Robert YoungFilmography

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair

Actors: Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens, Robert Young

Synopsis: Robert Young reprises his long-running (1969-75) TV character Dr. Marcus Welby, though there's little if any medical activity in the 1988 TV movie Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair. Widowed and retired, Welby takes a vacation to France and Switzerland. Here he finds romance with Alexis Smith, a Read More

A Conspiracy of Love

Synopsis: In this made-for-television movie, the stability of an extended family is threatened by divorce. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mercy or Murder?

Actors: Frances Reid, Robert Young

Synopsis: Though based on a true story which occurred in 1985, the made-for-TV Mercy or Murder? bears traces of the 1947 Fredric March film An Act of Murder. Robert Young stars as Roswell Gilbert, a 75-year-old Florida retiree happily married for 45 years. Gilbert's wife (Frances Reid) falls victim to Read More

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Synopsis: The sagacious old physician faces disaccreditation in this medical drama. The trouble begins when a financially troubled hospital he works at proposes to cut the privileges of its oldest staggers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Women

Actors: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, William Shatner, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: The third filming of Louisa May Alcott's novel is this made-for-TV effort, which follows the hardships faced by the March family during the Civil War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas

Synopsis: Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas was the second of three TV pilot films for a proposed (and abandoned) revival of the 1950s sitcom classic Father Knows Best. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Laurin Chapin reprise their old TV roles as the Anderson family. Jim and Read More

The Father Knows Best Reunion

Synopsis: Father Knows Best was one of the most beloved situation comedies of the 1950s. Happily, all the cast members of the original FKB were still around to show up in this 72-minute TV-movie reunion (subsequently reedited to an hour). On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of Jim and Margaret Anderson (Robert Young Read More

To Fly

Crew: Screenwriter

All My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

Synopsis: Originally titled My Darling Daughters' Anniversary, this TV movie was the sequel to the popular 1972 presentation All My Darling Daughters. Robert Young returns as Judge Charles Raleigh, who in the first film managed to survive the same-day marriages of all four of his daughters. This time Read More

My Darling Daughter's Anniversary

Actors: Darlene Carr

Synopsis: In this sequel to the highly popular 1972 TV movie All My Darling Daughters, it has been one year since the four grown daughter of widowed judge Charles Raleigh (Robert Young) were married on the very same day. Now it is the Judge's turn to march down the aisle with his new old sweetheart, Maggie Read More

All My Darling Daughters

Actors: Sharon Gless, Robert Young

Synopsis: Robert Young stars as Judge Charles Raleigh in the made-for-television All My Darling Daughters. The Judge happens to have four daughters, played by Darleen Carr, Judy Strangis, Sharon Gless, and Fawne Harriman (what did all the detective shows and sitcoms do for ingenues while these four ladies Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Marcus Welby, M.D. [TV Series]

Synopsis: The launching pad for the long-running ABC medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. was this feature-length pilot film, first aired March 26, 1969. Robert Young of course stars as Dr. Welby, a crusty but golden-hearted general practitioner forced by a mild coronary to take on a partner. At first, Welby Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 03

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Born Free

Actors: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye, Omar Chambati

Synopsis: Born Free is the heartwarming true story of a British couple who teach their pet lioness how to survive in the wilds of the African jungles. Joy and George Adamson (portrayed by real-life married couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) involuntarily domesticate several lions while living in Read More

Nothing But a Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest

Synopsis: A landmark independent film, Nothing but a Man is the first dramatic story featuring a largely black cast created for an integrated audience (the work of black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux was intended for audiences who patronized black-only theaters). White filmmakers Michael Roemer and Read More

The Admiral

Synopsis: When the admiral's wife dies, he tries to begin again and get along with his son. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Avengers: Brief For Murder

Synopsis: The third season of The Avengers arrived with the happy news that Cathy Gale would henceforth be John Steed's full-time partner, displacing such second-season "temps" as Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) and Dr. Martin King (Jon Rollason). Even so, the first episode of the season, "Brief for Murder," Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 06

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: 24 Hours In Tyrantland

Synopsis: This special episode of Father Knows Best was done one behalf of the United States Treasury Department in 1959, and was never aired on television -- it was, however, widely shown on 16mm prints at schools and churches, and to civic groups, to help sell U.S. Savings Bonds. Jim Anderson (Robert Read More

I'm All Right Jack

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. Unlike others in his social circle, Stanley wants to work. When he tries out Read More

Star Gazing

Synopsis: This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from 1931. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 05

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: Season 04

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best: Season 02

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Father Knows Best [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

Secret of the Incas

Actors: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Yma Sumac, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient Incan mask to the society from which it came. A greedy con-artist (Robert Young) has other ideas, though, and the two men race to fund an expedition to find the treasure Read More

Father Knows Best: Season 01

Actors: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

The Half-Breed

Actors: Robert Young, Janis Carter, Jack Buetel, Barton MacLane, Reed Hadley

Synopsis: One of only five films directed by Academy Award-nominated editor Stuart Gilmore, this 1951 Western stars Robert Young as Dan Craig, a gambler who may be the only man who can stop a war between a tribe of Native Americans and a group of white settlers. Shortly after the U.S. Civil War, Frank Read More

The Second Woman

Actors: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: In the vein of Spellbound and Rebecca comes this 1951 film noir from director James V. Kern. Robert Young stars as Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her Read More

Goodbye, My Fancy

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden, Janice Rule

Synopsis: Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma mater. When Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford) is offered an honorary degree at her former college, she is forced to remember the reason she was expelled to begin with. Nearly twenty Read More

That Forsyte Woman

Actors: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy" Errol Flynn, the two got along splendidly during the filming of That Forsyte Woman. Based loosely on The Man of Property, book one of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, the Read More

Bride for Sale

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, George Brent, Max Baer, Gus Schilling

Synopsis: Bride for Sale is an old-fashioned romantic triangle brightened by the star power of Claudette Colbert, George Brent and Robert Young. In search of a "perfect" husband, Nora Shelly (Colbert) decides to comb through the tax records of several eligible males, and to that end takes a job at Paul Read More

Adventure in Baltimore

Actors: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis: Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays a student at an exclusive girl's school who "sees the light" and begins campaigning for women's rights. This doesn't sit well with her minister father (Robert Young) nor Read More

And Baby Makes Three

Actors: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Robert Hutton, Janis Carter, Billie Burke

Synopsis: Bride-to-be Barbara Hale collapses into a faint while taking the altar vows. Hale learns that she is pregnant by her former husband Robert Young, who steadfastly refuses to give her custody of the unborn child. As it turns out, she isn't pregnant at all, but her reunion with Young has convinced Read More

Sitting Pretty

Actors: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Charles Arnt, Clifton Webb, Ken Christy, Richard Haydn, Ed Begley, Sr., Mary Field, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the job of baby-sitting the troublesome children of Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara; he wins the job by calmly dumping a bowl of cold oatmeal on the head of the couple's most Read More

Relentless

Actors: Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman, Willard Parker, Akim Tamiroff, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Described by one critic as a western version of The 39 Steps, Relentless stars Robert Young as a cowboy on the lam. Framed for murder, Young must find the one man who can clear him, while a posse dogs his trail. He briefly becomes an outlaw, hoping to make contact with his quarry by befriending Read More

Crossfire

Actors: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning Gentleman's Agreement by several months), and it features a standout performance from Robert Ryan as a bigoted soldier on the run. Monty Montogomery (Ryan) is a violent and unstable soldier Read More

They Won't Believe Me

Actors: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers, George Tyne

Synopsis: Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony in his trial for the murder of girlfriend Verna Carlson (Susan Hayward). Larry is the first to admit he's a parasitic heel, cheating on his rich wife Gretta (Rita Johnson) Read More

Claudia and David

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprise their roles from the film Claudia, which followed the titular young couple as they dealt with the trials of parenthood. Claudia, a bit wiser than she was in the first film but still charmingly naive and a bit nervous, is struggling with the responsibilities Read More

Lady Luck

Actors: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, Don Rice

Synopsis: Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey, the descendant of a long line of professional gamblers. Haughtily turning up her nose at the "family business," Mary spends most of her time keeping her poker-happy Read More

The Searching Wind

Actors: Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, Dudley Digges, Douglas Dick, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own stage play, the film stars Robert Young as Alex Hazen, an idealistic but incredibly naïve US ambassador who fails to heed the warning signals when Read More

The Enchanted Cottage

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington

Synopsis: This romantic fantasy was based on a popular play by Arthur Pinero. Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) is a young man who returned from World War II with severe facial scars; while he was engaged to be married before he left, he believes that no one could love him now, and he lives on the brink of Read More

Those Endearing Young Charms

Actors: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Ann Harding, Marc Cramer, Anne Jeffreys

Synopsis: Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough. Jerry introduces his girlfriend Helen (Laraine Day) to Hank, a notorious and unrepentent womanizer. In a twinkling, Hank tries to steal Helen away from Jerry-but succeeds Read More

The Canterville Ghost

Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan, Peter Lawford, Una O'Connor, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: The whimsical Oscar Wilde fantasy yarn The Canterville Ghost is updated to WW2 in this economical but attractively produced MGM filmization. Charles Laughton plays Sir Simon de Canterville, a feckless 17th century British aristocrat who, after proving himself a coward on the field of honor, is Read More

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Actors: Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner, Phil Regan

Synopsis: In this semi-remake of Love is News (37), Betty Grable stars as a Gay-Nineties Bowery saloon singer. Ever seeking an opportunity for advancement, Grable heads to London, becomes a highbrow musical comedy "artiste", and concocts a scheme to land a wealth duke (Reginald Gardiner). Her plan is foiled Read More

Slightly Dangerous

Actors: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Dame May Whitty

Synopsis: This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new drugstore manager Bob Stuart (Robert Young), Peggy, convinced that there's no future for her in her hometown, fakes her suicide and heads for the big city. After a series of Read More

Claudia

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Ina Claire, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Dorothy McGuire charmingly recreates her stage role in this film adaptation of Rose Franken's Broadway hit Claudia. The title character (McGuire) is the naïve, somewhat childish young bride of David Naughton (Robert Young). Slowly adapting to married life, the unworldy Claudia receives several Read More

Joe Smith, American

Actors: Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Harvey Stephens, Darryl Hickman, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose access to the U.S. military's plan for a new bomb-sight leave him victim to an abduction from Nazi agents. Knowing that Joe (Young) has vital information, the German soldiers Read More

Cairo

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured refutation of Jeanette MacDonald's established screen image (it was her last film on her MGM contract). MacDonald plays wisecracking movie star Marcia Warren, who while "between Read More

Journey for Margaret

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Read More

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin

Synopsis: MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the novel by J.P. Marquand, H.M. Pulham, Esq., stars Robert Young as a successful but stuffy Boston businessman. The glimmer of sadness in Young's eyes indicates that his Read More

Western Union

Actors: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, Barton MacLane, John Carradine

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting of telegraph wires between Omaha and Salt Lake City serve as a backdrop for a fictional story straight out of Manhattan Melodrama. Randolph Scott and Barton MacLane are cast Read More

Married Bachelor

Actors: Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart, Lee Bowman, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills. Robert Young plays an married author who has penned several books on how to stay single. Naturally, he has to pose as a bachelor for publicity purposes...but wife Ruth Hussey is Read More

Lady Be Good

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll

Synopsis: The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score) to the original play is purely accidental. The MGM scriveners came up with a new story concerning married songwriters Ann Sothern and Robert Young, who can't live with each Read More

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel

Synopsis: MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer vehicle in 1929. This time, Laraine Day is cast as Mary Dugan, a young stenographer who is falsely accused of murdering her philandering employer Edgar Wayne (Tom Conway). In Read More

Northwest Passage

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis:
Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor. Amazingly, MGM retained many of the grim episodes from the Roberts' novel, though - thanks to the Hays Code - most are discussed Read More

The Mortal Storm

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack

Synopsis: The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a college professor teaching in Germany in 1933 who leads a peaceful and contented life with his wife Emelie (Irene Rich), son Rudi (Gene Reynolds), daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan Read More

Florian

Actors: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the rights to the Felix Salten novel Florian, all about the Lippanzers. When the film was made, the producer was Winfield Sheehan. Coincidence? We don't think so. At any rate, the Read More

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Robert Young, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother Douglas Lamont (Robert Young) is subject to unpredictable seizures, and for a while it seems that he is suffering from hereditary epilepsy. This being 1940, Douglas' affliction Read More

Sporting Blood

Actors: Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, William Gargan, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Directed in 1940 by S. Sylva Simon, Sporting Blood stars Robert Young as racing stable owner Myles Vanders. Shortly after traveling back to his ramshackle family estate in Virginia, he stirs up a long-term family rivalry with Davis Lockwood (Lewis Stone), who runs a neighboring stable. Vanders Read More

Honolulu

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would be Burns' last film until his 1976 "comeback" in The Sunshine Boys. The nonsensical plotline is carried by Robert Young as famous movie star Brooks Mason, who wants to go to Read More

Maisie

Actors: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Ian Hunter, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Maisie stars Ann Sothern as a worldly showgirl stranded in Wyoming when her show fails. She accepts a job at a carnival shooting gallery, where she meets the handsome foreman (Robert Young) of a lavish ranch -- and is promptly accused of picking the man's pocket. Despite this rocky beginning Read More

Bridal Suite

Actors: Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite. Annabella stars as Luise Anzengruber, a poor but cheerful young lady who manages an Alpine hotel. When handsome playboy Neill McGill (Robert Young) checks into Luise's Read More

Miracles for Sale

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull, Lee Bowman

Synopsis: Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared in a mere two films, "starring" in only one. Miracles for Sale compounds the oversight by rechristening Merlini as "Michael Morgan", in the person of Robert Young. The Read More

The Toy Wife

Actors: Luise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Barbara O'Neil, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her return to Louisiana after a brief stay in France, discovers her sister Louise Barbara O'Neil) has recently gotten engaged. Gilberta (Rainer) quickly finds herself attracted to Read More

The Shining Hour

Actors: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Bainter

Synopsis: Frank Borzage directed this doomed romance starring Joan Crawford as Olivia Riley, the young bride of Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas), an upper-crust conservative. Olivia is a show girl in a New York nightclub and when Henry brings her home to his family -- his brother David (Robert Young) and Read More

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Actors: Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey, Lana Turner, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members of society. When wealthy young executive Bill Harrison (Robert Young) falls in love with Joan Thayer (Ruth Hussey), his secretary, she doesn't believe he would be able to Read More

Paradise for Three

Actors: Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver, Florence Rice

Synopsis: MGM's Paradise for Three is based on Erich Kaestner's novel Three Men in the Snow. Frank Morgan stars as American businessman Rudolph Tobler, who wants to get closer to his German roots. Travelling incognito, Tobler shows up at a German alpine village, hoping to find out what the local population Read More

Josette

Actors: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr

Synopsis: In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving, gold-digging nightclub singer named Josette (Tala Birell). Brassard's two sons, Pierre (Robert Young) and David Junior (Don Ameche) are both horrified and vow to lure the Read More

Three Comrades

Actors: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in Germany in the years just following World War I, the film stars Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young as three battle-weary, thoroughly Read More

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Actors: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan

Synopsis: Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As in Pimpernel, the theme is international intrigue, but this time the setting is pre-World War One Europe and Russia rather than Revolutionary France. William Powell and Luise Rainer Read More

Dangerous Number

Actors: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout Manhattan for her zany antics, Elinor is also quite a handful for her conservative husband Hank (Robert Young). In addition, Hank must contend with the heroine's flamboyant ex-burlesque queen mother Read More

I Met Him in Paris

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Mona Barrie, George Davis

Synopsis: After a year-long period of starring in such heavy fare as Maid of Salem, Claudette Colbert returned to comedy with I Met Him in Paris. Colbert plays a successful American fashion designer, squired by three suitors: playwright Melvyn Douglas, playboy Robert Young and hometown lad Lee Bowman. Bowman Read More

Married Before Breakfast

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth, Barnett Parker, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Married Before Breakfast follows the hectic life of young inventor Tom Wakefield (Robert Young). After a leading razor company pays Wakefield (Young) $250,000 in order for him not to publicize his latest invention, a hair-removing shaving cream that rendors razors Read More

Navy Blue and Gold

Actors: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts the progress of three Annapolis "plebes," all played by actors in the age range of 24 to 30. Wisecracking Roger Ash (Robert Young) is a cynic, wide-eyed Richard Gates Jr. (Tom Brown Read More

The Bride Wore Red

Actors: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Based on The Bride from Trieste by Ferenc Molnar, The Bride Wore Red stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine. A singer in a seedy Budapest dive, Anni (Crawford) is mistaken for a socialite thanks to a practical joke perpetrated by the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco). Though a bit Read More

Secret Agent

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Robert Young, Percy Marmont

Synopsis: Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. He is then Read More

Stowaway

Actors: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

Synopsis: Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). Through a series of unbelievable but entertaining circumstances, Ching-Ching inadvertently stows away on a boat bound for San Francisco Read More

It's Love Again

Actors: Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale, Ernest Milton, Robb Wilton

Synopsis: Robert Young decides to create a "scoop" by fabricating the impending arrival of a female big-game hunter named Mrs. Smythe-Smythe. Jessie Matthews decides to pose as the fictitious woman, the better to embarrass Young. The comic complications are obliged to share screen time with Matthews' Read More

The Bride Walks Out

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young, Ned Sparks, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that can't be provided by her working-stiff husband Michael (Gene Raymond). Hoping to supplement the family coffers, Carolyn offers to take a job, but the chauvinistic Michael won't Read More

The Bride Comes Home

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young, William Collier, Donald Meek

Synopsis: After It Happened One Night, Claudette Colbert seemed to make a career out of playing plucky heiresses with minds of their own, which sums up her character well in this romantic comedy. When her wealthy father goes broke, Jeanette Desmereau (Claudette Colbert) decides she should find a job of her Read More

The Three Wise Guys

Actors: Robert Young, Betty Furness, Raymond Walburn, Thurston Hall, Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Based on a Damon Runyon story, Three Wise Guys stars Betty Furness as a Broadway golddigger hired by gangster Bruce Cabot to romance playboy Robert Young, then take the sap for every penny he's got. But when Young marries Furness, he is disinherited. Furness decides she's truly in love with Young Read More

The Longest Night

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Ted Healy, Julie Haydon, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: The Longest Night is a curious title choice for this fast-paced mystery; at 50 minutes, it was the shortest feature film ever produced by MGM. Robert Young plays the manager of a department store targeted by gangsters. Young's romance with store clerk Florence Rice is threatened when the bad guys Read More

Sworn Enemy

Actors: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Joseph Calleia, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working as a chauffeur. His job becomes significantly harder, however, when he finds himself entangled in the effort to catch the mobster who murdered his boss and harmed his Read More

West Point of the Air

Actors: Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, James Gleason

Synopsis: Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like himself. Little Mike's excessive attraction to Dare (Rosalind Russell) strains his relationship with his father, but eventually he finds the right woman -- Skip (Maureen Read More

Calm Yourself

Actors: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Nat Pendleton, Hardie Albright

Synopsis: Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly offendable -- and none too likeable -- Mary Elizabeth (Betty Furness). This segues into a phony kidnapping scheme that thrusts Pat and Mary together, furthering their mutual Read More

Vagabond Lady

Actors: Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Berton Churchill, Reginald Denny, Frank Craven

Synopsis: Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in 1935. Up until that year, his only talkie features had starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, so Vagabond Lady can be seen as the vanguard in Roach's new policy of turning Read More

Red Salute

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Ruth Donnelly, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the previous year's It Happened One Night (1934) and a less-sober version of a later generation's The Way We Were (1973). Barbara Stanwyck stars as Drue Van Allen, a college Read More

Remember Last Night

Actors: Edward Arnold, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers, Robert Young, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders are solved by a wealthy, attractive, fun-loving young couple. One of the best of these Thin Man derivations was Universal's Remember Last Night, adapted from Adam Hobhouse's Read More

Hollywood Party

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran

Synopsis: Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the less-than-sterling guidance of "kicked upstairs" MGM producer Harry Rapf, production dragged on interminably, using up the talents of five directors (none of whom were credited) and Read More

Lazy River

Actors: Jean Parker, Robert Young, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Based on Lea David Freeman's play Ruby, Lazy River takes place somewhere in the Mississippi River Valley. Jean Parker plays Sarah, a young Bayou girl who tries to guide three ex-convicts to moral redemption. Two of Sarah's charges, Gabby (Ted Healy) and Tiny (Nat Pendleton), seem to be beyond Read More

Paris Interlude

Actors: Madge Evans, Robert Young, Una Merkel, Otto Kruger, Ted Healy

Synopsis: In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls in love with Sam Colt (Otto Kruger, a vulgar American news journalist. Based on (All Good Americans), a play by Laura and .J. Perelman , Sam spends most of his time in Read More

Carolina

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young, Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman

Synopsis: Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its pre-Civil War glory. Joanna Tate (Janet Gaynor), originally travels from her home in Pennsylvania to the plantation in order to collect her deceased father's belongings. Read More

The Band Plays On

Actors: Robert Young, Stuart Erwin, Betty Furness, Leo Carrillo, Ted Healy

Synopsis: Robert Young had to be the busiest leading man in Hollywood in 1934. He appeared in no fewer than nine pictures, four of them at his home studio of MGM. The Band Plays On features Young as one of four close pals, who have grown up together and are now college football champs known as "The Four Read More

Death on the Diamond

Actors: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a championship season. The arrival of hotshot pitcher Larry Kelly (Robert Young) coincides with an apparent plot to sabotage the Cards' chances of making it to the World Series. Read More

Spitfire

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper, Sidney Toler, Louis Mason

Synopsis: When asked in 1970 to recall his participation in RKO Radio's Spitfire, Ralph Bellamy prefaced his comments with a terse "Why don't we just forget about it?" Based on a play by Lula Vollmer, the film stars Katharine Hepburn, phony Ozark accent and all, as Trigger Hicks, an illiterate hillbilly Read More

The House of Rothschild

Actors: George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the anti-semitic efforts of a powerful politico (Boris Karloff), Rothschild moves in the best European social circles. He is ultimately knighted for his services to the English crown Read More

Whom the Gods Destroy

Actors: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Scotty Beckett

Synopsis: Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is cast as theatrical entrepreneur John Forrester, who finds himself on board an ocean liner crippled in a shipwreck. At first he behaves courageously, but as the ship goes down Read More

Hell Below

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston stars as a submarine commander whose lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) falls in love with Huston's daughter (Madge Evans). All cliches (including the intrusive comedy relief of Jimmy Durante Read More

Saturday's Millions

Actors: Robert Young, Leila Hyams, Johnny Mack Brown, Andy Devine, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using the sport as a means to help him pay for school, and doesn't consider it any different from the laundry service he runs in his spare time. Rather than stroking his ego, the Read More

The Right to Romance

Actors: Ann Harding, Robert Young, Nils Asther, Irving Pichel

Synopsis: Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an impromptu trip to California in this lifeless romance from RKO. She meets and falls in love with playboy Bobby Preble (Robert Young), who seems to sustain himself by little Read More

Men Must Fight

Actors: Diana Wynyard, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Ruth Selwyn

Synopsis: A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made well before the real WWII) erupts. Up until then, her new husband, the Secretary of State, supported his wife's crusade, but with a war on, he becomes a strong supporter in Read More

Tugboat Annie

Actors: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband Terry (Wallace Beery) is a lazy, bragging drunk. Robert Young plays their son Alec, who has big ambitions and winds up as captain of a fancy ocean liner. The ocean liner's Read More

Today We Live

Actors: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns, Louise Closser Hale

Synopsis: A love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author William Faulkner. It centers on a pleasure-seeking British girl who is romantically involved with her brother's naval buddy. She then sees and falls for an American pilot. He Read More

Unashamed

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan

Synopsis: Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect his sister Jean (Helen Twelvetrees). Unfortunately, Jean is in love with the sleazy Harry Swift (Monroe Owsley), who is only interested in her fortune. After Harry (Owsley) 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

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

Strange Interlude

Actors: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young

Synopsis: A remarkably smooth 110-minute adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's marathon eight-hour play, Strange Interlude was advertised as "the picture in which you hear the characters think," a nod to O'Neill's technique of having the characters speak their innermost thoughts out loud between dialogue passages Read More

The Kid from Spain

Actors: Jane Wyman, Eddie Cantor, Lyda Roberti, Robert Young, Ruth Hall, John Miljan

Synopsis: In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who, with his buddy Ricardo (Robert Young), is kicked out of college for sneaking into the women's dormitory. Ricardo (Young), on his way back to Mexico, suggests Eddie (Cantor) Read More

Hell Divers

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

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

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Actors: Helen Hayes, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is it any wonder that she won an Academy Award? (She truly deserved this Oscar; the jury is still out concerning her cutesy supporting turn in 1969's Airport, which also Read More

The Guilty Generation

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young, Boris Karloff, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet is loosely adapted and modernized in director Rowland V. Lee's Guilty Generation. Set in 1930's New York, rival gangster families the Palmero's and the Ricca's play Lee's version of the infamous Montagues and Capulets. The two mobs had once Read More

The Black Camel

Actors: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier, Victor Varconi, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from concentrating on work. She's supposed to marry millionaire playboy Alan Jaynes (William Post Jr.), but she's also got an ex lurking around and a possible skeleton in her closet Read More

It Is the Law

Actors: Arthur Hohl, Herbert Heyes

Synopsis: Herbert Heyes, a prominent stage and screen actor of the teens and twenties (and the father of writer/director Douglas Heyes), stars in It is the Law. Heyes is framed for murder by Arthur Hohl, who is jealous over the fact that he lost his girl friend Mimi Palmieri to Heyes. The man killed by Hohl Read More