Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Nacimiento : 1895-07-13, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Muerte : 1973-10-06

Historia

Sidney Alderman Blackmer (13 July 1895 – 6 October 1973) was an American actor. Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. He started off in an insurance and financial business but gave up on it. While working as a builder's laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed and immediately decided to go into acting. Blackmer went to New York hoping to act on the stage. While in the city, he took jobs and extra work at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914). He made his Broadway debut in 1917, but his career was interrupted by service in the U.S. military in World War I. After the war, he returned to the theatre and in 1929 returned to motion pictures and went on to be a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba. In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and for his role in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an over-solicitous neighbor. A humanitarian, Blackmer served as the national vice president of the United States Muscular Dystrophy Association. In 1972, he was honored with the North Carolina Award in the Fine Arts category. It is the state of North Carolina's highest civilian award. On his passing in 1973, Blackmer was interred in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Blackmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sidney Blackmer

Películas

Terror en el patio de butacas
Roman Castevet (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documental sobre el mejor cine de terror y suspense hasta 1984, incluyendo reportajes e imágenes de películas de terror varias, donde salen muchas caras conocidas.
Do You Take This Stranger?
G.R. Jarvis
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
Revenge Is My Destiny
Gregory Mann
Chris Robinson plays an eyepatched Vietnam vet named Ross Archer, who comes home to find that his wife had left him and become involved with some shady business dealings.
La semilla del diablo
Roman Castevet
Una joven pareja, Rosemary y Guy, se muda a un infame edificio de apartamentos de Nueva York, conocido por aterradoras leyendas y misteriosos sucesos, con el propósito de formar una familia.
A Covenant with Death
Col. Oates
Un condenado a muerte asesina a su verdugo justo antes de morir. Más tarde se descubre que en realidad no cometió el asesinato por el que fue enjuiciado y declarado culpable.
Joy in the Morning
Dean James Darwent
Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.
Cómo matar a la propia esposa
Judge Blackstone
Un famoso dibujante de cómics (Lemmon) que adora su independencia y es enemigo acérrimo del matrimonio, se casa accidentalmente con una bella italiana (Lisi) en una despedida de soltero; pero muy pronto la convivencia de la pareja se volverá muy conflictiva.
What Makes Sammy Run?
H.L. Harrington
An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
Tammy, la muchacha salvaje
Professor Brent
Cuando el avión de Pete, un adinerado y joven piloto yanqui, se estrella en un pantano, cerca de la casa de Tammy, una joven sureña, ella lo rescata y lo cuida. Pero, una vez recuperado, Pete se marcha con su prometida.
Accused of Murder
Frank Hobart
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.
The Little Foxes
Ben
A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century.
Más allá de la duda
Austin Spencer
El editor de un periódico, que quiere demostrar un punto sobre la insuficiencia de pruebas circunstanciales, convence a su posible yerno Tom de que cometa un engaño en un intento de exponer la ineptitud del fiscal de distrito de línea dura de la ciudad. El plan es que Tom plante pistas que conduzcan a su arresto por matar a una bailarina de club nocturno. Una vez que Tom es declarado culpable, debe revelar la configuración y humillar al fiscal.
Alta sociedad
Seth Lord
Tracy va a contraer matrimonio por segunda vez. Sin embargo, su primer marido se da cuenta de que sigue locamente enamorado de ella e intenta conseguir que vuelva a su lado. Remake de la mítica 'Historias de Filadelfia', adornada con un espléndido reparto y las canciones de Bing Crosby
The View from Pompey's Head
Garvin Wales
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Escrito en el cielo
Humphrey Agnew
Dan Roman, un veterano piloto con un trágico pasado, se tendrá que hacer cargo de un avión de pasajeros que atraviesa el Pacífico y se encuentra en graves dificultades.
Johnny Dark
James Fielding
Johnny Dark, joven ingeniero que intenta diseñar coches especiales para personas sensibles, convence al dueño de la empresa para la que trabaja, Fielding, para que le permita construir un modelo preparado específicamente para una importante carrera.
Washington Story
Philip Emery
A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.
Historia de San Francisco
Andrew Cain
Jim Martin, el director de un periódico de San Francisco, pide ayuda a Rick, un rico minero, para denunciar a Andrew Cain, un político corrupto.
Murmullos en la ciudad
Arthur Higgins
Cary Grant es un médico con un misterioso pasado, razón por la que es investigado por sus celosos colegas de la universidad donde trabaja. Mientras tanto, se casa con una joven que está embarazada de otro hombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Saturday's Hero
T.C. McCabe
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
Nace una canción
Adams
Basada en "Bola de fuego" y en el cuento escrito por Billy Wilder y Thomas Monroe. Siete profesores, encabezados por Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye), vienen trabajando en una enciclopedia de la música, cuando, al escuchar la versión moderna que, de una pieza de música clásica, hace uno de los limpiavidrios afroamericanos, van a darse cuenta de que muchos ritmos modernos no han sido tomados en cuenta. Lo que sigue será una gran fiesta de jazz donde estarán Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman... y un puñado de grandes talentos. Remake de Bola de fuego del mismo director.
My Girl Tisa
Theodore Roosevelt
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Duelo al sol
The Lover
Pearl Chavez es una hermosa mestiza que se convierte en ahijada del primer amor de su fallecido padre, y se ve disputada por sus dos hijos.
Wilson
Josephus Daniels
Biopic sobre el presidente democráta de los Estados Unidos Woodrow Wilson. Dejó su puesto en la Universidad de Princeton para presentarse a gobernador de New Jersey, y de ahí fue ascendiendo hasta llegar a presidente (1913-1921). Durante su mandato tuvo que enfrentarse a la muerte de su esposa, además de a las hostilidades alemanas que finalmente llevaron a los Estados Unidos a entrar en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Además fue fundador de la liga de las naciones en 1919, lo que le valió el Premio Nobel de la Paz.
La mujer y el monstruo
Eugene Fulton
Un financiero sin escrúpulos muere en un accidente. Siguiendo sus órdenes, un científico y su ayudante mantienen con vida su cerebro artificialmente. Gradualmente, el cerebro empieza a dominar a sus guardianes.
Las aventuras de Buffalo Bill
Theodore Roosevelt (uncredited)
Narra las hazañas de este aventurero –de nombre real William F. Cody–, centrándose en su romance con su esposa Louisa Frederici, y en sus campañas como explorador. (FILMAFFINITY)
Broadway Rhythm
Press Agent
Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
En el viejo Oklahoma
Teddy Roosevelt
El vaquero Dan Somers y el magnate del petroleo Jim "Hunk" Gardner compiten por obtener los derechos sobre el petróleo en tierra india en Oklahoma, así como por los favores de la maestra Cathy Allen
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Bergen
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Murder in Times Square
George Nevins
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Quiet Please, Murder
Martin Cleaver
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Sabotage Squad
Carlyle Harrison
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
March On, America!
Theodore Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.
Gallant Lady
Steve Carey
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
Obliging Young Lady
Henry - George's Attorney
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Always in My Heart
Philip Ames
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
The Panther's Claw
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Nazi Agent
Arnold Milbar
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Down Mexico Way
Ellery Gibson
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
The Officer and the Lady
Blake Standish
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Huellas femeninas
Freddie Bond
Enredo alrededor de un aburrido profesor de psicología, que viaja a Nueva York con su esposa, para reunirse con una editorial que podría publicar su obra, recién terminada, sobre el tema de los celos. Y en efecto, el editor muestra interés… ¿pero es por el libro, o por la atractiva mujer del autor?
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Anthony Rhodes
Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.
Angels with Broken Wings
Guy Barton
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Mi marido está loco
Lawyer George Renny
Steve y Susan Ireland van a cumplir su cuarto aniversario de boda, pero su relación es bastante problemática. Cuando Susan descubre a Steve con su antigua novia, piensa que tienen una aventura y decide pedir el divorcio. Pero Steve ama a su mujer y está dispuesto a todo con tal de recuperarla...
Rookies on Parade
Augustus Moody
The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.
The Great Swindle
Dave Lennox
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
Murder Among Friends
Mr. Wheeler
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Cheers for Miss Bishop
John Stevens
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Hughie Wheeler
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
I Want a Divorce
Erskine Brandon
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Baila, muchacha, baila
Puss in Boots
Judy O'Brien forma parte de un grupo de baile y aspira a dedicarse al ballet clásico. Bubbles, compañera suya deja el grupo para centrarse en la comedia. Cuando el grupo se deshace, Bubbles le ofrece a Judy un ingrato trabajo: ser la telonera de su espectáculo.
Maryland
Spencer Danfield
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Framed
Tony Bowman
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
Teddy the Rough Rider
Theodore Roosevelt
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Law of the Pampas
Ralph Merritt
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
The Monroe Doctrine
Theodore Roosevelt
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
Hotel for Women
McNeil
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
Land of Liberty
Theodore Roosevelt (edited from 'Teddy the Rough Rider')
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Trapped in the Sky
Mann
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
Unmarried
Cash Enright
Un boxeador acabado y una descarada cabaretera se mudan a una pequeña ciudad y ocupan una casa con huérfano incluido.
En este mundo traidor
Al Mallon
El cliente de un detective es acusado de asesinato. El tipo acabará siendo condenado a la pena capital, y el detective a un año de prisión por ocultarle. Pero cuando le trasladan a la cárcel logra fugarse. Tratará de averiguar la verdad, aunque para ello tenga que actuar como un peligroso facineroso, reteniendo a una poetisa consigo. En realidad está más que claro que no es nada peligroso, pero por suerte para él la policía no demuestra demasiada pericia a la hora de capturarle.
Within the Law
George Demarest
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Invitación peligrosa
'Lucky' Nolan
Un excéntrico millonario contrata al matrimonio Sloane (Montgomery y Russell) para resolver el misterio del robo de las primeras ediciones de unos antiguos libros.
Convict's Code
Gregory Warren
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
Trade Winds
Thomas Bruhme II
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
While New York Sleeps
Ralph Simmons
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Sharpshooters
Baron Orloff
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
Suez
Marquis Du Brey
Ferdinand de Lesseps fue un joven aristócrata e ingeniero francés que proyectó la construcción del Canal de Suez (inaugurado en 1869), pero tuvo que afrontar numerosos problemas para llevar a cabo su proyecto.
Down on the Farm
Political Boss
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Straight, Place and Show
'Lucky' Braddock
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Speed to Burn
Hastings
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Chicago
General Phil Sheridan
Los O'Leary son una familia de pioneros cuyos hijos mayores alcanzan poder y notoriedad en la bulliciosa ciudad de Chicago. Jack (Don Ameche) es elegido alcalde con la ayuda de su popular hermano Dion (Tyrone Power), pero ambos hermanos se enfrentan después a causa de sus diferencias de opinión sobre el destino que deben dar a los barrios bajos de Chicago. Usando a su esposa (Alice Faye), una cantante de cabaret, como peón en la disputa, Dion echa leña al fuego de la rivalidad con su hermano hasta que la ciudad entera comienza a tomar partido por el uno o por el otro
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Herr Eric Koeger
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Victor Karnoff
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
El último gángster
San Francisco Editor
Tras diez años en la cárcel, un antiguo capo de la mafia (Edward G. Robinson) queda en libertad, pero le resulta muy difícil adaptarse a los nuevos y cambiantes años 30.
Heidi
Sesemann
Cuando su tía se cansa de cuidarla, Heidi, una niña huérfana, debe ir a vivir a las montañas suizas con su arisco abuelo (Jean Hersholt), un ermitaño que pronto se encariña con ella. Pero la tía regresa para llevársela a vivir con una familia que necesita una compañera para su hija inválida (Marcia Mae Jones). A pesar de que una malvada institutriz (Mary Nash) le hace la vida imposible, Heidi consigue ganarse el cariño de todos los de la casa y no ceja en su intento de volver a reunirse con su querido abuelo.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Dr. Gordon Therberg
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
The Women Men Marry
Walter Wiley
A newsman (George Murphy) with a no-good wife (Claire Dodd) exposes a religious racket with a newswoman (Josephine Hutchinson) who loves him.
Shadows of the Orient
King Moss
A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"
La contraseña
President Theodore Roosevelt
Un exoficial de la Marina, empleado del presidente McKinley a principios del siglo XX, lucha contra una poderosa organización criminal que ha hecho del atraco a entidades bancarias su principal fuente de financiación.
Michael O'Halloran
Jim Mintum
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
John Meade's Woman
Rodney
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
A Doctor's Diary
Dr. Anson Ludlow
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out.
Girl Overboard
Alex LeMaire
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
The House of Secrets
Tom Starr
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
The President's Mystery
George Sartos
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Missing Girls
Dan Collins
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Early to Bed
Rex Daniels
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Florida Special
Jack Macklyn
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
Woman Trap
Riley Ferguson
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
Heart of the West
Big John Trumbull
Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hoppy roots out the troublemaker.
Forced Landing
Tony Bernardi
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
The Fire-Trap
Cedric McIntyre
An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvaluing a decrepit warehouse and its contents and burning the building to the ground.
False Pretenses
Kenneth Alden
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
The Girl Who Came Back
Bill Rhodes
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
Streamline Express
Gilbert Landon
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Smart Girl
Harry Courtland
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Great God Gold
John Hart
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
Behind the Green Lights
Raymond Cortell
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
La Pequeña Coronela
Swazey
A finales de la Guerra Civil norteamericana, un irascible coronel sureño (Lionel Barrymore) destierra a su hija (Evelyn Venable) por casarse con un yanqui del norte (John Lodge), y se niega a verla incluso cuando ésta regresa años más tarde con su pequeña hija (Shirley Temple). Pero la ingeniosa niña, tan directa como su abuelo, puede que disponga del encanto y la chispa suficiente para arreglar las cosas
A Notorious Gentleman
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
The President Vanishes
D.L. Voorman
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Lee Lother
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
El conde de Montecristo
Mondego
Tras pasar 13 años en prisión injustamente encarcelado, Edmundo Dantés logra fugarse y maquina una diabólica venganza contra sus enemigos.
Down to Their Last Yacht
Barry Forbes
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
This Man Is Mine
Mort Holmes
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.
Good-bye Love
Chester Hamilton
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
El diluvio
Martin Webster
Un eclipse solar provoca una ola gigante que arrasa con Nueva York y con las principales ciudades del mundo.
The Wrecker
Tom Cummings
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
Cocktail Hour
William Lawton
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
From Hell to Heaven
Cliff Billings
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
The Lady Who Dared
Charles Townsend
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
It's a Wise Child
Steve
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Woman Hungry
Geoffrey Brand
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
Hampa dorada
Big Boy
La película narra la trayectoria criminal de un hombre. Rico comenzó su vida ejecutando pequeños robos y terminó su existencia como jefe de la banda de mafiosos más importante de la ciudad. Película clave del nacimiento del cine negro americano, pues a partir de esta libre adaptación de la historia de Al Capone el género basado en el relato de gánsteres vería un gran auge en Hollywood.
Mothers Cry
Mr. Gerald Hart
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
Kismet
Wazir Mansur
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
El hombre malo
Morgan Pell
Cuando un ranchero es incapaz de pagar la hipoteca de su rancho, un bandido mexicano al que salvó la vida acude en su ayuda. Un individuo convencido de que hay petróleo en la propiedad se la quiere comprar. El bandido descubre que su amigo está enamorado de la mujer de dicho individuo, de modo que lo mata para allanar el camino del romance. A continuación, roba un banco y utiliza el dinero para pagar la hipoteca de su amigo. Pero después de despedirse de la pareja, los Rangers de Texas acaban con él.
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Himself
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Sweethearts and Wives
Anthony Peel
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
A Most Immoral Lady
Humphrey Sergeant
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mistakenly victimizes Tony Williams (Walter Pidgeon), the man she really loves.