Monroe Owsley

Monroe Owsley

Nacimiento : 1900-08-11, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Muerte : 1937-06-07

Historia

Monroe Owsley was an American stage and screen actor, his film career beginning in 1928.

Perfil

Monroe Owsley

Películas

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
The Hit Parade
Teddy Leeds
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
Hideaway Girl
Count de Montaigne
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
Mister Cinderella
Aloysius P. Merriweather
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Yellowstone
Marty Ryan / Jenkins
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
La esposa anónima
Coakley
Una historia romántica sobre diferencia de clases que tiene lugar cuando un rico aristócrata llamado Richard Winfield se enamora de una sirvienta. La familia queda horrorizada de que la chica pueda entrar a formar parte de ella, así que hará todo lo posible por impedirlo.
Remember Last Night?
Billy Arliss
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.
Goin' to Town
Fletcher Colton
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
Rumba
Hobart Fletcher
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
Behold My Wife!
Bob Prentice
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
She Was a Lady
Jerry Couzins
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
Shock
Bob Hayworth
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Oro virgen
Walter Jordan
Un joven desesperadamente enamorado de una cantante de club nocturno ve la oportunidad de pasar algún tiempo a solas con ella cuando están viajando por el país.
Twin Husbands
Colton Drain
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
Un breve instante
Harold 'Sig' Sigrift
Un joven millonario se casa con una cantante, que ejerce sobre él una influencia inesperada.
Ex-Lady
Nick Malvyn
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
La mundana
Maurice Le Brun
Una mujer es chantajeada por su primer marido, ella planea un viaje al extranjero para librarse de él.
Sangre rebelde
Lawrence Crosby
Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.
Hat Check Girl
Tod Reese
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Unashamed
Harry Swift
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
This Modern Age
Tony Girard
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Indiscreet
Jim Woodward
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Ten Cents a Dance
Eddie Miller
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Honor Among Lovers
Philip Craig
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Free Love
Rush Begelow
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Holiday
Ned Seton
Julia quiere casarse con John, un apuesto hombre cuyas ideas no encajan con la tradicional forma de pensar de la familia de ella. Linda, la hermana pequeña de Julia, también se sentirá atraída por John. En 1938 George Cukor la versionó con Katharine Hepburn y Cary Grant como protagonistas.
Carry on, Sergeant!
Leonard Sinclair
A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
The First Kiss
Other suitor
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."