Marjorie RambeauFilmography

Slander

Actors: Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer

Synopsis: Anyone who thinks that tabloid journalism is an aberration of the 1980s should take a look at the 1956 release Slander. The film stars Van Johnson as a happily married, well respected TV kiddie show host who becomes the subject of an expose' from a Confidential style magazine. The publisher (Steve Cochran Read More

A Man Called Peter

Actors: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne, Billy Chapin

Synopsis: A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played by Richard Todd. In his youth, Marshall moves to Washington DC, where he becomes pastor of the Church of the Presidents. His wisdom and conviction enables Marshall to Read More

The View from Pompey's Head

Actors: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pompey's Head. The film version stars Richard Egan as a New York lawyer who returns to his Southern home town to investigate an embezzlement charge. The victim is an ageing Read More

Bad for Each Other

Actors: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: The film Bad For Each Other, together with stars Charlton Heston and Lizabeth Scott and director Irving Rapper, were originally assembled into a package by producer Hal Wallis for Paramount. Shortly thereafter, however, Wallis found it expedient to sell the whole package to Columbia, though the Read More

Forever Female

Actors: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White

Synopsis: Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a veteran Broadway star who has optioned a play written by William Holden. Though on the less sunny side of 40, Rogers expects to play the leading role, that of a 19 year old Read More

Torch Song

Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gig Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as musical comedy luminary Jenny Stewart, who has been hardened by the worst life has to offer. Romance enters her life in the form of her new piano accompanist, blinded war-veteran Read More

Niagara

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that Rose (Marilyn Monroe) and George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) have not yet checked out. Though the Cutlers temporarily take another cabin, the lives of the two couples are bound Read More

Abandoned

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe Read More

Any Number Can Play

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

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

The Lucky Stiff

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Irene Hervey, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the newspapers have reported that Anne Marie is dead. She decides to use her status as a "corpse" to her advantage, leading to several amusing and melodramatic complications Read More

The Walls of Jericho

Actors: Art Baker, Griff Barnett, Anne Baxter, Helen Brown, Linda Darnell

Synopsis: The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically ambitious lawyer married to Belle, the town lush, and is in love with beautiful colleague Julia Norman. Matters are worsened when Algeria Wedge, his best friend's wife, makes a Read More

Salome, Where She Danced

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and chronicles the exploits of Salome, a beautiful Viennese dancer who falls for an American reporter and for him gets involved in cloak-and-dagger activities involving the Bismarck Read More

Army Wives

Actors: Elyse Knox, Marjorie Rambeau, Rick Vallin, Dorothea Kent, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox plays bride-to-be Jerry, who follows her GI fiance Barney (Rick Vallin) from camp to camp. Thanks to numerous complications, both foreseen and otherwise, Jerry and Barney never Read More

Oh, What a Night

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Marjorie Rambeau, Jean Parker, Pierre Watkin, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe plays Rand, a suave gentleman jewel thief who plans to divest clueless dowager Lil Vanderhoven (Marjorie Rambeau) of her diamonds. Complicating matters is the appearance of Read More

War of the Wildcats

Actors: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan Somers, who carries on a bitter feud with his crooked rival Hunk Gardner (Albert Dekker). Furthering the animosity between the two men is schoolteacher-turned-novelist Read More

Broadway

Actors: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Broderick Crawford, Janet Blair, Anne Gwynne, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment), George Raft plays George, a hoofer looking back on his glory days. His memories are triggered when The Paradise Club, a nightspot where he used to work, is about to be turned Read More

So Ends Our Night

Actors: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten

Synopsis: The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War II, Adolph Hitler goes unmentioned (we wouldn't want to lose those foreign markets, would we?) Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Flotsam, the film zeroes in on three Read More

Three Sons O'Guns

Actors: Wayne Morris, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Tom Brown, William Orr

Synopsis: This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom Brown) and Kenneth (William T. Orr). Pampered by their pacifistic mother Margaret (Irene Rich), the Patterson boys do everything they can to avoid being drafted into the Army. Read More

Tobacco Road

Actors: Charles Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: Erskine Caldwell's once-scandalous novel Tobacco Road resulted in an equally steamy stage play by Jack Kirkland, which became one of the longest-running productions in Broadway history. This story of indigence and amorality amongst inbred "poor whites" (based on people Caldwell had known while Read More

20 Mule Team

Actors: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes through his usual paces as Skinner Bill Bragg, a fugitive from justice who forms an uneasy alliance with slick outlaw Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley). The two scoundrels plot to jump Read More

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Clarence Kolb

Synopsis: Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this one, Tugboat Annie is threatened with the loss of her job as cap'n of the tacky tugboat Narcissus, much to the delight of Bullwinkle (Alan Hale), skipper of the rival Salamander Read More

East of the River

Actors: John Garfield, Brenda Marshall, Marjorie Rambeau, George Tobias, William Lundigan

Synopsis: In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother. The younger brother is adopted and they grow up to pursue very different life directions. The adopted brother goes to college, but the older brother gets involved with crime Read More

The Primrose Path

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander

Synopsis: In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen image by playing the daughter and granddaughter of prostitutes. Determined not to pursue the "family business", Ellie May Adams (Rogers) opts for respectability, as personified Read More

Santa Fe Marshal

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Marjorie Rambeau, Bernadene Hayes, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: Eschewing action in favor of humor, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry has the usually black-clad hero (William Boyd) changing into dude apparel in order to investigate what ails the town of Del Oro, NM. Aligning himself with the ramshackle medicine show of Doc Rufus Bates (Earl Hodgins) Read More

The Rains Came

Actors: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Myrna Loy stars in Clarence Brown's sumptuous and exotic romance, based upon the novel by Louis Bromfield. Loy plays Lady Edwina Esketh, the unhappily married wife of Lord Albert Esketh (Nigel Bruce), a dumpy middle-aged English businessman. Edwina escapes her loneliness by engaging in ephemeral Read More

Laugh It Off

Actors: Johnny Downs, Constance Moore, Marjorie Rambeau, Cecil Cunningham, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Laugh it Off was one of two Johnny Downs vehicles released within the same week in December of 1939 (the other was Bad Boy). Downs plays Stephen Hannis, a Broadway bandleader who aspires to become a lawyer. He gets his big break when he champions the cause of a group of elderly ex-chorus dancers Read More

Sudden Money

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Grapewin, Broderick Crawford, Billy Lee

Synopsis: Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is teamed with Marjorie Rambeau. It all begins when Sweeney Patterson (Ruggles) and his brother-in-law Doc Finney (Broderick Crawford) win $150,000 in the Irish sweepstakes. All of Read More

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Actors: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford, Nicholas Conte

Synopsis: In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land in Arizona. Unable to afford a car, Ford hitchhikes to his new home, and along the way teams up with a transient (Richard Conte) and an illegal alien (Jean Rogers). The girl Read More

Woman Against Woman

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Mary Astor, Janet Beecher, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Herbert Marshall finds himself torn between two women: ex-wife Mary Astor and bride-to-be Virginia Bruce. After a while, Marshall's own opinions in the matter mean nothing. The ladies are so involved in their personal battle that they've lost sight of their common goal. Only when Marshall tells Read More

Merrily We Live

Actors: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: Merrily We Live is a blatant imitation of My Man Godfrey, courtesy of producer Hal Roach. This time Brian Aherne is the gentleman vagabond whom flighty society matron Billie Burke hires as a butler. Aherne's down-to-earth attitude jars against the high-toned phoniness of Burke's wealthy household Read More

First Lady

Actors: Kay Francis, Anita Louise, Veree Teasdale, Louise Fazenda, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story of the first woman president. The central character, played by Kay Francis, is the granddaughter of a president (though clearly inspired by Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Read More

Dizzy Dames

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her daughter comes for a surprise visit. It seems her daughter had no idea what her mother did for a living. When an aspiring writer asks for the daughter's hand, conflict Read More

Under Pressure

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of tunnels ranging from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Shocker (Edmund Lowe) and Jumbo (Victor McLaglen) are two such rivals, and the trouble really begins when they both fall for the Read More

Palooka

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle

Synopsis: Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing manager and the up-and-coming fighter he mentors to. The film is also known as Joe Palooka. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ready for Love

Actors: Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Marjorie Rambeau, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which Read More

A Modern Hero

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Veree Teasdale, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker G. W. Pabst. Richard Barthelmess plays Pierre, the bastard son of blowzy, besotted circus performer Mme. Azais (Marjorie Rambeau). Fiercely ambitious, Pierre enters the world of Read More

Grand Canary

Actors: Warner Baxter, H.B. Warner, Madge Evans, Julie Compton, Zita Johann

Synopsis: This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in shambles as he embarks upon a cruise to the Canary Islands. The deeply despondent physician spends much of the journey hiding in his stateroom staring at the walls and woefully Read More

The Warrior's Husband

Actors: Elissa Landi, Marjorie Rambeau, Ernest Truex, David Manners, Helen Ware

Synopsis: In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live in the land of Pontus. Their buxom queen is married. Like all Pontus men, her spouse is an utter panty-waist in the face of his women. Still things are going well in the Read More

A Man's Castle

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of the time, stars Spencer Tracy as Bill, a rough-hewn laborer struggling to get by and sleeping in a Hooverville shack. Bill meets Trina (Loretta Young), a sad and desperate Read More

Strictly Personal

Actors: Marjorie Rambeau, Edward Ellis, Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Quillan, Louis Calhern

Hell Divers

Actors: Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom Gable disliked in real life) ended up with more screen time. They played Naval officers training in the newfangled art of dive bombing while spending a great deal of time Read More

This Modern Age

Actors: Joan Crawford, Pauline Frederick, Neil Hamilton, Monroe Owsley

Synopsis: With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline Frederick doing her best to keep up, audiences are in for MGM soap-opera at its 1931 zenith. Reunited with her long-lost mother in Paris, Crawford fails to realize that the loving Read More

The Easiest Way

Actors: Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly learns that she can get to Easy Street on her back. Her indecent journey begins when a scout discovers her working in a department store. He gets her signed up to a modeling Read More

Inspiration

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

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

Laughing Sinners

Actors: Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee

Synopsis: The Kenyon Nicholson play Torch Song was the source for the Joan Crawford vehicle Laughing Sinners. Crawford plays nightclub entertainer Ivy Stevens, who loses her zest for living when she's thrown over by her salesman sweetheart Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton). At her lowest ebb, Ivy is befriended Read More

A Tailor Made Man

Actors: William Haines, Dorothy Jordan, Joseph Cawthorn, Marjorie Rambeau, William Austin

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1922, the 1917 stage farce The Impostor was reheated in 1931 as the William Haines vehicle A Tailor Made Man. Essaying his usual brash wisecracker, Haines plays John Paul Bart, a pants-presser who tries to crash High Society by borrowing the dress suit owned by millionaire Read More

Silence

Actors: Clive Brook, Marjorie Rambeau, Peggy Shannon, Charles Starrett, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief who is sent to prison on a murder charge. Only after scores of plot twists and setbacks is the truth revealed: Warren is taking the rap for his old friend Phil Powers (Willard Robertson Read More

Leftover Ladies

Actors: Claudia Dell, Marjorie Rambeau, Walter Byron, Alan Mowbray, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: The Leftover Ladies are Patricia (Claudia Dell) and Amy (Dorothy Revier), recently divorced from their husbands Ronny (Walter Byron) and Jerry (Alan Mowbray). Seeking to find more exciting mates, the ladies end up with one another's ex-husbands. Things end happily for Patricia and Ronny thanks to Read More

Son of India

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Conrad Nagel, Marjorie Rambeau, Madge Evans, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally wounded. Just before he dies, he hands his son a large diamond. The boy then continues on to the city. By the time he gets there he is ragged and dirty. A crooked merchant Read More

The Secret Six

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

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

Strangers May Kiss

Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich

Synopsis: Norma Shearer stars in this pre-Code melodrama as Lisbeth Corbin, who is in love with Alan (Neil Hamilton), a globe-trotting newspaper reporter, but also strings along Steve (Robert Montgomery), a well-mannered local boy who is good friends with Lisbeth, even though she doesn't love him. When Alan Read More

Her Man

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Marjorie Rambeau, Ricardo Cortez, Phillips Holmes, James Gleason

Synopsis: Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer in a Havana dive, Frankie is fought over by the proprietor, Johnny (Ricardo Cortez), and Dan O'Keefe (Phillips Holmes), an American sailor who sees some good in the girl. Read More

Min and Bill

Actors: Donald Dillaway, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman (Wallace Beery). The two are the guardians for a young girl (Dorothy Jordan) whose mother deserted her, but they lose custody of the girl to truant officers. The couple scrape Read More

Syncopating Sue

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Tom Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes, Joyce Compton, Sunshine Hart

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith is Syncopating Sue in this jazz-age romp. Hoping to become a famous musical comedy star, Sue Adams takes a job as a pianist in a Broadway music score. She soon finds a kindred spirit in the form of aspiring jazz drummer Eddie Murphy (Tom Moore). The usual misunderstandings Read More

Common Cause

Synopsis: Since this picture was set for release just scant weeks after the Armistice, Vitagraph decided to promote it as an "after the war" film. A tacked-on prologue illustrates atrocities the Germans inflicted upon Belgium and the subsequent entrance of the Allied nations into the Great War. Then the Read More

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