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Perry Mason: The Case of the Watery Witness

Synopsis: In her second Perry Mason appearance, onetime King Kong leading lady Fay Wrayis cast as fading movie star Lorna Thomas. Years earlier, Lorna had given up a daughter for adoption; now, one George Clark (John Bryant) appears, insisting that his wife Betty (Dusty Anders) is Lorna's long-long daughter Read More

1959
Big Town

Actors: Lester Vail, Frances Dade

Synopsis: Big Town was slapped together by Invincible Pictures, a low-budget concern that shared studio space (and production personnel) with the equally parsimonious Chesterfield Pictures. Lester Vail stars as a crusading newspaper editor who tries to get to the bottom of a series of murders. It turns out Read More

1932
Murder by the Clock

Actors: William "Stage" Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Irving Pichel, Regis Toomey, Sally O'Neil

Synopsis: An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici) of a wealthy family is haunted by the notion that she'll be buried alive. To avoid this contingency, she has a horn installed in the family mausoleum, to be activated in case Read More

1931
Consolation Marriage

Actors: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Matt Moore, Lester Vail

Synopsis: Consolation Marriage (British title: Marriage in Haste) stars Irene Dunne and Pat O'Brien. When hero and heroine are jilted by their respective sweethearts Lester Vail and Myrna Loy, they marry each other on the rebound. Having already been burned around the heart, Dunne and O'Brien agree that Read More

1931
The Woman Between

Actors: Lili Damita, O.P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise

Synopsis: Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like heroine in RKO Radio's The Woman Between. Damita plays a knockout French modiste who marries the much-older widower O.P. Heggie. She immediately incurs the wrath of Heggie's grown Read More

1931
It's a Wise Child

Actors: Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran, Lester Vail

Synopsis: In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically begin searching for the father. The search is narrowed down to three possibilities: her ex-fiancee, her current one, or her legal guardian. Meanwhile, a drunken son marries Read More

1931
Dance Fools Dance

Actors: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden

Synopsis: Joan Crawford and William Bakewell play the spoiled-rotten grown children of stockbroker William Holden. When Wall Street lays its famous egg in 1929, Crawford and Bakewell find that they can no longer pursue their flamboyant lifestyle (for example, they'll have to put a moratorium on the sort of Read More

1931
Beau Ideal

Actors: Frank McCormack, Ralph Forbes, Otto Matieson, Don Alvarado

Synopsis: Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier film's star Ralph Forbes and director Herbert Brenon for 1931's Beau Ideal, again adapted from a Wren novel. Something of a sequel to Beau Geste, the story concerns the Read More

1931
I Take This Woman

Actors: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Lester Vail, Charles Trowbridge

Synopsis: Based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart novel, I Take This Woman stars Carole Lombard as the spoiled daughter of a wealthy rancher. Lombard impulsively marries cowhand Gary Cooper, a poverty-stricken employee of her father. Cooper insists that they live on his income in a tiny shack; Lombard gives this Read More

1931

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Lester VailFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Watery Witness

Big Town

Murder by the Clock

Consolation Marriage

The Woman Between

It's a Wise Child

Dance Fools Dance

Beau Ideal

I Take This Woman

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