Ross Alexander

Ross Alexander

Birth : 1907-07-27,

Death : 1937-01-02

Profile

Ross Alexander

Movies

Ready, Willing and Able
Barry Granville
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Breakdowns of 1936
Himself
Time marches on.
Here Comes Carter
Kent Carter
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
China Clipper
Tom Collins
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Hot Money
Chick Randall
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Brides Are Like That
Bill McAllister
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Boulder Dam
Rusty Noonan
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
I Married a Doctor
Erik Valborg
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
A Dream Comes True
Himself (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Captain Blood
Jeremy Pitt
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Shipmates Forever
Sparks Brown
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Demetrius
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Going Highbrow
Harley Marsh
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
We're in the Money
C. Richard Courtney
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Maybe It's Love
Rims O'Neil
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Flirtation Walk
Oskie Berry
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Gentlemen Are Born
Tom Martin
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Social Register
Lester Trout
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
The Wiser Sex
Jimmy O'Neill
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.