Lloyd CorriganFilmography

Bonanza: A Good Night's Rest

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jean Willes

Synopsis: Poor Ben Cartwright is unable to get any peace and quiet on the Ponderosa, thanks to his uncommonly noisy offspring and their friends. In desperate need of a few hours' sleep, he checks into the Virginia City hotel. Not unexpectedly, comic chaos ensues, much of it caused by a bickering husband and Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Choirmaster

Actors: Lloyd Corrigan, Ted Eccles, Theodore Miller, Michael F. Blake, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Jimmy Garrett makes his final series appearance as Jerry Carmichael in this episode. Hoping to get her son Jerry to come to California for Christmas at the least possible cost, Lucy arranges for Jerry's entire military-academy class to sing carols at Mr. Mooney's bank. Carried away by the Yuletide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Careless Kitten

Synopsis: Franklin Shore is supposed to have died ten years ago, but his widow Matilda (Louise Latham) stubbornly refuses to probate Franklin's will, presumably convinced that the man is still alive. It could be that Matilda is right: her niece Helen (Julie Sommars) receives quite a shock late one night Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Great Bank Robbery

Actors: John Williams, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) rent their spare room to Gordon Bentley (John Williams) and Carter Harrison (Lloyd Corrigan) two well-spoken gentlemen who claim that they're in town to attend the New York World's Fair. In fact, Bentley and Harrison are a pair of bank robbers who are Read More

Bonanza: The Pure Truth

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Suffering from a advanced case of "spring fever," Hoss Cartwright is nonetheless assigned to pick up a prisoner in the town of Rimrock. Alas, Hoss arrives in the wrong town, where he ends up being jailed as a bank robber. Escaping, he finds shelter in the shack of local recluse Loulabelle (Glenda Read More

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Decadent Dean

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) visits the campus of Manzana Valley Prep School to confer with his client, Dean Aaron Stuart (Milton Selzer). Someone is working very hard to destroy Dr. Stuart's reputation, and that someone turns out to be assistant dean Tobin Wade (H.M. Wynant)--whose own reputation has Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War Read More

Maverick: The Maverick Report

Synopsis: Entering into a poker game with a fellow named Jonesy (George Neise), Maverick ends up winning big--and as a result becomes the new owner of a frontier newspaper. But his victory turns hollow when Bart discovers that the paper is being sued for libel by a powerful senator (Lloyd Corrigan). Peter Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna

Actors: Del Moore, Lloyd Corrigan, Chuck Roberson, Hubie Kerns Sr.

Synopsis: When their TV antenna is blown off their roof in a storm, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) decide to get another one installed. This, alas, requires a lot of money, and the coffers are far from full in the Carmichael-Bagley household. At this point, Lucy gets another of her bright ideas Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Dodging Domino

Synopsis: Producer Alex Chase (Jeff Morrow) hopes to persuade Broadway star Mona White (played by a young Ellen Burstyn, then billed as Ellen McRae) to headline his new musical by allowing her to preview the score. Instead, Mona angrily accuses Alex of stealing the music from her composer husband Damion Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: One, Two, Three

Synopsis: Astrologer Samuel H. Keel (Richard Boone) has predicted that someone named Seth Carter is destined to win a $500,000 lottery. In hopes of locating the elusive Carter, Keel hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help in his search. Unfortunately, the first three people presumed to be linked to Carter are Read More

Ford Star Jubilee: High Tor

Synopsis: Originally telecast in 1956 as a presentation of the CBS anthology Ford Star Jubilee, "High Tor" was a musical adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1937 stage play, with lyrics by Anderson and music by veteran Broadway and Hollywood tunesmith Arthur Schwartz. Bing Crosby stars as Van Van Dorn, the Read More

Hidden Guns

Actors: Bruce Bennett, Richard Arlen, John Carradine, Faron Young, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with friends in high places. Though he has ordered the killing of a rival, Stragg is able to escape prosecution by greasing a few local palms. It is up to heretofore ineffectual Read More

Fresh from Paris

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Margaret Whiting, Dick Wesson, Martha Hyer, Barbara Whiting

Synopsis: This jerry-built Allied Artists musical is also known as Showtime, Fresh From Paris. The film's plot is constructed around a single evening's performance at Hollywood's Moulin Rouge (don't expect the level of nudity you'd see in real Parisian show). Forrest Tucker plays a threadbare entrepreneur Read More

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Lloyd Corrigan, Ellen Corby, Bennie Bartlett

Synopsis: The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters may not be the best of the "Bowery Boys" series, but it was unquestionably the most profitable. It all begins when Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) try to gain permission to use a local vacant lot for baseball games. The boys make a trip to the mansion of Read More

Return from the Sea

Actors: Jan Sterling, Neville Brand, John Doucette, Paul Langton, John M. Pickard

Synopsis: Neville Brand plays one of his earliest good-guy roles in Return from the Sea. Brand plays a sailor named Maclish, who is a boisterous, love 'em and leave 'em type--until he meets a lonely waitress named Frieda (Jan Sterling). Through her example, Maclish realizes that he too has been lonesome all Read More

Marry Me Again

Actors: Robert Cummings, Marie Wilson, Ray Walker, Mary Costa, Jess Barker

Synopsis: This nonsensical farce stars Robert Cummings as an air force reserve pilot, called back to active duty on the eve of his wedding to Marie Wilson. When he returns, he discovers that Wilson has inherited a million dollars, and plans to be the head of their household. Under the circumstances Read More

The Stars are Singing

Actors: Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchior, Tom Morton

Synopsis: Not only are stars Anna Maria Alberghetti and Rosemary Clooney singing, but also a medium-sized roster of "special guest stars." Alberghetti plays an illegal Polish alien, while Clooney is a dewey-eyed showbiz aspirant who protects the refugee girl. The two ladies pin their hopes on a TV talent Read More

Son of Paleface

Actors: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Bill Williams, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way, thanks largely to the spirited, creative direction of Frank Tashlin. Hope is cast as Junior Potter, a Harvard-educated dude who heads West to claim the inheritance left him by Read More

Rainbow 'round My Shoulder

Actors: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Charlotte Austin, Arthur Franz, Ida Moore

Synopsis: In this musical, a determined young woman with stars in her eyes defies her auntie and heads for Hollywood where she gets a messenger job at a major studio in hope of being discovered. Her dreams are soon realized and she is signed to appear in an upcoming film. Her snooty aunt is appalled and Read More

Ghost Chasers

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Jan Kayne, Bernard Gorcey, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: The Bowery Boys once more frolic about in an "old dark house" setting in Ghost Chasers. The story finds Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and his gang endeavoring to expose a phoney seance racket. Slip's pal Sach is aided and abetted in this endeavor by a genuine ghost, a jovial 17th-century wraith named Read More

New Mexico

Actors: Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain stationed in Indian territory. Sympathetic to the plight of the long-suffering Native Americans, Hunt sets out to sign a peace treaty with the local chief (Ted de Corsia). En Read More

Cavalry Charge

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams, Peter Hansen, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost. Ronald Reagan stars as devil-may-care Confederate officer Vance Britton, who leads a band of guerillas on a series of sabotage raids. The Northern Army dispatches Vance's brother Read More

Her First Romance

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin, Jr., Jimmy Hunt, Sharyn Moffett, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Former child star Margaret O'Brien is Betty Foster, the "all growed up" heroine of Her First Romance. Hoping to rendezvous with handsome teenager Bobby Evans (Allen Martin Jr.) at a fancy summer camp, Betty bamboozles her parents into sending her there. Once she's arrived, Betty proves her Read More

Sierra Passage

Actors: Wayne Morris, Lola Albright, Roland Winters, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Sierra Passage was the first of a brief series of program westerns produced by Monogram and starring Wayne Morris. The film casts Morris as Johnny Yorke, the sharpshooting star of a travelling show run by Sam (Roland Winters) and Thad (Lloyd Corrigan). Johnny hopes someday to run across the man Read More

Father Is a Bachelor

Actors: William Holden, Coleen Gray, Mary Jane Saunders, Charles Winninger, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Father is a Bachelor is a pleasant throwback to the "rural" comedies of the 1930s. William Holden plays Johnny Rutledge, a philosophical hobo to whom fishing is the only reason for living. Rutledge is forced to take a few jolts of responsibility when he crosses the path of five orphans. The kids Read More

My Friend Irma Goes West

Actors: John Lund, Marie Wilson, Diana Lynn, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis

Synopsis: In 1949, Paramount put together a film version of the radio series My Friend Irma. It was assumed that the main attraction would be scatter-brained Irma, delightfully played by Marie Wilson. Instead, the picture was stolen by a couple of young upstarts named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to Read More

When Willie Comes Marching Home

Actors: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Jimmy Lydon, Mae Marsh

Synopsis: A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published war memoirs of Sy Gomberg. Bill Kluggs (Dan Dailey) is the first man in his small West Virginia town to enlist, and his father Herman (William Demarest) and the locals give Read More

And Baby Makes Three

Actors: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Robert Hutton, Janis Carter, Billie Burke

Synopsis: Bride-to-be Barbara Hale collapses into a faint while taking the altar vows. Hale learns that she is pregnant by her former husband Robert Young, who steadfastly refuses to give her custody of the unborn child. As it turns out, she isn't pregnant at all, but her reunion with Young has convinced Read More

The Girl From Jones Beach

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of several models. While relaxing at the beach, Reagan meets a lovely young schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who is the living image of his imaginary girl. Sensing a terrific Read More

Blondie Hits the Jackpot

Actors: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Kent, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood (Arthur Lake) takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm. He is rescued from penury when Blondie (Penny Singleton) wins a radio contest. Of slender interest is the Read More

Dancing in the Dark

Actors: William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou, Randy Stuart

Synopsis: This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work. Arrogantly determined to climb back to the top, Slade convinces studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give him the male lead in the film version of a Broadway Read More

Home in San Antone

Strike It Rich

Actors: Rod Cameron, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Stuart Erwin, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Wildcatters in search of a gusher during the late 1920s provide the basis of this comedy-drama that centers on a rambunctious trio of men. When not drinking and fighting, the three are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of the wildcatters grows dissatisfied with Read More

The Bride Goes Wild

Actors: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Una Merkel

Synopsis: In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to achieve her dream and become a commercial artist when she is hired to illustrate the beloved "Uncle Bump's" latest children's book. She adores Bump's earlier works and is Read More

A Date with Judy

Actors: Leon Ames, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, George Cleveland, Carmen Miranda, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Stack, Scotty Beckett

Synopsis: In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack). This situation is particularly troublesome for Read More

Homicide for Three

Actors: Audrey Long, Warren Douglas, Grant Withers, Lloyd Corrigan, Stephanie Bachelor

Synopsis: In this thriller, a young couple gets married while the groom is on a weekend furlough with the Navy. The newlyweds have only thirty-six hours to honeymoon and they have no place to stay. A mysterious stranger on her way to elope, offers them her apartment. Unfortunately, the suite had been let by Read More

Mr. Reckless

Actors: William Eythe, Barbara Britton, Walter Catlett, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: The same week that Pine-Thomas Productions' Speed to Spare was tradeshown in Los Angeles, the company released another of its patented adventure programmers, Mr. Reckless. William Eythe plays the title character, an oil-well digger named Jeff Lundy. Returning to his hometown after a long absence Read More

The Return of October

Actors: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, Dame May Whitty, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who upon his death bed was heard to say that if could ever come back, he would want to be a race horse that wins the Kentucky Derby. When the girl's relatives learn of her Read More

The Big Clock

Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale Read More

Adventures of Casanova

Actors: Arturo de Cordova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey, John Sutton, George Tobias

Synopsis: Unusually lavish for an Eagle-Lion production, The Adventures of Casanova lacks only Technicolor and "star" names. Lensed in Mexico, the film stars Latin American heartthrob Arturo de Cordova in the title role, and MGM expatriate (and future Mexican citizen) Lucille Bremer as the lovely Lady Read More

Stallion Road

Actors: Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Pat Brady

Synopsis: Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact, Reagan's dutiful Dr. Larry Hanrahan is so busy with the cows that he completely ignores a summons from lady horse breeder Rory Teller (Alexis Smith) to treat her Read More

The Ghost Goes Wild

Synopsis: The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison, a young artist, being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, Ellison disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Read More

Blaze of Noon

Actors: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately Read More

Lady Luck

Actors: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, Don Rice

Synopsis: Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey, the descendant of a long line of professional gamblers. Haughtily turning up her nose at the "family business," Mary spends most of her time keeping her poker-happy Read More

She-Wolf of London

Actors: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Dennis Hoey

Synopsis: This thriller is set in early 20th-century London where a series of nasty murders have recently occurred. An aunt then tells an innocent young girl that the blood of the werewolf flows through her veins and that she is responsible for the deaths. The distraught lass immediately breaks off her Read More

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, George Macready, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin Hood (Russell Hicks). Robert elects to follow in his father's footsteps when oppression rears its ugly head in the form of a despotic Regent (Henry Daniell) and his partner Read More

Shadowed

Synopsis: In this crime drama a courageous wealthy man uses all of his money and power to stop a gang of counterfeiters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chase

Actors: Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Originally slated for release through Monogram Pictures, The Chase was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Adapted by Philip Yordan from Cornell Woolrich's The Black Path of Fear (a perennial of the radio series Suspense), the film stars Robert Cummings as Chuck, shell-shocked ex-GI. Read More

Alias Mr. Twilight

Synopsis: A granddaughter's world begins to crumble when allegations of her grandfather say that he is a criminal. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two Smart People

Actors: Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, Hugo Haas, Lenore Ulric

Synopsis: One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. This comedy chronicles those five days. The man loves to eat; knowing that prison food is lousy, he decides to spend his days stuffing himself with the finest foods available. He is accompanied to Read More

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Synopsis: In this lively entry in the Boston Blackie mysteries, Blackie gets in trouble when he helps a friend auction off a first-edition Charles Dickens book and discovers that it was counterfeit. As a result of his involvement in the con, Blackie must clear himself after being accused of murder. ~ Sandra Read More

The Fighting Guardsman

Actors: Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter, John Loder, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard Parker stars as Baron Francois de Sainte Hermaine, who is in reality the Robin Hoodlike righter-of-wrongs Roland. Robbing the wealth-laden coaches of King Louis XVI (Lloyd Read More

The Crime Doctor's Courage

Actors: Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke, Jerome Cowan, Robert Scott, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage. This time, Ordway investigates the murder of fortune-hunter Gordon Carson (Stephen Crane), not long after his marriage to wealthy Kathleen Carson (Hillary Brooke). It's just Read More

Bring on the Girls

Actors: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested in him for his money. When he becomes infatuated with Teddy Collins (Veronica Lake), a cigarette girl, he tries to hide his true identity from her, hoping she'll be Read More

Gambler's Choice

Actors: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden, Sheldon Leonard, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice. Pine-Thomas perennial Chester Morris plays turn-of-the-century gambler Ross Hadley, owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's chief antagonist is his Read More

The Thin Man Goes Home

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria de Haven, Anne Revere, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per the title, retired private detective Nick Charles (William Powell) pays a visit to his home town of Sycamore Springs, with wife Nora (Myrna Loy) in tow. Poor Nick is Read More

Goodnight Sweetheart

Actors: Robert Livingston, Ruth Terry, Henry Hull, Grant Withers, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face reporting style does not make him very popular; especially when he begins causing trouble for the incumbent mayor's opposition. It is the candidate's pretty niece who teaches the Read More

Since You Went Away

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 "home front". Claudette Colbert plays the wife of a businessman who, though well past draft age, volunteered to serve Read More

The Lights of Old Santa Fe

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Roy Rogers saves Dale Evans from being hoodwinked by a rodeo competitor in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, B-Western from Republic Pictures. Due to the mismanagement of old-timer Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), The Brooks Rodeo is about to be gobbled up by competitor Frank Madden Read More

Reckless Age

Actors: Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays Linda Wadsworth, the granddaughter of fabulously wealthy department-store magnate J. H. Wadsworth (Henry Stephenson). Rebelling against Wadsworth's close-minded tyranny Read More

Passport to Destiny

Actors: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce, Fritz Feld

Synopsis: Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once. Elsa Lanchester stars as a Cockney charwoman who sneaks into wartime Berlin, fully intending to kill Adolf Hitler. Lanchester is convinced that a snake-eyed charm left to Read More

Rosie the Riveter

Actors: Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson, Vera Vague, Frank Jenks, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making due because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who Read More

Lake Placid Serenade

Actors: Vera Ralston, Eugene Pallette, Vera Vague, Robert Livingston, Stephanie Bachelor

Synopsis: In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately, while she is there the war breaks out and she is unable to go home. While in America, she is cared for by her rich uncle. She soon falls in love with his handsome junior Read More

Song of Nevada

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Mary Lee, Lloyd Corrigan, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans weren't yet husband and wife when they co-starred in Song of Nevada, but the rapport and chemistry is already very much in evidence. Roy befriends millionaire Thurston Hall, who was believed to have been killed in a plane crash. Hall hires Rogers to "tame" his snooty Read More

Secrets of the Underground

Actors: John Hubbard, Virginia Grey, Lloyd Corrigan, Robin Raymond, Miles Mander

Synopsis: In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but inside it is really a counterfeiting operation in which the leader and his henchman make fake savings stamps in the hope of busting the morale of the good clients who spend Read More

Captive Wild Woman

Actors: Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films featuring Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman. John Carradine stars as Dr. Sigmund Walters, whose Crestview Sanitarium witnesses strange and unsettling experiments. The doctor's Read More

King of the Cowboys

Actors: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Gerald Mohr

Synopsis: The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more descriptive King of the Cowboys, mainly due to Rogers' great reception on a personal appearance tour in the fall of 1942. Republic had lost Gene Autry to the war effort and this Read More

The Mantrap

Actors: Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan, Joseph Allen, Jr., Dorothy Lovett, Edmund MacDonald

Synopsis: A retired septuagenarian writes books on criminology based on his experiences as a Scotland Yard officer. On his seventieth birthday, the DA's office pays homage to him by requesting his assistance on a puzzling case. Though the police are sure they have solved the case, it is the old man using Read More

After Midnight With Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Cy Kendall, George McKay

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the reformed crook meets his former lover who tells him that her father has just been freed from prison and that he is heading out to a safe deposit box where he hid a sack of diamonds. The good daughter wants her father to return the rocks and reform Read More

Nobody's Darling

Synopsis: In this musical, the teenage daughter of a popular movie star tires of being ignored by her separated parents and decides to make it as a star on her own. She does. Songs include: "It Had to Be You," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Row Read More

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film Tarzan Triumphs, the plot had the ape man fighting Nazis in Africa. In Tarzan's Desert Mystery, released at the height of the war in 1943, he is once again battling Brownshirts in the Read More

The Chance of a Lifetime

Actors: Chester Morris, Erik Rolf, Jeanne Bates, Richard Lane, George E. Stone

Synopsis: This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of ex-convicts. The plan is for the former inmates to redeem themselves by working in a defense plant. Only problem: some of the cons (Douglas Fowley, Arthur Hunnicutt et. al.) Read More

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

Hitler's Children

Actors: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film industry--by becoming one the biggest hits of 1943. The "children" invoked in the title are borne on behalf of Adolf Hitler; according to the film, it is standard operating Read More

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Actors: Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel, Edward Norris

Synopsis: The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though the Poe story and the film aren't exactly twins. Based on the factual unsolved 1842 murder of one Mary Rogers, the film stars Maria Montez as the unfortunate heroine, a Read More

Tennessee Johnson

Actors: Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's Read More

Alias Boston Blackie

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the suave ex-thief returns to prison to see a Christmas show. There he is impressed by the talent of the inmates. One particularly talented fellow uses his magic act to break out of prison. Now Blackie must find him. Meanwhile the fugitive searches for Read More

Bombay Clipper

Actors: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Charles Lang, Maria Montez, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper. International news correspondent Jim (William Gargan) hopes Read More

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Actors: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Cecil Cunningham, Roger Clark

Synopsis: In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his plane. He ends up seeking shelter in the home of an unhappily married Dutch woman. She covers for the pilot by introducing him as her mentally unbalanced but basically Read More

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Synopsis: Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his pal "The Runt" (George E. Stone) obey the film's title and head for Tinseltown. Blackie has been asked by a friend to transport $60,000 to California, but the L.A. cops assume that he's involved in the disappearance of the valuable Monterey Read More

North to the Klondike

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney Jr. usually spent their weekend drunkenly punching one another out. Evidently Universal hoped to harness this pugnacity for box-offices purposes, which may be why North to the Read More

Lucky Jordan

Actors: Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Mabel Paige, Marie McDonald

Synopsis: Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service. Despite his efforts, Jordan is drafted, but soon goes AWOL, with a lovely USO worker (Helen Walker) dogging his heels. She tries to arouse Jordan's patriotism, but he is Read More

London Blackout Murders

Actors: John Abbott, Mary McLeod, Lloyd Corrigan, Lester Matthews, Anita Bolster

Synopsis: In this thriller set in WW II London during the bombing raids, a surgeon becomes a homicidal maniac during the frequent blackouts. Using his hypodermic needle, he only kills the people he believes are enemies to the Allies. Unfortunately, there is no real proof that the people he has offed are Read More

Eyes of the Underworld

Actors: Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Don Porter, Billy Lee

Synopsis: Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence. When Barry is threatened with exposure by silky-smooth gangster functionary Thomas Read More

Maisie Gets Her Man

Actors: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek

Synopsis: The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and stranded once more, showgirl Maisie Revere briefly works as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act, then dedicates herself to helping would-be comedian Hap Hixby (Skelton) Read More

The Great Man's Lady

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup, Barbara Stanwyck reminisces on her experiences in the American West. As a young woman, she is squired by gambler Brian Donlevy, but her heart belongs to dreamer Joel McCrea. She chooses Read More

Whistling in the Dark

Actors: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey, Rags Ragland

Synopsis: Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in 1933), MGM's Whistling in the Dark was clearly inspired by the success of Paramount's Bob Hope comedy-mystery The Ghost Breakers. In his first film starring role, Red Skelton Read More

Kathleen

Actors: Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, Gail Patrick, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the enormously popular child star under contract in 1941. Alas, by this time the bloom was off the rose for 13-year-old Temple, and her inaugural MGM production Kathleen was met with Read More

A Girl, a Guy and A Gob

Actors: George Murphy, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Travers, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick (Edmond O'Brien); and the gob is a brash sailor known as Coffee Cup (George Murphy). Not surprisingly, the plot involves the efforts by the self-effacing Stephen and the Read More

Confessions of Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry. This time, Blackie gets into trouble when he attends an art auction with his millionaire pal Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). It so happens that the auction gallery is run by Read More

Men of Boys Town

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Lee J. Cobb, Larry Nunn, Bobs Watson, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with Mickey Rooney likewise reprising his characterization of reformed hoodlum Whitey Marsh. Still operating on the theory that "No boy is bad, if given a chance", Father Flanagan Read More

The Great Commandment

Actors: John Beal, Maurice Moscovich, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley

Synopsis: Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the story concerns the burgeoning Christian movement, and its effects on young Judean scholar named Joel (John Beal). A hotheaded reactionary, Joel spearheads an uprising Read More

Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Actors: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This time around, tempetuous Carmelita (Lupe Velez) and her staid American husband Dennis (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) adopt a French war orphan. Imagine Dennis' surprise and Read More

The Lady in Question

Actors: Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, Brian Aherne, Irene Rich, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian family. Summoned for jury duty, Morestan at first believes that accused murderess Natalie Rougin (Rita Hayworth Read More

Public Deb No. 1

Actors: George Murphy, Brenda Joyce, Elsa Maxwell, Mischa Auer, Charlie Ruggles

Synopsis: Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl Penny Cooper (Brenda Joyce) impulsively lends her voice to a Communist rally, which earns her a public spanking by 100% All-American waiter Alan Blake (George Murphy). 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

Young Tom Edison

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This film follows the teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison (Mickey Rooney) as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Two Girls on Broadway

Actors: Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Kent Taylor, Richard Lane

Synopsis: Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and Lana Turner play a vaudeville "sister" act, slightly more talented than the similar duo in Broadway Melody. The twosome have sworn never to break up, but that was before hoofer George Murphy Read More

High School

Actors: Jane Withers, Joe Brown, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Claire Du Brey, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Unlike Shirley Temple, Jane Withers was permitted to "grow up" in her 20th Century-Fox vehicles. Since Withers was 13 going on 14 in 1940, it was only natural that she should star in a film titled High School. Fresh from her family's Texas cattle ranch, rambunctious Jane Wallace (Wither) is sent Read More

The Return of Frank James

Actors: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, John Carradine, Henry Hull

Synopsis: This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after all was shot dead by that "dirty little coward" Bob Ford (John Carradine). Repeating his portrayal of western outlaw Frank James, Henry Fonda is promoted to top billing here. Read More

The Ghost Breakers

Actors: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best

Synopsis: Paramount followed up its successful Bob Hope/Paulette Goddard co-starrer The Cat and the Canary (1939) by warming up another venerable "old dark house" stage play, Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard's The Ghost Breaker, pluralizing the title to accommodate both stars. This time Hope plays radio Read More

Captain Caution

Actors: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the heroine. Louise Platt plays Corunna, the daughter of Captain Dorman (Robert Barrat), skipper of the American vessel The Olive Branch. When Dorman is killed in battle, Corunna Read More

Dark Streets of Cairo

Actors: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this rough-and-tumble melodrama from Universal. The wiliest of them all is one Abbadi (George Zucco), who leaves no stone unturned in his quest for possession of the fabulous "seven Read More

Queen of the Mob

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry

Synopsis: Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and prettified to meet the perceived conservative values of Hollywood movie audiences. Unlike Barker, who was bad to the bone, Ma Webster is simply a matriarch who would do anything Read More

Boy Trouble

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Joyce Mathews, John Hartley

Synopsis: It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents. Charlie Ruggles stars as a small town shopkeeper whose wife (Mary Boland) adopts a pair of rambunctious orphan boys (Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee). Ruggles is at first hostile Read More

Night Work

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Billy Lee, Donald O'Connor, Clem Bevans

Synopsis: In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must also begin caring for an orphaned lad. They take a shine to the boy and desire to adopt him, but first they must convince his grandfather who is not impressed by their Read More

Touchdown, Army

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Howard, Robert Cummings, Mary Carlisle, Owen Davis, Jr., William Frawley

Synopsis: It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Howard stars as Brandon Culpepper, a self-admiring West Point football hero. A true Southerner, Culpepper is mercilessly heckled by his teammates Read More

Campus Confessions

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Grable, Eleanore Whitney, William Henry, Fritz Feld, John Arledge

Synopsis: This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. Read More

Hold'em Navy!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, John Howard, Ben Baker, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love with a pretty girl who is already going with one of his upper-class team cohorts. Their rivalry creates problems until the day of the Big Game when they unite on the last Read More

Night Key

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers, Warren Hull, Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a security company. The scientist invents a superior alarm to provide for his daughter and sells it to the company for royalties, but his partner refuses to sell it. The Read More

Lady Behave

Crew: Director

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, Grant Mitchell, Patricia Farr

Synopsis: While drunk at a party, millionaire Stephens Cormack (Neil Hamilton) playfully marries footloose Clarice Andrews (Patricia Farr). Sobering up the next morning, Cormack hurriedly tells his lawyer to arrange for an annulment, then retreats to South America. What Cormack doesn't know is that Clarice Read More

Dancing Pirate

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Collins, Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni, Victor Varconi

Synopsis: Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first three-strip Technicolor feature. Pirate was likewise filmed in the three-strip process, but the film is currently available only in its black-and-white reissue version. Read More

By Your Leave

Crew: Director

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon, Glenn Anders

Synopsis: In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest to his wife that they take separate vacations and not discuss them with each other afterward. The wife isn't sure, but being a loving and understanding woman, agrees to the Read More

Murder on a Honeymoon

Crew: Director

Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, Chick Chandler, George Meeker

Synopsis: Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of Edna May Oliver as Stuart Palmer's spinsterish schoolmarm sleuth. This entry was wittily adapted by Seton I. Miller and Robert Benchley from Palmer's Puzzle of the Pepper Read More

La Cucaracha

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In and of itself, La Cucaracha is a modestly entertaining two-reeler concerning the antics of a jealous Mexican cantina girl (Steffi Duna). In love with a stuck-up dancer (Don Alvarado), Steffi tries to sabotage his efforts to land an important dancing engagement in Mexico City, so that she won't Read More

He Learned About Women

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to behave in a manner befitting his wealth and social station. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No One Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez, Paul Lukas, Julie Compton, George Barbier

Synopsis: Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an impossible concept. After all, she reasons, no one man could possess all the virtues required for an ideal husband. Thus, she divides her time between dependable Read More

The Broken Wing

Crew: Director

Actors: Lupe Velez, Leo Carrillo, Melvyn Douglas, George Barbier, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her father's neighbor, a powerful rancher is in love with her. He orders the execution of the happless Yankee aviator. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Beloved Bachelor

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Lukas, Dorothy Jordan, Betty van Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Vivienne Osborne

Synopsis: The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas and his two bachelor pals kindheartedly adopt little orphan girl Betty Van Allen. Time passes, and awkward little Van Allen grows up to be lovely and graceful Dorothy Read More

Daughter of the Dragon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade

Synopsis: In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man responsible for slaughtering Manchu's wife and son during an uprising. To get even, he sends out his daughter to kill Fletcher, but en route, she meets up with a Scotland Yard Read More

The Lawyer's Secret

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clive Brook, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Jean Arthur

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is guilty, and that another man, a sailor, also accused of the crime because he gambled away his gun, which became the murder weapon, but he must honor the confidentiality Read More

Dude Ranch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, June Collyer

Synopsis: Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer (sic!), the head of a travelling troupe of repertory actors. Finding themselves on the premises of a dude ranch, Jennifer and his actors strike up a deal with ranch Read More

Along Came Youth

Crew: Director

Actors: Frances Dee, Stuart Erwin, William Austin, Evelyn Hall

Synopsis: Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director on a number of Hollywood programmers. Corrigan co-directed Paramount's Along Came Youth with Norman Z. McLeod. The frothy story involves heiress Frances Dee, who balks at the Read More

Follow Thru

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the attempts of a handsome golfer to teach a young woman how to play the game. This causes her gossipy rival to start a string of vicious rumors about the two. It seems that her rival Read More

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O.P. Heggie, William Austin

Synopsis: In his pre-Charlie Chan days, Warner Oland returned as Dr. Fu Manchu for this sequel to The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu (1939). Supposedly the victim of a suicide at the end of the first film, Fu Manchu has actually injected himself with a toxin that will make him only appear dead. Escaping Read More

Anybody's War

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Moran and Mack was a blackface comedy act of the 1920s, popularly known as the Two Black Crows. They specialized in the sort of cross-talk humor that would later become the domain of white-faced comics Abbott and Costello. In their second feature-length comedy, Anybody's War, M&M play a couple of Read More

The Saturday Night Kid

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Bow, James Hall, Jean Arthur, Charles Sellon, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible bachelors--particularly those with fat bank accounts. Both girls fall for the same wealthy man (James Hall) but Bow temporarily loses out to Arthur, who is just a tad craftier and a Read More

Sweetie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Stanley Smith, Jack Oakie, William Austin

Synopsis: In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy friend attends the school where he is a big football hero. The trouble begins when the star begins trying to convince the young man to forget about school and elope with her Read More

The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Claude King, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an effort to explain Fu's hatred of all whites by showing the death of the Doctor's family during the Boxer Rebellion. Twenty years later, Fu Manchu is a full-blooded villain Read More

What a Night!

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Wheeler Oakman, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled socialite, Dorothy Winston (Daniels) decides to prove that she's a valuable member of society by becoming a news hound. She manages to get the goods on mobster boss Mike Read More

Hot News

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Spec O'Donnell, Ben Hall

Red Hair

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Bow, Lane Chandler, Lawrence Grant, Claude King, William Austin

Synopsis: It was romance novelist Elinor Glyn who dubbed Clara Bow the "It" girl, so it was hardly a surprise when Bow starred in this adaptation of Mme. Glyn'sThe Vicissitudes of Evangeline. The star plays Bubbles McCoy, a crafty manicurist who hopes to land a wealthy husband. She sets her sights on Read More

The Fifty-Fifty Girl

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, William Austin, Johnnie Morris

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels struck a blow for feminism--for at least 6 reels, that is--in The Fifty-Fifty Girl. It all begins when Kathleen O'Hara (Daniels) and Jim Donahue (James Hall) find themselves joint owners of a gold mine. Each party would like to get rid of the other and take full ownership. Thus, they Read More

Senorita

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, William Powell, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When the life and property of Spanish Californian aristocrat Don Hernandez (Josef Swickard) is threatened by land-grabbers, the old man sends for his grandson to help out. What he Read More

Swim, Girl, Swim

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, Josephine Dunn, William Austin

Synopsis: Though she hadn't been a Hal Roach "bathing beauty" for nearly ten years, Bebe Daniels still cut quite a svelte figure in Swim, Girl, Swim. Daniels is cast as Alice Smith, a bookish, bespectacled type who emerges from her cocoon when she joins her college's swimming team Before she quite knows Read More

She's a Sheik

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Josephine Dunn

Synopsis: She's a Sheik borrows more than a little from the Rudolph Valentino vehicle, Son of the Sheik, but refreshingly, the Valentino character here is a woman, played by the dashing comedienne Bebe Daniels. She is Zaida, half-Spanish and half-Arab, and determined to marry a Christian man. The Arabian Read More

It

Actors: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Jacqueline Gadsden, Julia Swayne Gordon

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful rags-to-riches comedy. But It, from the fertile mind of bizarre best-selling author Elinor Glyn, remains perhaps the quintessential Bow picture. Not that the story of a poor Read More

Wedding Bells

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Hallam Cooley, Iris Stuart, Vivien Oakland

Synopsis: This Raymond Griffith vehicle casts the debonair, top-hatted comedian as Algernon Schuyler Van Twitter, perennial "best man" at all his friends' weddings. To save his pal Tom Milbank (Hallam Cooley) from public disgrace, Algy tries to get his hands on some incriminating love letters in the Read More

Splendid Crime

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Anne Cornwall, Anthony Jowitt, Fred Walton

Synopsis: This nicely made Paramount feature benefits from the humanity and wit of writer/director William C. DeMille, and the spark of Bebe Daniels, who was fully coming into her own as a star and comedienne. Daniels plays Jenny, a female Raffles character, who breaks into the home of the wealthy Bob Van Read More

The Campus Flirt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Hall, El Brendel, Joan Standing

Synopsis: Though well into her twenties, Bebe Daniels effectively passes as a teenager in The Campus Flirt. Daniels plays the spoiled-rotten daughter of a haughty rich woman. After receiving an expensive (if desultory) European education, Daniels is enrolled at an all-American college by her down-to-earth Read More

Hands Up

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film. Griffith plays a Southern spy during the Civil War, sent West to retrieve a vital gold shipment. Along the way, he meets boisterous Mack Swain (who was nearly booted from Read More

Wet Paint

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Helene Costello, Bryant Washburn, Natalie Kingston, Henry Kolker

Synopsis: Dapper, top-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith stars in the lightweight farce Wet Paint. Disappointed when he discovers that his bride to be Dolores Costello has accepted his proposal merely to win a bet, Griffith breaks off the engagement. He further vows to marry the next woman he meets, just to Read More

Miss Brewster's Millions

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Warner Baxter, Ford Sterling, André de Beranger

Synopsis: George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the advent of talkies). To make it a vehicle for Bebe Daniels, writer Monty Brice threw the story out the window and just kept the basic premise. Polly Brewster (Daniels) is Read More