Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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1937
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Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the...
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Prof. Ernst Einfeld
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1936
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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1936
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Based on a barnstorming stage play by Gus Hill, McFadden's Flat seemed charmingly anachronistic in the mid-1935s....
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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1935
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Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene...
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1935
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1935
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The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville...
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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1935
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Ann Sothern and Jack Haley star in this inconsequential little musical. Haley is a struggling playwright of minimal talent,...
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1935
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Love in Bloom ostensibly stars George Burns and Gracie Allen,but the team is actually comedy relief for the romantic leads,...
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1935
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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1935
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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1934
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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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1934
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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1933
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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This long-forgotten Hollywood picture concerns a conniving family so disgusted by the patriarch's incessant pipe-smoking...
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Papa Strauss
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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1932
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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1932
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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1932
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This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal...
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1930
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In this drama, a Viennese composer kills his wife and her lover in a jealous rage, and then heads for the US with his...
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1930
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An ambitious young groom makes foolish choices to impress his bride in this drama. To provide her with the posh lifestyle he...
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1930
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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1930
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In this musical comedy, a Jewish songwriter pursues and conquers a society blonde. Unfortunately, the indecisive fellow...
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1930
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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Yankel
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1929
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn had first become familiar with Montague Glass' "Potash and Perlmutter" series of stories when he was...
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1923
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1922
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1922
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Christine Trevor (Gladys Walton) is a spoiled young society girl who completely neglects her father and her brothers and...
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Director
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1921
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Two Dutchmen, kindhearted Jan Saxe (vaudevillian Lee Kohlmar in his motion picture debut) and ambitious Peter Harlingen...
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1920
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Elmo Lincoln, the screen's first Tarzan, plays both the hero and the villain's henchman in this serial released in 18...
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1920
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