Mary BrianFilmography

Danger! Women at Work

Synopsis: A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins when they agree to haul some gambling equipment to Vegas, get caught and tossed into the hoosegow. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Escaped from the Gestapo

Actors: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, Bill Henry, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer. Dean Jagger stars as Lane, an imprisoned counterfeiter who is sprung from jail by a group of sinister-looking gentlemen. It soon develops that Lane is expected to apply his Read More

Passport to Heaven

Calaboose

Actors: Jimmy Rogers, Mary Brian, Paul Hurst

Synopsis: Though the 45-minute Calaboose was the second of three Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming Jimmy Rogers (son of Will) and Noah Beery Jr., it was the third to be released. Rogers and Beery play a couple of laid-back itinerant cowobys who wander into a small western town. Here they meet sheriff's Read More

The Affairs of Cappy Ricks

Actors: Walter Brennan, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot, Frank Shields, Frank Melton

Synopsis: Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters' romances awry and his business in disarray, so he schemes with Bill (Lyle Talbot) to trap everyone aboard Cappy's yacht. Later, they fake a fire to maroon everyone on an island Read More

Weekend Millionaire

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, W.H. Berry, John Harwood, Norah Gale

Synopsis: In this Paris-set comedy, a clerk gets a chance of a lifetime when he is unable to deposit his firm's receipts before the bank closes and has to keep the money over the weekend. He decides to have a little fun and uses the money to fool a fake countess into believing that he too is wealthy. Though Read More

Navy Blues

Actors: Dick Purcell, Mary Brian, Warren Hymer, Joe Sawyer, Edward Woods

Synopsis: A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval Academy to catch her eye. Unfortunately for him, she is not so easily fooled. He immediately changes his story and "admits" that he is actually a Navy spy. Enemy spies, who Read More

Spendthrift

Actors: Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, Mary Brian, June Brewster, George Barbier

Synopsis: Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The Lanky One is cast as a profligate, polo-playing playboy, married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the Read More

Killer at Large

Actors: Mary Brian, Russell Hardie, Betty Compson, George McKay, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: A small community is terrorized by an unknown serial killer, one "Mr. Zero," who has held the populace in thrall for several weeks. The mysterious murderer takes refuge in the storage area of a department store, where Linda Allen (Mary Brian) works as a store detective. When jewelry-department Read More

Once in a Million

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian, who'd previously co-starred in several Hollywood silent pictures, were reteamed in the British comedy Once in a Million. The all-American Rogers is somewhat unconvincingly cast as Pierre, a Parisian clerk who is reluctantly entrusted with five million francs. Read More

Three Married Men

Actors: Lynne Overman, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, George Barbier, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: The Three Married Men are Peter Cary (Roscoe Karns), Bill Mullens (William Frawley) and Bill's brother Jeff (Lynne Overman). Actually, at the beginning of the story, Peter is about to wed Jeff and Bill's sister Jennie (Mary Brian). Not wishing to invite Peter into their family, the Mullens boys Read More

The Amazing Adventure

Actors: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion

Synopsis: Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a rare return trip to England, Cary Grant plays the heir to a huge fortune. Alas, Grant is miserable, because he's never worked for his money. Determined to prove his Read More

Two's Company

Actors: Ned Sparks, Olive Blakeney, Mary Brian, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel fashion, with the antics of American businessman B. G. Madison (Henry Holman) and his family and associates mirrored and sometimes anticipated by the behavior of Madison's British Read More

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Actors: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Vera Lewis

Synopsis: W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second time only to provide a mother for his pretty daughter (Mary Brian). What he got was an overbearing harpy of a wife (Kathleen Howard), a fussy and imperious mother-in-law (Vera Lewis Read More

Charlie Chan in Paris

Actors: Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes, John Miljan

Synopsis: The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his first appearance as Charlie Chan's (Warner Oland) "Number One Son" Lee. Summoned to Paris by undercover agent Nardi (Dorothy Appleby), Honolulu detective Chan hopes to get the Read More

Shadows of Sing Sing

Actors: Mary Brian, Bruce Cabot, Grant Mitchell, Harry Woods, Claire Du Brey

Synopsis: Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering, except that Muriel is the sister of gangster boss Rossi (Harry Woods). The latter frames Martel for murder, but the police forensics lab provides a surprising solution to his Read More

Monte Carlo Nights

Synopsis: In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fog

Actors: Donald Cook, Mary Brian, Reginald Denny, Helen Freeman

Synopsis: This complicated murder mystery is set aboard a fog-bound ocean liner. Eccentric millionaire Alonzo Holt (Robert McQuarrie) is the first victim, knocked off for his vast fortune. Two more murders occur before phony medium Madame Alva (Helen Freeman) offers to help solve the mystery. Alas, the Read More

Private Scandal

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody

Synopsis: Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role. In Paramount's Private Scandal, Pitts is top-billed as Miss Coates, the fey secretary of hotshot young executive Cliff Barry (Philips Holmes). Accused of murdering his boss Read More

Ever Since Eve

Synopsis: George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old fogies, young heir Neil Rogers (O'Brien) reaches adulthood totally unschooled in the ways of women. He heads to New York, where he instantly falls in love with gorgeous Read More

College Rhythm

Actors: Joe Penner, Lanny Ross, Jack Oakie, Helen Mack, Lyda Roberti

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited gridiron hero whose prowess on the football field is exceeded only by his appreciation of the ladies. But his strutting manner and accompanying overbearing ego have alienated Read More

Hard to Handle

Actors: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly, Allen Jenkins, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick buck. He promotes marathon dances (where spectators feel cheated because no one drops dead), crash diets, reducing creams and treasure contests, finagling his way into the Read More

One Year Later

Actors: Mary Brian, Russell Hopton, Donald Dillaway, George Irving, Will Ahern

Synopsis: In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides with him and en route tells a reporter how her husband had accidentally killed a man while protecting her. The reporter, who is dying of tuberculosis, is touched by the story Read More

Song of the Eagle

Actors: Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Jean Hersholt, Mary Brian, Louise Dresser

Synopsis: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery. Their tiny beer- making operation was first jeopardized by the racketeers they refused to join. Read More

Moonlight and Pretzels

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson, Bobby Watson

Synopsis: Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way into a job at a music store owned by Sally Upton (Mary Brian). Dwight's personality and piano playing, and his way with plugging a song help make the store a success, but his Read More

The World Gone Mad

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the story of a reporter who discovers that the District Attorney is going to be murdered by some high-rolling Wall Streeters. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Passport to Heaven

Girl Missing

Actors: Ben Lyon, Glenda Farrell, Mary Brian, Peggy Shannon, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl" Clara Bow. Shannon plays Daisy Bradford, a chorine who mysteriously disappears after dallying with millionaire Henry Gibson (Ben Lyon). Not only has Daisy gone missing, the Read More

It's Tough to Be Famous

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Brian, Oscar Apfel, Walter Catlett, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel The Goldfish Bowl was turned into a satirical comedy-drama featuring an engaging Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a navy captain thrust into the limelight after saving his crew Read More

Blessed Event

Actors: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell--and like most such films, its title is based on a Winchell tag line. Lee Tracy plays a glib-tongued reporter who is conducting a feud with popular singer Dick Powell (making Read More

Manhattan Tower

Actors: Mary Brian, Irene Rich, James Hall, Hale Hamilton, Noel Francis

Synopsis: This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank failures, love scenes and odd clerks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Unwritten Law

Actors: Greta Nissen, Mary Brian, Louise Fazenda, Lew Cody

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those involved have good reason to kill him. The murder occurred on a ship bound for a new location; all the suspects are aboard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gun Smoke

Actors: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William "Stage" Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Charles Winninger

Synopsis: William Boyd is one of the stars of the Paramount western Gun Smoke -- only it's not the same William Boyd who later essayed the role of Hopalong Cassidy, but another actor who billed himself as William "Stage" Boyd. The plot was a familiar one to western devotees of the early 1930s: a bunch of Read More

Captain Applejack

Synopsis: This British remake of 1923's Captain Applejack follows the courageous exploits of a mild mannered citizen who fights back when robbers break into his house in search of treasure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Runaround

Actors: Geoffrey Kerr, Mary Brian, Johnny Hines, Marie Prevost, Joseph Cawthorn

Synopsis: Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Mary Brian, who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines. Though she's sorely tempted to accept a $1000 bracelet from an elderly admirer, Brian turns down the gift when she Read More

The Front Page

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit stars Adolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns and Pat O'Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of getting married and retiring from Burns' dirty little tabloid, but Read More

The Homicide Squad

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Noah Beery, Sr., Mary Brian, Russell Gleason, George Brent

Synopsis: In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster. Meanwhile a police captain searches for the gangsters who murdered his son. The gangster's crooked son, wanting to stay out of jail for killing the cop's son, offers to help Read More

Only Saps Work

Actors: Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin, Anderson Lawler

Synopsis: Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) Read More

The Light of Western Stars

Actors: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Fred Kohler, Harry Green, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: The Light of Western Stars goes a long way towards using Paramount's fledgling sound system creatively; some scenes are filmed in complete darkness, allowing voices and sound effects to carry the day. Otherwise, this is a pleasantly familiar western concerning the relationship between Read More

Only the Brave

Actors: Gary Cooper, Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading as a Confederate sympathizer who has obtained important Union plans, he eventually lands at the plantation of home of a southern belle with whom he falls in love. Her love Read More

The Social Lion

Actors: Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, Olive Borden, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo instead so he can impress an extremely wealthy young woman who merely considers him amusing. The poor social climbing fellow soon learns that she is only toying with his Read More

The Royal Family of Broadway

Actors: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, Charles Starrett

Synopsis: Royal Family of Broadway was an abridged but otherwise literal translation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber Broadway hit The Royal Family. The title referred not to kings and queens but to a prominent theatrical family named Cavendish--based none too loosely on the famed Barrymore clan. Ina Claire Read More

Paramount on Parade

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, William Austin, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft

Synopsis: Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of practically everyone on the Paramount Pictures payroll. Under the supervision of British musical-comedy favorite Elsie Janis, 11 top directors contributed to the project: Dorothy Arzner Read More

Navy Blues

Actors: William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane, J.C. Nugent, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: MGM house director Clarence Brown's first all-talkie, this pleasantly innocuous comedy drama stars William Haines as Jack Kelly, a carefree sailor picking up innocent Alice Brown (Anita Page) at a Ladies' Uplift Society Dance. Their whirlwind romance, however, ends abruptly when the girl's mother (Edythe Chapman Read More

Burning Up

Actors: Mary Brian, Francis McDonald, Sam Hardy, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning Up. In emulation of the late movie idol Wally Reid, Arlen is cast as daredevil race-car driver Lou Larrigan. Much to the dismay of his sweetheart Ruth Morgan (Brian) Read More

The Man I Love

Actors: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Olga Baclanova, Leslie Fenton, Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Bearing no relation to the popular torch song of the same name, The Man I Love is a prizefight picture, courtesy of Paramount production exec David O. Selznick. Richard Arlen stars as Dum-Dum Brooks, a tank-town boxer who journeys to New York in hopes of cracking the Big Time. Along for the ride Read More

River of Romance

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Brian, June Collyer, Wallace Beery

Synopsis: In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his father's land. There he falls in love with a pretty belle and gets engaged; he does not realize that her younger sister is also in love with him. Trouble begins when his fiancee's Read More

Black Waters

Actors: James Kirkwood, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Produced in Hollywood by Herbert Wilcox, who had been unable to obtain sound equipment in London, this "haunted house" (actually "haunted houseboat") mystery-thriller was nevertheless Great Britain's first "all-talkie." John Loder, the only Englishman involved besides Wilcox, and Mary Brian find Read More

The Kibitzer

Actors: Harry Green, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, David Newell, Lee Kohlmar

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the Read More

The Virginian

Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the gamblers and intones, "If you want to call me that . . . smile." That much quoted line's origin is in this early sound version of the Owen Wister novel, The Virginian, directed by Victor Fleming Read More

The Marriage Playground

Actors: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Kay Francis

Synopsis: In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live life in the fast-lane. She is saved by an American who has come to Italy for vacation. He becomes her friend, and the children come to adore him. They eventually fall in Read More

Big Killing

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Anders Randolph, Mary Brian, Gardner James

Synopsis: A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this rollicking comedy concerning a pair of nitwits who unwittingly become embroiled in an age old feud between two mountain families. When snake-oil salesmen Pete (Beery) and Gus Read More

Harold Teen

Actors: Mary Brian, Arthur Lake, Lucien Littlefield, Jack Duffy

Synopsis: Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving in the big city to attend high school, the bumptious Harold soon becomes the most popular boy in class. This gives our hero carte blanche to indulge in all sorts of comic Read More

Varsity

Actors: Charles Rogers, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: Charles Rogers and Mary Brian, Paramount Pictures' cutest couple, are starred in the collegiate drama Varsity. Amazingly, the film does not include a football game, or even a football team. The story concerns the romance between college boy Jimmy Duffy (Arlen) and carnival girl Fay (Mary Brian). Read More

Someone to Love

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, William Austin, Jack Oakie, James Kirkwood

Synopsis: Paramount's popular screen team of Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian were once again cinematically united in 1928's Someone to Love. Rogers plays William Shelby, a struggling young sheet-music salesman, while Brian is Joan Kendricks, his wealthy sweetie. Thanks to a series of bizarre Read More

Under the Tonto Rim

Actors: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian

Synopsis: The frequently filmed Zane Grey story Under the Tonto Rim was again brought to the silver screen by Paramount in 1928. Opening with an exciting gold rush sequence, the story settles down in a prosperous mining camp, where the prospectors are forever at the mercy of murderous claim jumpers. To Read More

Partners in Crime

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, William Powell, Jack Luden

Synopsis: Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a half-bright gumshoe, and Scoop McGee, his equally dim-witted journalist pal. While on the trail of a group of gangsters, Doolan and McGee unwittingly fall in with a group of Read More

Forgotten Faces

Actors: Clive Brook, Mary Brian, Olga Baclanova, William Powell, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope Harry" Harlow (Clive Brook) is a stick-up man who, after robbing a gambling den with his partner Froggy (William Powell), returns home to discover his wife Lily (Olga Baclanova) Read More

High Hat

Actors: Sam Hardy, Mary Brian, Lucien Prival, Osgood Perkins

Synopsis: Busy character actor Sam Hardy was afforded a rare starring role when he played the title character in High Hat. Despite his ritzy nickname, High Hat is a mere movie dress extra at First National Pictures (where the film was shot). Even so, he regards himself as the studio pundit, dispensing Read More

Her Father Said No

Actors: Mary Brian, Danny O'Shea, Al Cooke, Kit Guard, John Steppling

Synopsis: Prizefighter Danny Martin (Danny O'Shea) wants to marry pretty Charlotte Hamilton (Mary Brian), but her wealthy father John (John Steppling) refuses to consider such a match. Things begin to go badly for Danny in the boxing ring, forcing him to hang up his gloves and assume the management of a Read More

Two Flaming Youths

Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian, Jack Luden, George Irving

Synopsis: Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a tantalizing peek at this long-lost effort. Fields is cast as Gabby Gilfoil, owner of "Gilfoil's Nonpareil Circus," a dog-and-pony operation that must forever stay one step Read More

Knockout Reilly

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Harry Gribbon, Osgood Perkins

Synopsis: Steelworker Dundee Reilly (Richard Dix) comes to the defense of Mary Malone (Mary Brian), who is being annoyed by a brawny masher. Reilly knocks the cad out, but only later does he realize that he's just k.o.'d heavyweight boxing champion Killer Agera (Jack Renault). Mary's brother Pat (Harry Gribbon Read More

Shanghai Bound

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Charles Byer, George Irving, Jocelyn Lee

Synopsis: This rugged Richard Dix vehicle casts the star as rough-and-tumble sea captain Jim Bucklin. Landing at a Chinese port, Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all Read More

Man Power

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Philip Strange, Charles Hill Mailes, Oscar Smith

Synopsis: This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is Roberts' mission to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood. The hero's odyssey is fraught with peril as he burrows Read More

Running Wild

Actors: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Claud Buchanan, Marie Shotwell, Barnett Raskin

Synopsis: Running Wild bears a marked resemblance to One Glorious Day, a 1923 Will Rogers vehicle. W.C. Fields stars as a henpecked family man, browbeaten both at home and at work. Only his daughter Mary Brian truly cares about Fields, and he reciprocates by showering most of his familial affection on her. Read More

Brown of Harvard

Actors: Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Mary Alden, David Torrence

Synopsis: While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in this genre, even more significantly it is an early example of the buddy film. Never mind the romance between Harvard undergrad Tom Brown (William Haines) and professor's Read More

Behind the Front

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Behind the Front is a raucous silent vehicle for Paramount's Mutt-and-Jeff comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The film begins during the early months of World War I; myopic detective Beery chases pickpocket Hatton into an "enlistment" party held by pretty socialite Mary Brian. The Read More

Prince of Tempters

Actors: Lois Moran, Ben Lyon, Lya de Putti, Ian Keith, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two Benedictine monks, the virtuous Francis (Ben Lyon) and the wavering Mario (Ian Keith). With papal dispensation, Francis is voluntarily released from his vows to assume the Read More

Beau Geste

Actors: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the foreign legion. Beau is the youngest of three brothers who fall into an ethical dilemma when their aunt resorts to stealing valuable jewelry from the family's collection to Read More

Paris at Midnight

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Mary Brian, Edmund Burns

Synopsis: Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood of Paris," who robs from the rich and keeps it all for himself. When his best friend dies in a shabby boarding house, Barrymore promises to look after the friend's Read More

More Pay-Less Work

Synopsis: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who had recently graduated from Paramount's talent school, has one of the leads in this comedy-drama, based on a Peter B. Kyne "Cappy Ricks" story. Ship owner Cappy Ricks (Albert Gran) is in fierce competition with his rival, Hinchfield (E.J. Ratcliffe). This threatens to Read More

The Enchanted Hill

Actors: Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, Noah Beery, Sr., George Bancroft, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went his rivals one better by incorporating a machine gun into a fight against a neighboring rancher who is out to ruin him. Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill Read More

Stepping Along

Actors: Dan Mason, William Gaxton, Lee Beggs, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: Effervescent comic actor Johnny Hines stars as Johnny Rooney, an East Side newspaper vendor who suddenly develops the political itch. Running for the office of assemblyman, Johnny finds himself nose to nose with Boss O'Brien's (Lee Beggs) corrupt party machine, not to mention an insufferably Read More

A Regular Fellow

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Mary Brian, Edgar Norton, Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis: Breezy Raymond Griffith became a full-fledged screen star with this highly entertaining comedy. Alexis (Griffith), the prince of a European principality, is run ragged by his many duties -- trivialities such as christening ships, kissing babies, reviewing troops, and the like. But when he meets a Read More

Street of Forgotten Men

Actors: Percy Marmont, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, John Harrington, Juliet Brenon

Synopsis: This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery saloon where, in a back room, men disguise themselves as cripples so they can beg for money. Their leader is Easy Money Charlie (Percy Marmont), who pretends to have only one Read More

The Little French Girl

Actors: Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, Esther Ralston, Anthony Jowitt

Synopsis: This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley (Anthony Jowett) tells his fiancée, Toppie Westmacott (Esther Ralston), that his leave has been canceled so that he can spend time with the seductive Madame Vervier (Alice Read More

The Air Mail

Actors: Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, Mary Brian, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Irving

Synopsis: By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to steal some valuable cargo, but soon enough the job begins to have a positive effect on him. When his plane has to make a force landing, he meets Alice Rendon (Billie Dove, who Read More

Peter Pan

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson Read More