Myrna LoyFilmography

Just Tell Me What You Want

Actors: Alan King, Ali MacGraw, Dina Merrill, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for pleasure to escape his alcoholic wife, Connie (Dina Merrill). His main minx is Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw), a successful television producer who is tiring of Max's lack of Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

It Happened at Lakewood Manor

Actors: Suzanne Somers

Synopsis: Just prior to her Three's Company superstardom, Suzanne Somers played the lead in the made-for-TV meller It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Boiled down to basics, this is a rehash of Jaws, with ants (!) substituting for sharks (the film's video release title, in fact, was Ants). A summer resort full Read More

Panic at Lake Wood Manor

Synopsis: Killer ants ruin the summer holidays of vacationers visiting a posh summer resort in this horror movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Elevator

Synopsis: An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank robber suffering from claustrophobia. Fleeing from his latest crime, the criminal is forced to take an elevator, populated with the likes of Roddy McDowall, Craig Stevens, Teresa Wright Read More

Airport 1975

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

Indict and Convict

Synopsis: District Attorney Sam Belden (William Shatner) is accused of murdering his wife and lover. Belden claims it was impossible, because he was 150 miles from the murder scene and he can prove it. It is up to prosecutor Bob Mathews (George Grizzard) to blow holes into Belden's alibi -- a difficult and Read More

Ironside: All About Andrea

Synopsis: Myrna Loy guest stars as Andrea Wollcott, a pioneering feminist author. Over the years, Andrea has made many enemies--one of whom apparently hates her enough to fire a few gunshots at her. Assigned by Ironside (Raymond Burr) to protect Andrea, Fran (Elizabeth Baur) is thrilled at meeting one of Read More

The Couple Takes a Wife

Actors: Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, "B" pictures didn't die in the 1970s; they just changed their classification to "ABC Movies of the Week". First telecast December 5, 1972, The Couple Takes a Wife is a by-the-numbers screwball comedy with a spirited all-TV cast. Career-minded couple Bill Bixby and Paula Prentiss Read More

Death Takes a Holiday

Synopsis: This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name (see the above synopsis) adds little to the original story about Death assuming human form to discover why mankind fears him. In updating the story, the scenarists removed much of the "nobility" of the principal characters--and also a lot Read More

Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

Actors: Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick, Sylvia Sidney, Vince Edwards

Synopsis: Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney star as four elderly pranksters devoted to practical jokes. When one of the ladies gets hold of a computer-dating questionnaire, the others invent a mythical girl and feed the falsified information into the computer. Alas, the description Read More

The April Fools

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). Read More

Family Affair: A Helping Hand

Synopsis: Hollywood icon Myrna Loy guest stars as Adele, a once wealthy matron forced by circumstance to work as a maid. Out of the goodness of his heart, Mr. Nigel French (John Williams) helpfully covers up Adele's ineptitude, an act of largesse that backfires when Adele makes a shambles of a society Read More

From the Terrace

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

Synopsis: This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability to Read More

Midnight Lace

Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim of a mysterious stalker, who she hears but can never see. She is threatened by the eerie, high-pitched voice as she walks in the thick London fog. She then begins receiving Read More

Lonelyhearts

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Dolores Hart, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's trenchant 1933 novel. Montgomery Clift delivers a haunting performance as journalist Adam White, assigned by his cynical editor Adam Shrike (Robert Ryan) to take over a Read More

The Ambassador's Daughter

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband), De Havilland tries to dissuade narrow-minded senator Adolphe Menjou from declaring Paris "off limits" to American servicemen. One such man in uniform is sergeant John Forsythe, who Read More

Belles on Their Toes

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to Cheaper By The Dozen. After the death of her husband, Gilbreth is forced to take over as the family's primary breadwinner, but she soon discovers that not every company who hired Read More

Cheaper by the Dozen

Actors: Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is one of the freshest, funniest and most enduring "family" films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Based on the autobiographical novel by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Read More

The Red Pony

Actors: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: One of themost acclaimed films to emerge from Republic studios, The Red Pony is an adaptation of the John Steinbeck story of the same name. Top billing goes to Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, but the film's true star is young Peter Miles as Tom. A lonely farm boy, Tom seeks refuge from his Read More

If This Be Sin

Actors: Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Gerard Heinz

Synopsis: The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast as Lady Brooke, the wife of famed barrister Sir Brian Brooke (Roger Livesay). Neglected by her husband, Lady Brooke inaugurates an affair with a younger man. Meanwhile Read More

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Actors: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Louise Beavers, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Jason Robards, Sr., Lex Barker

Synopsis: Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house in the country. Armed with more enthusiasm than common sense, Blandings causes many a headache for his lawyer/business manager Melvyn Douglas, who tries to keep the costs Read More

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Actors: Irving Bacon, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, William Bakewell, Shirley Temple, Ian Bernard, Rudy Vallee, Veda Ann Borg, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do what he does best--romance a willing young lady. In this instance, the girl is Loy's own sister, played by a blossoming Shirley Temple. Aware that Temple has a serious crush on Grant Read More

The Senator Was Indiscreet

Actors: William Powell, Rodney Bell, Whit Bissell, Ella Raines, Arleen Whelan, Oliver Blake, Charles D. Brown, Claire Carleton, Peter Lind Hayes

Synopsis: Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) is a long-time congressman for whom the phrase "dumb as a log" would be fitting if one were not afraid of insulting the trees. After more than twenty years Read More

Song of the Thin Man

Actors: Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

Synopsis: In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a Read More

So Goes My Love

Actors: Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Bobby Driscoll, Richard Gaines

Synopsis: Don Ameche stars in this semi-screwball comedy as a handsome, eccentric 19th century inventor. Myrna Loy is his golddigging fiancee, who foolishly believes Ameche will make her financially secure. Love triumphs over greed, and Loy happily marries the inventor, who'll offer little in the way of Read More

The Best Years of Our Lives

Actors: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Virginia Mayo

Synopsis: The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bombadier Fred Derry (Dana Andrews) Read More

The Thin Man Goes Home

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gloria de Haven, Lucile Watson, 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

Show Business at War

Love Crazy

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates

Synopsis: William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks to a visit from mother, find their marriage on the rocks and the husband committed to a mental institution. Poised to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary, Steven (William Powell Read More

Shadow of the Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene

Synopsis: This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races". Officially retired from sleuthing, Nick Charles (William Powell) does his best to be a dutiful husband to his lovely wife Nora (Myrna Loy) and a good father to his young son Nick Read More

Third Finger, Left Hand

Actors: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman, Bonita Granville

Synopsis: This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a glamorous women's fashion magazine. To protect herself from suitors and jealous wives of businessmen, she wears a gold band on the third finger of her left hand and pretends Read More

I Love You Again

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas

Synopsis: Those popular MGM co-stars William Powell and Myrna Loy take a break from their usual Thin Man duties to star in the zany comedy I Love You Again. The film opens with Loy prepared to divorce her dull businessman husband Powell. A blow on the head causes Powell to remember his former life as a 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

Lucky Night

Actors: Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Henry O'Neill, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry O'Neill) is the prosperous owner of a successful steel mill, and the apple of his eye is his daughter Cora (Myrna Loy). Cora stands to inherit Calvin's firm, and he's taken it Read More

Another Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, C. Aubrey Smith, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever, William Powell and Myrna Loy star as sophisticated sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, with the added filip of 8-month-old Nick Charles Jr. At the invitation of munitions Read More

Man-Proof

Actors: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of Manhattan, circa 1938. Mimi Swift (Myrna Loy), the daughter of a successful romance novelist, is having no luck in getting the man she loves. Although she has made her Read More

Too Hot to Handle

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on her search for her missing brother, sensing a Read More

Test Pilot

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a courageous test pilot, who compromises his achievements with his frequent bouts of drinking. Gable's mechanic, Spencer Tracy, does what he can to keep his boss out of Read More

Parnell

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Alan Marshal

Synopsis: The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama. Charles Stewart Parnell (Clark Gable) is a politician and activist whose tireless work towards the cause of Irish independence has earned him the nickname "the Uncrowned King of Read More

Double Wedding

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for their popular appearances together in the Thin Man series. Powell is Charlie Lodge, a bohemian artist who lives in a trailer, camped in an auto parking space in a busy city. Read More

After the Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: This second of MGM's Thin Man films reteams William Powell and Myrna Loy as, respectively, bibulous private detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora. The Charleses are sucked into another murder case via Nick's lovely cousin Elissa Landi, whose husband Alan Marshall has vanished. Hubby Read More

To Mary - with Love

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Ian Hunter, Claire Trevor, Jean Dixon

Synopsis: Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven. The husband is a businessman who has rebuilt his fortune after the 1929 crash. The wife has stood by her man through thick and thin, rich and poor. Now it's 1935, and the Read More

Whipsaw

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens, William Harrigan, Clay Clement

Synopsis: Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it transports its stolen jewels from Paris to New York. Loy falls in love with Tracy, has a change of heart, and quits the gang. But Tracy arrests her all the same when he Read More

Petticoat Fever

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Reginald Owen, Otto Yamaoka, George Hassell

Synopsis: A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio operator who is stationed at a remote outpost in the frozen plains of Alaska. Dinsmore gets very little in the way of companionship, particularly of the female variety, so he's Read More

The Great Ziegfeld

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice

Synopsis: In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for legendary strongman Sandow (Nat Pendleton). With nary a penny in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held (Luise Rainer Read More

Libeled Lady

Actors: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, and William Powell star in this crackling screwball comedy about a cut-throat newspaper editor's scheme to prevent a libel suit that ends up exploding in everybody's face. Tracy plays Warren Haggerty, the managing editor of a newspaper that mistakenly prints a story Read More

Wife vs. Secretary

Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may have once harbored a secret desire for her boss, but she's perfectly content with boyfriend James Stewart. Accompanying Gable on a crucial business trip, Jean answers the Read More

Wings in the Dark

Actors: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: MGM loaned Myrna Loy to Paramount to co-star with Cary Grant in the roller coaster-paced romantic drama Wings in the Dark. Loy plays daredevil aviatrix Sheila Mason, who marries Ken Gordon (Grant), a flyer with serious aspirations to set groundbreaking world records. When Ken is accidentally Read More

Manhattan Melodrama

Actors: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered the years as one of MGM's finest examples of pure storytelling. The pageant-like story begins in 1904, when the excursion steamer "General Slocum" blows up and burns in the Read More

Evelyn Prentice

Actors: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as another husband-and-wife team knee deep in a murder mystery. In this one, Powell is John Prentice, a prominent lawyer with an eye for women other than his own wife. His Read More

Stamboul Quest

Actors: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul Quest stars Myrna Loy as a seductive espionage agent, working on behalf of the Kaiser in 1915 Istanbul. American medical student George Brent crosses Loy's path, and the two Read More

The Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell

Synopsis: Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been considered extravagant), The Thin Man proved to be "sleeper," spawning a popular film, radio, and television series. Contrary to popular belief, the title does not refer to star William Powell Read More

Men in White

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the play was still running on Broadway. Clark Gable is cast as Dr. George Ferguson, a dynamic young intern whose brilliant future seems assured. In addition to planning to study in Read More

Broadway Bill

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway Bill. Warner Baxter plays the carefree scion of a wealthy, highly-respected family. Baxter's cold but socially correct wife Helen Vinson forces her husband into the family Read More

Topaze

Actors: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, Reginald Mason

Synopsis: Producer David O. Selznick's adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical play Topaze stars John Barrymore, delivering a peerless comedy performance a full year before Howard Hawks allegedly "discovered" Barrymore's comic potential in Twentieth Century. Barrymore plays a French science teacher who is Read More

When Ladies Meet

Actors: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan

Synopsis: Henry Beaumont directed this verbose adaptation of Rachel Crother's play. Ann Harding plays Claire Woodruff, the wife of philandering publisher Rogers Woodruf (Frank Morgan). Myrna Loy is Mary Howard, a lithe and beautiful writer of novels with whom Rogers is in love. Meanwhile, her friend Jimmie Read More

Scarlet River

Actors: Billy Butts, Betty Furness, Tom Keene

Synopsis: In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic. The locals chortle and guffaw at these picture people posing as genuine Westerners, but Keene proves his worth by rescuing Dorothy Wilson from villainous ranch foreman Read More

The Prizefighter and the Lady

Actors: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Walter Huston

Synopsis: One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer) is a ex-sailor tending bar in a seedy dive when The Professor (Walter Huston), a boxing coach, sees Morgan make short work of a troublesome customer. The Professor convinces Read More

Night Flight

Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery

Synopsis: This suspense drama was based on a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Riviere (John Barrymore), who operates an air delivery service, is fanatical in his dedication to service, putting prompt delivery before the safety of his men or his fleet after receiving a contract to help transport the mail. Read More

The Barbarian

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Myrna Loy, Reginald Denny, Louise Closser Hale, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her Uncle Cecil (C. Aubrey Smith) and Aunt Powers (Louise Closser Hale). Diana is to meet her fiance Gerald (Reginald Denny) in Cairo, but she soon makes the aquaintance of Jamil Read More

Penthouse

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss Nat Pendleton. Later on, the soft-hearted Pendleton gets the opportunity to "do right" by saving Baxter's life. This redemptive move comes at the end of a complicated plot involving Baxter Read More

Love Me Tonight

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight (1932) had a profound effect on the shape of the musical genre (especially the films of Vincente Minnelli), and remains a candidate for best movie musical ever made, some Read More

New Morals for Old

Actors: Robert Young, Margaret Perry, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the youth of America. Robert Young, Myrna Loy, Donald Cook and Margaret Perry are among the freethinking young folk whose attitudes clash with those of their elders (including Lewis Stone Read More

Vanity Fair

Actors: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Walter Byron, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most memorably as the pioneering Technicolor feature Becky Sharp (1935). This 1932 version is perhaps the least known, probably because it has been updated to the 20th century Read More

The Wet Parade

Actors: Dorothy Jordan, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn, Robert Young

Synopsis: Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families from very different backgrounds. The Tarletons reside in New York City, where the family patriarch (Walter Huston) repeatedly drowns himself in liquor and local bars. The Read More

Emma

Actors: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan

Synopsis: Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper middle class family, keeping her wits about her as her employers suffer crisis after crisis. When the master of the house (Jean Hersholt), a prominent inventor, is widowed, he Read More

The Woman in Room 13

Actors: Elissa Landi, Ralph Bellamy, Neil Hamilton, Myrna Loy, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand (Gilbert Roland), is found murdered in his apartment. Having "bugged" Legrand's room with Dictaphone equipment, detective John Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), who happens to be Laura's Read More

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Actors: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on Sax Rohmer's fiction about the personification of the "yellow peril." Sir Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British Secret Service recruits Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Read More

Thirteen Women

Actors: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble began when the woman, who was of Japanese and Indian heritage, was ejected from a college sorority because she wasn't white. Still angry, the woman hires an astrologer to create Read More

The Animal Kingdom

Actors: Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Neil Hamilton

Synopsis: The first film version of Philip Barry's Broadway play The Animal Kingdom stars Ann Harding, Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy. Howard plays a wealthy publisher who decides to marry the socially prominent Loy, leaving his mistress Harding in the lurch. In comically convoluted fashion, Loy behaves like a Read More

Consolation Marriage

Actors: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Matt Moore, Lester Vail

Synopsis: Consolation Marriage (British title: Marriage in Haste) stars Irene Dunne and Pat O'Brien. When hero and heroine are jilted by their respective sweethearts Lester Vail and Myrna Loy, they marry each other on the rebound. Having already been burned around the heart, Dunne and O'Brien agree that Read More

A Connecticut Yankee

Actors: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists. Will Rogers plays the operator of a tiny radio repair shop, who is called to an old mansion to replace a battery on a dark and stormy night. Here Will meets a scientist (William Farnum Read More

Arrowsmith

Actors: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson, Clarence Brooks, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has a sleek Art Deco look strangely out of tune with its tale of moral struggle. Ronald Colman stars as Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic young doctor, who, after graduating Read More

Rebound

Actors: Ina Claire, Robert Ames, Myrna Loy, Hedda Hopper, Robert Williams

Synopsis: A man finds he's torn between two women -- which isn't a good state of affairs for a man who just got married -- in this romantic comedy-drama. Not long after Bill Truesdale (Robert Ames) ties the knot with his girlfriend Sarah Jaffrey (Ina Claire), he happens to meet Evie Lawrence (Myrna Loy), a Read More

Skyline

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Hardie Albright, Maureen O'Sullivan, Donald Dillaway, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Though he'd intended to retire when talkies came in, silent-screen matinee idol Thomas Meighan kept returning to the screen by popular demand until 1934, two years before his death. In Skyline, Meighan is cast as James McClellan, a builder specializing in Manhattan skyscrapers. Though fiercely Read More

The Naughty Flirt

Actors: Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy, Robert Agnew, Douglas Gilmore

Synopsis: The fact that The Naughty Flirt was advertised as having a 78-minute running time but was released at 57 minutes is indication enough that the picture didn't test well with preview audiences. Alice White does her usual as Kay Elliot, a footloose heiress who spends most of her time in night court Read More

Transatlantic

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, John Halliday, Greta Nissen, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the "multi-story" films of the early 1930s. As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Elissa Landi, Charles Farrell, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy, Donald Dillaway

Synopsis: This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men decided to do their part by working with the Royal Air Force. The German forces are using observation balloons to gather information about allied activities. Several American Read More

Hush Money

Actors: Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader of a gang of confidence men and petty criminals who have set up a base of operations in a large house they all share. One of Pelton's roommates is his girlfriend, Janet Read More

Renegades

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Sr., Gregory Gaye, George Cooper

Synopsis: In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi (George Cooper) are four members of a desert patrol fighting off godless villains amidst the sand dunes. The four soldiers are lured away from their mission by Eleanore (Myrna Read More

The Devil to Pay

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Florence Britton, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from home as possible. Broke again, Colman auctions off his belongings and heads for London to the less-than-open arms of his father (Frederick Kerr). He begins to dally with a Read More

Rogue of the Rio Grande

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Carmelita Geraghty, Walter Miller, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down in film history as Myrna Loy's talkie debut. Loy and Carmelita Geraghty played South-of-the-Border Belles dallying with notorious bandit El Malo (Jose Bohr) who, of course Read More

Under a Texas Moon

Actors: Frank Fay, Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy, Armida, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to seep through every frame of Under a Texas Moon. The vainglorious Fay is cast as Don Carlos, a gay caballero ("gay" meaning "carefree") whose serenades every senorita he Read More

The Great Divide

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Lucien Littlefield, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Myrna Loy

Synopsis: In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been helping to support Ruth Jordan (Dorothy Mackaill), the late man's college-age daughter. While visiting a town near the Mexican border on business, Ghent is shocked to discover Read More

The Truth About Youth

Actors: Loretta Young, David Manners, Conway Tearle, John Farrell MacDonald, Harry Stubbs

Synopsis: The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David Manners) is turning twenty-one, and his guardian, Dick Carewe (Conway Tearle) has arranged a nice surprise party for him. Unfortunately, Richard (nicknamed "Imp") never shows up Read More

Isle of Escape

Actors: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Betty Compson, Noah Beery, Sr., Ivan Simpson

Synopsis: In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom Shane (Noah Beery), an American exploring and exploiting the region. Stella has grown disenchanted with Tom, and decides to leave him in favor of dashing David Wade (Monte Read More

Bride of the Regiment

Actors: Vivienne Segal, Allan Prior, Walter Pidgeon, Louise Fazenda, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count Adrian Beltrami (Allan Prior) is an Italian nobleman who on the day of his wedding to Anna-Marie (Vivienne Segal) is driven from his estate by Austrian rebels, who turn his Read More

Last of the Duanes

Actors: George O'Brien, Myrna Loy, Walter McGrail, James Bradbury, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act of self-defense; the same man also took the life of Buck's father. However, the law isn't so sure Buck's motivations were pure, and Buck is forced to leave town one step Read More

Jazz Cinderella

Actors: Myrna Loy, Jason Robards, Sr., Nancy Welford, Dorothy Phillips

Synopsis: Nancy Welford, a minor musical-comedy lead of the early 1930s, plays the title role in this Chesterfield Studios quickie. Welford is cast as department-store model Patricia Murray, the sweetheart of wealthy Herbert Carter (Jason Robards Sr.) The hero's class-conscious mother (Dorothy Phillips) Read More

Cock O' The Walk

Actors: Joseph Schildkraut, Myrna Loy, Phillip G. Sleeman, John Beck

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, Cock O' the Walk seldom shows up in the "official" resumes of director James Cruze's career. In his third talkie appearance, Joseph Schildkraut plays callous gigolo Carlos. A violinist in a Spanish café, Carlos enjoys a brisk traffic in women, particularly wealthy married Read More

Cameo Kirby

Actors: Norma Terris, Douglas Gilmore, Robert Edeson, Charles Morton

Synopsis: This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers upon a good-hearted riverboat gambler who takes on a group of criminals in New Orleans during Mardis Gras when he rushes in to save a young woman from ruination. But she is a Read More

Fancy Baggage

Actors: Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Edmund Breese, Burr McIntosh

Synopsis: In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the market; however, as a matter of honor, he refuses to implicate his partner John Hardin (Edmund Breese), who was responsible for most of the wrong-doing. Iverson's daughter Read More

Evidence

Actors: Pauline Frederick, William Courtenay, Conway Tearle, Lowell Sherman, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an affair. He divorces her and tells her that she can never see her son again. Six long years pass. Her son sees her in a park and takes her home. Her husband immediately tosses Read More

The Black Watch

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Rollins, Roy D'Arcy, Lumsden Hare, Walter Long

Synopsis: In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned to quell a native uprising in the Northern mountains. Unfortunately, soon after arriving, he gets drunk and seemingly kills another officer during a barroom fight. He Read More

The Desert Song

Actors: John Boles, Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the evergreen Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II 2nd operetta The Desert Song. Although the results looked like a photographed stage play (a common failing of early-talkie Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

The Squall

Actors: Myrna Loy, Richard Tucker, Alice Joyce, Carroll Nye, Loretta Young

Synopsis: Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The Squall. Myrna Loy stars as Nubi, a sexy and seductive Hungarian gypsy girl who is caught in a torrential downpour. Taking refuge in a farmhouse, Nubi wreaks havoc on the male Read More

Hardboiled Rose

Synopsis: In this essentially silent drama, a cultured Southern belle must work in a gambling house after her deeply indebted father kills himself. She does so in order to pay her father's debts. In this humble place, the woman meets a handsome, charming man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away Read More

The Crimson City

Actors: Myrna Loy, Leila Hyams, John Miljan, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from justice Gregory Kent (John Miljan). Onoto falls in love with Kent, and he with her, but this is 1928, and marriage between races is still taboo. Gallantly, Onoto forsakes Kent Read More

Beware of Married Men

Actors: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Irene Rich plays the secretary to divorce lawyer Rush Hughes. Though in love with her boss, Rich resists marriage, having been soured on matrimony by Hughes' cheating clients. Meanwhile, Rich's kid-sister Myrna Loy is being squired by a married man, whose wife has dispatched detective Clyde Cook Read More

Pay As You Enter

Actors: Clyde Cook, Louise Fazenda, William Demarest, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar conductors who are rivals for the affections of waitress Mary Jones (Louise Fazenda). Myrna Loy appears in a typically exotic supporting role as Yvonne De Russo. Like many early Read More

The Midnight Taxi

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Helene Costello, Tom Dugan, William Russell, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Anticipating Robert DeNiro by nearly fifty years, New York cabdriver "Taxi" Driscoll (Antonio Moreno) prefers to drive his dilapidated hack in the dead of night. Unlike DeNiro, Driscoll picks up extra folding money by agreeing to transport bootleg booze. It isn't long before our none-too-ethical Read More

Noah's Ark

Actors: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Sr., Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Louise Fazenda, Paul McAllister

Synopsis: Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the end, Curtiz' treatise of man's inhumanity to man was ironically sabotaged by the enormous success of yet another studio release, the groundbreaking The Jazz Singer (1927). Read More

Turn Back the Hours

Actors: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Sam Hardy, Josef Swickard, Sheldon Lewis

Synopsis: Warner Bros. contractees Myrna Loy and Walter Pidgeon were "borrowed" by low-budget Lumas pictures for the 1928 military drama Turn Back the Hours. Based on the venerable stage play by Edward E. Rose, the film stars Pidgeon as a Naval officer who is dishonorably discharged for cowardice. While Read More

State Street Sadie

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: When unassuming clerk Tom Blake (Conrad Nagel) is framed with the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery, the innocent pawn briefly eludes the authorities before committing suicide. Arriving at the scene just as Tom breathes his final breath, twin brother Ralph vows to avenge Read More

A Girl in Every Port

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Casajuana, Dorothy Mathews, Natalie Joyce, Sally Rand

Synopsis: The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director Howard Hawks will be delighted. Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong play Spike and Salami, two sailors who become close pals but only after dukeing it out over a dame. Read More

The Jazz Singer

Actors: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugénie Besserer, William Demarest, Otto Lederer

Synopsis: On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound system. Warners' first Vitaphone release, Don Juan, was a silent film accompanied by music and sound effects. The studio took the Vitaphone process one step farther in its 1927 Read More

If I Were Single

Actors: May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, André Beranger

Synopsis: Though he's perfectly happy with his wife May (May McAvoy), Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) isn't above a little flirtation with another girl named Joan (Myrna Loy). Not too pleased with Ted's roving eye -- especially since her "rival" is also her best friend -- May cooks up a plan to cure him of his Read More

The Heart of Maryland

Synopsis: The David Belasco play had been filmed twice previously, in 1915 and in 1921, before Warner Bros. made this version with the fetching Dolores Costello in the role made famous by Mrs. Leslie Carter. Maryland Calvert (Costello) is a true belle of the South, so when the Civil War breaks out, there is Read More

The Girl From Chicago

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Myrna Loy, William Russell, Carroll Nye, Paul Panzer

Synopsis: The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than from the silent era. It's an early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy. Southern girl Mary Carlton (Loy) finds out that her brother, Bob (Carroll Nye), is going to the electric Read More

Bitter Apples

Actors: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Paul Ellis, Charles Hill Mailes, Sidney de Grey

Synopsis: One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John Wyncotte. Hoping to get even with her faithless sweetheart, Belinda White (Myrna Loy) marries John out of spite. She makes it clear that she does not love John, and she never Read More

Finger Prints

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Warner P. Richmond, Helene Costello, John T. Murray

Synopsis: Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house melodrama. A professional crook is collared by the law, but not before squirreling away a fortune in hidden money in a crumbling country mansion. The crook's sister is Read More

Climbers

Actors: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Forrest Stanley, Flobelle Fairbanks, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in contemporary America, the 1927 movie version was transplanted to the Spanish Empire, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII (Max Barwyn). In her efforts to enrich herself and Read More

Ham and Eggs at the Front

Actors: Tom Wilson, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: In later years, Myrna Loy would dismiss her participation in Ham and Eggs at the Front as "shameful." Filmed in a far less racially conscious era, the story involves two African American WW I doughboys, played by a pair of white actors in blackface. Ham (Tom Wilson) and Eggs (Heinie Conklin) go Read More

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest, John Miljan

Synopsis: It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team, which would explain the existence of such trifles as A Sailor's Sweetheart. Upon inheriting a fortune, old-maid schoolmarm Cynthia Botts (Fazenda) takes a trip to Hawaii in Read More

Simple Sis

Actors: William Demarest, Myrna Loy, Billy Kent Schaeffer, Cathleen Calhoun

Synopsis: The title refers to ugly-duckling heroine Louise Fazenda, who sweats and strains at a hand laundry. One fine day, shy truckdriver Clyde Cook shows up at the establishment with a load of grimy clothes. He takes one look at Fazenda, and it's love at first sight. That's about all there is to the Read More

Don Juan

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Warner Oland, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Read More

So This Is Paris

Actors: Monte Blue, Lilyan Tashman, André Beranger, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch's So This is Paris stars Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller as a doctor and his wife. The couple is as faithful as the day is long--but when a dance team comprised of Lilyan Tashman and Andre Beranger make the scene, the days grow mighty short. Blue, Miller, Tashman and Berander spend Read More

The Caveman

Actors: Matt Moore, Marie Prevost, John Patrick, Myrna Loy, Phyllis Haver

Synopsis: Back in the 1920's, "caveman" was a slang term for a man who treated women rough and made 'em love it. We have other names for this sort of fellow today, but those names couldn't be shown on screen back in 1926. Matt Moore plays a rough-and-tumble coal delivery man who through a fluke finds Read More

Why Girls Go Back Home

Actors: Patsy Ruth Miller, Clive Brook

Synopsis: Country lass Patsy Ruth Miller is swept off her feet by citified actor Clive Brook when the latter's touring troupe takes up residence in the hotel run by Miller's pop. Both lovestruck and stagestruck, our heroine follows Brook to New York, where she ends up getting a job as a chorus girl. She Read More

Across the Pacific

Actors: Monte Blue

Synopsis: This melodrama, which involves the Philippine revolt during the final years of the 1800s, was based on a popular play from the same era by Charles E. Blaney. After his father brings disgrace on his family, Monte (Monte Blue) joins the Spanish-American War and goes with his regiment to the Read More

The Gilded Highway

Actors: Maclyn Arbuckle, Florence Turner, Mathilde Comont, Myrna Loy, John Harron

Synopsis: "Love of money is the root of all evil." That's the message conveyed to the audience with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in The Gilded Highway. This is the story of the Welby family: Papa (Macklyn Arbuckle), Mama (Florence Turner), daughter Primrose (Dorothy Devore) and son Jack (John Harron). The Read More

The Exquisite Sinner

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Paulette Duval, Frank Currier, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen. Adapted by Alice Duer Miller Read More

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key, Carmel Myers

Synopsis: The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version of Ben Hur, it was the unvarnished truth--and the filmmakers had the scars to prove it. The story behind the film is now part of Hollywood folklore: the cast and production Read More

Pretty Ladies

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall

Synopsis: This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie (ZaSu Pitts) is the Follies comedienne, and she envies all the other girls in the show -- the pretty ladies with their sweethearts. She knows she's only there for the Read More