Lona AndreFilmography

Sunset Murder Case

Actors: Sally Rand, Reed Hadley, Dennis Moore, Paul Sutton

Synopsis: Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand National production The Sunset Murder Case. Borrowing a page from the Bob Steele westerns, La Rand is cast as a nightclub dancer who hopes to avenge her father's murderer. She Read More

Ghost Valley Raiders

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lona Andre, LeRoy Mason, Tom London, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an end to the activities of a stagecoach-robbery gang. That's why he spends most of the film pretending to be an outlaw himself. Stunt specialist Yakima Canutt Read More

The Plainsman

Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess

Synopsis: One is immediately aware that The Plainsman is a Cecil B. DeMille production in the opening scene, wherein President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), on the verge of signing crucial legislation which will determine the future of the American West, is dragged away from his Cabinet by a scolding Read More

Slaves in Bondage

Synopsis: A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam who runs his prostitution ring in this sordid crime drama from director Elmer Clifton. While she may be beautiful on the outside, on the inside Belle Harris (Florence Dudley Read More

Crusade Against Rackets

Actors: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, John Merton, Rychard Cramer

Synopsis: What would an "exploitation" film of the 1930s be without Wheeler Oakman in the cast and Sam Newfield in the director's chair? In Crusade Against Rackets, Oakman is his usual slimy self as Jim Murray, the head of a big-city vice ring. His "cover" is an outwardly respectable beauty parlor, where Read More

Death in the Sky

Actors: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Henry Hall, Leon Ames, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder mysteries during its short life span. In Death in the Sky, Leon Ames plays a World War I ace whose combat experiences have driven him mad. Convinced that every other aviator on Read More

High Hat

Actors: Frank Luther, Dorothy Dare, Lona Andre, Franklin Pangborn, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: Filmed on a budget of about 78 cents, High Hat was a foredoomed attempt to turn radio singer Frank Luther into a movie star. Luther struggles manfully in the role of Suwanee Collier, the boyfriend and mentor of aspiring vocalist Elanda Lee (Dorothy Dare). A classical singer, Elanda refuses to Read More

The Great Hospital Mystery

Actors: Jane Darwell, Sig Rumann, Sally Blane, Thomas Beck, Joan Davis

Synopsis: The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and temperamentally, Jane Darwell at least approximates the middle-aged Sarah (here renamed Miss Keats), but otherwise the film runs far afield from Eberhardt's original concept. As the night Read More

Three on a Limb

Actors: Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé (Harold Goodwin). When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the Read More

Lucky Terror

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Lona Andre, Charles Hill

Synopsis: Arguably the best of Hoot Gibson's six Westerns for small-scale producer Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, Lucky Terror once again presents the veteran star as a carefree drifter falsely accused of murder. This time, the victim is Jim Thornton (George Chesebro), a thief whose pockets are filled Read More

Death in the Air

Actors: Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall

Synopsis: An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by one of Hollywood's few women executives, Fanchon Royer. Assigned to investigate a series of flight disasters committed by a phantom aircraft bearing only the legend "X," Read More

Our Relations

Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Betty Healy, Daphne Pollard, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks its central mistaken-identity situation for all it's worth. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two solid citizens, happily married and highly respected in their community. Read More

Custer's Last Stand

Synopsis: Produced by poverty row organization Stage and Screen, this less-than-faithful serialized version of the historical battle seems to have rounded up every B-Western player not otherwise engaged at the time. That fact added to a couple of impressive sets drew favorable reviews for the serial's Read More

The Timid Young Man

Actors: Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Producer/director Mack Sennett and actor Buster Keaton, two masters of silent-film comedy, teamed up for the first time with this sound two-reeler released by Educational. Keaton stars as Milton, a disappointed romantic who has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker (Lona Andre) Read More

One-Run Elmer

Actors: Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer, who operates a rickety gas station in the California desert. A rival station opens for business right across the road from him, and the rivalry becomes personal when the Read More

Border Brigands

Actors: Buck Jones, Lona Andre, Fred Kohler, Frank Rice, Edward Keane

Synopsis: Westerner Buck Jones heads to the Great White North in Border Brigands. Jones plays Canadian Mountie Tim Barry, who always gets his man. This time, however, he's forced to cross the border into the United States -- apparently without permission -- to "get" villain Conyda (Fred Kohler Sr.). The Read More

Lost in the Stratosphere

Actors: William Cagney, Eddie Nugent, June Collyer, Lona Andre, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: Lost in the Stratosphere is one of three Monogram vehicles for James Cagney's look-alike brother William (later a successful producer). Inspired by the U.S. Army's recent experiments with atmospheric balloons, the film stars Cagney and Edward Nugent as inveterate practical jokers Cooper and Wood. Read More

School for Girls

Actors: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Toby Wing, Lucille La Verne

Synopsis: Produced by M.H. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures, School for Girls is based on Reginald Wright Kauffman's story Our Undisciplined Daughters. It all begins when innocent heroine Annette Eldridge (Sidney Fox) gets mixed up with a slimy jewel thief. Taking the rap for her boyfriend, Annette ends up doing Read More

Under the Pampas Moon

Actors: Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian, Veloz & Yolanda, John Miljan, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen horse. Once there, he soon engages in hot pursuit of a lovely singing señorita. Soon he discovers that her manager just may be the thief he has been looking for. Keep a Read More

Skybound

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a courageous and daring detective endeavors to perfect techniques for preventing crime in the friendly skies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happiness C.O.D.

Actors: Maude Eburne, Donald Meek, Irene Ware, William Bakewell, Polly Ann Young

Synopsis: Happiness C.O.D was one of the last productions from flagging Chesterfield. Perennial supporting player Maude Eburne assumes the leading role as Aunt Addie, philosophical matriarch of a large, rambunctious brood. Dipping deep into her own pockets, Addie must constantly bail out her less-practical Read More

By Your Leave

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

Two Heads on a Pillow

Actors: Dorothy Appleby, Mary Forbes, Edward Martindel, Claude King

Synopsis: Surprisingly original for an independent production, Two Heads on a Pillow is a fascinated precursor to the more celebrated Tracy-Hepburn vehicle Adam's Rib. Neil Hamilton and Miriam Jordan a play couple of young lawyers who fall in love and marry. Thanks to her mother's interference, the couple Read More

Come On, Marines

Actors: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley, Virginia Hammond

Synopsis: Philip Wylie, a writer best known for his "anti-Momism" work A Generation of Vipers, was responsible for the Paramount "leg show" Come on Marines. Lucky (Richard Arlen) and Spud (Roscoe Karns) are among the Marine troops dispatched from San Diego to the Philippines to rescue a group of Read More

Woman Unafraid

Actors: Lucille Gleason, Lona Andre, Warren Hymer, Barbara Weeks

Synopsis: Woman Unafraid stars venerable character actress Lucille Gleason as Officer Winthrop, a no-nonsense but golden-hearted policewoman. Winthrop serves as den mother and confidante for wayward girls on parole, and also keeps a watchful eye on the dance halls in her district. With the help of a former Read More

Murder at the Vanities

Actors: Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Gertrude Michael, Dorothy Stickney

Synopsis: The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery interspersed with an assortment of variety acts, including Duke Ellington performing "Ebony Rhapsody" and a novelty number called "Marijuana." Victor McLaglen stars as Bill Murdock, a Read More

The Merry Widow

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1934 musical comedy The Merry Widow, based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. In 1885, King Achmed (George Barbier) strives to protect the financial interests of his small, poor kingdom of Marshovia in Central Europe. When the kingdom's wealthiest widow, Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald Read More

Pick-Up

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan, Lillian Bond, Clarence H. Wilson

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the two friends leave the city and move to the suburbs where she helps him set up an auto mechanic business. Though they are in love, they cannot marry for she is still legally Read More

College Humor

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle, Mary Kornman

Synopsis: Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor (Bing Crosby) and one of his students (Mary Carlisle). Feeling stilted, the school football star (Richard Arlen) is temporarily unable to concentrate on his game. Read More

The Woman Accused

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Norma Mitchell

Synopsis: On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic ex-lover Louis Calhern, who threatens to have his gangster pal Jack LaRue rub out Grant if Carroll doesn't give up her marriage plans. She responds by killing Calhern with a piece of statuary; a Read More

Take a Chance

Actors: James Dunn, Cliff Edwards, June Knight, Lillian Roth, Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Synopsis: Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Read More

International House

Actors: Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Stuart Erwin, Sara Maritza, George Burns, Rudy Vallee

Synopsis: Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is motivated by a revolutionary television device called the Radioscope, which its Chinese inventor (Edmund Breese) is offering to the highest bidder. All interested parties are Read More

Fighting Phantom

Actors: Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Irving Pichel, Gail Patrick, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: Another of Paramount's "pocket epics" based on the works of Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider pits good guy Kent Taylor against villain Irving Pichel. A crooked land dealer, Pichel spends most of his screen time seeking out legal means to cheat the homesteaders out of their property. He is thwarted Read More

Trailin' Trouble

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Lona Andre, Margaret Quimby, Roger Williams, Grace Woods, Fred Burns

Synopsis: This M.F. Hoffman production released through Grand National featured Ken Maynard as Friendly Fields, a mama's boy whose hat is stolen by lookalike bandit Blackie Burke (also Maynard). Obtaining a job on Patty Blair's (Lona Andre) ranch, Friendly scares the girl's enemies into submission by Read More