Barbara Kent
Nacimiento : 1907-12-16, Gadsby, Alberta, Canada
Muerte : 2011-10-13
Historia
Canadian born Barbara Kent (born Barbara Cloutman), who resettled, with her family, in California in 1913, was an actress in Hollywood films from 1926 to 1942.
Hostess
El tímido marinero Casey Kirby se convierte de repente en un lobo de mar cuando es fotografiado al lado de una actriz famosa. Sus compañeros entonces hacen una apuesta, para ver si es capaz de conquistar a una fría cantante de night-club conocida como la Condesa.
Jackie
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Jitterbug Dancer (uncredited)
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Jeanne Martin
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
Edith Warren
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Mary Malone
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
Doris Maynard
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
Rose Maylie
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Beth MacDougall
The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
Nona Devoux
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
Martha Tully
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
Carol Everett
An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
Sally Dale
Director Richard Thorpe's 1932 film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Amelia Sedley
Una joven ambiciosa y carente de escrúpulos asciende en la escala social desde institutriz a lo más alto de la sociedad británica.
Gypsy
Después de décadas de criar a los hijos sin madre de Smith, la ama de llaves Emma Thatcher se enfrenta al resentimiento cuando se casa con su padre.
Ruth Mercer
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
Lotus
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Jean Royce
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Joan Trent
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Barbara
Harold Horne (Harold Llloyd) es un vendedor de zapatos quien por casualidad conoce a Bárbara, la hija de su jefe, y se enamora de ella.
Horne le cuenta a la chica que él es un magnate del cuero y debe esconder la verdad para no desilusionarla.Decide hacer lo posible para cortejarla, aunque eso signifique escalar todo un edificio.
Más tarde, al tratar de entregar una carta, Horne se halla a sí mismo colgando de los andamios de un edificio, a muchos metros de altura sobre las calles de la ciudad.
Betty 'Babs' Joyce
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Faith Corey
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Ruth Kearns
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
Billie Lee
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Marjorie
La vida de un boxeador cambia radicalmente cuando recoge a un huérfano y decide ocuparse de él.
Betty Baker
A 1928 Western
Mary
Mary y Jim, dos solitarios personajes de la gran ciudad, se encuentran de casualidad en un parque de diversiones. Pasan el día juntos, recorriendo la playa y vistando los juegos mecánicos. De improviso, la multitud y una tormenta conspiran para separarlos. ¿Se volverán a ver? (FILMAFFINITY)
Molly Moran
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
Molly Waddington
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
Cecily Graves
Jack Hamill, el pateador y capitán de la Selección de fútbol americano del Shoreham College, ve peligrar su reputación al hacer una inocente visita a una mujer cuyo marido se suicida, y ser falsamente acusado de su asesinato.
Toby Belcher
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
Hertha von Eltz
Una seductora mujer (Garbo) se interpone entre dos oficiales austriacos que la pretenden.
Anita Parsons
Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.