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Actors: C. Aubrey Smith, Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson
Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of bringing the "classics" to the screen. Adapted by Hugh Walpole from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy is set in the late 19th century. After Read More
Actors: Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Carol Coombe, Andy Devine
Synopsis: In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent. Suddenly she begins working for him. In Read More
Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Douglas Dumbrille
Synopsis: Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway Bill. Warner Baxter plays the carefree scion of a wealthy, highly-respected family. Baxter's cold but socially correct wife Helen Vinson forces her husband into the family Read More
Actors: Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, Jameson Thomas, Aileen Pringle
Synopsis: This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles the romantic travails of a troubled orphan girl who grows up to be a governess in love with her employer who returns her affections. She has finally found happiness. Alas Read More
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, ZaSu Pitts
Synopsis: Director Ernst Lubitsch gained international acclaim for his sophisticated romantic comedies, but he also had a talent for more serious themes, as evidenced by this 1932 drama. French musician Paul (Phillips Holmes) joined the Army at the height of WWI. On the field of battle, Paul shot and Read More
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick
Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this old-fashioned but rather poignant melodrama. A waitress in her aunt and uncle's café, orphaned Kitty Lane falls in love with society scion Dave Livingston (Regis Toomey). Much to Read More
Actors: Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, C. Aubrey Smith, Karen Morley, Mitchell Lewis
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At first, he sees her as in the way, but he falls in love with her and moves back to her home island with her, adopting the ways of the natives. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon, Norman Kerry, Judith Barrie, Roland Drew
Synopsis: As the low-budget Liberty Pictures Corporation emerged from the chrysalis of the late Tiffany Studios, the new company inherited the 1931 Tiffany production Ex-Flame. Marian Nixon plays Lady Catherine Hamilton, whose fascination with a dashing criminal results in an unpleasant divorce and a messy Read More
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan
Synopsis: "I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Director Tod Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which were based on the original Stoker novel; the rest of the film is a Read More
Actors: Will Rogers, Lucien Littlefield, Donald Dillaway, Terrance Ray
Synopsis: In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his two sons. But both of them are spoiled playboys who care little for time. One loves cafe society and the many girls he meets there; the other has bohemian affectations and Read More
Actors: Jack Mulhall, Elliott Nugent, Sally Starr, Margaret Livingston, Charles Sellon
Synopsis: Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful but financially irresponsible Lil (Sally Starr), Wyn is advised that the way to Lil's heart is to indulge her every extravagance. Unfortunately, the man offering this advice Read More
Actors: Owen Moore, June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, Dorothy Christy
Synopsis: The marriage between Jim and Esther Hamilton (Owen Moore and Dorothy Christy) spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther begins imagining herself a glamorpuss and soon is keeping company with caddish Morrell (Jameson Thomas Read More
Actors: Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Françoise Rosay, André Luguet, Wallace Beery, André Berley, Gus Shy, Jobyna Howland
Synopsis: Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, who was ballyhooed to stardom by 19th-century showman P.T. Barnum (Wallace Beery, who'd re-create the role in 1934's The Mighty Barnum). Most Read More
Actors: William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey, Stanley Fields
Synopsis: This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young cardsharp goes to see his brother, whom he believes is a stockbroker. In reality, the brother is a famed gambler who is trying to quit and try to rebuild his marriage. When the Read More
Actors: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Kay Francis
Synopsis: In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live life in the fast-lane. She is saved by an American who has come to Italy for vacation. He becomes her friend, and the children come to adore him. They eventually fall in Read More
Actors: Russell Simpson, Florence Turner, George Chandler
Synopsis: Not a remake of the pre-1920 film of the same name, The Kid's Clever was Glenn Tryon's last silent vehicle; he would pursue a brief talkie acting career before going behind the cameras as a producer. On this occasion, Tryon plays Bugs Raymond, a would-be inventor who has developed a car that runs Read More
Actors: Belle Bennett, Joe E. Brown, Alma Bennett, Russell Simpson, Joan Standing
Synopsis: Not even Joe E. Brown's most fervent fans have much to say about his appearance in the 1929 part-talkie My Lady's Past -- mainly because the film seems to have long since disappeared. In her first talking role, Belle Bennett (who previously co-starred with Brown in Molly and Me) plays another of Read More
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Fay Compton, John Miljan, Robert Wayne, Joan Standing
Synopsis: This romantic drama marks the first talking movie done by popular silent film star Adolph Menjou who plays a philandering concert pianist. After one concert, he meets a pretty lady and begins planning a weekend rendezvous in a mountain cottage. When his wife learns about it, she too, along with Read More
Actors: Laura La Plante, Charles Delaney, George C. Pearce
Synopsis: A pleasant but unremarkable comedy from Universal, Home James featured the studio's premiere light comedian Laura La Plante as Laura Elliott, a department store clerk who mistakes her youthful boss, James Lacey Jr. (Charles Delaney), for a chauffeur. Amused by the situation and wishing to impress Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery, Sr., William Powell, Mitchell Lewis
Synopsis: This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like the first, it is based on a story by Christopher Wren and features members from the original cast. The story begins as three Legionnaires do not return promptly from furlough Read More
Actors: Betty Bronson, James Hall, William Austin, Joan Standing, George Nichols
Synopsis: Hoping to change the winsome "Cinderella" image of actress Betty Bronson, Ritzy. Despite her name, Ritzy Brown (Bronson) is merely a small-town gal, though she harbors Big-City aspirations. When British nobleman Harrington Smith (James Hall) pays a visit to the Brown household, Ritzy is Read More
Actors: Bert Lytell, Dorothy Devore, Harry Myers, Walter Hiers
Synopsis: Bert Lytell stars as Richard Band, a handsome doctor specializing in women's ailments. One of Band's more impressionable patients, Doris Frazer (Dorothy Devore), falls in love with the doc and gives her boyfriend Jack (Frederick Kovert) the air. In retaliation, Jack spreads rumors that Band has an Read More
Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Lane, Joan Standing
Synopsis: While studying dance in Hungary, British ballerina Leonide Sturdee (Jacqueline Logan) suffers a crippling accident. Enter faith healer Anton Ragatzy (Lou Tellegan), who assures Leonide that she'll walk again if only she places herself in his hands. But Leonide considers Ragatzy to be a fraud and Read More
Actors: Madge Bellamy, Joan Standing, Leslie Fenton, Harrison Ford, Gloria Hope
Synopsis: Pert and pretty Sandy McNeill (Madge Bellamy) is strong-armed by her parents into marrying wealthy Ben Murillo (Bardson Bard). Ben turns out to be a sadistic wife-beater whose cruel excesses lead to the death of Sandy's baby. Fleeing this abusive environment, Sandy falls in love with handsome Read More
Actors: Gladys Brockwell, Charles H. West, Muriel McCormac, Junior Coughlan, Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Synopsis: Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the headlines by romancing and marrying a series of millionaires. Here Ms. Joyce plays Sharon Kimm, a girl of tenements who through a combination of luck and determination becomes Read More
Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, El Brendel, Joan Standing
Synopsis: Though well into her twenties, Bebe Daniels effectively passes as a teenager in The Campus Flirt. Daniels plays the spoiled-rotten daughter of a haughty rich woman. After receiving an expensive (if desultory) European education, Daniels is enrolled at an all-American college by her down-to-earth Read More
Actors: Huntly Gordon, Lowell Sherman, Jane Novak, Natalie Kingston, Billy Kent Schaeffer
Synopsis: Louis J. Gasnier, whose directorial technique suffered a case of arrested development sometime in 1912, wielded the megaphone for the old-fashioned mellerdrammer Lost at Sea. It is established from the outset that Norman Travers (Lowell Sherman) is a domineering husband and a failure as a father Read More
Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Conrad Nagel, William Haines, John Steppling
Synopsis: Memory Lane is a vehicle for stars-in-the-making Eleanor Boardman and William Haines, both winners of an extensive MGM talent search. Boardman plays Mary, in love with poor-but-honest working stiff Joe Field (William Haines). But when Joe leaves town to seek his future in the Big City, Mary Read More
Actors: Lou Tellegen, Niles Welch, Forrest Stanley, Alyce Mills, Joan Standing, Eulalie Jensen, Donald Keith
Synopsis: Broadway matinee idol (and notorious off-screen lothario) Lou Tellegan stars as "The Villain" (that's his name in the credits!) in With This Ring. The villain is brother of The Hero, played by Donald Keith. Shipwrecked on a desert island with The Girl (Alyce Mills), The Hero is separated from her Read More
Synopsis: A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent producer B. P. Schulberg. Although agreeing at first to give up custody of their child, the ex-wife changes her mind when she discovers the truth. But the child is almost killed Read More
Actors: George O'Brien, Alma Rubens, Madge Bellamy, Templar Saxe, Joan Standing
Synopsis: This drama (adapted from the play by Gerald du Maurier and Viola Tree) was typical for its era: a jazz baby parties up a storm and pays the price for her sins. Tony (George O'Brien) and Una (Madge Bellamy) are childhood sweethearts who promise to marry when they grow up. Tony travels to South Read More
Actors: Laurette Taylor, Pat O'Malley, Hedda Hopper, Cyril Chadwick, Edith Yorke
Synopsis: Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing in girlish charm. Director King Vidor helped translate this charm to film when he helmed the motion picture version of Peg O' My Heart. It came out so well that Taylor and Vidor teamed up again for Read More
Actors: Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton
Synopsis: Frank Norris' powerful Zola-esque novel McTeague was first filmed in 1915. While filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim would insist that he'd been enthralled by the book since it first came out in 1902, it is more likely that he didn't make the novel's acquaintance until seeing that 1915 film. Whatever the Read More
Actors: Barbara Bedford, Frank Keenan, Renée Adorée, Robert W. Frazer, Joseph J. Dowling
Synopsis: This drama was based on the novel Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene. Jonathan Swift (Frank Keenan) is a wealthy fish packer who resides in a New England fishing village with his son, Noah (Eddie Phillips), and daughter, Emily (Barbara Bedford). Noah is in love with Becky (Renee Adoree), the Read More
Synopsis: Milt Kimberlin (John Bowers) is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman (John Miljan) for a wedding ring from Kimberlin. Even though his finances never Read More
Actors: Aileen Pringle, John St. Polis, Helen Dunbar, Stuart Holmes
Synopsis: Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily married to the brutish King Constantine II (John Sainpolis). She takes a break from her duties to vacation in Switzerland, where she meets Englishman Paul Verdayne (Conrad Read More
Actors: Frank Keenan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Craig Ward, Richard Headrick, Russell Simpson
Actors: Paul Gerson, Virginia Brown Faire, Josef Swickard, Fritzi Ridgeway, Paul Moore
Synopsis: Although its popularity didn't endure, The Cricket on the Hearth was originally the favorite of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books (the most well-known today is, of course, A Christmas Carol. Director Lorimar Johnston makes an imposing Josiah Tackleton (also known as "Old Gruff"), and producer Paul Read More
Actors: Viola Dana, David Butler, Eva Novak, Betty Francisco
Synopsis: Viola Dana stars in this rags-to-riches comedy-drama. She plays Martha Mason, who is such an underdog in her little home town that when she graduates from school, she doesn't get a diploma because there aren't enough to go around. Having inherited 2,000 dollars, Martha convinces her father (Bert Read More
Actors: Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Gladys Brockwell, George Siegmann, Lionel Belmore
Synopsis: Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the personality of its star. This Frank Lloyd-directed silent film is one of the most faithful of all cinematic adaptations of the Dickens work. The orphaned Oliver, labelled a Read More
Synopsis: Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman (Barbara Castleton) escapes her homicidal father by marrying a rancher (Russell Simpson). History repeats itself, however, and the rancher turns out to be a brute who actually Read More
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