Ramon NovarroFilmography

Combat!: Finest Hour

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Viennese actress Luise Rainer makes her first Hollywood appearance since the 1943 theatrical film Hostages in this episode, in which she is cast as French countess Loraine De Roy. Wounded in combat, Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) is forced to take refuge in the servant's quarters of the Read More

Combat!: Silver Service

Synopsis: While stopping at a rest camp, Kirby (Jack Hogan) is shaken out of his temporary complacency by a surprise German attack. Making his escape, Kirby teams up with Harry White (Mickey Rooney), a pugnacious truck driver who jealously guards the locked duffel bag in the back of his vehicle. It turns Read More

Heller in Pink Tights

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: The talents of the cast and director George Cukor (A Star Is Born, My Fair Lady), combine to bring off this otherwise routine Western based on a Louis L'Amour novel. Sophia Loren is Angela Rossini, a woman who seems to create the situations she gets into, and Anthony Quinn is the strong, silent Read More

Elfego Baca: Lawman or Gunman

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, former gunslinger Baca (Robert Loggia) is now studying law under Santa Fe attorney J. Henry Newman (James Dunn). During this period, Elfego butts up against a crooked judge named Hargreaves (Carl Benton Reid), who throws our Read More

Elfego Baca: Law and Order Inc.

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) has been made a partner in the Sante Fe law firm run by J. Henry Newman (James Dunn). In this capacity, Elfego again comes to the aid of rancher Don Estaban Miranda (Gilbert Read More

The Outriders

Actors: Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman, Jr., James Whitmore

Synopsis: MGM went into the western-programmer business relatively late in the game, but made up for lost time with such laudable efforts as The Outriders. Joel McCrea stars as one of three Confederate soldiers who escape from a northern prison compound. The three men join a wagon train, hoping to capture a Read More

Crisis

Actors: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the single element that keeps Crisis afloat. While vacationing in a politically unstable Latin American country, Ferguson and his wife, Helen (Paula Raymond), find themselves the Read More

We Were Strangers

Actors: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: Set in the Cuba of 1933, We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as revolutionary-minded Tony Fenner. A member of an underground movement dedicated to toppling the despotic Machado regime, Tony supervises the booby-trapping of a cemetery where several top Cuban officials are planning to converge for Read More

The Big Steal

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: This breezy and unpretentious film noir from director Don Siegel starts off with fireworks. Duke Holliday (Robert Mitchum), an American army lieutenant, is on his way to Mexico by boat when he's confronted in his cabin by Blake (William Bendix), gun in hand, who plans on taking him back to the Read More

La Virgen Que Forjo Una Patria

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Domingo Soler, Gloria Marin

Synopsis: La Virgen que Forjo una Patria (Saint That Forged a Country) is one of several Mexican films inspired by the 16th-century sighting of the Virgin Mary -- a phenomenon that abruptly ended hostilities between the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztec Indians and spearheaded the spread of Catholicism Read More

A Desperate Adventure

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Marian Marsh, Margaret Tallichet, Eric Blore, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited. Their ploy works beautifully, and he becomes famous. Unfortunately, it is an embarrassing picture of his dream girl and he Read More

The Sheik Steps Out

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Lola Lane, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world. Meanwhile, the spoiled daughter of a corkscrew magnate bets her British betrothed that she can find a horse that can beat any nag in his stable. She and her father then set out Read More

The Night Is Young

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Based on a story by Vicki Baum, the Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein operetta The Night is Young is set in Vienna during the Franz Josef era. To cover up an affair with the married Countess Rafay (Rosalind Russell), Archduke Gustave (Ramon Novarro), the emperor's nephew, feigns a romance with Read More

Laughing Boy

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Lupe Velez

Synopsis: There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing Boy. The title character is a young and impressionable Native American, played by Ramon Novarro. Laughing Boy marries Slim Girl (Lupe Velez), a fellow tribesperson who had Read More

The Cat and the Fiddle

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Based on the stage musical by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, The Cat and the Fiddle stars Jeanette MacDonald as a music student and Ramon Novarro as a struggling composer. When the leading lady walks out of Victor's (Novarro) upcoming operetta, the star's husband pulls his financial support. The 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

Mata Hari

Actors: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: "So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to death. Morley's successor is exotic dancer Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), an enigmatic woman of Javanese-Dutch ancestry who seldom thinks twice about luring some poor swain to his Read More

The Huddle

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge

Synopsis: In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football field to become popular. His ploy doesn't work. He cannot even con the girl of his dreams into going out with him. After four years, he finally grows up and his future begins Read More

The Son-Daughter

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Helen Hayes, Warner Oland, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising has occurred and the rulers of the Ch'ing dynasty have been overthrown and a new president, Sun Yat-Sen, has risen to power. In order to aide the anti-royalist Read More

Le Chanteur De Seville

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzy Vernon, Ramon Novarro, Georges Mauloy, Mathilde Comont

Synopsis: Le Chanteur de Seville is the French-language version of the Technicolor MGM musical drama Call of the Flesh. Ramon Novarro repeats his role as Juan, a young aspiring singer who is advised that he will never achieve greatness until his heart is broken. He learns the truth of this admonition when 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

Daybreak

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith, William Bakewell

Synopsis: A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi Kasder (Ramon Novarro) is a lieutenant in the Austrian Army who one night picks up an innocent young woman named Laura Taub (Helen Chandler). Willi shares several drinks Read More

In Gay Madrid

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Lottice Howell, Claude King, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off the singing talents of silent-screen idol Ramon Novarro. The star is cast as Ricardo, a young, headstrong student in love with cabaret girl Goyita (Lottice Howell). Trouble Read More

Call of the Flesh

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Nance O'Neil, Renée Adorée

Synopsis: The last of three back-to-back Ramon Novarro musicals, Call of the Flesh (aka The Singer of Seville) casts the star as aspiring opera singer Juan. Juan is advised by his mentor Esteban (Ernest Torrence) that he will never truly be a great singer until his heart is broken. This comes about when our Read More

The Flying Fleet

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Eddie Nugent, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the crippling accident that ended his naval career (Wead's life story was later romanticized in the 1957 John Ford picture The Wings of Eagles). Evidently, Wead's favorite story Read More

The Pagan

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis

Synopsis: In this early talkie, a musical, a Polynesian storekeeper bears his chest and sings. He also falls in love with an island girl and rescues her from a lecher who tries to force her into a marriage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Flying Feet

Synopsis: This drama tells the victories and defeats of 6 U.S. Navy Academy graduates at flying school working to win their wings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Devil May Care

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Marion Harris, John Miljan, William Humphrey

Synopsis: This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is arrested and slated for execution. He is before the firing squad, but manages to escape. To hide, he dashes into the bedroom of a bedazzling Royalist. He falls in love, but Read More

Across to Singapore

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier, Dan Wolheim

Synopsis: Across to Singapore was the second screen version of Ben Ames Williams' All the Brothers Were Valiant, first filmed in 1923, and later remade in 1953. The plot is motivated by the deadly rivalry between two seafaring brothers, virtuous deckhand Joel Shore (Ramon Novarro) and wicked Captain Mark Read More

Certain Young Man

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Renée Adorée, Carmel Myers, Bert Roach

Synopsis: The "certain young man" of the title is Lord Gerald Brinsley, played by Ramon Novarro. A carefree young bachelor, Lord Gerald enjoys the company of married women, which makes him exceedingly unpopular with married men. After dallying with such women of the world as Henrietta (Renee Adoree) and Read More

Forbidden Hours

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Connelly, Alberta Vaughn

Road to Romance

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc MacDermott, Roy D'Arcy, Cesare Gravina

Synopsis: The Road to Romance is a heavily Hollywoodized adaptation of the Joseph Conrad/Ford Maddox Ford novel Romance (which served as the film's title in Great Britain). Ramon Novarro stars as Jose Armando, a Spanish dragoon captain who goes undercover to save the fair Seranida (Marceline Day) from a Read More

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable songs. Director Ernst Lubitsch fashioned a gloriously schmaltzy, delightfully artificial rendition of the 1924 Lehar opera, which in turn was based on the 1902 play In Old Read More

Lovers?

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Edward Martindel, Edward Connelly, George K. Arthur

Synopsis: The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, who previously co-starred in Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda and The Arab, are herein reteamed as Ernesto and Teodora, respectively. Teodora is the new young wife of 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

A Lover's Oath

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Kathleen Key, Edwin Stevens, Hedwig Reicher

Synopsis: Artistic backgrounds and trick photography were the draws in this romantic drama, based on The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As Ben Ali, Ramon Novarro practically disappears in the midst of all the camera work and set design, as does his co-star Kathleen Key (who, incidentally, was a descendent of Read More

The Midshipman

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Harriet Hammond, Wesley Barry, Margaret Seddon, Crauford Kent

Synopsis: Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the graduation ceremony -- were actually shot at Annapolis Naval Academy. James Randall (Ramon Novarro) enters the Academy and befriends freshman Ted Lawrence (Wesley Barry). Read More

Red Lily

Actors: Enid Bennett, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery, Frank Currier, Rosemary Theby

Synopsis: After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean Leonnec, the mayor's son (Ramon Novarro). Before they can be married, however, they are separated. Marise sinks from working as a waitress to toiling as scrubwoman to the Read More

Thy Name Is Woman

Actors: William V. Mong, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, Wallace MacDonald, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr, the featured players who made such an impression in The Prisoner of Zenda, reunite in this drama as stars. Juan Ricardo (Novarro) is a soldier in the Spanish army. He is offered a promotion to sergeant if he will seduce Guerrita (LaMarr), the young wife of Pedro Read More

The Arab

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Maxudian, Gerald Robertshaw, Jean de Limur

Synopsis: Rex Ingram, one of the major directors in American silent cinema, helmed this sweeping drama about Jamil Abdullah Azarn (Ramon Novarro), a hot-blooded Bedouin outcast from his family after he disobeys his father and stages a raid on an oasis during an Islamic holy feast. With nowhere to go, Jamil Read More

My American Wife

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Antonio Moreno, Josef Swickard, Eric Mayne, Gino Corrado

Synopsis: Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher Josef Swickard, Gloria is romanced by handsome aristocrat Antonio Moreno. This one has the whole shootin' match: duels, blood feuds, midnight trysts, and a pulse-pounding Read More

Where the Pavement Ends

Actors: Edward Connelly, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Harry T. Morey, John George

Synopsis: This romance, based on The Passionate Vine by John Russell, displays Ramon Novarro's masculine beauty to full effect. Pastor Spencer (Edward Connelly) is a missionary in the South Seas. His daughter, Matilda (Alice Terry), would prefer to return to civilization, but Spencer wants to convert not Read More

Scaramouche

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham, Julia Swayne Gordon, William Humphrey

Synopsis: This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later inspired such renowned genre favorites as Captain Blood (1935) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Andre Moreau (Roman Novarro) is a law student during the time of the brewing French Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Barbara La Marr

Synopsis: This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the royal family of Ruritania who is about to be crowned King. However, his conniving and ill-tempered brother has designs on the throne, and he drugs his sibling shortly before Read More

Trifling Women

Actors: Pomeroy Cannon, Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro

Synopsis: Both Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr had just appeared in Prisoner of Zenda and their careers were on the ascendant when director Rex Ingram used them once again for this remake of his 1917 picture Black Orchids. However, Lewis Stone -- also a Prisoner of Zenda alumnus -- almost steals the show. Read More

The Little American

Actors: DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: It would be easy to assume that combining Mary Pickford's charm with director Cecil B. DeMille's penchant for the spectacular would create an exceptional piece of work. But judging from this picture, and the one made before it -- Romance of the Redwoods -- that just wasn't the case. The bottom Read More

Joan the Woman

Synopsis: A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director Cecil B. DeMille's finest works and offers film buffs a fascinating look into the early years of one of Hollywood's greats. The story of the valiant French martyr is framed by the Read More