Raymond GriffithFilmography

The Mark of Zorro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing and swashbuckling son of a 19th century California aristocrat. As a champion of the oppressed, Zorro must face a wicked governor portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, who, of Read More

The Great Profile

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter

Synopsis: John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and always half-loaded, Barrymore accepts a role in an important play, which he nearly ruins by his intemperate antics. Anne Baxter plays a sincere young woman who tries to pull Read More

The Man I Married

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Anna Sten, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This cautionary pre-World War II drama stars Joan Bennett as an American girl who falls in love and marries a German (Francis Lederer) in 1938. At first he seems charming, but Joan discovers that her husband is slowly being seduced by the Nazi Party. Determined to leave, Bennett is forced to Read More

Little Old New York

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923 as a vehicle for Marion Davies, Rida Johnson Young's warhorse theatrical property Little Old New York was dusted off by 20th Century-Fox for Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray and Richard Greene. The latter plays the nominal lead, Scottish inventor Robert Fulton, who in 1807 Read More

The Three Musketeers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Pauline Moore, Gloria Stuart

Synopsis: Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with healthy doses of humor and songs. Don Ameche stars as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers play his two other musketeers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Hotel for Women

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More

Drums Along the Mohawk

Crew: Associate Producer, Producer

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Arthur Shields, Eddie Collins, Ward Bond, John Carradine

Synopsis: John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) are a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Indians drive them, along with other settlers in the Read More

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and completely, totally, utterly rewritten--as a vehicle for 10-year-old Shirley Temple. Unable to land a radio contract for himself and his niece Rebecca Winstead (Temple) Read More

Three Blind Mice

Crew: Producer

Actors: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver

Synopsis: Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires" plotline. Three Kansas sisters (Loretta Young, Marjorie Weaver and Pauline Moore) use a small inheritance to set themselves up in a Manhattan penthouse. Figuring that Young Read More

The Baroness and the Butler

Crew: Producer

Actors: William Powell, Annabella, Helen Westley, Henry Stephenson, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family retainers, is played by William Powell. The butler works for the baroness' father, and the relationship between baroness and butler is outwardly chilly but subliminally Read More

Always Goodbye

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born, Jim helps her place the baby with Phil Marshall (Ian Hunter) and his wife, on the condition that neither the Marshalls nor the child ever know Margot is his Read More

Second Honeymoon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Weaver

Synopsis: This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull business exec. She pines for hubby Number One (Tyrone Power), an irresponsible playboy. Young runs into Tyrone again during a Florida vacation, spurning him at first because Read More

Heidi

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her best vehicles. Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before Read More

The Seventh Heaven

Crew: Producer

Actors: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis: This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly Paris sewer worker who has abandoned his faith in God and any hope for a brighter future or romance when his prayers go unanswered. Chico meets Diane (Simone Simon), a Read More

Thin Ice

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis

Synopsis: Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a Ruritanian prince impersonating an American reporter. They fall in love, of course, and the whirlwind romance threatens to interrupt an important treaty between three rival Read More

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bruce, Jane Darwell, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Loretta Young is the wife, Warner Baxter the doctor and Virginia Bruce the nurse in this 20th Century-Fox trifle. Society gal Young marries Park Avenue medico Baxter, little guessing that humble nursie Bruce also loves the doc. Young raises vociferous objections, compelling Bruce to leave. Read More

Fifty Roads to Town

Crew: Producer

Actors: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, George "Slim" Summerville, Jane Darwell, John Qualen

Synopsis: Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides out at a country inn. A young girl (Ann Sothern) stumbles into Ameche's rural hideaway; she thinks he's an escaped gangster, while he thinks she's a process server. The local Read More

Professional Soldier

Crew: Producer

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to kidnap the young prince (Freddie Bartholomew) so that his employers can take over the government. The prince enjoys the experience because it releases him from the confines of Read More

A Message to Garcia

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's help in the Spanish-American war. The fact that the lieutenant made his way to Garcia in absolute safety was ignored in 20th Century-Fox's Message to Garcia--which is just Read More

Private Number

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield (Robert Taylor) is the handsome, aristocrat hero, while Ellen Neal (Loretta Young) is the gorgeous, low-born heroine. Though they oppose the match, Richard's parents cope Read More

Poor Little Rich Girl

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: A remake of the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name, Poor Little Rich Girl stars Shirley Temple in the title role. Neglected by her widowed soap-tycoon father (Michael Whalen), lonely Barbara Barry (Temple) spends most of her time in the company of her nursemaid Collins (Sara Haden). While Read More

It Had to Happen

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Leo Carrillo, Arline Judge, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in love with Rosalind Russell, the wife of a prominent banker, but discreetly hides his feelings even as he and Russell are thrust together by social circumstances. The banker Read More

Girls' Dormitory

Crew: Producer

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Tyrone Power

Synopsis: French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss private school, harboring a secret passion for headmaster Herbert Marshall. For her own amusement, Simon writes an intense love letter to an imaginary beau; the letter falls Read More

Under Two Flags

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is set in Saharan Africa but was filmed in the Arizona desert. Ronald Colman is Corporal Victor, a man who has taken the rap for a crime committed by his younger brother. Read More

One in a Million

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical One in a Million. While preparing for the 1936 Winter Olympics, Swiss skater Greta Muller (Henie) is discovered by American theatrical entrepreneur Tad Spencer (Adolphe Menjou). This Read More

Folies Bergère

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Sothern, Merle Oberon, Eric Blore, Ferdinand Munier

Synopsis: This French-language version of the 1935 Hollywood musical Folies Bergere retains the original star (Maurice Chevalier) and director (Roy Del Ruth) and Busby Berkeley's big-scale production numbers. It also follows substantially the same plot: A nightclub entertainer (Chevalier), is hired to pose Read More

Show Them No Mercy!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and Rochelle Hudson) soon discover to their horror that the house is being used as a hideout for a gang of kidnappers. Gang leader Tobey (Cesar Romero), a comparatively reasonable Read More

Cardinal Richelieu

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Arliss, Halliwell Hobbes, Edward Arnold, Katherine Alexander

Synopsis: Released generally as Cardinal Richelieu, this George Arliss vehicle was based on the popular 19th-century blank-verse play by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Downplaying the more villainous aspects of the character, Arliss portrays Richelieu as a dry-witted foxy-grandpa type, manipulating the Read More

Clive of India

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's military forces in India. Though produced on a superficially lavish scale, the film inexpensively sidesteps several of Clive's more famous battles with Indian insurrectionists Read More

The Little Giant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson, Ken Thomson, Shirley Grey

Synopsis: The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this delightful spoof of mob melodramas from Warner Bros. Paying off their latest moll, Edith (Shirley Grey, Bugs and chief lieutenant Al Daniels (Russell Hopton) grab their Read More

Hard to Handle

Crew: Producer

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

Parachute Jumper

Crew: Producer

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Leo Carrillo, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: Grounded daredevil pilot Douglas Fairbanks Jr. secures a job protecting shady Leo Carrillo from his many enemies. Carrillo takes a liking to the young man and promotes him to a flying job--smuggling narcotics into the United States. Fairbanks eventually redeems himself with the help of good girl Bette Davis Read More

Frisco Jenny

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Donald Cook, Louis Calhern, Hallam Cooley

Synopsis: Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child in secret, Jenny gives up custody to a wealthy couple. The years pass, and through the auspices of a crooked politician (Louis Calhern), Jenny becomes the number one Read More

Advice to the Lovelorn

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Sterling Holloway, Jean Adair, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: Based very loosely on Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Advice to the Lovelorn is a comedy-drama about a hotshot reporter (Lee Tracy) who is forced to become an advice columnist. Hiding behind a female nom de plume, the cynical Tracy dispenses fatuous advice and becomes quite popular. Read More

Blood Money

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Judith Anderson, Blossom Seeley

Synopsis: Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its release. The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey (George Bancroft), who, in the course of his work Read More

Voltaire

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Theodore Newton, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director John G. Adolphi. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Baby Face

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Arthur Hohl, John Wayne

Synopsis: Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood. Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works as a barmaid in her father's factory-town saloon where she learns to deal with the unwanted advances of male customers. When her father Read More

Ladies They Talk About

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth

Synopsis: One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she been in Hollywood at the time, she would probably be here as well. Gun moll Barbara Stanwyck is thrown into San Quentin (which looks more like a summer resort than a house of Read More

Broadway Through a Keyhole

Crew: Producer

Actors: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a singer. So smitten is he by the chorus girl's charms that he buys her a nightclub. Unfortunately for him, the club's male crooner/bandleader also loves the girl. Realizing that Read More

Picture Snatcher

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Ralf Harolde, Robert E. O'Connor

Synopsis: An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean, a former gangster who has decided to go straight after a stretch in the big house. Danny has fallen for Patricia (Patricia Ellis), the daughter of the cop who put him away (Robert Emmett O'Connor Read More

Elmer the Great

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Preston S. Foster

Synopsis: Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because he is not only vain but naive, Elmer's teammates take great delight in pulling practical jokes on him. Still, he is so valuable a player that the Cubs management hides the Read More

The Bowery

Crew: Associate Producer, Book Author

Actors: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on New York's Bowery in the 1890s. Connors owns a fancy tavern and looks after a streetwise kid named Swipes McGurk (Jackie Cooper), while Brodie is a daredevil willing to do Read More

You Said a Mouthful

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston S. Foster, Sheila Terry, Farina

Synopsis: The butt of many a practical joke at the office where he works as a clerk, Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) is nonetheless determined to prove himself a brilliant inventor. His latest creation is an unsinkable swim suit, which works quite well in theory. In practice, however, it is another matter; Joe Read More

Life Begins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Glenda Farrell, Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis: Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the central character, a convicted murderess who has been impregnated by her gangster boyfriend. She is moved to the hospital to give birth, sharing ward space with hard-boiled Glenda Farrell Read More

The Tenderfoot

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody, Vivien Oakland, Robert Greig

Synopsis: George S. Kaufman's sturdy stage comedy The Butter and Egg Man was the inspiration for no fewer than four Warner Bros. talkie versions. The first of these was The Tenderfoot, starring Joe E. Brown as a wealthy but naive cowboy alone in the Big Apple. The producers of a down-and-out musical revue Read More

Tiger Shark

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett

Synopsis: It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater sequences, or star Edward G. Robinson. Robinson plays a Portuguese tuna boat skipper--the self-styled "best dam' fisherman in the Pacific"--who years earlier had lost his hand to a Read More

Central Park

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this episodic comedy drama filmed on location. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Local Boy Makes Good

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Dorothy Lee, Ruth Hall, Edward Woods, Eddie Nugent

Synopsis: Local Boy Makes Good was based on the J.C. and Elliot Nugent stage farce The Poor Nut, which had starred Elliot Nugent on Broadway and Jack Mulhall in the 1928 film version. This time Joe E. Brown stars as John Miller, a meek-and-mild college botany student who worships beauty-contest winner Julia Read More

The Beloved Bachelor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Lukas, Dorothy Jordan, Betty van Allen, Charlie Ruggles, Vivienne Osborne

Synopsis: The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas and his two bachelor pals kindheartedly adopt little orphan girl Betty Van Allen. Time passes, and awkward little Van Allen grows up to be lovely and graceful Dorothy Read More

Bought

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett, Dorothy Peterson, Ray Milland

Synopsis: Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is, Bennett can't be bought by wealthy playboy Ray Milland. Despite dangling all sorts of expensive temptations in front of her, Milland never gets any farther than a one-night Read More

Expensive Women

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dolores Costello, Anthony Bushell, Joe Donahue, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast as wealthy society girl Constance Newton, a "girl of whims" who flits from one man to the next like a butterfly. After a couple of desultory affairs with Bobby Brandon (Joe Donahue Read More

God's Gift to Women

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger, Louise Brooks

Synopsis: God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian Frank Fay. Portraying a most unlikely Frenchman, Fay pitches woo at every beautiful woman in sight, but falls in love with none of them. When Cupid genuinely strikes him for the Read More

Girls About Town

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention circuit, providing companionship and other favors for tired business men--who of course lavish the girls with expensive gifts. Francis spoils this little set-up by falling Read More

All Quiet on the Western Front

Actors: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Raymond Griffith, George "Slim" Summerville

Synopsis: One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. Read More

Trent's Last Case

Wedding Bells

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Hallam Cooley, Iris Stuart, Vivien Oakland

Synopsis: This Raymond Griffith vehicle casts the debonair, top-hatted comedian as Algernon Schuyler Van Twitter, perennial "best man" at all his friends' weddings. To save his pal Tom Milbank (Hallam Cooley) from public disgrace, Algy tries to get his hands on some incriminating love letters in the Read More

Time to Love

Actors: Raymond Griffith, William Powell, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all by jumping into the Seine. Instead, he lands in a passing boat owned by the Countess Elvire (Vera Voronina Read More

Wet Paint

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Helene Costello, Bryant Washburn, Natalie Kingston, Henry Kolker

Synopsis: Dapper, top-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith stars in the lightweight farce Wet Paint. Disappointed when he discovers that his bride to be Dolores Costello has accepted his proposal merely to win a bet, Griffith breaks off the engagement. He further vows to marry the next woman he meets, just to Read More

Hands Up

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film. Griffith plays a Southern spy during the Civil War, sent West to retrieve a vital gold shipment. Along the way, he meets boisterous Mack Swain (who was nearly booted from Read More

You'd Be Surprised

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Dorothy Sebastian, Earle Williams, Edward Martindel

Synopsis: Raymond Griffith's famed nonchalance adds to the humor of this delightful mystery-comedy. During a posh party on a houseboat, a valuable diamond necklace is stolen. The host, who also happens to be the district attorney (Edward Martindel), announces the theft and turns out the lights to give the Read More

The Sorrows of Satan

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster, Lya de Putti, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: Though D.W. Griffith had given up his independent-filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures in 1926, he had lost none of his artistry, if this film is any indication. Based on a mystical novel by Marie Correlli, Adolphe Menjou stars as the elegant, sartorially splendid Prince Lucio de Read More

Paths to Paradise

Actors: Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi, Bert Woodruff, Fred Kelsey

Synopsis: Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable Raymond Griffith. We lose our hearts to Griffith in the very first scene, where he passes himself off as a police inspector by flashing a gas meter reader's badge. The plot concerns a Read More

The Night Club

Actors: Raymond Griffith, Vera Reynolds, Wallace Beery, Louise Fazenda

Synopsis: Once he attained full stardom, silk-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith was rushed into several inexpensive Paramount vehicles. The Night Club is so pinchpenny that all the street exteriors are shot on the back lot, with a conspicuous paucity of extras. This hardly matters, since the principal Read More

Forty Winks

Actors: Viola Dana, Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: Raymond Griffith's star was on the rise when he made this comedy, based on the play Lord Chumley by David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille (father of directors Cecil B. De Mille and William C. De Mille). Gaspar Le Sage (Cyril Chadwick) sends Annabelle Wu (Anna May Wong) to steal plans for a coast 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

Fine Clothes

Actors: Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens, Raymond Griffith, Eileen Percy

Synopsis: Fashions for Men was a satirical play by Franz Molnar. In the hands of film company First National, it became a sincere, unsophisticated drama. Kindly Peter Hungerford (Percy Marmont) is a London clothes merchant who has saved up 500 dollars to stave off impending bankruptcy. His plans are ruined Read More

Miss Bluebeard

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Robert W. Frazer, Raymond Griffith, Martha Madison

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the train she meets Gloria's fiancé, Bob Hawley (Kenneth MacKenna). Hawley is posing as his friend, Larry Charters (Robert Frazer), a musician who is trying to dodge his many Read More

Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo

Synopsis: This mediocre romantic drama was vastly improved by the presence of a certain WAMPAS Baby Star (a popularity award given by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) named Clara Bow. After her foster mother wins at Monte Carlo, Margot LeBlanc (Bow) decides to try her hand at gambling. Read More

Yankee Consul

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Patsy Ruth Miller, Arthur Stuart Hull, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Eulalie Jensen

Synopsis: This farce starring Douglas MacLean was based on an old musical comedy by Henry Blossom, Jr. and Alfred G. Robyn. The wealthy Dudley Ainsworth (MacLean) is bored with life, and when he has an attack of "nerves," his doctor suggests that he needs some excitement in his life. Ainsworth doesn't think Read More

Lily of the Dust

Actors: Pola Negri, Ben Lyon, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Griffith, William J. Kelly

Synopsis: Silent star Pola Negri and director Dmitri Buchowetzki had worked together in Europe, and Negri's American studio, Paramount, sent for Buchowetzki to direct her again. Like their prior Paramount picture, Men, this drama carries a Continental flavor. After her mother goes insane, Lily Czepanek (Negri Read More

Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model

Actors: Claire Windsor, Betsy Ann Hisle, Edmund Lowe, Mae Busch, Raymond Griffith

Synopsis: This famous old stage melodrama by Owen Davis is directed with a lot of spirit by Emmett J. Flynn and features a first rate cast. The overworked Robert Horton (Hobart Bosworth) convinces his friend Thomas Lipton (also played by Bosworth) to take his place for a year. Mrs. Horton (Dorothy Cummings) Read More

Open All Night

Actors: Viola Dana, Jetta Goudal, Adolphe Menjou, Raymond Griffith, Maurice B. Flynn

Synopsis: Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn Read More

Changing Husbands

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Victor Varconi, Raymond Griffith, Julia Faye, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress Eva Graham, who wants nothing more than peace and quiet. The two women meet up and agree to change places. Oliver Evans (Victor Varconi) is glad to see that his wife has Read More

Dawn of a Tomorrow

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Raymond Griffith, David Torrence, Roland Bottomley, Harris Gordon

Synopsis: Mary Pickford starred in the 1915 version of this film, based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, and it's easy to imagine her in the Pollyanna-like role of Glad. Jacqueline Logan is good enough as the sunny girl of the slums, but she's no Pickford. When Sir Oliver Holt (David Torrence) has a Read More

Day of Faith

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Tyrone Power, Raymond Griffith, Wallace MacDonald, Ford Sterling

Synopsis: This drama was an early starring vehicle for fledgling star (Eleanor Boardman), and it was given a haunting directoral approach by Tod Browning, who hadn't yet devoted himself completely to horror films. After the death of philanthropist Blank Hendricks (Winter Hall), Jane Maynard (Boardman) Read More

Souls for Sale

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix, Frank Mayo

Synopsis: This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story of a young woman's rise in Hollywood; the film uses real stars and productions (even Charles Chaplin filming A Woman of Paris) as its backdrop. Eleanor Boardman plays Read More

Red Lights

Actors: Marie Prevost, Raymond Griffith, Johnny Walker, Alice Lake, Dagmar Godowsky

Synopsis: This mystery-melodrama had a lot of action and featured a good cast. Railroad magnate Luke Carson (William Worthington) has finally tracked his long-lost daughter Ruth (Marie Prevost) to Los Angeles. But there are some strange happenings around the girl; in her hotel room she is haunted by threats Read More

Minnie

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Matt Moore, George Barnum, Josephine Crowell, Helen Lynch

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille was busy developing Leatrice Joy into a glamorous star a la Gloria Swanson when she was loaned out to director Marshall Neilan for this romantic comedy. She played the title character of Neilan's film -- a homely, unwanted girl whose father (George Barnum) has invented a "wireless Read More

The Eternal Three

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, Raymond Griffith, Bessie Love, George Cooper

Synopsis: Writer/director Marshall Neilan once more makes lemonade from a lemon in The Eternal Three. Hobart Bosworth plays Frank R. Walters, an elderly doctor who takes for himself a young bride, portrayed by Claire Windsor. Feeling neglected, the new wife starts up an affair with Walter's adopted son Bob (George Cooper Read More

Fools First

Actors: Richard Dix, Claire Windsor, Claude Gillingwater, Raymond Griffith, George Siegmann

Synopsis: This crime thriller, "suggested by" the story by Hugh McNain Kahler, benefited from the fine directorial hand of Marshall Neilan. Tommy Frazer (Richard Dix) is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop" (Raymond Griffith). Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a Read More

Crossroads of New York

Actors: Ethel Grey Terry, Robert Cain, Kathryn McGuire, Herbert Standing

Synopsis: This feature-length comedy-melodrama was not one of the best from Mack Sennett, or his talented director, F. Richard Jones. Country boy Michael Flint (George O'Hara) arrives in the city to seek his fortune. He's a bit better off than your average naïve youth because he has a letter of introduction Read More

The Follies Girl

Synopsis: In a clear case of typecasting, former follies girl Olive Thomas has the title role in this comedy-drama. Edward Woodruff (William V. Mong) has been suffering from a long-term illness. His attorney is convinced that it's psychosomatic -- Woodruff has had a life full of unhappiness. His estranged Read More