Edward Earle

Edward Earle

Nacimiento : 1882-07-16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 1972-12-15

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Earle (16 July 1882 – 15 December 1972) was a Canadian-American stage, film and television actor. In a career which lasted from the early 1900s to 1966, he appeared in almost 400 films between 1914 and 1956. He was born in Toronto and died in Los Angeles, aged 90.

Perfil

Edward Earle

Películas

La criatura
Professor Anderson
La bella asistente (Marla English) de un hipnotizador misterioso y malvado (Chester Morris) ignora ser descendiente de un horrendo monstruo marino prehistórico, en el cual se convierte cuando su jefe la hipnotiza. Cuando el monstruo se manifiesta, mata a quien se interponga en su camino. Un empresario se entera de las fechorías del hipnotizador, e idea una manera de sacar provecho de tanta muerte y destrucción. Mientras tanto, cada vez que la asistente está hipnotizada y el monstruo emerge, ella logra controlarlo más y más...
Francis in the Haunted House
Howard Grisby
En una casa se está llevando a cabo la investigación de un crimen. Al mismo tiempo, empiezan a producirse misteriosas desapariciones. Los sospechosos son un actor cómico y una mula que, al parecer, habla
Hoy como ayer
Colonel Washburn
Berlín, 1945. Un médico del ejército americano se casa con una joven pianista, pero ella queda atrapada en la zona soviética de la ciudad. Tendrán que pasar muchos años hasta que las circunstancias les permitan reunirse de nuevo.
Su único deseo
Mr. Hathaway
Oklahoma, 1900. Cuando Tacey Cromwell, una chica de saloon, y Clint Saunders, un jugador de cartas profesional, se enamoran.deciden dejar atrás sus oscuras vidas e instalarse en otro lugar, donde puedan mantener una apariencia de respetabilidad. Eligen para ello un pequeño pueblo, donde vivirán con el hermano pequeño de Clint y una joven huérfana. Judith Watrous, la celosa hija del banquero del pueblo, se enamorará de Clint e intentará apartarlo de Tacey. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los forasteros
El comandante Matt Stewart y un grupo de soldados confederados roban a los soldados de la Unión un cargamento de oro. Después se enteran de que la guerra ha terminado y deciden llevar el oro hacia el Sur. Pero son capturados, aunque Matt consigue salvarse cuando va a ser ahorcado y escapa con el botín. (FILMAFFINITY)
Vuelo a Marte
Justin, Alita's father
Una nave espacial aterriza en Marte y los astronautas deben luchar contra los marcianos que pretenden apoderarse del vehículo para atacar la Tierra.
When You're Smiling
Foster
When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music business. Durham not only ends up with a recording contract, but also wins heroine Peggy Martin (Lola Albright) in the bargain. So much for the story. The principal selling card of When You're Smiling consists of the guest-star turns by Frankie Laine, Bob Crosby, The Modernaires, The Mills Brothers, Kay Starr and Billy Daniels.
Beware of Blondie
J.C. Dithers
After 12 years and 28 films, Columbia's Blondie series came to a close with 1950's Beware of Blondie. Mr. Dithers leaving Dagwood (Arthur Lake) in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton (Adele Jergens). He even finds himself in a compromising position that seriously endangers his future connubial happiness with wife Blondie (Penny Singleton). Once again, it's up to Blondie to straighten out the mess. Mr. Dithers is played by an uncredited Edward Earle, who is seen only from the back; Earle's voice is dubbed over with an old recording of Jonathan Hale, the series' original Dithers.
Blondie's Hero
Richard Rogers (uncredited)
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
La dama que conquistó el oeste
Mr. Nolan
Linda Marlow llega a un pueblo del Oeste, donde se hace pasar por cantante de ópera y causa una contienda entre dos hermanos.
Letra y Música
James Fernby Kelly
Retrato de las carreras profesionales de Richard Rodgers y Lorenz Hart, dos conocidos escritores de canciones.
Persecución en la noche
Locke
Lucky Gagin (Robert Montgomery) llega, en la víspera de una fiesta popular, a un pueblo mexicano de la frontera, con la misión de encontrar a un tal Frank Hugo (Fred Clark), de quien quiere vengarse. Un agente del FBI (Art Smith) también está tras la pista del misterioso Hugo.
Dragnet
District Attorney
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Mary Hogan, an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.
Accomplice
Jim Bonniwell
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
Dark Alibi
Thomas Harley
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
The Devil's Mask
E. R. Willard
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
El cartero siempre llama dos veces
Doctor (uncredited)
Durante la Gran Depresión, Frank Chambers, un hombre sin rumbo, comienza a trabajar en un bar de carretera, regentado por un hombre mayor y por Cora, su joven, bella e infeliz esposa.
Las chicas de Harvey
Jed Adams
Un espumoso musical sobre las desventuras románticas de las muchachas de Harvey, camareras empleadas de la cadena de restaurantes Old West Harvey Restaurant.
Purity Squad
Judge (uncredited)
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
Scared Stiff
Joshua Elliott (Uncredited)
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
In Old New Mexico
The Printer
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
Circumstantial Evidence
Doctor
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Double Exposure
District Attorney Merkle
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Faces in the Fog
Wells
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
I Accuse My Parents
Judge
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Black Magic
Dawson, Police Lab
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.
Maisie Goes to Reno
Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Maisie está agobiada y su jefe le ordena tomar dos semanas de vacaciones. Al ir a subir al autobús con destino a Reno, donde cantará en una banda, conoce a una chica y un soldado, que le da una carta para su mujer, quien ha ido a Reno para pedir el divorcio. Pero la mujer no es la verdadera, y Maisie se pone a investigar.
Wilson
Reporter (uncredited)
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.
She's a Soldier Too
Mr. Spengler (uncredited)
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Detective Kitty O'Day
Oliver M. Wentworth
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
California Joe
Weldon's Commanding Officer
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
Aventuras de Jack London
James Hare
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
Sangre en Filipinas
Doctor (Uncredited)
Un grupo de enfermeras del Ejército de los Estados Unidos se dirige a Hawaii en diciembre de 1941. El ataque a Pearl Harbor cambiará su destino y sus vidas. Enviadas a Bataan, Filipinas, las enfermeras estarán bajo el mando de la teniente Janet Davidson, que tendrá que enfrentarse con enfermeras novatas que esperaban una agradable estancia en Hawaii, pero tendrán que convertirse rápidamente en veteranas si quieren salvar las vidas de numerosos heridos y con suministros cada vez más escasos.
The West Side Kid
Racketeer
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Bordertown Gun Fighters
Dan Forrester
Cameo Shelby is running a crooked lottery out of El Paso and treasury agent Bill Elliott has been sent to break it up. When Bill intercepts a shipment of tickets to New Mexico he forces Shelby to send incriminating papers in the next shipment. Bill captures these also and now has the evidence he needs to go after Shelby.
Alaska Highway
Blair Caswell
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Morris (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Tiburones de acero
Wreckage Victim
Al teniente Ward Stewart y a su equipo les han asignado una importante misión dentro del submarino Albacore. Investigan a un pequeño barco que resulta ser un Q-ship nazi. Los miembros del Albacore consiguen escapar de la emboscada, pero cuando llegan a Nueva Londres, Stewart y el capitán del submarino se ven envueltos en un triángulo amoroso que afectará a la misión más peligrosa que jamás hayan tenido que afrontar en toda su vida.
King of the Cowboys
Businessman
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Slightly Dangerous
Newspaper employee (uncredited)
Una chica de pueblo cambia de identidad para triunfar en Nueva York, y su novio resulta sospechoso de su "desaparición".
Lucky Jordan
Government Courier with Briefcase
Un pillo y corredor de apuestas de Nueva York, llamado Lucky Jordan, cuenta un montón de mentiras para librarse del ejército, de ahí que las fuerzas armadas le tengan bajo vigilancia. Sin embargo, cuando una banda de espías extranjeros se inmiscuyen en los negocios de una vieja amiga a la que Jordan quiere como a una madre, este hombre reconsiderará su actitud ante la vida...
Laugh Your Blues Away
Mr. Larkin
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
Wake Island
Commander (uncredited)
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Blue, White, and Perfect
First Officer Richards
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Pacific Blackout
Army Major
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Senda prohibida
Man #2 Watching Dog Run at Track (uncredited)
Johnny Eager (Taylor) es un gángster que, para no levantar sospechas, lleva una doble vida: finge que vive en una humilde casa con sus parientes, pero en secreto continúa siendo el rey del juego ilegal. Lisbeth (Turner) es una inocente chica que conoce a Johnny y se enamora de él.
The Richest Man in Town
Berton
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
She Knew All the Answers
Harassed Man (uncredited)
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Border Vigilantes
Stevens
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
Scattergood Baines
Crane
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
This Thing Called Love
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
The Mad Doctor
Librarian (Uncredited)
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Ángeles sobre Broadway
Vincent - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Bill O'Brien es un gángster que se asocia con una bailarina sin éxito para realizar una estafa que le permitiría resolver sus problemas económicos.
El mago de la muerte
Dr. Nichols
Un médico condenado a la pena de muerte por practicar la eutanasia recibe permiso para experimentar con un suero, utilizando la sangre de asesinos, pero se lo inyecta en secreto. Se le conmuta la pena, pero descubre que se ha convertido en Jekyll y Hyde.
Te quiero otra vez
Mr. Watkins - Man in Bar on Ship (uncredited)
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Girls of the Road
Senator Wilson (Uncredited)
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Manhattan Heartbeat
Official
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
Sailor's Lady
Navigator
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Edison, el hombre
Broker
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
El doctor se casa
Party Guest
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
Mando siniestro
Town Leader
John Wayne encarna a Bob Seton, un cowboy de Tejas que llega a un pueblo de Kansas llamado Lawrence en los oscuros días anteriores al estallido de la Guerra Civil Americana.
Black Friday
Detective
Un científico injerta en el cuerpo de un profesor muerto el cerebro vivo de un gángster que acaba de morir; el profesor vuelve a la vida, pero cada tanto tiene atisbos de otra personalidad.
El pájaro azul
Maple Tree
Mytyl es una niña egoísta y no aprecia los esfuerzos que su encantadora familia hace por ella. Pero un duende la transporta, junto a su hermano, en un viaje fantástico con el fin de hallar “el pájaro que significa la felicidad".
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Officer
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
The Green Hornet
Felix Grant
El editor de un periódico y su sirviente coreano combaten el crimen como vigilantes, mientras aparentan ser un gangster enmascarado y su cómplice. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el personaje radiofónico. Le seguiría "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1940)
Mandrake the Magician
Dr. Andre Bennett
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
Swanee River
Master of Ceremonies
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Remember?
Joe
A punto de casarse con Sky, Linda se enamora de Jeff y se casa con él. Pronto se dará cuenta de que quizá no haya hecho una buena elección, pues Jeff solo piensa en su trabajo y apenas tienen tiempo para estar juntos. Así que, poco después, Linda pide el divorcio. De solucionar la crisis matrimonial se encargará Sky, que ha fabricado una poción que borrará los recuerdos de la pareja haciendo que vuelvan a enamorarse.
Barricade
American Consul's Under-Secretary
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Enterrado vivo
Charlie Blake
Centra su argumento en la lucha del alcaide de una prisión por intentar avanzar en la aplicación de normas que consigan mitigar la dureza de la vida en sus instalaciones. En su ámbito de dirección se dan cita una serie de personajes, entre los que destaca la presencia del atormentado verdugo, un joven médico y un sacerdote. A todos ellos les une su secreta admiración hacia la enfermera Joan Wright (Beverly Roberts), hacia quien desean acercarse, quizá por representar un único asidero dentro del entorno sórdido en que desarrollan su labor. Pero los sentimientos de la joven. Finalmente se inclinarán hacia la figura de joven recluso Johnny Martin (Robert Wilcox).
Sued for Libel
Judge Clark
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
Caballero sin espada
Reporter (uncredited)
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Hollywood Cavalcade
Actor
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
The Day the Bookies Wept
Race Judge (uncredited)
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
In Old Monterey
Army Captain
The (pre-WWII) Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
Miracles for Sale
Ace of Spades Man
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Second Fiddle
Gregg
Un publicista (Power) conoce en Minnesota a una gran profesora de patinaje(Henie) a la que quiere llevar a Hollywood para que adquiera más fama. Finalmente ella decidirá regresar a su pueblo seguida del amor que el siente hacia ella.
Mandrake the Magician
Dr. Andre Bennett
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Back Door to Heaven
Judge (uncredited)
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Al Este del cielo
Henry Smith (uncredited)
Por extrañas circunstancias, un hombre se ve convertido en padre de un niño de diez meses y se involucra en la vida turbulenta de su familia.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Executive
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Within the Law
Floorwalker
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
The Ice Follies of 1939
Man with Tolliver and Director (Uncredited)
Una patinadora sobre hielo pone en peligro su matrimonio cuando se convierte en una estrella de cine. Primera aparición en color de Joan Crawford.
Four Girls in White
Druggist
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Kentucky
Man with Woman at Race Track
Peter Goodwin es el patriarca de una familia que odia a los Dillon desde que ambos clanes se enfrentaron en la Guerra Civil; pero surge un pequeño problema cuando su sobrina Sally (Loretta Young) se enamora de Jack, el hijo de los Dillon (Richard Greene). Además, para echar más leña al fuego en este romance imposible, Jack ayuda a Sally a formarse como jinete y participar en el derby de Kentucky.
El duque de West Point
Surgeon
Un arrogante estudiante de Cambridge emigra a Estados Unidos y se enrola en West Point.
I Am a Criminal
Clark
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
Say It in French
Bit Part
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
The Headleys at Home
Van Wyck Schuyler
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
Youth Takes a Fling
Businessman
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Vive como quieras
Bank Manager (uncredited)
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
Men with Wings
Officer
Esta película se desarrolla en los primeros tiempos de la aviación civil, cuando los pilotos se jugaban la vida como auténticos héroes debido a la precariedad de los primeros aviones.
Woman Against Woman
Country Club Guest
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Riders of the Black Hills
Race Track Steward
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
Locura de la marihuana
FBI Investigator Mr. Wayne (uncredited)
El Dr. Alfred Carroll, director de un instituto, relata a una audiencia de padres que la marihuana puede tener efectos devastadores en los adolescentes: un proveedor de drogas atrae a varios adolescentes inquietos, Mary y Jimmy Lane, hermana y hermano, y a Bill, el novio de Mary, para que frecuenten un fumadero. Poco a poco, Bill y Jimmy se ven arrastrados a fumar droga, lo que afecta a su vida familiar.
The Rage of Paris
Chief of Waiters (uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
The Marines Are Here
Lt. Drake
A cocky young Marine who's alienated many of his fellow soldiers with his smart-aleck, wiseguy attitude gets a "wake-up call" when his unit comes under attack by bandits.
Safety in Numbers
Sloane
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Phantom Ranger
Matthews
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
Pasión salvaje
Capt. Avery
Un aviador y su mecánico tienen un accidente y caen en una isla del Pacífico Sur donde entran en contacto con una bella indígena llamada Tura que aprende, entre otras cosas, a besar como lo hacen los occidentales. Allí también está un pérfido doctor que hipnotiza a Tura para someterse a un sacrificio humano.
Code of the Rangers
Banker Price
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
El juez Harvey y sus hijos
Penniwill (uncredited)
El juez Hardy va en viaje de negocios a Washington, donde Andy no tarda en enamorarse de la hija del embajador francés.
When G-Men Step In
Morton
Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
The Jury's Secret
Man in Corridor
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Una nación en marcha
Mr. Padden
Historia sobre el desarrollo de las comunicaciones terrestres en los EE.UU. durante su rápida expansión en el siglo XIX. La película se centra en la vida de Ramsey McCay, empleado de la recién creada asociación entre Henry Wells y William Fargo, y de cómo gracias a su especial dedicación, la Wells-Fargo llega a convertirse en una gran empresa de correos y transporte de mercancías hacia el Oeste, presente en los mayores acontecimientos de la época.
Amateur Crook
Deputy Jonas
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Murder in Greenwich Village
Mr. Andrews
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Live, Love and Learn
Second Gallery Salesman (uncredited)
Un artista bohemio y una chica de la alta sociedad intentan averiguar si están hechos para casarse. Una vez casados, son pobres pero felices, hasta que él salta a las portadas de los periódicos y se convierte en la nueva sensación social.
Sky Racket
FBI Chief Maddox
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
Artists & Models
Flunky (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Headline Crasher
Atwood
The popular B-flick team of Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond star in the slick quickie Headline Crasher. Little Frankie and Big Kane play a pair of roving journalists who investigate a politician (Richard Tucker) up for re-election. When it seems as though the politico is being set up for a fall by yellow journalists, Darro and Richmond try to get to the truth of the matter. The original story for Headline Crasher is credited to Peter B. Kyne, creator of the "Broncho Billy" western stories.
The Frame-Up
Ellery Richards
A detective investigates a racing scam.
Cena de medianoche
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Lady Be Careful
Second Officer
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Dangerous Waters
Officer Nelson (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Ship Cafe
Mr. Simpson (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Chinatown Squad
Hudson - Palmer's Attorney
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
The Miracle Rider
Christopher Adams
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
Nido de águilas
Army Officer in Locker Room
Un sargento del ejército anima a su hijo en convertirse en aviador de la escuela de West Point.
The Revenge Rider
Kramer
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
Mutiny Ahead
Barnes
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Ticket to a Crime
Willard Purdy
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
Mystery Mountain
Frank Blayden
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
He Was Her Man
Hotel Clerk
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Dejada en prenda
Marky's Father
Marthy Jane es una adorable huerfanita que es dejada en prenda para cubrir una deuda de juego entre apostadores. Es así como se convierte en la mascota de varios tahúres capitaneados por Sorrowful Jones y Bangles Carson, una cantante de cabaret. Sorrowful Jones se hace cargo de darle un lugar donde vivir y poco a poco se encariña de la niña. Cuando es evidente que el ambiente está malogrando el comportamiento de Marthy Jane y que es posible que finalmente termine en un orfanato, el tahúr decide hacer todo lo posible por mejorar su condición de vida, aunque eso signifique cambiar su estilo de vida y regenerarse.
Three on a Honeymoon
First Officer
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
Alimony Madness
Joel Mason
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
The Wide Open Spaces
Story
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
Forgotten Women
Sleek Moran
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
A Woman of Experience
Captain Kurt von Hausen
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Phantom of the Desert
Dan Denton
Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it.
Second Honeymoon
Jim Huntley
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
El comparsa
Lionel Benmore
Última película muda de Buster Keaton. La actriz Trilby Drew se casa con Elmer, quien está locamente enamorado de ella. Pero ella no parece sentir lo mismo...
Kid Gloves
Penny
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
Friendship
1st Friend
A short drama film Directed by Eugene Walter..
El viento
Beverly
Letty, una inocente joven de Virginia, se traslada desde el Este a las praderas de Texas, donde parece que el viento nunca deja de soplar y la arena llega a todas partes. Allí vive con unos parientes, pero, como no se siente querida, se verá abocada a un matrimonio que no desea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fiebre de primavera
Johnson
Jack Kelly trabaja en el departamento de envíos de una importante firma comercial. En sus ratos libres suele jugar al golf y un buen día logra un hoyo en una tirada. Su jefe, también aficionado a ese deporte -sin ninguna fortuna-, le pide que le enseñe los secretos del manejo de la bolita. (Eddie Constanti)
Twelve Miles Out
John Burton
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
Pals First
Dr. Harry Chilton
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his cousin and physician, Harry Chilton, who thereupon begins romancing Castleman's fiancée, Jeanne Lamont. When word arrives of Castleman's death, Chilton prepares to usurp the fortune and property of the dead man. Danny Rowland, who is found wounded by two wandering crooks, Dominie and The Squirrel, opportunely arrives at the estate seeking food and rest; and because of his resemblance to Castleman, he is welcomed as the master. Dominie is introduced as an English cleric and The Squirrel as an Italian count, while Danny falls in love with Jeanne, who believes him to be her fiancé. Chilton, however, suspects the trio and finally unmasks them. It then develops that Danny actually is Castleman, who had decided to reform the two men who befriended him and to expose the dishonesty of his cousin.
The Greater Glory
Otto Steiner
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Irene
Larry Hadley
Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.
The Splendid Road
Dr. Bidwell
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
Why Women Love
Ira Meers
Why Women Love (1925)
The Lady Who Lied
Alan Mortimer
During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former sweetheart, Dr. Alan Mortimer (Edward Earle).
Her Market Value
Anthony Davis
Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Agnes Ayres. Powell produced the picture and distributed through Producers Distributing Corporation.
The Family Secret
Garry Holmes
Un hombre modesto, sin saberlo, tiene un bebé con una mujer de una familia acomodada. A través de una serie de coincidencias se reúne con su hija, lo que obliga a la familia a enfrentar sus secretos.
How to Educate a Wife
Robert Benson
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
Gambling Wives
Vincent Forrest
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, Van Merton. Forrest's wife Ann begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.
Broadway Broke
Charles Farrin
Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.
The Streets of New York
Paul Fairweather
Badger, a clerk at a Wall Street brokerage, discovers that his boss Gideon Bloodgood has swindled an investor, Fairweather, out of his money. Fairweather dies of a heart attack after an argument with Bloodgood, and Badger uses this knowledge to blackmail him. By a strange coincidence, Bloodgood's daughter Lucy runs over Fairweather's son, Paul, and cripples him.
The Man Who Played God
Philip Stevens
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
Passion Fruit
Pierce Lamont
Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance featured Stuart Holmes as a vicious plantation overseer who poisons his boss (W.A. Bainbridge) in order to possess both the unfortunate man's estate and his daughter.
God's Man
Archie Hartogensis
Arnold L'Hommedieu and his friends Archie Hartogensis and Hugo Waldemar go to New York to find work after being unfairly expelled from college. Arnold starts off as helpful and idealistic, but after being beaten down by life, he decides he is only after money and becomes an opium smuggler. His pals have fared no better: Archie becomes a drug addict and is in debt thanks to his spendthrift fiancee, while Hugo has lost his money after investing in a show that flopped. The two go to Arnold for financial aid. They await a shipment of opium, but the police are onto them and raid the hideout; only Arnold evades the cops.
The Innocence of Ruth
The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's winsome qualities gradually win Jimmy's heart. Meanwhile at a Charity Ball, Ruth meets Mr. Reynolds, who is contriving to ruin her virtue.
Through Turbulent Waters
Frank Wentworth
The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
The Working of a Miracle
Ray Conover
Roy Conover has just returned to his village home from college.