Warner BaxterFilmography

The Crime Doctor's Diary

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Maxwell, Adele Jergens, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile Warner Baxter stars as Dr. Robert Ordway, whose previous life of crime has made him something of an expert in the field of detection. This time, Ordway takes the case of parolee Read More

Prison Warden

Actors: Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, James Flavin, Harlan Warde, Charles Cane

Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays the title role in Columbia's Prison Warden. A well-known reformer, Victor Burnell (Baxter) is put in charge of a prison in dire need of reforming. Meanwhile, Victor's faithless wife Elisa (played by future General Hospital star Anna Lee) carries on an affair with convict Al Read More

The Devil's Henchmen

Synopsis: Though Columbia's Crime Doctor series officially ended with Crime Doctor's Secret, the studio trotted out the property one last time with the misleadingly titled Devil's Henchman. Instead of his usual "Crime Doctor" character Dr. Robert Ordway, (Warner Baxter) travels under the name of Jess Arno. Read More

The Gentleman from Nowhere

Actors: Warner Baxter, Fay Baker, Luis Van Rooten, Charles Lane, Wilton Graff

Synopsis: The sure-handed starring performance of Warner Baxter and the inventive direction of William Castle help lift The Gentleman From Nowhere out of the ordinary. When Earl Donovan (Baxter) is picked up on a robbery charge, insurance investigator Barton (Luis Van Rooten) can't help but notice that Read More

The Millerson Case

Synopsis: In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This time he is on vacation, but the kindly fellow cannot help but look into a murder to help a troubled soul. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crime Doctor's Gamble

Actors: Warner Baxter, Micheline Cheirel, Roger Dann, Steven Geray, Marcel Journet

Synopsis: For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor". Ordway is in Paris, mingling with the upper crust of the art world. A murder is committed and a valuable painting is stolen; the principal suspects are the victim's son (Roger Dann Read More

Just Before Dawn

Synopsis: In this entry in the Crime Doctor series, amateur sleuth Dr. Ordway is duped into giving one of his patients a fatal shot. Now he must find the real killers before he is arrested and put away for life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

Actors: Warner Baxter, Paul E. Burns, Claire Carleton, Ellen Drew, William Frawley

Synopsis: Scripted by Leigh Brackett of The Big Sleep fame and directed by future horrormeister William Castle, Crime Doctor's Manhunt has been singled out by many film buffs as the best of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series. This time, criminal-turned-sleuth Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) befriends Read More

Crime Doctor's Warning

Actors: Warner Baxter, John Litel, Dusty Anderson, Coulter Irwin, Miles Mander

Synopsis: In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from blackouts. The patient, an artist from New York's Latin Quarter, cannot remember a thing from these episodes. What is most disturbing is that several models have been recently Read More

The Crime Doctor's Courage

Actors: Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke, Jerome Cowan, Robert Scott, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage. This time, Ordway investigates the murder of fortune-hunter Gordon Carson (Stephen Crane), not long after his marriage to wealthy Kathleen Carson (Hillary Brooke). It's just Read More

The Lady in the Dark

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a popular fashion magazine. Despite her beauty, wealth, and success in business, Liza is unhappy and out of sorts. And while three men are vying for her affections Read More

Shadows in the Night

Actors: Warner Baxter, Nina Foch, George Zucco, Minor Watson, Lester Matthews

Synopsis: Shadows in the Night was the third entry in Columbia's Crime Doctor series, starring Warner Baxter as crook-turned-criminologist Dr. Robert Ordway. Nina Foch delivers a superb performance as Lois Garland, a beautiful young heiress being driven to insanity and possible suicide. Poor Lois resides in Read More

The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case

Synopsis: This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned criminologist. In this outing, Ordway is called in to analyze the dreams of elderly Patricia Cornwall (Virginia Brissac). It is hoped that this will provide a clue to the Read More

Crime Doctor

Actors: Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ray Collins, Harold Huber

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his memory. Unable to remember anything about his past, he starts anew and becomes a psychiatrist. He never does stop trying to remember his past life, even while his present life Read More

Adam Had Four Sons

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray, Richard Denning, June Lockhart

Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the story begins in the early twentieth century, when French governess Emilie Gallatin (Bergman) is hired to care for the four growing sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter). Read More

Earthbound

Actors: Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charles Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a rather more straightforward morality tale/fantasy. Warner Baxter and Andrea Leeds star as Nick and Ellen Desbrough, a seemingly happily-married couple celebrating their fifth Read More

The Return of the Cisco Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He later meets a lovely señorita and falls in love, but before he can dally romantically, he must first help her and her papa get back the money they were bilked out of. More Read More

Wife, Husband and Friend

Actors: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, George Barbier

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who appeared in most of these films. Young plays the wife of businessman Warner Baxter, while "friend" Cesar Romero is an amorous singing teacher who convinces Young that she has a Read More

Barricade

Actors: Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, Keye Luke

Synopsis: The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of which was 20th Century-Fox's Barricade. While fleeing war-torn China by train, two Americans-singer Emmy Jordan (Alice Faye) and journalist Hank Topping (Warner Baxter)-are Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

I'll Give a Million

Actors: Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge off of him, becomes a bum to search for a decent human being. The tale begins as the wealthy man is about to commit suicide by leaping off of his yacht into the sea. He is Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic subplot, but that didn't stop 20th Century-Fox from including a female love interest (Arleen Whelan). Bypassing that plot point, Kidnapped stars Freddie Bartholomew as the heir Read More

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

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

Vogues of 1938

Actors: Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Mischa Auer, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose Read More

Slave Ship

Actors: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders

Synopsis: This period adventure drama was directed by Tay Garnett and adapted from a story by William Faulkner. The skipper of a slave trading vessel operating along the West African coast in 1860, Captain Jim Lovett (Warner Baxter) is troubled by his flesh-peddling trade. He's marrying the beautiful Nancy Read More

King of Burlesque

Actors: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Arline Judge, Mona Barrie

Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical Read More

Fiesta De Santa Barbara

Actors: Andy Devine

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Actors: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, Harry Carey, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known Confederate sympathizer, sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger who stumbles into his home. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of Read More

The Road to Glory

Actors: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, June Lang, Lionel Barrymore, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: Set in the French trenches, this WWI melodrama was cowritten by William Faulkner and directed by Howard Hawks. Hard-drinking Captain La Roche (Warner Baxter) delivers the same hollow speech to each wave of fresh soldiers assigned to his command, only to see them senselessly slaughtered by the Read More

To Mary - with Love

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

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

White Hunter

Actors: Warner Baxter, June Lang, Gail Patrick, Alison Skipworth, Wilfred Lawson

Synopsis: To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but entertaining potboilers as White Hunter. Warner Baxter plays the title character, Captain Clark Rutledge, a safari guide who can't stop brooding over the long-ago death of Read More

The Robin Hood of El Dorado

Actors: Warner Baxter, Ann Loring, Bruce Cabot, Margo, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the real-life Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta, which the screenplay depicts as a South of the Border Jesse James. Murietta has turned criminal to avenge the death of his wife Read More

One More Spring

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell, Roger Imhof

Synopsis: One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street crash are an odd assortment of lost souls: Former antique dealer Otkar (Warner Baxter), concert violinist Rosenberg (Walter Woolf King) and unemployed actress Elizabeth (Janet Gaynor Read More

Under the Pampas Moon

Actors: Warner Baxter, Ketti Gallian, Veloz & Yolanda, John Miljan, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen horse. Once there, he soon engages in hot pursuit of a lovely singing señorita. Soon he discovers that her manager just may be the thief he has been looking for. Keep a Read More

Hell in the Heavens

Actors: Warner Baxter, Russell Hardie, Conchita Montenegro, Andy Devine

Synopsis: The Lafayette Escadrille, that elite corps of volunteer WW I flyboys, is the collective "hero" of Fox's Hell in the Heavens. American lieutenant Steve Warner (Warner Baxter) heads to France to join the Escadrille in the months just prior to his country's entry into WW I. It is Warner's mission in Read More

As Husbands Go

Actors: Warner Baxter, Helen Vinson, Warner Oland, Catherine Doucet, Eleanor Lynn

Synopsis: Adapted by Sonya Levien and Sam (S. N.) Berhman from a play by Rachel Crothers, As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard (Helen Vinson). Slightly bored by her marriage to businessman Charles Lingard (Warner Baxter), Lucille vacations in London, where she nearly has an Read More

Grand Canary

Actors: Warner Baxter, H.B. Warner, Madge Evans, Julie Compton, Zita Johann

Synopsis: This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in shambles as he embarks upon a cruise to the Canary Islands. The deeply despondent physician spends much of the journey hiding in his stateroom staring at the walls and woefully Read More

Such Women Are Dangerous

Actors: Warner Baxter, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson, Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: Playboy novelist Michael Shawn's (Warren William) chickens come home to roost in Such Women are Dangerous. Accused of murder, Shawn desperately searches for character witnesses to help him out in court. Alas, all of his former lovers are in a vindictive mood, and all hope to see Shawn fry for what Read More

Broadway Bill

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

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

Stand up and Cheer

Actors: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, John Boles

Synopsis: Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's mind off the Depression. To this end, he appoints Broadway impresario Lawrence Cromwell (Warner Baxter) to the new cabinet position of "Secretary of Amusement." Wasting no Read More

42nd Street

Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell

Synopsis: The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, "Pretty Lady." Others involved Read More

I Loved You Wednesday

Actors: Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Victor Jory, Miriam Jordan, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: A two sided romantic triangle features Warner Baxter and Victor Jory in love with Elissa Landi and Landi and Jory's wife Miriam Jordan in love with Jory. The love of Baxter wins Landi in the end in this romantic comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Paddy, the Next Best Thing

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Connolly, Harvey Stephens, Mary McCormick

Synopsis: At age 26, Janet Gaynor was still playing "gamin" roles in such musical trifles as Paddy, the Next Best Thing. Gaynor stars as a spirited Irish lass whose older sister (Margaret Lindsay) is about to marry a wealthy gent (Warner Baxter). Fully aware that Sis doesn't love the man, Gaynor sacrifices Read More

Penthouse

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

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

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

Six Hours to Live

Actors: Warner Baxter, John Boles, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible blow for his native country because the ambassador had come to stop his country from signing a treaty that would allow their enemy to exploit them. To prevent this from Read More

Amateur Daddy

Actors: Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon, Rita La Roy, Lucille Powers, William Pawley

Synopsis: Mildred Cram's novel Scotch Valley was transformed by the scenarists at Fox into the Warner Baxter vehicle Amateur Daddy. Baxter plays a true-blue sort who agrees to take care of the family of dying pal Edwin Stanley. While his neighbors make cruel fun of Baxter's efforts to play surrogate father Read More

Man About Town

Actors: Warner Baxter, Karen Morley, Conway Tearle, Leni Stengel, Lawrence Grant

Synopsis: Man About Town owns the distinction of being the first espionage film ever set in contemporary America. Warner Baxter stars as Stephen Morrow, an embryonic James Bond who doubles as a gambler and secret agent. The scion of a wealthy Washington family, Morrow is ordered by the government to set up Read More

Cisco Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Conchita Montenegro, James Bradbury, Jr.

Synopsis: The Cisco Kid was to have been the sequel to the pioneering 1929 talkie In Old Arizona, with Warner Baxter repeating his Oscar-winning role as "O. Henry's Robin Hood of the Old West". Unfortunately, Fox Studios temporarily lost the rights to the Cisco Kid character, thus Baxter was starred as Read More

The Squaw Man

Actors: Paul Cavanagh, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Roland Young

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western melodrama. The story centers on a British captain who heads into the American West after taking the blame for his embezzling, blue-blooded cousin to protect the reputation of Read More

The Stolen Jools

Doctors' Wives

Actors: Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Victor Varconi, Helene Millard, Paul Porcasi

Synopsis: The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are Read More

Their Mad Moment

Synopsis: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers (Lawrence Grant), but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera (Warner Baxter). Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily Read More

Daddy Long Legs

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge, Claude Gillingwater

Synopsis: Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of the orphanage's trustees is millionaire Warner Baxter, who spots Gaynor while visiting the home, is impressed by her tenacity, and decides to secretly adopt the girl and pay Read More

Surrender

Actors: Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, William Pawley, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is sequestered near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman, Count Reinmacher (C. Aubrey Smith), who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Axelle (Leila Hyams Read More

Renegades

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

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

Happy Days

Synopsis: Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios' Movietone Follies of 1929. Most of the film takes place on the showboat of Mississippi entrepreneur Colonel Billy Batcher (Charles E. Evans). When the Colonel faces foreclosure after Read More

Such Men Are Dangerous

Actors: Warner Baxter, Catherine Dale Owen, Albert Conti, Hedda Hopper, Claud Allister

Synopsis: In this drama an unattractive, dour German businessman leaps out of a flying plane after learning that his wife only married him for his fortune. It appears that he has died, but in reality he has traveled to the Alps where he has his face surgically reconstructed. As he becomes more handsome, he Read More

The Arizona Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Mona Maris, Carole Lombard, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish accent and all, in this fanciful Western filmed on-location at Utah's Zion National Park. Cisco in anything but name, The Arizona Kid loves all the ladies in Rockville, UT Read More

Thru Different Eyes

Actors: Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Natalie Moorhead, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of the killing. According to the prosecution, the deceased's sexy (and very much married) mistress is behind the murder. The defense asserts that the woman's lover killed Read More

Linda

Actors: Warner Baxter, Helen Foster, Noah Beery, Sr., Mitchell Lewis, Kate Price

Synopsis: Linda was the final silent directorial effort of Mrs. Wallace Reid (formerly Dorothy Davenport). The title character, played by Helen Foster, is a young mountain girl forced into marriage with the much-older Decker (Noah Beery Sr.) Though outwardly a slovenly brute, Decker is actually a decent Read More

Behind That Curtain

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange

Synopsis: Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously made the first all-talking picture of any kind, In Old Arizona (also 1929). Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective (played by Read More

In Old Arizona

Actors: Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, John Farrell MacDonald, Fred Warren, Henry Armetta

Synopsis: Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the Old West" created by O. Henry. Edmund Lowe co-stars as Cisco's "friendly enemy" Sgt. Mickey Dunne, the role that was originally to have gone to Raoul Walsh. Both men are Read More

Romance of the Rio Grande

Actors: Warner Baxter, Mary Duncan, Antonio Moreno, Mona Maris, Robert Edeson

Synopsis: Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. As Pablo Wharton Cameron, Warner Baxter essentially repeats his "Cisco Kid" characterization from the earlier picture. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico Read More

The Tragedy of Youth

Actors: Warner Baxter, Patsy Ruth Miller, Claire McDowell, Harvey Clark

Synopsis: Neglected by shallow husband Dick (William Collier Jr.), young bride Paula Wayne (Patsy Ruth Miller) seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon (Warner Baxter). Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, Dick attempts suicide Read More

Three Sinners

Actors: Pola Negri, Warner Baxter, Paul Lukas, Tullio Carminatti

Synopsis: Baroness Gerda Wallentin (Pola Negri) walks out on her philandering husband Count Dietrich (Paul Lukas) and heads to Vienna. En route, she meets musician Raoul Stanislaw (Tullio Carminatti) and agrees to a romantic rendezvous during a stopover at a small village. In the throes of passion, Gerda Read More

Craig's Wife

Actors: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these was filmed in 1928, with Cecil B. DeMille's talented brother William in the director's chair. Irene Rich stars as Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and Read More

Ramona

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Warner Baxter, Roland Drew, Vera Lewis, Michael Visaroff

Synopsis: The 1928 production Ramona was the third film version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name, first dramatized (in one reel!) by D. W. Griffith in 1910. Dolores Del Rio plays the title character, the ward of domineering California sheep rancher Senora Moreno (Vera Lewis). Escaping her Read More

Danger Street

Actors: Warner Baxter, Martha Sleeper, Duke Martin, Spec O'Donnell

Woman's Way

Actors: Warner Baxter, Margaret Livingston, Armand Kaliz

Synopsis: The economical Columbia programmer A Woman's Way benefits from the presence of such pros as Margaret Livingston, Warner Baxter and Armand Kaliz. Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Livingston, bon vivant Baxter and petty crook Kaliz. Livingston's Read More

West of Zanzibar

Actors: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Mary Nolan, Jacqueline Gadsdon

Synopsis: In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a limehouse magician who is thoroughly in love with his wife Anna (Jacquelin Gadsdon). Also in love with Phroso's wife is ivory-trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore). After a performance Read More

The Telephone Girl

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn, Warner Baxter, May Allison, Lawrence Gray

Synopsis: Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien (Madge Bellamy) can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake (Lawrence Gray), the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake (Holbrook Blinn). Through her intervention, Kitty Read More

The Coward

Actors: Warner Baxter, Freeman Wood, Raoul Paoli, Byron Douglas

Synopsis: After losing a fistfight to his romantic rival Freeman Wood, wastrelly Warner Baxter skulks off to the North Woods. Hoping to redeem himself in the eyes of his sweetheart Sharon Lynn, Baxter signs on as an apprentice to he-man trapper Raoul Paoli. In time-honored Charles Atles fashion, Baxter Read More

Drums of the Desert

Actors: Ford Sterling, Warner Baxter

Synopsis: Filmed on the Navajo reservation in Northern Arizona, this silent Paramount Western was yet another screen adaptation of a story by popular pulp writer Zane Grey. Mustachioed Warner Baxter, who would earn an Academy Award two years later for playing The Cisco Kid in the movie In Old Arizona, stars Read More

Singed

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Claude King, Warner Baxter, Clark Comstock, James Wang

Synopsis: This Blanche Sweet vehicle was directed by John Griffith Wray, who outside of her own husband Marshall Neilan was Sweet's favorite director. The star is cast as dance-hall girl Dolly Wall, who invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her Read More

The Great Gatsby

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton, Georgia Hale, William Powell, Hale Hamilton

Synopsis: Accurately described as "a beautiful job" by novelist John O'Hara, this 1926 silent version of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby stars Warner Baxter in the title role. Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby lacks only one thing in life: the love of the beautiful, impulsive Daisy Buchanan (Lois Wilson Read More

The Runaway

Actors: Clara Bow, Warner Baxter, William Powell, George Bancroft, Edythe Chapman

Synopsis: In one of her first Paramount vehicles, Clara Bow stars as Cynthia Meade, a movie actress on location in the hills of Tennessee. Convinced that she's accidentally killed her fiance Jack Harrison (William Powell), Cynthia escapes across the state border where she is given aid and shelter by Read More

Mannequin

Actors: Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello, ZaSu Pitts, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick (Dolores Costello), kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents (Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter) and raised by a slatternly slum woman (ZaSu Pitts). Growing up a real "looker," Selene manages to finds work Read More

Miss Brewster's Millions

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Warner Baxter, Ford Sterling, André de Beranger

Synopsis: George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the advent of talkies). To make it a vehicle for Bebe Daniels, writer Monty Brice threw the story out the window and just kept the basic premise. Polly Brewster (Daniels) is Read More

Aloma of the South Seas

Actors: Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont, Warner Baxter, William Powell

Synopsis: Gilda Gray, best-known for inventing the shimmy, shows off her talents as a Hawaiian dancer in this South Seas drama, based on the play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens. Percy Marmont plays his usual role -- a man, who, after having his heart broken, degenerates into a drunken mess. Bob Holden Read More

Mismates

Actors: Doris Kenyon, Warner Baxter, Charlie Murray, May Allison, Philo McCullough

Synopsis: Mismates was based on the Myron C. Fagan stage play of the same name. Doris Kenyon plays a pretty young woman of modest means who doesn't know what she's in for when she marries wealthy Philo McCullough. The groom's over-protective mother not only refuses to recognize the marriage, but she also Read More

The Air Mail

Actors: Warner Baxter, Billie Dove, Mary Brian, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Irving

Synopsis: By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to steal some valuable cargo, but soon enough the job begins to have a positive effect on him. When his plane has to make a force landing, he meets Alice Rendon (Billie Dove, who Read More

Rugged Water

Actors: Lois Wilson, Wallace Beery, Warner Baxter, Phyllis Haver, Dot Farley

Synopsis: This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station, but Bartlett (Wallace Beery) is appointed because of his political connections. Bartlett's daughter Norma (Lois Wilson) convinces Read More

Best People

Actors: Warner Baxter, Esther Ralston, Kathlyn Williams, Edwards Davis, William Austin

Synopsis: Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a much-flashier role as her not-so-nice friend. Ralston is Alice O'Neil, who is in love with Bertie Lenox (Joseph Striker), the son of a nouveau riche family. His sister Marian Read More

Golden Bed

Actors: Lillian Rich, Vera Reynolds, Henry B. Walthall, Rod La Rocque, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: This was Cecil B. De Mille's last film for Paramount (at least for a few years). Irene Rich plays Flora Lee Peake, a cool beauty who, like Lorelei, lures men to death and destruction. Flora Lee weds the Marquis De San Pilar (Theodore Kosloff) and saves the old homestead. The Marquis finds her with Read More

The Awful Truth

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Phillips Smalley, Winifred Bryson

Synopsis: The first film version of Arthur Richman's stage comedy The Awful Truth was produced in 1925. A series of misunderstandings between flirtatious Agnes Ayres and sober-sided Warner Baxter lead inexorably to the divorce court. A year after the separation, she hatches a scheme to win her husband back. Read More

Welcome Home

Actors: Luke Cosgrave, Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Ben Hendricks, Sr., Margaret Morris

Synopsis: Fred Prouty (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Nettie (Lois Wilson), are living happily until the day that his aged father (Luke Cosgrave) shows up on their doorstep. He immediately begins creating havoc, upsetting the once-orderly household and trying to force his opinions on everyone. Nettie does her Read More

Son of His Father

Actors: Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Raymond Hatton, Walter McGrail, Carl Stockdale

Synopsis: Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his ranch to cover his late father's debts. Star-billed Bessie Love had little to do other than looking pretty as Baxter's Irish romantic interest. A former leading man with the Read More

His Forgotten Wife

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Warner Baxter

Synopsis: Madge Bellamy and Warner Baxter (in that order -- Bellamy was the bigger star at the time) have the leads in this improbable but well-done melodrama. When David Allen (Baxter) is reported killed during World War I, his fiancée, Corinne McRea (Maude Wayne), is willed all his property. Though the Read More

Female

Actors: Betty Compson, Warner Baxter, Noah Beery, Sr., Dorothy Cumming, Freeman Wood

Synopsis: Dalla (Betty Compson) is an untamed orphan of the South African veldt. She falls in love with Colonel Valentia, a noted English hunter (Warner Baxter), but his refined friends make fun of her crude ways. Hurt by their taunts, she decides to wed wealthy Boer Barend DeBeer (Noah Beery), under the Read More

Alimony

Synopsis: Warner Baxter lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that Baxter couldn't have done it without the help and support of his wife Grace Darmond. When Baxter starts cheating on her, she divorces him, receiving an enornous settlement. Reduced to penury by various Read More

Christine of the Hungry Heart

Actors: Florence Vidor, Warner Baxter, Clive Brook, Ian Keith, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously died while on a cruise on William Randolph Hearst's yacht, the Oneida. The drama was a tour de force for Florence Vidor, who played the title character, Christine Read More

Those Who Dance

Actors: Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Robert Agnew

Synopsis: This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either anti-alcohol, or against the Volstead Act, which caused the bootlegging of bad liquor. Mary Kane (Lucille Ricksen) is killed during a wreck when the boy driving the car in which Read More

Garden of Weeds

Actors: Betty Compson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Warner Baxter, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: This drama was based on the play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg (Rockliffe Fellowes), a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them. His latest fancy, Dorothy Delbridge (Betty Compson), refuses Read More

In Search of a Thrill

Actors: Viola Dana

Synopsis: After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance (Viola Dana) travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with an old friend, writer Adrian Torrens (Warner Baxter), who disparages her lifestyle. Ann sees him befriend an Apache dancer and she believes he finds women in need of Read More

St. Elmo

Actors: John Gilbert, Barbara La Marr, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis: Starring New Zealander Shayle Gardner in the title role, this British screen version of Augusta J. Evans-Wilson's sentimental novel and stock company perennial was often mentioned when citing the poor state of British filmmaking in the 1920s. Gardner played the title role, a man who killed his Read More

The Ninety and Nine

Synopsis: Vitagraph shot this melodrama, based on the stage play by Ramsay Norris, once before, in 1916. The newer version seemed to belong to the earlier decade, and ironically, its star was Colleen Moore, who would wind up making a name for herself by becoming the 1920s ultra-modern, quintessential Read More

Her Own Money

Actors: Ethel Clayton, Warner Baxter, Charles French, Clarence Burton, Mae Busch

Synopsis: In the 1920s, chauvinism and pride overrode economics, and most men would rather have perished than relied on any money their wives may have had. That was the theme to this routine drama, which Warner Baxter falsely claimed was his film debut (he has credits in prior pictures). After five years of Read More

Girl's Desire

Actors: Alice Calhoun, Warner Baxter, Frank Hall Crane, Lillian Lawrence, Victory Bateman

Synopsis: Alice Calhoun stars in this society drama, which is not without comic overtones. Elizabeth Browne (Calhoun) is the daughter of nouveau riche parents (James Donnelly and Victory Bateman), who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England Read More

If I Were Queen

Actors: Ethel Clayton

Synopsis: This mythical kingdom romance was quite a bit lighter than most of Ethel Clayton's heavily dramatic vehicles. While studying in Paris, Princess Oluf of Kosnia (Andree LeJon) befriends an American girl, Ruth Townley (Clayton), and gives her a locket bearing her name and the royal coat of arms. When Read More

Girl in His Room

Synopsis: Although Alice Calhoun had recently scored in The Angel of Crooked Street, her next picture was this wispy mystery. Calhoun plays Myra Pendleton, who was sent away to be raised after her mother died in childbirth. Now that she's a young woman, her father wants her to return, but instead of simply Read More

First Love

Synopsis: The situations in this simple comedy-drama still ring true today. The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of Read More

Sheltered Daughters

Synopsis: Former Follies star Justine Johnston stars in this crime story. Police sergeant Jim Dark (Riley Hatch) is a single father who has sworn to keep his daughter, Jenny (Johnston), ignorant of the world's wicked ways. He refuses to listen to reporter and family friend Pep Mullins (Warner Baxter), who Read More

Cheated Hearts

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Warner Baxter, Marjorie Daw, Doris Pawn, Winter Hall

Synopsis: Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers were still able to admire the virile good looks of star Herbert Rawlinson. Rawlinson is Barry Gordon, who has inherited a love of drink from his father (Joseph Swickard). Read More

The Love Charm

Synopsis: This cross between Cinderella and Peg O' My Heart stars Wanda Hawley. Penniless orphan Ruth Sheldon (Hawley) moves in with her ambitious aunt, Julia Nast (Sylvia Aston), and her daughter, Hattie (Mae Busch). They treat her like a drudge instead of a relative. The catch of the town is banker Thomas Read More

All Woman

Synopsis: When factory worker Susan Sweeney (Mae Marsh) receives word that she has inherited half interest in a country hotel, she immediately heads out to see it. Unfortunately it's a run-down place located next door to a sleazy saloon, run by the other half-owner, William Kibby (Jack Dillon). But Susan is Read More