Julie HaydonFilmography

Toys

Actors: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright Penn, LL Cool J

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this cautionary fantasy fable--a triumph of production design--concerning the clash between benevolent, funny toys and malevolent, violent war toys and video games. Donald O'Connor is the kindly, gentle Kenneth Zevo, founder of Zevo Toys. The workers love him and the love Read More

Citizen Saint

Actors: Boris Aplon

Synopsis: The life and times of a modern miracle worker, Mother Frances Cabrini, are chronicled in this biography that features real film clips of the woman as the Pope canonizes her in Rome. Some of her best miracles are re-created. The film also chronicles her love of the church and her sustaining sense Read More

A Family Affair

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Mickey Rooney, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Based on Aurania Rouveyrol's Broadway play Skidding, A Family Affair is a gentle comedy/drama centering around the Hardy family of Carvel (a small, idealized American town). Judge Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) hopes to be re-elected, but his campaign is put in jeopardy by his opposition of a wasteful Read More

The Longest Night

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Ted Healy, Julie Haydon, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: The Longest Night is a curious title choice for this fast-paced mystery; at 50 minutes, it was the shortest feature film ever produced by MGM. Robert Young plays the manager of a department store targeted by gangsters. Young's romance with store clerk Florence Rice is threatened when the bad guys Read More

A Son Comes Home

Actors: Mary Boland, Julie Haydon, Donald Woods, Wallace Ford, Roger Imhof

Synopsis: This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the crusty Mary, a tough broad with a marshmallow heart. One of her regulars is a newspaper reporter who decides to write about the widow Grady's long lost son who disappeared Read More

The Scoundrel

Actors: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper, Hope Williams

Synopsis: This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a powerful publisher to break as many hearts as is humanly possible. When Coward does his usual hatchet job on poet Julie Haydon, she plants a curse on his head, praying that he'll Read More

Their Big Moment

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, George "Slim" Summerville, Julie Haydon, Ralph Morgan, William Gaxton

Synopsis: In this comedy, two sisters work as assistants to a magician. The trouble begins when the day before a big show, the magician's psychic quits. In desperation he enlists the aide of one of the assistants. The three end up hired by a woman who is trying to help her wealthy, widowed sister see that Read More

The Age of Innocence

Actors: Irene Dunne, John Boles, Lionel Atwill, Laura Hope Crewes, Helen Westley

Synopsis: At his 1875 engagement party, Newland Archer (John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), now Countess Olenska; she's the cousin of his fiancee May (Julie Haydon). The strait-laced society of the time regards her as somewhat scandalous, but she's treated well by Read More

When Strangers Meet

Actors: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Lucien Littlefield, Charles B. Middleton, Hale Hamilton

Synopsis: Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle by a narrow path. The bungalow-dwelling residents on one side of the path consider their neighbors to be "beneath" them, and vice versa. Tensions come to a boil when a Read More

Song of the Eagle

Actors: Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Jean Hersholt, Mary Brian, Louise Dresser

Synopsis: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery. Their tiny beer- making operation was first jeopardized by the racketeers they refused to join. Read More

Lucky Devils

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, William Gargan, Bruce Cabot, William Bakewell, Creighton Chaney, Dorothy Wilson

Synopsis: Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as it chronicles the romance between a stunt man and an extra. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Golden Harvest

Actors: Richard Arlen, Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Roscoe Ates, Julie Haydon

Synopsis: A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious grain trader Chris Martin, who through fair and foul means corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for Read More

Son of the Border

Actors: Tom Keene, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: This Tom Keene western casts the leading man as a lawkeeper who accidentally kills his best friend (Creighton Chaney, aka Lon Chaney Jr.) when the latter becomes involved with an outlaw gang. Tom adopts his dead pal's son (David Durand), raising him as his own. The one startling aspect of the Read More

Scarlet River

Actors: Billy Butts, Betty Furness, Tom Keene

Synopsis: In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic. The locals chortle and guffaw at these picture people posing as genuine Westerners, but Keene proves his worth by rescuing Dorothy Wilson from villainous ranch foreman Read More

A Bill of Divorcement

Actors: John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by Clemence Dane, the film is set on the day that Hepburn's mother, Billie Burke, is to divorce her insane and long-institutionalized husband John Barrymore. But Barrymore Read More

Symphony of Six Million

Actors: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Gregory Ratoff, Anna Appel, Lita Chevret

Synopsis: In this misleadingly-titled 1932 medical (not musical) drama, the resolve of a young surgeon is severely tested. Dr. Felix Klauber (Ricardo Cortez), is a selfless Jewish physician who has grown up in the segregated slums of New York City. Through hard work, he becomes a wealthy Park Avenue doctor. Read More

Come On, Danger!

Synopsis: In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to suspect, however, that she is being set up to deflect attention away from a gang of cattle thieves and bandits led by a man whom the Ranger believes killed his brother. ~ Brian Read More

The Beast of the City

Actors: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis: A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of gangsters and to shape up his own corrupt department in this brutal, gritty film noir. Jean Harlow plays a luminescent but ill-fated gun moll. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Conquerors

Actors: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee, Julie Haydon

Synopsis: This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows plentifully from the previous year's hit Cimarron, another empire-building saga that also starred Dix). Following the financial collapse of 1873, Roger Standish (Richard Dix) Read More

Westward Passage

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Ann Harding, ZaSu Pitts, Julie Compton, Irving Pichel

Synopsis: A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental outbursts, the wife's presence soothes him and their marriage is happy. Then she gives birth to their daughter. The child grows up to be a mischief maker and this causes the Read More

Thirteen Women

Actors: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble began when the woman, who was of Japanese and Indian heritage, was ejected from a college sorority because she wasn't white. Still angry, the woman hires an astrologer to create Read More

The Great Meadow

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, Lucille La Verne, Anita Louise, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to Kentucky are chronicled. To get there they must fight the angry natives, open up the forests, and forage for food. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More