Warren WilliamFilmography

Born:: December 2, 1895 in Aitkin, MN
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Warren Krech
Biography:: Suave film leading man Warren William was the son of a Minnesota newspaper publisher. William's own plans to pursue a journalistic career were permanently shelved when he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After serving in World War I, William remained in France to join a touring...Read More

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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Actors: George Sanders, David Bond, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine

Synopsis: Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been Read More

1947
Fear

Actors: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, James B. Cardwell, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Peter Cookson, Monogram's answer to Jimmy Stewart, stars in Fear, also known as Black Tower Cookson plays a medical student who becomes involved in a murder. Anne Gwynne is the girl who doesn't completely trust Cookson, but helps him out anyway. Also appearing as one of those oh-too-helpful types Read More

1946
Strange Illusion

Synopsis: Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part breezy B-movie thriller, although most of its plot is derived from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Jimmy Lydon, best-known to audiences for his screen portrayal of Henry Aldrich during Read More

1945
Passport to Suez

Actors: Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series. Warren William returns as amateur sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, while Eric Blore is his faithful valet Jamison. In this outing, Lanyard finds himself in Read More

1943
One Dangerous Night

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a blackmailer in front of the three women he was harassing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1943
Counter-Espionage

Actors: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey

Synopsis: Counter-Espionage was the ninth film in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series, based on characters created by Louis Joseph Vance. Warren William stars as Michael Lanyard, the suave ex-criminal known as The Lone Wolf. This time around, Lanyard is in London during the Blitz, where he finds himself up to his Read More

1942
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

Actors: June Storey, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, always taking a chance? On this occasion, Lanyard (Warren William) and his trusty valet Jamison (Eric Blore) are framed on a murder charge. The actual Read More

1941
The Wolf Man

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: "Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is full and bright." Upon first hearing these words, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) dismisses them as childish folderol. After all, this is the 20th Century; how can a human being Read More

1941
Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Actors: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave Warren William. The script contrives to have Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison (Eric Blore) to be mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. They force poor Jamison to Read More

1941
Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Actors: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett deigned to star in the film. Wavering uncomfortably between comedy and drama, this patchwork western features Bruce Cabot as Wild Bill Hickok, who on this occasion goes on Read More

1941
Wild Geese Calling

Actors: Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons, Lenos and Lettermans rendered "The Late Late Show" obsolete. Set in Oregon and Alaska at the turn of the century (the last century, that is), the film stars Henry Fonda as Read More

1941
Arizona

Actors: William Holden, Jean Arthur, Warren William, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty, no-nonsense Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur). Wearing leather breeches, with a bullwhip and gun, she can out-shoot and out-fight nearly every bad hombre in town, and manages to transform Read More

1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes

Actors: Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore, Alan Baxter, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl necklace has been stolen by other thieves. Using his consummate skill, the Wolf pulls a deft switcheroo and substitutes the real ones for fakes. He then brings the real necklace Read More

1940
Lillian Russell

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William

Synopsis: Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star. Discovered in 1880 by bandleader Tony Pastor (Leo Carrillo), Lillian Russell (Alice Faye) wastes no time rising to fame and fortune on the Broadway stage. Along the way, she Read More

1940
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

Actors: Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett, Eric Blore, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date. Freshly arrived at the Miami airport after a sojourn in Havana, Lanyard and his general factotum Jamison (Eric Blore) rescue beautiful Pat Lawrence (Frances Robinson) Read More

1940
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

Actors: Warren William, Jean Muir, Eric Blore, Victor Jory, Warren Hull

Synopsis: The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her employer's son, Bob Pennison (Warren Hull). Mrs. Pennison (Georgia Caine) graciously lends her future daughter-in-law a priceless necklace, but when Joan returns to her Read More

1940
Trail of the Vigilantes

Actors: Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in the Destry Rides Again mode. Franchot Tone is the unlikely hero, an undercover agent sent west to halt the activities of rustler Warren William. The object of ridicule Read More

1940
The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Actors: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor, Jed Prouty

Synopsis: A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made screenplay for the team, which emerged on-screen as The Gracie Allen Murder Case. The Paramount studio executives decided to dispense with the services of George Burns, leaving Read More

1939
The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Warren William

Synopsis: Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title character is the rightful King of France, imprisoned by his pretender-to-the-throne twin brother (both roles are played by Louis Hayward, with an uncredited Peter Cushing doubling Read More

1939
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

Actors: Ida Lupino, Warren William, Robert Wilcox, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael Lanyard, a onetime criminal known as the Lone Wolf. He is determined to remain reformed for the sake of his daughter (Virginia Weidler), but a gang of foreign spies abducts Read More

1939
Day-Time Wife

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood) comedy. The trouble begins on the couple's second anniversary when he calls to say that he will be held up at the office. Later the wife finds lipstick on his collar and becomes Read More

1939
Arsene Lupin Returns

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: This follow-up to MGM's 1932 John Barrymore vehicle Arsene Lupin stars the ineluctable Melvyn Douglas. Reported to be dead, suave gentleman jewel thief Arsene Lupin (Douglas) resurfaces under the assumed name of Rene Farrand. Intending to follow the straight and narrow path, Lupin/Farrand reverts Read More

1938
Wives under Suspicion

Actors: Warren William, Gail Patrick, William Lundigan, Constance Moore, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable concessions for the more militant censors of 1938. District attorney Jim Stowell (Warren William) is convinced that every murder should be sentenced to the electric chair Read More

1938
The First Hundred Years

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Binnie Barnes, Alan Dinehart, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway (Virginia Bruce), it's next to nothing. Unfortunately, Lynn is married to chauvinistic Massachusetts shipbuilder David Conway (Robert Montgomery), who stubbornly insists that she quit her Read More

1938
Madame X

Actors: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen, William Henry

Synopsis: Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production values. Gladys George plays Jacqueline Fleuriot this time around, the wife of a diplomat who has an affair and is compelled to leave her husband and son. After abandoning Read More

1937
The Firefly

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the operetta by Rudolf Friml, secret agent Nina Maria Azara (Jeannette MacDonald) is working undercover for the King of Spain as a singer known as the "Mosca del Fuego" or "Firefly." Her mission is to uncover Napoleon's plot to invade Spain before it is too late. This film Read More

1937
The Outcast

Actors: Warren William, Karen Morley, Richard Carle, Jackie Moran

Synopsis: Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is acquitted of murder, but is discredited in the eyes of his community. Dr. Jones settles in another town under an assumed name, where he sets up practice and falls in love with Read More

1937
Midnight Madonna

Actors: Warren William, Mady Correll, Kitty Clancy, Edward Ellis, Robert Baldwin

Synopsis: A custody battle provides the basis for this melodramatic domestic drama. The case centers around a young girl who has recently inherited a fortune from her deceased grandfather. She had been living with her mother, but now her avaricious father wants the child back. The mother is a performer; the Read More

1937
Satan Met a Lady

Actors: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw

Synopsis: While John Huston's screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is widely regarded as a screen classic, it wasn't the first time Hammett's novel had been brought to the screen, and this comedy drama offers a decidedly different spin on the same story. Detective Ted Shayne (Warren William Read More

1936
Stage Struck

Actors: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh, Jeanne Madden

Synopsis: Stage Struck is one of the least known of Busby Berkeley's Warner Bros. musicals, chiefly because there are no major production numbers. The plot is that old saw about young, unknown hopefuls who put on a Big Show and become overnight stars. Alas, the magic didn't work for leading lady Jeanne Madden Read More

1936
The Widow from Monte Carlo

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

1936
Go West, Young Man

Actors: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Lyle Talbot, Alice Brady

Synopsis: Go West, Young Man represented the first time that Mae West starred in a film not originally written with her in mind. Based on Lawrence Riley's stage comedy Personal Appearance (which starred Gladys George on Broadway), the film casts La West as Mavis Alden, a pretentious and somewhat stupid Read More

1936
Times Square Playboy

Actors: Warren William, June Travis, Barton MacLane, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such a bumpkin that trouble ensues every time he speaks. Thanks to him, the wedding is nearly called off. Fortunately it all works out in the end. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws

Actors: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Winifred Shaw, Gordon Elliott, Joseph King

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth installment of Warner Bros.' popular series based on the novels by Erle Stanley Garner. The honeymoon, alas, is rudely interrupted when Perry is kidnapped by Eve Belter Read More

1936
The Secret Bride

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: The Secret Bride is Ruth Vincent (Barbara Stanwyck), the daughter of Governor Vincent (Arthur Byron). Attorney general Robert Sheldon (Warren William) falls in love with Ruth and they marry, but Sheldon insists that their marriage be kept secret. It seems that the Governor has been accused of Read More

1935
Living on Velvet

Actors: Kay Francis, George Brent, Warren William, Helen Lowell

Synopsis: In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed his parents and his sister. He goes on to marry. He and his new wife live in terrible conditions until he suddenly inherits $8,000 which he uses to buy a plane and start up Read More

1935
Don't Bet on Blondes

Actors: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan, Vince Barnett

Synopsis: High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's of London. Owen insures Kentucky colonel Jefferson Davis Youngblood (Guy Kibbee) against the possibility that Youngblood's actress daughter Marilyn (Claire Dodd) might get Read More

1935
The Case of the Curious Bride

Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd, Allen Jenkins, Errol Flynn

Synopsis: Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason vehicles produced by Warner Bros. from 1934 to 1937. Flynn's murder victim is one Gregory Moxley, the estranged and long-thought dead husband of Perry's client, Rhoda Montaine Read More

1935
The Case of the Lucky Legs

Actors: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the first-prize winner in a Lucky Legs contest and the fiancée of Dr. Bob Doray (Lyle Talbot). But when Margy goes to collect her winnings, she finds that the contest's promoter Read More

1935
The Case of the Howling Dog

Actors: Warren William, Mary Astor, Helen Trenholme, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley (Mary Astor). When one of the claimants is murdered, Bessie is the prime suspect. Brilliant defense counsel Perry Mason (Warren William), whose spacious offices look like something Read More

1934
Bedside

Actors: Warren William, Jean Muir, Allen Jenkins, David Landau, Kathryn Sergava

Synopsis: Having previously played dishonest politicians, lawyers, and businessmen, Warren William is cast as a fraudulent doctor in Warner Bros.' Bedside. Riding on the crest of a publicity wave, Dr. Louis (William) is able to move in the finest social circles with impunity. Only when he is unable to Read More

1934
Cleopatra

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: Film historian William K. Everson once observed that the secret to the success of Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 Cleopatra is that DeMille subtly reshaped the known historical events into a contemporary "gold-digger makes good" scenario. Exhibiting the same determination with which Barbara Stanwyck Read More

1934
Upper World

Actors: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine, Dickie Moore

Synopsis: Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander Stream (Warren William) is neglected by his social-climbing wife Mary Astor. Quite unintentionally, through a chance encounter, he strikes up a reasonably chaste friendship Read More

1934
Smarty

Actors: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward Everett Horton, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the events that take place afterwards. Her lawyer immediately suggests she divorce her pugnacious husband. During the proceedings she and the attorney fall in love and afterward Read More

1934
Doctor Monica

Actors: Kay Francis, Warren William, Jean Muir, Veree Teasdale, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted from a Polish play by Marja Morozowicz Szezepkowska. Francis plays obstetrician Dr. Monica, whose husband John (Warren William) cheats on her with young Mary (Jean Muir). When Read More

1934
The Dragon Murder Case

Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette, Robert McWade

Synopsis: Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot centers around a mysterious "dragon pool" on the Stamm estate, which figures prominently in the deaths of several unsympathetic society types. As usual, Inspector Markham (Robert McWade Read More

1934
Imitation of Life

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers, Ned Sparks, Fredi Washington, Rochelle Hudson

Synopsis: The first of two film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, 1934's Imitation of Life chronicles the friendship between two women--one white (Claudette Colbert), one black (Louise Beavers). Colbert is a widow with a baby daughter who hires Beavers, who also has a daughter, as a housekeeper. Colbert is a Read More

1934
Gold Diggers of 1933

Actors: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

Synopsis: The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was the second of three back-to-back 1933 Warner Bros. musicals benefiting from the genius of Busby Berkeley. The basic plot is retained from the Hopwood play: Showgirls Joan Blondell Read More

1933
Goodbye Again

Actors: Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Famous author Kenneth Bixby (Warren William) would like to jump-start his romance with ex-sweetheart Julie (Genevieve Tobin). There are, however, at least two people who'd prefer that Bixby stick to writing and stay away from Julie. One is Julie's husband Harvey Wilson (Hugh Herbert); the other is Read More

1933
Lady for a Day

Actors: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle other street merchants and beggars to pony up part of their weekly earnings to her--yet she never seems to spend any of the money on herself. This is because Annie has a Read More

1933
Employees' Entrance

Actors: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White, Albert Gran

Synopsis: Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for the havoc he left in his wake. As the manager of a Macy-like department store, he constantly browbeats his flunkies into submission, and ends-up driving at least one to Read More

1933
The Mind Reader

Actors: Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Donald Dillaway, Mayo Methot

Synopsis: In this romance, an con-artist leaves an unsuccessful carnival gig to become a successful phony psychic. He is assisted by two others. He then marries a woman who believes he really does have 'second sight.' When the truth is at last revealed, he decides to become an honest door-to-door salesman. Read More

1933
The Match King

Actors: Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Harold Huber, Spencer Charters

Synopsis: The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like businessman who takes over a bankrupt Swedish match factory, then lies his way into getting corporate backing for the operation. With little regard for ethics, William purchases Read More

1932
Under Eighteen

Actors: Marian Marsh, Regis Toomey, Warren William, Anita Page, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't realize that the lecherous fellow is planning to do much more than have a drink with her. Fortunately, her friend the grocery boy isn't so naive and manages to arrive in the nick Read More

1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo

Actors: Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William, John Wray, George E. Stone

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the survivors, the commander undergoes an investigative hearing to determine his culpability in the sinking. He didn't know it at the time, but his philandering young wife was Read More

1932
The Dark Horse

Actors: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Vivienne Osborne

Synopsis: Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party nominates moronic candidate Zachary Hicks (Guy Kibbee) for governor. Party secretary Kay Russell (Davis) wants to hire her sweetheart, Hal Blake (Warren William), for Read More

1932
The Mouthpiece

Actors: Warren William, Aline MacMahon, William Janney, John Wray

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair. Unfortunately, he is too late and turns to alcoholism to soothe his throbbing conscience. It is only down from there and soon the attorney begins working for the mob until he Read More

1932
Beauty and the Boss

Actors: Marian Marsh, Warren William, Charles Butterworth, Mary Doran

Synopsis: The old reliable Paul Frank/Ladislaus Fodor stage play The Church Mouse was streamlined for the movies in the form of Beauty and the Boss. The "beauty" is fetching Marian Marsh, a stenographer in a staid Viennese financial institution. The "boss" is Warren William, a wealthy baron with a habit of Read More

1932
Three on a Match

Actors: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Buster Phelps

Synopsis: Three on a Match covers approximately 13 years in the lives of girlhood chums Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), Ruth Wescott (Bette Davis) and Vivian Deverse (Ann Dvorak). Having graduated from grammar school together in 1919, the girls stage a reunion ten years later. Hard-boiled Mary is now a chorus Read More

1932
Skyscraper Souls

Actors: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Veree Teasdale, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931 novel by Faith Baldwin. Warren William stars as David Dwight, a building and bank magnate who not only attempts to double-cross his backers but is two-timing both his wife Read More

1932
Expensive Women

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

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

1931
Honor of the Family

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Warren William, Alan Mowbray, Frederick Kerr

Synopsis: In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She, with the assistance of her lover, a swordsman, soon comes to rule his house and keeps her elderly husband's family in line by intimidating them. Her ploys work well until the Read More

1931
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

1930
Twelve Miles Out

Actors: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford, Eileen Percy, Paulette Duval

Synopsis: John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert plays a tough and restless wanderer. Jerry Fay (Gilbert) and Red McCue (Ernest Torrence) are fierce but not unfriendly rivals who run into each other in various ports. They Read More

1927
Plunder

Actors: Warren William

Synopsis: Returning after a four year hiatus to the genre that had made her a world-wide household name back in the 1910s, Pearl White starred as Pearl Travers, a girl who stumbles over buried treasure in this 15 chapter serial. Unfortunately for both Pearl and the villain, Jud Deering (Harry Semels), the Read More

1923

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