Carl Laemmle Jr.

Carl Laemmle Jr.

Birth : 1908-04-28, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 1979-09-24

Profile

Carl Laemmle Jr.

Movies

Show Boat
Producer
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Remember Last Night?
Producer
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
The Bride of Frankenstein
Producer
Dr. Pretorius, a deranged scientist, forces Henry Frankenstein to help him create a companion for the monster.
Transient Lady
Producer
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Night Life of the Gods
Producer
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
The Good Fairy
Producer
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Producer
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
Secret of the Chateau
Executive Producer
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
Imitation of Life
Producer
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
There's Always Tomorrow
Producer
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Great Expectations
Executive Producer
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
Embarrassing Moments
Producer
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Gift of Gab
Producer
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
One More River
Producer
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Little Man, What Now?
Producer
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Half a Sinner
Producer
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
The Black Cat
Producer
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Producer
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Poor Rich
Producer
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Beloved
Producer
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Cross Country Cruise
Producer
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Bombay Mail
Producer
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Counsellor at Law
Producer
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
By Candlelight
Producer
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
King for a Night
Producer
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
The Invisible Man
Producer
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
Only Yesterday
Producer
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Saturday's Millions
Producer
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Ladies Must Love
Producer
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Her First Mate
Producer
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
Secret of the Blue Room
Producer
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Don't Bet on Love
Producer
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Producer
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
The Big Cage
Producer
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
Lucky Dog
Producer
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Producer
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Out All Night
Producer
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
Destination Unknown
Producer
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Nagana
Producer
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
Laughter in Hell
Producer
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Flaming Guns
Producer
A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico.
The Old Dark House
Producer
Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.
Okay, America!
Producer
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Back Street
Producer
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Tom Brown of Culver
Producer
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Fast Companions
Producer
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Radio Patrol
Producer
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Night World
Producer
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
The Doomed Battalion
Producer
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
The Rider of Death Valley
Producer
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
Destry Rides Again
Producer
The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
Steady Company
Producer
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
The Impatient Maiden
Producer
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Producer
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Racing Youth
Producer
A young man is mistaken for his boss.
The Mummy
Producer
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Strictly Dishonorable
Producer
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.
A House Divided
Producer
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
Heaven on Earth
Producer
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Frankenstein
Producer
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
The Spirit of Notre Dame
Producer
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
Waterloo Bridge
Producer
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Homicide Squad
Producer
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
East of Borneo
Producer
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
Up for Murder
Producer
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Seed
Producer
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
Iron Man
Producer
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
The Bad Sister
Producer
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Drácula
Producer
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula drives Renfield mad and commands obedience. Renfield escorts the boxed count on a death ship to London. From there, the Count is introduced into the society of his neighbor, Dr. Seward, who runs an asylum. Dracula makes short work of family friend Lucia Weston, then begins his assault on Eva Seward, the doctor's daughter. A visiting expert in the occult, Van Helsing, recognizes Dracula for who he is, and there begins a battle for Eva's body and soul.
Dracula
Producer
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London and is, unbeknownst to Renfield, a vampire. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together, and as Dracula begins preying on London socialites, the two become the subject of study for a supernaturalist professor, Abraham Van Helsing.
Resurrection
Producer
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
The Boudoir Diplomat
Producer
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
A Lady Surrenders
Producer
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
Outside the Law
Producer
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
Little Accident
Producer
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
What Men Want
Producer
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Producer
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
King of Jazz
Producer
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
Hell's Heroes
Producer
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
Shanghai Lady
Producer
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
College Love
Producer
college love movie
Broadway
Producer
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Lonesome
Supervising Producer
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Sliding Home
Story
Sliding Home is a 1928 Comedy short
A Dog of the Regiment
Producer
During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.
Running Wild
Producer
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
The Collegians
Writer
The Collegians was a four year series of 46 two-reel films, in which the same players played the same roles through four years of college life, as envisioned by Hollywood's screenwriters of the mid-1920's.
The Thrill Chaser
Producer
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.