Tyrell DavisFilmography

Dinner at the Ritz

Actors: Annabella, Paul Lukas, David Niven, Romney Brent, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David Niven the chance to play his first starring role. As Paul de Brack, he is a government agent and playboy and is quite at home among the elite set, whether in England or France. This comes in handy when he falls in with Read More

Second Best Bed

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a middle-aged fellow set in his ways marries a sweet young thing. After the wedding, he is surprised to discover that she is not willing to give in to his desire that she take the "second best bed." Later he begins flirting with another while his wife heads for Monte Carlo Read More

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All at Sea

Synopsis: When a bland clerk gets a small wad of cash from an inheritance, he throws all caution to the wind. He quits his job, leaves home, and takes a incredible cruise at sea. Assuming the role of a writer, he attracts women to him on the ship, but his capers also start to attract trouble. ~ All Movie Read More

Freedom of the Seas

Synopsis: Freedom of the Seas is sometimes listed as French stage director Marcel Varnel's first film; it's actually his first British film, after a two-year stay in Hollywood. Clifford Mollison stars as a meek London clerk who surprises his colleagues by being among the first to sign up when World War I is Read More

Designing Women

Synopsis: The fashion industry provides the satisfaction missing in Taylor's life after her lazy husband dies. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Peg O' My Heart

Actors: Marion Davies, Alan Mowbray, Onslow Stevens, John Farrell MacDonald, Julie Compton, Irene Browne

Synopsis: The evergreen Laurette Taylor stage vehicle Peg O' My Heart was the basis for this Marion Davies picture. 36-year-old Davies plays a twentysomething Irish colleen who inherits a large sum of money from her grandfather. To collect the legacy, she must leave her beloved Pa (J. Farrell McDonald) and Read More

Our Betters

Actors: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Charles Starrett, Anita Louise, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress Constance Bennett snares a titled British husband (Alan Mobray), but when she discovers that he is merely marrying her for her money, she decides to carry on a few affairs of Read More

Blind Adventure

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan

Synopsis: After saving RKO Radio from receivership with King Kong, producer-director Ernest B.. Schoedsack relaxed a bit with the comparatively sedate crime caper Blind Adventure. King Kong co-star Robert Armstrong plays Richard Bruce, an American in London who stumbles into the lair of a kidnap-blackmail Read More

Dangerously Yours

Actors: Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan, Herbert Mundin, Florence Eldridge, Florence Roberts

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Temptation's Workshop

Actors: Tyrell Davis, Helen Foster, Dorothy Granger, Carroll Nye, John Ince

Synopsis: British supporting actor Tyrell Davis earned a rare starring role in this low-budget family drama from Poverty Row company Action Pictures. Davis plays Count Emile Borosko, an impoverished European nobleman who comes to the aid of his unfortunate in-laws, a family of former society swells living Read More

The Unexpected Father

Actors: George "Slim" Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Cora Sue Collins, Alison Skipworth, Dorothy Christy

Synopsis: In this comedy, a nursemaid steals the heart of a wealthy socialite and thereby saves him from marrying a conniving gold-digger. The trouble begins when the fellow's newly adopted daughter arrives and decides to pair him up with the new nursemaid. Naturally the fiancee ends up most displeased by Read More

Love in High Gear

Actors: Harrison Ford, Alberta Vaughn, Tyrell Davis, Arthur Hoyt, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: Harrison Ford (the original silent era Harrison Ford) and 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star Alberta Vaughn starred in this comedy-thriller from low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp. When fussy Ronald Courtney (Tyrell Davis) spots his fiancée, Betty (Vaughn), winking at Donald Ransome (Ford) at a friend's wedding Read More

God's Gift to Women

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

Murder at Midnight

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliott, Clara Blandick

Synopsis: A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a play. The highlight of the production is a realistic on-stage murder, wherein the victim is shot point-blank, right through the heart, as the clock strikes 12. The audience Read More

Chances

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anthony Bushell, Rose Hobart, Mary Forbes, Holmes Herbert

Synopsis: This World War I romance stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Anthony Bushell as two British officers who happen to be brothers. Both men fall for the same girl (Rose Hobart) while on furlough, resulting in dissention at the Front. What might have been a festival of cliches emerges as a superior drama Read More

The Magnificent Lie

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: The only thing magnificent about Magnificent Lie is its title. As usual, Ruth Chatterton plays a woman of variable morals, this time a seedy cafe entertainer. Ralph Bellamy costars as a recently blinded man, whose sole reason for living is his adulation of a famous French singing star. To boost Read More

The Road to Singapore

Actors: William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern, Alison Skipworth

Synopsis: In this drama, a doctor and his wife are stationed in Singapore where the lonely wife, tired of constantly trying to get his attention, begins soliciting another man into having an affair with her. The man is reticent though. When the doctor finds out and assumes they are involved, the woman Read More

The Dancers

Actors: Lois Moran, Walter Byron, Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke, Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Gerald du Maurier, The Dancers stars Lois Moran as free-spirited Diana Snowden. Though once pure of heart and noble of mind, Diana has "strayed" rather dramatically over the years. When her childhood sweetheart Tony (Phillips Holmes) returns to London after a long absence Read More

Rain or Shine

Actors: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard

Synopsis: Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them what he wasn't going to do that evening, was invariably better than the shows in which he appeared. Fully aware of this, director Frank Capra brought Cook's 1928 Read More

Strictly Unconventional

Actors: Catherine Dale Owen, Paul Cavanagh, Tyrell Davis, Ernest Torrence

Synopsis: Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much older M.P. husband Clive (Lewis Stone), dreams of running off with her handsome Canadian lover Ted (Paul Cavanaugh). Hoping to vicariously experience her fantasy, Elizabeth Read More

Prince of Diamonds

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Ian Keith, Fritzi Ridgeway, Tyrell Davis, Claude King

Synopsis: The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay (Aileen Pringle), Endon battles over her affections with far-from-wealthy squire Lord Adrian (Tyrrell Davis). Though Eve is fond of his lordship, she allows her head to be Read More

Paid

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass, John Miljan

Synopsis: Paid was the third film version of the Bayard Veiller stage play Within the Law. Joan Crawford is cast as a shopgirl falsely arrested for stealing and sent to jail for three years. She swears vengeance on the store owner (Purnell Pratt), and to that end sets up a shady but legal racket wherein she Read More

Let Us Be Gay

Actors: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where she is changed from a frowsy hausfrau to a sexy, sophisticated lady. A wealthy dame asks her to help destroy the affair between her granddaughter and the woman's ex-husband. Read More

Love in the Rough

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin, J.C. Nugent

Synopsis: A remake of the 1927 William Haines comedy Spring Fever, Love in the Rough was designed as a musical, though virtually all the songs were cut from the final release print (we see a chorus of secretaries typing rhythmically in the opening scene, yet this obvious song cue is cut short with nary a Read More

Lucky in Love

Actors: Morton Downey, Sr., Betty Lawford, Colin Keith-Johnston, Halliwell Hobbes

Synopsis: In this musical, a singing Yankee stable boy works for a rich Irishman. When he meets his boss's granddaughter and they soon fall for each other until he must head back to the States where he becomes a singing clerk at the music counter of a major department store. Back in Ireland, the girl he Read More

Mother's Boy

Actors: John T. Doyle, Beryl Mercer, Morton Downey, Sr., Brian Donlevy, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: Popular radio crooner Morton Downey (yes, the father of talk-show host Morton Downey Jr.) stars in this sentimental Jazz Singer wannabe. On the eve of his Broadway debut, singer Tommy O'Day (Downey) learns that his care-worn, self-sacrificing old mother (Beryl Mercer) is gravely ill. Without Read More

His Glorious Night

Actors: John Gilbert, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less single-handedly caused the downfall of silent-screen matinee idol John Gilbert, whose ardent declarations of "I love you, I love you" to an overly inert Catherine Dale Owen Read More