald Briggs in the title role, a Fardale College star athlete who inherits a valuable ring from his father (William P. Carleton). By deciphering an Read More

Stormy

Actors: Jean Rogers, John Farrell MacDonald, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when the lad finds himself between two arguing brothers. One wants to save the little horse and the herd he runs with, while the other brother wants to exploit the mustangs. The Read More

Manhattan Moon

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Dorothy Page, Henry Mollison, Hugh O'Connell, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: Manhattan Moon is predicated on the notion that French songstress Yvonne (Dorothy Page) is so busy with her career that she has to hire a look-alike, Toots Malloy (also Dorothy Page) to take her place at social functions. While posing as Yvonne, Toots makes the acquaintance of the singer's boss Read More

Tailspin Tommy and the Great Air Mystery

Synopsis: In this adventure serial, Tailspin Tommy discovers that a gang of profiteers are out to steal an island's oil reserves. The gang, learning of Tommy's efforts to stop them, attack him with everything they have -- including anti-aircraft guns, bombs, and even a volcano! ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Read More

Eight Girls in a Boat

Actors: Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Barbara Barondess, Ferike Boros

Synopsis: Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David Perrin (Douglass Montgomery), European schoolgirl Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) contemplates killing herself. Wisely, she chooses instead to explain her plight to her Read More