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Actors: Helen Morgan, Chester Morris, Florence Reed, Walter Kingsford, William Harrigan
Synopsis: This low-budget musical drama is based on the famous song and tells the story of Frankie, a cat-house singer (famed singer Helen Morgan), and the naive country boy Johnny who comes to St. Louis to seek his fortune. They fall in love and marry. Unfortunately, the country boy learns fast and soon Read More
Actors: Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody, Matty Kemp, Paul Gregory
Synopsis: Once-prominent silent-film director Herbert Brenon attempted a talkie comeback with the low-budget Wine, Women and Song. Adapted by Leon D'Usseau from his own stage play, the film stars Lilyan Tashman as aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Synopsis: A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip Tide is a standard-issue Norma Shearer soap opera. Shearer plays Mary, a footloose and fancy-free American heiress who weds British nobleman Lord Rexford (Herbert Marshall). Read More
Actors: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Judith Allen, Harry Green
Synopsis: There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays Eddie Bronson, a big-time singing star stranded in a one-horse town. Refusing to let any grass grow under his feet, Eddie combs through the local talent, discovering Read More
Actors: Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Lilyan Tashman, George Barbier, Morgan Wallace
Synopsis: The felicitous screen team of Mary Boland and Charles Ruggles once more collaborated with director Norman Z. McLeod for the delightful Mama Loves Papa. Middle-class Wilbur Todd (Ruggles) is content with his lot in life, but his wife Jessie (Boland) is an inveterate social climber. Convinced that Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Lilyan Tashman, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Ross Alexander
Synopsis: Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David Rolfe (Melvyn Douglas), has been framed for murder. To save Rolfe from the chair, Margaret poses as a trollop and insinuates herself into the confidence of the criminal Read More
Actors: Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Tommy Conlon
Synopsis: A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play by S.K. Lauren and George Abbott. Mary Astor stars as May, the doggedly devoted wife of struggling writer Fred (Kenneth McKenna). When Fred strays from his wedding vows to Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nancy Carroll, Earl Foxe, Lilyan Tashman, Sheila Terry
Synopsis: The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid, escapes from his homeland to Constantinople where the two marry and begin a new life as commoners. But though it seemed a good idea at the time, the aristocrat has trouble Read More
Actors: Evelyn Laye, John Boles, Leon Errol, Lilyan Tashman, Hugh Cameron
Synopsis: Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard romance that proved a disaster at the operetta-weary box office. Laye plays Lilli, a demure flower girl at a Budapest theater who worships the show's star, the temperamental and Read More
Actors: Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Marceline Day
Synopsis: This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The story focuses on nine Red Cross nurses, each from a different social background, who converge on No Man's Land to tend to the wounded and dying. Though their wartime Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Alan Dinehart
Synopsis: Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention circuit, providing companionship and other favors for tired business men--who of course lavish the girls with expensive gifts. Francis spoils this little set-up by falling Read More
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
Actors: Leon Errol, Mitzi Green, ZaSu Pitts, Jackie Searl, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her nephew on a sea cruise to Paris. En route, the girl treats the boy abominably. First she pushes him over the boat, then she stuffs him down an airshaft. Later she sticks his Read More
Actors: Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman, Norman Foster
Synopsis: In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his book. Meanwhile, his wife helps out by becoming a chorus girl in a nightclub revue. Instead of enjoying the peace and quiet of home life, the poor writer finds himself Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, Joan Blondell, John Halliday
Synopsis: Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title role, a small-town girl marrying a New York City businessman (James Hall). The union produces a daughter, but ends when Millie catches her husband with a mistress (Marie Read More
Actors: Lilyan Tashman, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Peggy Shannon, William "Stage" Boyd, Irving Pichel
Synopsis: In this drama, a twice married woman tries one more time with number three. Unfortunately, her wedding is suddenly halted when the woman's irate son kills the groom during the ceremony, and then shoots himself. This causes the woman's daughter who heretofore had been following in her misguided Read More
Actors: Frank Fay, Lilyan Tashman, James Gleason, Florence Eldridge
Synopsis: Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The Matrimonial Bed, Fay is his usual overbearing self as Adolphe, a small-town husband who is rendered an amnesiac in a train crash. Five years pass, during which time Adolphe Read More
Actors: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle
Synopsis: The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub superstar Harry Richman) begins his career with nothing but his ambition, his talent and the support of friends and loved ones. Eventually he hits the big time and becomes a Read More
Actors: Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ned Sparks, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: In this musical, adapted from the earlier Musical Present Arms, a Marine private falls in love with a socialite and is willing to do anything to win her affections--even if it means stealing his captain's uniform and posing as an officer. When that doesn't work, he tries faking a shipwreck that Read More
Actors: Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: In this faithful adaptation of the popular 1925 Broadway hit musical, a Bible salesman helps three women with their troubles and finds himself in deep when all three show up at his Atlantic City cottage simultaneously. Songs include: "Dance of the Wooden Shoes," "As Long as I'm With You," "King of Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Jean Hersholt
Synopsis: The Cat Creeps is the first of three talkie versions of John Willard's durable stage melodrama The Cat and the Canary (filmed under its original title in 1927). Twenty years after the death of misanthropic millionaire Cyrus West, the old man's heirs are summoned to the spooky ancestral mansion for Read More
Actors: Victor McLaglen, William Harrigan, Lilyan Tashman, Arthur Stone
Synopsis: In this drama, a macho ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a Read More
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
Actors: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray, Lilyan Tashman, Mary Doran
Synopsis: Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking diction lessons before shooting commenced on New York Nights. The results were negligible: though she managed to keep her thick Brooklyn accent in check, Talmadge was 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: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Joan Bennett, Lilyan Tashman, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Synopsis: Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for hire. This gets him mixed up with lovely Joan Bennett, whose wealthy father is being held against his will in a gloomy sanitarium. Armed with little more than bravado Read More
Actors: Sally O'Neil, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Sinclair, Donald Reed
Synopsis: Chorus girl Sally O'Neil (Teena Johnson) may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard (Donald Reed) tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle even after he is disinherited and forced to go to work (oh, the Read More
Actors: Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923, Avery Hopwood's 1920 comedy The Gold Diggers was resurrected in 1929 as the Technicolor musical Gold Diggers of Broadway. Nancy Welford, Winnie Lightner and Ann Pennington stars as Jerry, Mable and Ann, three chorus girls who try to entice a wealthy backer to put his Read More
Actors: Bert Lytell, Gertrude Olmstead, Charles Gerrard, Lilyan Tashman, Donald Keith
Synopsis: The Lone Wolf, the gentleman thief created by Louis Joseph Vance, made his talking-picture debut in Columbia's The Lone Wolf's Daughter (the film was essentially silent, save for an opening dialogue sequence). Bert Lytell, who'd essayed the title role so often during the silent era, again appears Read More
Actors: Alice Day, Matt Moore, Edmund Burns, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Alice Day stars as Phyllis of the Follies in this standard backstage yarn. As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter (Lilyan Tashman), Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband (Matt Moore). The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson Read More
Actors: Colleen Moore, Edmund Lowe, Lilyan Tashman, Edythe Chapman, Charles Sellon
Actors: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye, Ethel Wales
Synopsis: George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these was filmed in 1928, with Cecil B. DeMille's talented brother William in the director's chair. Irene Rich stars as Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and Read More
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Doris Hill, Joe E. Brown
Synopsis: Broadway chorus girl Peggy Lane (Bebe Daniels) is in love with stage-door-johnnie David North (Neil Hamilton). Vampish Derelys Devore (Lilyan Tashman), the obnoxious star of the show in which Peggy is appearing, tries to come between the adoring couple. When all else fails, Peggy is forced to put Read More
Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Danny O'Shea, Paul Lukas, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with her campus chums Fred (Richard Arlen) and Bob (Danny O'Shea), likewise aspiring thespians, Babes heads to Broadway with stars in her eyes. The winsome threesome are quickly Read More
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
Actors: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Lilyan Tashman, Maurice Costello, Harvey Clark
Synopsis: This was the most popular of the many silent adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' famous story of a courtesan who finds true love too late. In this version, a man who has been suffering from a bout of depression buys a painting of a beautiful women and discovers that her diary is included in the deal. Read More
Actors: Irene Rich, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, William Demarest, Otis Harlan
Synopsis: The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry (William Demarest). While in Paris, Henry begins squiring the coquettish Suzanne (Lilyan Tashman), who throws him over in Read More
Actors: Will Rogers, Louise Fazenda, Sam Hardy, Ann Rork, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Synopsis: Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the independently produced A Texas Steer. Rogers also wrote the screenplay of this "topical comedy," in which he plays Texas rancher Maverick Brander, who is maneuvered into politics Read More
Actors: Billie Dove, Lilyan Tashman, Armand Kaliz, Frank Beal
Synopsis: The "stolen bride" of the title is Sari (Billie Dove), a Hungarian countess. During WWI, Sari falls in love with Franz Pless (Lloyd Hughes), an American-educated soldier in the Hapsburg army. Unable to marry Sari because of the differences in their "stations in life," Franz is forced to kidnap the Read More
Actors: H.B. Warner, Clive Brook, Lois Wilson, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French Dressing. Warner plays a husband who is wrongly suspected of infidelity by his young wife Lois Wilson. She runs off to Paris, determined to avenge herself on her Read More
Actors: Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi, Paul Panzer
Synopsis: One of a cycle of late-1920s films dealing with the Russian Revolution, Siberia stars Alma Rubens as idealistic Russian schoolteacher Sonia Vronsky. Enraptured by the communist cause, Sonia runs afoul of the Czarist authorities and is shipped off to Siberia. Here she is protected from harm by her Read More
Actors: Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Lilyan Tashman, Sam de Grasse, Douglas Gilmore
Synopsis: Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor Glyn. This is the story of Jewish maiden Vanessa Levy (Pauline Starke), the daughter of a somewhat disreputable moneylender (Sam De Grasse). Deeply in debt to Vanessa's 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: Monte Blue, Lilyan Tashman, André Beranger, Myrna Loy
Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch's So This is Paris stars Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller as a doctor and his wife. The couple is as faithful as the day is long--but when a dance team comprised of Lilyan Tashman and Andre Beranger make the scene, the days grow mighty short. Blue, Miller, Tashman and Berander spend Read More
Actors: H.B. Warner, Lillian Rich, John Bowers, Lilyan Tashman, Will R. Walling
Synopsis: Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular railroad detective Whispering Smith. The detective had earlier been played by J.P. McGowan in a 1916 serial version starring McGowan's wife Helen Holmes which was itself remade Read More
Actors: Leatrice Joy, Clive Brook, Lilyan Tashman, Casson Ferguson
Synopsis: Though For Alimony Only was technically a Cecil B. DeMille production, it was directed by DeMille's less-flamboyant brother William C. DeMille. Mercenary Narcella (Lilyan Tashman) schemes to land a wealthy husband, fully intending to divorce the poor sap and reap the benefits of a handsome alimony Read More
Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Edward M. Kimball, Lilyan Tashman, Hayden Stevenson
Synopsis: Reginald Denny is Alec Dupree, a young but serious college professor who is hard at work on a book. He is interrupted by a colleague who needs someone to show wealthy widow Agnes Clevenger (Cissy Fitzgerald) the town. The idea is to encourage Agnes to donate money to the college. Alec agrees, but Read More
Actors: Charles Ray, Pauline Starke, Lilyan Tashman, Lawford Davidson, Ned Sparks
Synopsis: Charles Ray's career had been declining for some time when he made this comedy-drama. Unfortunately, this attempt to return to the characterization that brought him fame -- that of an unsophisticated country boy -- didn't win him back the fans he had lost. Actress Pansi Delaney (Pauline Starke) is Read More
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Hazel Keener, William Conklin, Bobby Mack
Synopsis: Edmund Lowe, who at the time was known for his urbane characterizations, seemed a bit miscast as a South Seas derelict in this Fox melodrama. The film wasn't helped either by the fact that the studio had released the very similar (and much better) Man Who Came Back a few months earlier. Lowe is Read More
Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall
Synopsis: This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie (ZaSu Pitts) is the Follies comedienne, and she envies all the other girls in the show -- the pretty ladies with their sweethearts. She knows she's only there for the Read More
Actors: Owen Moore, Madge Bellamy, Lilyan Tashman, Mary Carr, Bryant Washburn
Synopsis: When Arthur Randall (Owen Moore) becomes a success, his ex-wife, Laura (Lilyan Tashman), decides she wants him back. She hates Joan Laird (Madge Bellamy), whom she believes is a parasite. When Randall's son, Bertie (Bruce Guerin), becomes ill, he invites Joan and her mother (eternal screen mother Mary Carr Read More
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite de la Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Lilyan Tashman, Forrest Stanley
Synopsis: Mary Hale (Marguerite de la Motte) hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent (Lionel Barrymore) comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth (Forrest Stanley), Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until Read More
Actors: Lillian Rich, Creighton Hale, Lilyan Tashman, Mabel Julienne Scott, William Austin
Synopsis: Mary Roberts Rinehart's story When a Man Marries was made into a successful play, Tumble In, by Avery Hopwood. Biograph filmed a poor version of it as Seven Days, but, in 1925, producer Al Christie -- an expert when it came to comedy -- remade it as this amusing feature. The only downside is that Read More
Actors: Corinne Griffith, Lloyd Hughes, Clive Brook, Rockliffe Fellowes, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Corinne Griffith is Lady Helen Haden, who is unhappily married to the brutish Sir Bruce Haden (Rockliffe Fellowes). Lady Helen finds true love with Ned Thayer (Lloyd Hughes), the American brother-in-law of her friend, Mrs. Leslie (Lilyan Tashman). Because of her marriage, she writes him a letter Read More
Actors: Buck Jones, Peggy Shaw, Edward Hearn, Lilyan Tashman, William Norton Bailey
Synopsis: Although cowboy star Buck Jones plays a prizefighter in this drama, he's only getting in the ring to pay for a ranch -- which gives it just enough Western atmosphere to satisfy Jones' regular fans. Perry Blair (Jones) starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down Read More
Actors: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Frank Morgan, Lilyan Tashman, Ian Keith, Paul McAllister
Synopsis: Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening Post story by Arthur Stringer. Tessie McGuire (Gloria Swanson) is a department store clerk. When her sweetheart, auto mechanic Johnny Hogan (Tom Moore) goes to Detroit with a Read More
Actors: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Helene Chadwick, John Patrick, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Eve Quinn (Marie Prevost) is the classic, flirty, 1920s flapper. She easily outshines her quieter, more reserved half-sister, Cornelia (Helene Chadwick). So even though Cornelia loves Lewis Dike (Monte Blue), Eve is the one who wins him. Dike's love is not enough for Eve -- almost immediately Read More
Actors: Alma Rubens, Frank Mayo, H.B. Warner, Walter McGrail, Lilyan Tashman
Synopsis: Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the more restrained, but far wealthier Jordan Southwick (H.B. Warner). Because her family is having financial difficulties, Mrs. Carter (Marie Shaffer) encourages her daughter to choose Southwick. After Read More
Actors: Claire Windsor, Betsy Ann Hisle, Edmund Lowe, Mae Busch, Raymond Griffith
Synopsis: This famous old stage melodrama by Owen Davis is directed with a lot of spirit by Emmett J. Flynn and features a first rate cast. The overworked Robert Horton (Hobart Bosworth) convinces his friend Thomas Lipton (also played by Bosworth) to take his place for a year. Mrs. Horton (Dorothy Cummings) Read More
Actors: Richard Barthelmess, John Miltern, Marjorie Daw, Betty Carpenter
Synopsis: In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it made loads of money. When it was finally made into a film, it became even more preachy and self-important. Youth (Richard Barthelmess) meets Ambition (E.J. Ratcliffe) and Read More
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