Lewis StoneFilmography

Talk About a Stranger

Actors: George Murphy, Nancy Davis, Dennis Price, Lewis Stone, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is soon to give birth to a second child, on their northern California citrus farm. He's lonely on the farm and has been saving to buy a dog. One day, a mysterious stranger (Kurt Read More

Just This Once

Actors: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of squandering his entire fortune, the wastrelly Mark MacLene (Peter Lawford) is put on a strict allowance by an old family friend, Judge Samuel Coulter (Lewis Stone). To make Read More

Scaramouche

Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: This delightful adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling novel stars Stewart Granger as Andre Moreau, an 18th-century French nobleman who is publicly humiliated by the Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer). Challenged to a sword duel by the Marquis, Andre, who knows nothing about fencing, runs away Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel. Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Read More

Angels in the Outfield

Actors: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring. Paul Douglas stars as Guffy McGovern, the combative, foul-mouthed manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. With his team in the basement once more, McGovern has plenty to complain Read More

Night into Morning

Actors: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses himself in drink, despite the efforts of his friends and fellow faculty members. He is on the verge of suicide before he is salvaged the love of Nancy Davis (who off-screen was Read More

Bannerline

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who devises a heart-tugging promotional stunt. Upon learning that crusty old history teacher Hugo Trimble (Lionel Barrymore) is dying, Mike writes up a glowing tribute, ascribing Read More

The Unknown Man

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek (Keefe Brasselle) of a murder rap. When it's all over, however, Rudi lets slip a careless comment which leads Mason to believe that his client was guilty after all. Using the evidence at Read More

Key to the City

Actors: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco, Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young), the mayor of a small town in Maine, meets Steve Fisk (Clark Gable), the down-to-earth leader of a tiny northern California community. Read More

It's a Big Country

Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston Read More

Grounds for Marriage

Actors: Van Johnson, Kathryn Grayson, Paula Raymond, Barry Sullivan, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while Kathryn Grayson is an opera singer. They marry, but the pressures of their careers lead them to the divorce court. But they still love another, so any and all prospective Read More

Stars in My Crown

Actors: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a number of characters, it focuses on a preacher who moves into the city and helps solve the town's problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sun Comes Up

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman, Jr., Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help with her chores, she hires an orphan from the local home. At first she remains aloof towards the charming lad who quickly bonds with the collie dog, but as time passes she Read More

Any Number Can Play

Actors: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Frank Morgan, Mary Astor

Synopsis: In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King (Gable) runs a casino, but, in a business that thrives among the unscrupulous, Charlie takes pride in running an honest game and treating his customers with fairness and Read More

State of the Union

Actors: Florence Auer, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Irving Bacon, Art Baker, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: Frank Capra's only MGM film, State of the Union was adapted by Anthony Veiller and Myles Connolly from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Spencer Tracy plays an aircraft tycoon who is coerced into seeking the Republican Presidential nomination by predatory Read More

The Hoodlum Saint

Actors: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, James Gleason, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam involves collecting money on behalf of St. Dismas, bringing Powell in close contact with several men of the cloth. As the racket rolls on, Powell is touched by the sincerity of Read More

Three Wise Fools

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise Fools as an MGM production. Margaret O'Brien stars as Sheila O'Monhan, a wide-eyed Irish colleen who insists that she sees leprechauns (as, indeed, does the audience). She Read More

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Bonita Granville, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Lina Romay

Synopsis: For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. In true Art-Imitates-Life fashion, Rooney plays returning GI Andy Hardy, who arrives in his home town of Carvel to the open arms of his family: Father Judge Hardy (Lewis Read More

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be more interested in the pretty co-eds, especially the rambunctious Wilde twins. They cause poor Andy so much trouble that he begins plotting to drop out of school. Fortunately Read More

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Donna Reed, Fay Holden, William Lundigan, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes off when Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) tackles an unpleasant divorce case. Feeling that the root of the estranged couple's problem is the debilitating shyness of their daughter Read More

Andy Hardy's Double Life

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's Double Life. Just as he did at Carvel High School, Andy majors in "girls" at college, at one point finding himself engaged simultaneously to two different coeds. On a more Read More

Father's Son

Actors: John Litel, Frieda Inescort, Billy Dawson, Christian Rub, Bernice Pilot

Synopsis: Based loosely on a story by Booth Tarkington, the Warner Bros. B-picture Father's Son puts the talents of character actors John Litel and Frieda Inescourt to excellent use. The central character is Bill Emery (Billy Dawson), an obnoxious brat of a child whose misbehavior causes a rift between his Read More

The Bugle Sounds

Actors: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, George Bancroft, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the old-line martinet who resents the incursions of progress. In The Bugle Sounds, Beery opted for characterization #2, playing entrenched Cavalry sergeant Hap Doan. Accustomed to Read More

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Upon his graduation from high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) decides to seek his fortune in New York City without benefit of a college education, much to the consternation Read More

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Kathryn Grayson

Synopsis: Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary. When he fails his finals, he gets help from a kindly faculty member. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel

Synopsis: MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer vehicle in 1929. This time, Laraine Day is cast as Mary Dugan, a young stenographer who is falsely accused of murdering her philandering employer Edgar Wayne (Tom Conway). In Read More

Sporting Blood

Actors: Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, William Gargan, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Directed in 1940 by S. Sylva Simon, Sporting Blood stars Robert Young as racing stable owner Myles Vanders. Shortly after traveling back to his ramshackle family estate in Virginia, he stirs up a long-term family rivalry with Davis Lockwood (Lewis Stone), who runs a neighboring stable. Vanders Read More

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Judy Garland

Synopsis: The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the real-life wife of William Powell). It all comes about when Andy accompanies his dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) to New York. Plunging into the Manhattan social whirl, Andy is Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Actors: Ann Sothern, Walter Brennan, William Gargan, Marsha Hunt

Synopsis: This Damon Runyon yarn features William Gargan and Ann Sothern as Brooklynites Joe and Ethel Turp. The Turps are up in arms when their faithful old mailman (Walter Brennan) is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President Read More

Judge Hardy and Son

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of MGM's "Hardy Family" series, the kindly Judge (Lewis Stone) wrestles with two problems. He must rescue an elderly couple from eviction, and he must cope with his wife's (Fay Holden Read More

The Hardys Ride High

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs. The complacently middle-class family (middle class by Hollywood standards, that is!) inherits a large estate, compelling them to move in different social circles. Judge Read More

The Ice Follies of 1939

Actors: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone, Bess Ehrhardt

Synopsis: Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with his friend Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) breaks up when Larry weds Mary McKay (Joan Crawford). Mary is also a skater, and she teams up with Larry to perform, but their on-stage Read More

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of "Woody" Van Dyke. In this outing, teenaged Andy (Mickey Rooney) develops a crush on his high-school drama teacher Rose Meredith (Helen Gilbert). Andy's dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone Read More

Stolen Heaven

Actors: Gene Raymond, Olympe Bradna, Glenda Farrell, Porter Hall

Synopsis: Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd return to this fascination in his last production years with the disastrous Song of Norway and The Great Waltz). Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one Read More

The Chaser

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Nat Pendleton, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl Read More

Out West with the Hardys

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the Wide Open Spaces when a friend has legal difficulties over water rights. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) thinks he can pass as a westerner, which results in saddle sores for the Read More

Judge Hardy's Children

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Betty Ross Clarke

Synopsis: The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been appointed chairman of a special committee, and on occasion offers a subtly "liberal" political observation that the writers have slipped by MGM's ultra-conservative head man Louis B. Mayer Read More

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Synopsis: The third of MGM's Andy Hardy series (discounting the "pilot" film, A Family Affair) stars, as ever, Mickey Rooney as the teenaged protagonist. Andy finds himself in dutch with girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) when he agrees to escort his best friend's gal, Cynthia Potter (Lana Turner). Read More

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Actors: Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, Dennis O'Keefe, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart of gold who discovers that his estranged son Jeffrey Burton (Dennis O'Keefe) has become a prizefighter. In his attempts to get Jeffrey out of the ring and into law school Read More

You're Only Young Once

Actors: Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Frank Craven

Synopsis: The sequel to the first Andy Hardy picture, A Family Affair, this light comedy stars Mickey Rooney in the role that would bring him his greatest fame. Judge Hardy's role is no longer played by Lionel Barrymore, as in the original, but by Lewis Stone. Fay Holden is his loyal wife, and Cecilia Parker Read More

Yellow Jack

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Andy Devine, Henry Hull

Synopsis: The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the turn of the century, when yellow fever was the Number One killer in Latin America. Army doctors Lewis Stone, Charles Coburn and Stanley Ridges gather in Cuba to attempt to Read More

The Thirteenth Chair

Actors: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck

Synopsis: The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates the proceedings as Mme. La Grange, a phony mystic who is on hand when a man is killed during one of her seances. The killing takes place in the home of a provincial British Read More

The Outcast

Actors: Warren William, Karen Morley, Richard Carle, Jackie Moran

Synopsis: Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is acquitted of murder, but is discredited in the eyes of his community. Dr. Jones settles in another town under an assumed name, where he sets up practice and falls in love with Read More

The Man Who Cried Wolf

Actors: Tom Brown, Robert Gleckler, Forrester Harvey, Billy Wayne

Synopsis: An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been confessing to homicides he never committed. Naturally the cops think he is bonkers so that when he really does kill his victim, no one believes he did it. Unfortunately, his lies Read More

Suzy

Actors: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This lighthearted moment aside, Suzy, adapted from a novel by Herbert Gorman is a standard-issue love triangle, set against the tapestry of World War I. Harlow plays a London Read More

Don't Turn'em Loose

Actors: James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Louise Latimer, Betty Grable

Synopsis: In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is given the ultimate power to decide whether his son, a brutal criminal is to be paroled. The others do not know about the inmate's relationship to their colleague and the son Read More

Sworn Enemy

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Joseph Calleia, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working as a chauffeur. His job becomes significantly harder, however, when he finds himself entangled in the effort to catch the mobster who murdered his boss and harmed his Read More

Miracle in the Sand

Actors: Chester Morris, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly abandoned covered wagon. They look inside and discover a dying woman and her newborn. The outlaws end up risking everything, including their loot, to get the woman and child to Read More

The Unguarded Hour

Actors: Franchot Tone, Loretta Young, Roland Young, Lewis Stone, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his conviction, while his wife, Lady Helen (Loretta Young), sits furrow-browed on the sidelines. Helen had witnessed the murder and thus can prove that the condemned man (Dudley Read More

Small Town Girl

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine, James Stewart

Synopsis: One Horse Town is the TV title for MGM's 1936 version Small Town Girl (the new title was bestowed to avoid confusion with the 1953 remake). Robert Taylor plays an irresponsible playboy who is arrested in a backwater town for drunken driving. While intoxicated, Taylor proposes to local girl Janet Gaynor Read More

David Copperfield

Actors: W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer David O. Selznick's major "literary" films for that studio. While a great deal of editing and streamlining was necessary to distill Charles Dickens' massive novel into 133 minutes of screen Read More

Public Hero No. 1

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris, Joseph Calleia, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in any crime film. Public Hero No. 1 reflects this restriction. G-Man Chester Morris poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys Read More

Vanessa, Her Love Story

Actors: Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Otto Kruger, May Robson, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Adapted from the last of Hugh Walpole's "Herries Chronicles," Vanessa: Her Love Story is set in Victorian England. Vanessa (Helen Hayes) doesn't know it, but there's a strain of inherited insanity in the family of her husband Ellis (Otto Kruger). Disturbed by Ellis' bizarre behavior, poor Vanessa Read More

West Point of the Air

Actors: Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, James Gleason

Synopsis: Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like himself. Little Mike's excessive attraction to Dare (Rosalind Russell) strains his relationship with his father, but eventually he finds the right woman -- Skip (Maureen Read More

Woman Wanted

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama with occasional bursts of comedy relief. Wrongly convicted of murder, heroine Ann (Maureen O'Sullivan) escapes from the police when the car bearing her to prison is involved Read More

China Seas

Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex symbols Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Gable plays the captain of a tramp steamer chugging between Singapore and Hong Kong. Harlow is Gable's ex-main squeeze, a "woman of the Read More

Shipmates Forever

Actors: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ross Alexander, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the genteel pressures of Powell's girlfriend and nightclub partner Ruby Keeler, Powell dons Navy garb and becomes a hero. Busby Berkeley had nothing to do with this one; the Read More

You Can't Buy Everything

Actors: May Robson, Jean Parker, Mary Forbes, Reginald Mason

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman goes mad with grief after her lover dumps her. Many years pass and the woman remains embittered and vengeful against the cad. When she learns that he has become an officer at her local bank, she withdraws her fortune from it. She really goes over the edge when her son falls Read More

The Mystery of Mr. X

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Forbes, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery of Mr. X is given an additional visual boost by setting the story in 19th century London, allowing for a full array of the costumes and plush backgrounds of the era and Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: This fifth film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island boasts an all-star MGM cast, headed by Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. The screenplay, by John Lee Mahin, John Howard Lawson and Leonard Praskins, remains faithful to the Stevenson original...up Read More

The Girl from Missouri

Actors: Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: Originally titled Eadie was a Lady, this Jean Harlow vehicle was slated for release under the title Born to be Kissed, but the new Production Code vetoed this "suggestive" cognomen. After a brief and uncomfortable period as One Hundred Percent Pure, the film was finally shipped to theaters as The Read More

Looking Forward

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had worked at that shop for over 40 years. It was a family tradition to work at that shop. But now, his boss is selling the shop to a lower-priced rival, and the poor man and his Read More

Men Must Fight

Actors: Diana Wynyard, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Ruth Selwyn

Synopsis: A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made well before the real WWII) erupts. Up until then, her new husband, the Secretary of State, supported his wife's crusade, but with a war on, he becomes a strong supporter in Read More

The White Sister

Actors: Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Louise Closser Hale, May Robson

Synopsis: Based on the 1909 novel by F. Marion Crawford, The White Sister stars Helen Hayes as an aristocratic Italian girl who spurns the potential husband chosen by her father in favor of a handsome army lieutenant (Clark Gable). When her lover is reported killed in World War I, Hayes renounces the world Read More

Bureau of Missing Persons

Actors: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's manual than a police blotter. Newly transferred from robbery to missing persons, glib Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) is like the proverbial bull in a china shop at first, but Read More

Queen Christina

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elisabeth Young

Synopsis: If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most luxuriously romantic of her talkie features. The star is cast as 17th-century Swedish queen Christina, who feels that she can best function in a male-dominated world by adopting Read More

Letty Lynton

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Nils Asther, May Robson

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who tires all her means to escape the unwanted attentions of a would-be lover before resorting to murder. Joan Crawford stars as the title character whose travails begin during a Read More

Always Goodbye

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Cavanagh, John Garrick, Frederick Kerr

Synopsis: Always Goodbye was credited to two directors: Kenneth MacKenna told the actors where to move and when to speak, while William Cameron Menzies concerned himself with the overall production design. Elissa Landi plays Lila, who has been jilted by practically every man she has ever met. Middle-aged Read More

The Wet Parade

Actors: Dorothy Jordan, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn, Robert Young

Synopsis: Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families from very different backgrounds. The Tarletons reside in New York City, where the family patriarch (Walter Huston) repeatedly drowns himself in liquor and local bars. The Read More

Night Court

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page, Mary Carlisle

Synopsis: Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is eminently hissable as Judge Moffett, a corrupt jurist who has managed to buy off practically everyone in town, all the while maintaining a facade of respectability. When Read More

Grand Hotel

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo Read More

New Morals for Old

Actors: Robert Young, Margaret Perry, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the youth of America. Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Donald Cook and Margaret Perry are among the freethinking young folk whose attitudes clash with those of their elders (including Lewis Stone Read More

The Son-Daughter

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Helen Hayes, Warner Oland, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising has occurred and the rulers of the Ch'ing dynasty have been overthrown and a new president, Sun Yat-Sen, has risen to power. In order to aide the anti-royalist Read More

Unashamed

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan

Synopsis: Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect his sister Jean (Helen Twelvetrees). Unfortunately, Jean is in love with the sleazy Harry Swift (Monroe Owsley), who is only interested in her fortune. After Harry (Owsley) Read More

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Actors: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on Sax Rohmer's fiction about the personification of the "yellow peril." Sir Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British Secret Service recruits Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Read More

Red Headed Woman

Actors: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel

Synopsis: Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost ruined his own marriage. In a way he had a point , but only Jean Harlow could have made gold digger Lil Andrews a sympathetic protagonist. And Katherine Brush's racy novel Read More

Mata Hari

Actors: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: "So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to death. Morley's successor is exotic dancer Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), an enigmatic woman of Javanese-Dutch ancestry who seldom thinks twice about luring some poor swain to his Read More

Divorce in the Family

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Maurice Murphy

Synopsis: A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is permissive; his new father is quite strict. His real father wants him back, but ultimately, the boy opts to stay with the stepfather because he understands that the discipline is good Read More

The Bargain

Actors: Evelyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Doris Kenyon, John Darrow

Synopsis: Philip Barry's wistful comedy You and I was brought to the screen by its original stage director Robert Milton. All it lacked was its original title; First National Pictures felt that The Bargain was a more saleable cognomen. Lewis Stone stars as a successful soapmaker who'd wanted to be a painter Read More

Father's Son

Actors: Leon Janney, Irene Rich, John Halliday

Synopsis: Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Father's Son stars juvenile actor Leon Janney in the title role. Thanks to his predilection for stretching the truth, Billy Emory (Janney) manages to drive a wedge between his disciplinarian father William (Lewis Stone) and his sympathetic mother Ruth (Irene Rich Read More

Strictly Dishonorable

Actors: Paul Lukas, George Meeker, William Ricciardi

Synopsis: Preston Sturges' hit Broadway play Strictly Dishonorable was adapted for the movies in 1931 with virtually all its sexual innuendo intact. In New York City, a young American girl (Sidney Fox) tires of her abusive live-in boy friend. She falls for a roguish Italian singer (Paul Lukas) with a bad Read More

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Actors: Helen Hayes, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is it any wonder that she won an Academy Award? (She truly deserved this Oscar; the jury is still out concerning her cutesy supporting turn in 1969's Airport, which also Read More

Inspiration

Actors: Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Marjorie Rambeau, Judith Vosselli

Synopsis: Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle Inspiration. A modernized adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's Sappho, the film casts Garbo as Yvonne, a Parisian belle with "a history." When her past returns to haunt her, she Read More

My Past

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what transpires on screen is pretty racy for its time, with stage star Dora Macy (Bebe Daniels) enjoying the favors of wealthy bachelor John Thornley (Lewis Stone). When Dora falls Read More

The Secret Six

Actors: Wallace Beery, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer Richard Newton (Lewis Stone), try to muscle in on the territory of gangster "Smiling Joe" Colimo (John Miljan). Franks kills Colimo's brother and tries to frame Scorpio, but Read More

The Phantom of Paris

Actors: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her other boyfriend--the real killer. When her husband dies, the magician gets plastic surgery until he resembles the killer and assumes his former position as husband to the girl. Read More

The Office Wife

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Hobart Bosworth, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her real boyfriend to seduce her boss. When he discovers that his wife has begun fooling around with younger men he lets his secretary have her way. Fortunately, the boss's wife Read More

Romance

Actors: Greta Garbo, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent, Florence Lake

Synopsis: Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her. She admits that she had been the kept woman of an older man, and when she returns to her former lover (to tell of her new love), her visit is misinterpreted by the priest as Read More

Strictly Unconventional

Actors: Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrell Davis, Ernest Torrence

Synopsis: Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much older M.P. husband Clive (Lewis Stone), dreams of running off with her handsome Canadian lover Ted (Paul Cavanaugh). Hoping to vicariously experience her fantasy, Elizabeth Read More

The Big House

Actors: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery), driving drunk, kills a couple of pedestrians and is sentenced to a 10-year manslaughter term. His cellmate is forger Morgan (Chester Morris), a tough but essentially decent con; Read More

Passion Flower

Actors: Kay Francis, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Winter Hall

Synopsis: In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the one cousin, whose wealth came from marriage convinces the other, an heiress, to marry the family chauffeur. Years pass, and the first cousin ends up falling for the chauffeur Read More

Wild Orchids

Actors: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther

Synopsis: In this silent film, the beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther) while on a trip with her husband, John (Lewis Stone), and the two find themselves impossibly drawn to one another. However, when John begins to suspect his wife of infidelity Read More

Their Own Desire

Actors: Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Robert Montgomery, Helene Millard

Synopsis: Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically stilted if technically efficient star vehicle. Lewis Stone is married to frumpy Belle Bennett, whom he leaves for the more streamlined Helene Millard. Stone's daughter, Norma Read More

Madame X

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, John P. Edington, Ullrich Haupt, Sr.

Synopsis: Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut. Ruth Chatterton stars as a low-born wife of a socialite, whose aristocratic in-laws kick her out when she gives birth to a baby boy of dubious parentage. The boy, who has been led Read More

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Actors: Norma Shearer, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hackett, Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis: In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl is defended by her good friend. During the trial, the lawyer refrains from cross-examining the witnesses. This enrages the dancer's younger brother, who has just passed the Read More

Wonder of Women

Actors: Leila Hyams, Peggy Wood, George Fawcett, Harry Myers

Synopsis: Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder of Women. Adapted from a novel by Herman Suderman, the film stars Wood as Brigitte, the wife of brilliant concert pianist Stephen Tromolt (Lewis Stone). Unable to adapt to Read More

The Patriot

Actors: Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor, Neil Hamilton, Harry Cording

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch, well-known for his sophisticated romantic comedies, proved that he was equally adept at historical drama in this lavishly-mounted story. Count Pahlen (Lewis S. Stone) is a close and trusted friend of Paul I (Emil Jannings), a Russian Czar of the 18th century. Russia is in turmoil Read More

Foreign Legion

Actors: Norman Kerry, Lewis Stone, Crauford Kent, Walter Perry, June Marlowe

A Woman of Affairs

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Synopsis: Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could not be used when it was adapted to film. Retitled A Woman of Affairs, this tale of a woman destroyed by syphilis was heavily laundered for the screen. Greta Garbo plays an Read More

Freedom of the Press

Actors: Malcolm McGregor, Henry B. Walthall, Marceline Day, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly in films. In Freedom of the Press, Stone plays a thoroughly corrupt politician named Daniel Steele. Embarking upon a mayoral campaign, Steele sets about to destroy his Read More

Private Life of Helen of Troy

Actors: María Corda, Lewis Stone, Ricardo Cortez, George Fawcett, Alice White

Synopsis: Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly Read More

An Affair of the Follies

Actors: Billie Dove, Lloyd Hughes, Arthur Stone, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: This routine drama was spiced up by a good cast and solid directing. A clerk (Lloyd Hughes) loses his job, so his wife, Tamara (Billie Dove), goes back to work as a Follies girl. This causes a rift between the couple and they separate. The clerk goes out to dinner with a friend, an inventor Read More

The Notorious Lady

Actors: Barbara Bedford, Ann Rork, Earl Metcalfe, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: The Notorious Lady is Mary Marlowe (Barbara Bedford), for whose sake her husband Patrick (Lewis Stone) commits murder. Mary manages to save her husband from the gallows, but his reputation is destroyed, so he heads to the diamond mines of Africa to start life all over again. Months later, Mary Read More

Prince of Headwaiters

Actors: Lewis Stone, Priscilla Bonner, E.J. Ratcliffe, Lilyan Tashman, John Patrick

Synopsis: Based on a story which originally appeared in the pages of Liberty magazine, Prince of Headwaiters stars Lewis Stone as the title character. The maître d' at Paris' Ritz Hotel, Pierre (Stone) had once been married to a wealthy aristocrat, but their union was rent asunder at the command of Read More

Lonesome Ladies

Actors: Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, Jane Winton, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick (Lewis Stone). Convinced that her husband is playing the field with sexy widow Mrs. St. Clair (Jane Winton), Polly follows the advice of her block-headed girlfriends and accepts a Read More

Don Juan's Three Nights

Actors: Lewis Stone, Malcolm McGregor, Shirley Mason, Gertrude Astor, Kalla Pasha

Synopsis: Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em attitude with the ladies. While performing in Rome, he meets a likely conquest in the form of the beautiful Nanette (Shirley Mason), who idolizes the pianist. But when he Read More

Old Loves and New

Actors: Barbara Bedford, Walter Pidgeon, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to tend to the needs of the impoverished Arab natives. As Carew's humanity and selflessness gives him a new lease on life -- as well as a new nickname, "The White Man of the Read More

Blonde Saint

Actors: Lewis Stone, Doris Kenyon, Ann Rork, Gilbert Roland, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: A novel by Stephen French Whitman was the source for First National's The Blonde Saint. Lewis Stone stars as Sebastian Maure, a world-famous author and a notorious ladies' man. Well aware of Maure's reputation, heroine Anne Bellamy (Doris Kenyon) refuses to have anything to do with him -- but the Read More

Too Much Money

Actors: Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edward Elkas

Synopsis: The dignified Lewis Stone lets down his hair in a comedy role in the rollicking Too Much Money. Thanks to a series of financial reverses, wealthy Robert and Annabel Broadley (Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nillson) finds themselves flat broke. They take jobs as dishwashers in a delicatessen, where another Read More

Midnight Lovers

Actors: Chester Conklin, John Roche, Gale Henry, Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson

Synopsis: Based on the stage play Collusion, Midnight Lovers stars Anna Q. Nilsson as the young wife of WWI flying ace Lewis Stone. After an exquisite honeymoon, Stone is called off to the battlefield. Nilsson returns home, where she is confronted with evidence of her new husband's infidelity. Unwilling to Read More

Girl from Montmartre

Actors: Barbara La Marr, Lewis Stone, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: The tragic Barbara LaMarr made her final film appearance in The Girl From Montmartre. LaMarr is cast as Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia, who finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix (Lewis Stone), who catches her act while on furlough during WWI. Read More

Cheaper to Marry

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Paulette Duval, Marguerite de la Motte, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris (Marguerite de la Motte). Jim Knight (Lewis Stone) disapproves of the marriage -- he points out to Tyler that a wife interferes with business. When Dick and Doris attend a dinner Read More

Talker

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis Stone, Shirley Mason, Ian Keith, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches. Kate Lennox (Anna Q. Nilsson) is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry (Lewis S. Stone). Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells (Tully Marshall) and Read More

Confessions of a Queen

Actors: Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, John Bowers, Eugénie Besserer, Helena D'Algy

Synopsis: Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of Illyris (Lewis Stone) weds the princess from a neighboring mythical kingdom, making her his Queen (Alice Terry). She is disgusted to discover that he has a mistress, Sephora (Helena D'Algy Read More

The Lost World

Actors: Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and special effects that were incredibly innovative in 1924 and 1925, who cared? These effects were the whole film, and Wallace Beery's inspired performance was a bonus. The tale Read More

Lady Who Lied

Actors: Lewis Stone, Virginia Valli, Nita Naldi, Edward Earle, Leo White

Synopsis: During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former Read More

Fine Clothes

Actors: Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens, Raymond Griffith, Eileen Percy

Synopsis: Fashions for Men was a satirical play by Franz Molnar. In the hands of film company First National, it became a sincere, unsophisticated drama. Kindly Peter Hungerford (Percy Marmont) is a London clothes merchant who has saved up 500 dollars to stave off impending bankruptcy. His plans are ruined Read More

What Fools Men

Actors: Shirley Mason, Barbara Bedford, Ethel Grey Terry, Hugh Allan

Synopsis: This drama was based on the novel Joseph Greer and His Daughter by Henry Kitchell Webster. Inventor Joseph Greer (Lewis Stone) has been separated from his wife for many years, and suddenly discovers he must look after Beatrice (Shirley Mason), his grown daughter who he didn't even know existed. Read More

The Stranger

Actors: Betty Compson, Richard Dix, Tully Marshall, Robert Schable

Synopsis: Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times (Betty Compson). She finds romance with Larry Darrant (Richard Dix), and her life begins to improve. They make plans to wed and leave England, but when a Read More

Husbands and Lovers

Actors: Florence Vidor, Dale Fuller, Winter Hall

Synopsis: When Lewis Stone (the future Judge Hardy) is the leading man, Florence Vidor co-stars as his wife, and Lew Cody portrays the other man, you've obviously got a quality silent feature. James Livingston (Stone) has been married to Grace (Vidor) long enough to take her for granted. Grace, on her end Read More

Why Men Leave Home

Actors: Helene Chadwick

Synopsis: This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It features Lewis Stone and Helene Chadwick as a newlywed couple, John and Irene Emerson. At the beginning John is totally devoted to his wife, but by the time their first-year Read More

Inez from Hollywood

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Astor, Rose Dione

Synopsis: Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent (Harry Depp), and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Read More

Cytherea

Actors: Alma Rubens, Norman Kerry, Irene Rich, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than it really was. Based on a novel by Joseph Hergesheimer, the film stars Lewis Stone as a socialite who grows bored with his lifestyle and his loving family. Stone runs off Read More

World's Applause

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Kathlyn Williams, Adolphe Menjou, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly dramatic feature. Actress Corinne d'Alys (Bebe Daniels) is thrilled by her newfound success and aches for more publicity and fame. Although she is loved by her manager, John Read More

Scaramouche

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham, Julia Swayne Gordon, William Humphrey

Synopsis: This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later inspired such renowned genre favorites as Captain Blood (1935) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Andre Moreau (Roman Novarro) is a law student during the time of the brewing French Read More

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Lewis Stone, Pauline Garon, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: After a promising start (not to mention a really good cast), this stylish society drama gets bogged down in overwrought melodrama. Powerful Wall Street financier Garth McBride (Lewis Stone) ruins his rival after a tough battle. To celebrate, he goes to Florida with his wife, Edith (Leatrice Joy) Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Barbara La Marr

Synopsis: This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the royal family of Ruritania who is about to be crowned King. However, his conniving and ill-tempered brother has designs on the throne, and he drugs his sibling shortly before Read More

Rosary

Actors: Lewis Stone, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, Robert Gordon, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed version offered a fine cast and several deviations from the original plot which only enhanced its dramatic value. Spendthrft Kenward Wright (Wallace Beery, always a good Read More

A Fool There Was

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Lewis Stone, Irene Rich, Muriel Frances Dana, Marjorie Daw

Synopsis: With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder why the Fox studios decided to go ahead with the remake of this steamy melodrama which shot Theda Bara to stardom in 1915. But they revamped it (so to speak) and toned down Read More

Trifling Women

Actors: Pomeroy Cannon, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: Both Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr had just appeared in Prisoner of Zenda and their careers were on the ascendant when director Rex Ingram used them once again for this remake of his 1917 picture Black Orchids. However, Lewis Stone -- also a Prisoner of Zenda alumnus -- almost steals the show. Read More

The Dangerous Age

Actors: Cleo Madison, Edith Roberts, Ruth Clifford, James Morrison

Synopsis: Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo Madison) treats her husband, John (Stone), more like a son than a spouse, so it's no wonder that a fresh young thing by the name of Gloria Sanderson (Ruth Clifford) catches Read More

Pilgrims of the Night

Actors: Lewis Stone, Rubye DeRemer, William V. Mong, Kathleen Kirkham, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Director Edward H. Sloman had only himself to blame for this melodramatic misfire: he also wrote the script. A now forgotten actress, Rubye de Remer, starred as Christine, a Parisian demi-monde involved with a gang of criminals headed by Marcel (Frank Leigh), who she mistakenly believes to be her Read More

Concert

Actors: Lewis Stone, Myrtle Steadman, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Julienne Scott, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a famed pianist. He is also no great catch, although his wife Mary (Mary Stedman) knows how to handle him. Nevertheless, women are fascinated by Martinot, primarily because of Read More

Golden Snare

Actors: Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Melbourne MacDowell, Ruth Renick, Wellington Playter

Synopsis: Even in 1921, tales of the Northwest Mounted Police had already been done countless times before, so this drama -- based on a story by the dependable James Oliver Curwood -- was nothing new or special. Sergeant Philip Rainey (Lewis S. Stone) is out to get his man -- in this case, Bram Johnson (an Read More

Child Thou Gavest Me

Synopsis: This awkwardly titled drama makes for an interesting look into the morals of the first part of the 20th century. On her wedding day, Norma Huntley (Barbara Castleton) wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be (Lewis Stone), her secret -- that she mothered a child out of wedlock which Read More

Don't Neglect Your Wife

Actors: Mabel Julienne Scott, Lewis Stone, Charles Clary, Kate Lester

Synopsis: Author Gertrude Atherton wrote this story especially for the screen; it is supposedly based on a true story that happened in San Francisco's society circles. Langdon Masters, a newspaper editor and writer (Lewis S. Stone), falls in love with Madeline (Mabel Julienne Scott), the neglected wife of Read More

Beau Revel

Actors: Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Kathleen Kirkham, Richard Ryan

Synopsis: Louis Joseph Vance, creator of the fictional detective hero The Lone Wolf, wrote the story upon which Beau Revel was based. The film was no whodunnit, but instead a romantic triangle, given additional dramatic impact by pitting a father against a son. Lewis Stone plays Lawrence "Beau" Revel, an Read More

River's End

Synopsis: For the first film under his independent contract with First National, director Marshall Neilan strayed from his usual homey light comedies (like the ones he did with Mary Pickford) and went in for melodrama. He played it safe, however, by basing the scenario on a book by popular author James Oliver Curwood Read More

Milestones

Synopsis: This picture, based on the play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, begins in 1862 England with John Rhead (Lewis Stone), an engineer who wants to build newfangled iron ships. Because of his progressive ideas, his partners force him out of the company, but he still manages to marry one of their Read More

Nomads of the North

Synopsis: Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is responsible for every Mountie cliché that was committed to cinema. Case in point is this picture: Raoul Challoner (Lon Chaney in a rare romantic role) is in love with Nanette Read More

Held by the Enemy

Synopsis: William Gilette's romantic Civil War melodrama is capably brought from stage to screen here. When Southerner Rachel Hayne (Agnes Ayres) is informed that her husband, Captain Gordon Hayne (Lewis Stone), has been killed, she mourns only briefly. She never was really in love with him, and when her Read More

Man's Desire

Synopsis: Lewis Stone (yes, the future Judge Hardy) both wrote and starred in this Northwest lumber drama. Tom Denton (Stone) comes from the East to oversee a lumber camp. The men are prohibited from drinking, so when Denton finds Slim Dorgan (Bill Dyer) handing out liquor, he is summarily fired. Dorgan Read More

Inside the Lines

Synopsis: This was one of an endless parade of pictures shot during World War I which used its intrigues as a backdrop. English Army Captain C.J. Woodhouse (Lewis Stone) has to track down a German spy and halt a plan which involves the Germans blowing up both the rock of Gibraltar and a group of British Read More

Man of Bronze

Synopsis: Several years before assuming the role of gentle patriarch Judge Hardy in MGM's Andy Hardy series, Lewis Stone was a virile, no-nonsense leading man. Man of Bronze is set in Arizona, where leather-skinned cattleman John Adams (Stone) pays court to the lovely Mary Lawton (Marguerite Clayton). When Read More

Havoc

Synopsis: Successful railroad executive Craig (Lewis Stone) shares a stenographer, Kate (Gladys Hanson) with the not-so-successful Hessert (Bryant Washburn). The two men are in love with the girl, but Craig marries her, while Hessert comes to live with them. This is a recipe for disaster, and the inevitable Read More

Honor's Altar

Synopsis: C. Gardner Sullivan's screenplay for the Ince production Honor's Altar borrowed liberally from several then-popular Broadway domestic dramas. Upon achieving great wealth in his middle years, Frederick Mallery decides that he has outgrown his faithful wife and begins playing around with a younger Read More

According to the Code

Synopsis: Before he became a dignified general-purpose actor, Captain E. H. Calvert was a busy silent film director. Made in 1916, Calvert's According to the Code was set during the Civil War, which had proven to be good "box office fare" the year previous by Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Lewis Stone plays Read More

Bargain

Synopsis: William S. Hart's third film and his first multi-reel western, The Bargain tells a familiar Hart tale of a good-bad man redeemed by the love of a woman -- in this case the sturdy-looking Clara Williams. When stage robber "Two-Gun" Jim Stokes (Hart) is wounded during a heist, he finds a willing Read More