Ralph Forbes

Una dama inglesa cae locamente enamorada de un pirata francés, tras ser capturada por éste en su casa ancestral de la costa de Cornualles.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

En el siglo XV, Ricardo, Duque de Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), ayudado por su patizambo verdugo Mord (Boris Karloff), elimina a todos aquellos que se le enfrentan en la sucesión al trono, entonces ocupado por su hermano el Rey Eduardo IV de Inglaterra. Cada vez que lleva a cabo un asesinato, disfruta eliminado una de las figuritas que tiene colocadas en la sala del trono de su casa de muñecas, cuyo aspecto se asemeja a cada uno de los posibles sucesores al trono, hasta que queda sólo la suya. Después de la muerte de Eduardo se convierte en Ricardo III, Rey de Inglaterra. Sólo le falta derrotar al exiliado enrique Tudor para mantener el poder.

Londres, 1596. El conde de Essex, Robert Devreaux (Errol Flynn) llega victorioso con sus tropas después de derrotar a los españoles en Cádiz. No obstante, el recibimiento que le dispensa la reina Isabel I (Bette Davis) no será agradable debido a los altos costes de la batalla. Las relaciones entre la soberana y el conde irán de la tensión al afecto, según traten asuntos políticos o sentimentales, respectivamente. Mezcla de biografía histórica y drama romántico que narra las relaciones de amor y odio entre la ya madura Isabel I Tudor, reina de Inglaterra e Irlanda (1558-1603) y Robert Devereux, el elegante Conde de Essex.

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

Durante más de doscientos años una maldición parece haber caído sobre la aristocrática familia de los Baskerville. Cuando Sir Charles es hallado muerto en extrañas circunstancias, el legendario Sherlock Holmes y su compañero Watson comienzan a investigar y llegan a la conclusión de que la próxima víctima será Sir Henry, el único miembro vivo de la familia y, por tanto, el heredero universal de la fortuna de los Baskerville.

An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.

Anabel está a punto de hacer una gira para promocionar su última película, pero le cuesta conseguir la publicidad que desea. Para ello contrata a Morgan, un agente excesivamente entusiasta, al que sólo se le ocurren planes rocambolescos para hacer que Ananbel ocupe las portadas de los periódicos. (FILMAFFINITY)

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

Un grupo de chicas, unidas por el mismo deseo de triunfar en el teatro, conviven en una residencia regentada por antiguas actrices, las cuales muestran su entusiasmo y envidia al mismo tiempo ante el futuro que espera a sus pupilas. Algunas logran alcanzar el éxito, pero otras no tendrán más remedio que olvidar sus sueños y volver al pueblo del que partieron un día.

A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's gorgeous mother Marion Claire, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiance Ralph Forbes refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block. But Little-Mister-Fixit Breen manages to patch up everything just in time for Claire to debut in Rathbone's latest masterpiece. Offering much-needed comedy relief are Henry Armetta, Leon Errol and Donald Meek as a trio of parasitic would-be songwriters. Make a Wish was based on a story by Gertrude Berg, of "Molly Goldberg" fame.

Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.

A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.

A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.

A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.

En 1775, 30 colonos americanos, junto con sus esposas e hijos, se disponían a seguir al héroe americano Daniel Boone desde su colonia natal en Yadkin, Carolina del Norte, hasta el valle de Ken-tu-ki, llamada por los indios "la tierra oscura y sangrienta". Éste será un peligroso viaje en el que deberán enfrentarse al jefe blanco Simon Girt, que, con la ayuda de los indios, se dedica a robar y asesinar a los colonos de los territorios fronterizos.

Adaptación de la inmortal obra de William Shakespeare sobre el romance de dos jóvenes que se enamoran a pesar de las desavenencias de sus respectivas familias. Llama la atención la elección de Cukor de dos actores maduros (Leslie Howard contaba con 43 años de edad y Norma Shearer con 34) para los papeles principales.

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

María Estuardo abandona Francia y regresa a Escocia, dispuesta a ocupar el trono del que es heredera. Pero los conflictos se acumulan: la nobleza le es hostil, comenzando por su medio hermano el conde de Moray, y su apego al catolicismo choca con la fe que predica John Knox, fundador de la Iglesia presbiteriana en Escocia. Por otro lado, su prima Isabel Tudor, hija ilegítima de Enrique VIII, teme que reclame la corona inglesa. Su único aliado es el conde Bothwell, comandante de las tropas escocesas, de quien se enamora.

Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.

El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

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.

An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.

Un editor de libros vive con su mujer y su hijo pequeño, pero ella decide divorciarse y abandona a su familia por un millonario. Algún tiempo después, la ambiciosa mujer intentará conseguir, con la ayuda de su suegra, la custodia del niño.

Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.

A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.

Edward Moulton-Barrett, un terrateniente muy fanático en materia religiosa, mantiene casi recluidas en casa a sus tres hijas, a las que, además, ha prohibido contraer matrimonio. Elizabeth, la mediana, una prometedora poetisa enferma de tuberculosis, y el poeta Robert Browning (March), con el que hace tiempo mantiene una correspondencia epistolar, se conocen y se enamoran, pero tendrán que vencer la tiranía del padre.

Historia de un triángulo amoroso en la Holanda neutral de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando un oficial británico vuelve a ver a su antigua novia, que está casada con un militar alemán, su viejo amor se reaviva. Ella, por su parte, tratará de mantenerse fiel a su marido, que ha sido herido en la guerra.

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.

Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) es un dramaturgo y director teatral de Broadway que goza de gran prestigio, pero que tiene un carácter insoportable. En uno de los castings conoce a una joven actriz llamada Mildred (Carole Lombard), a la que escoge como protagonista de su obra. La rebautiza con el nombre de Lily Garland, que resulta mucho más comercial y llamativo. El estreno es un éxito de crítica y público, y la actriz se convierte en una estrella de Hollywood.

Una mujer alegre y desenvuelta se casa con un rígido lord inglés, viéndose luego envuelta en un escándalo con otro hombre.

A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.

En una fiesta, el parlamentario Sir Christopher Strong, un hombre casado, conoce a la elegante piloto de avión Lady Cynthia Darrington. Al principio, su trato es inocente pero poco a poco empiezan una relación que afectará la felicidad matrimonial del parlamentario y las carreras profesionales de ambos.

John ha llevado una vida solitaria durante treinta años desde la muerte de Moonyeen Clara. Pero ahora Owens, un amigo cercano, insiste en que cuide de su sobrina, Kathleen, huérfana desde que sus padres se perdieron en el mar. Los años pasan, y la niña Kathleen se convierte en una bella joven que es la viva imagen de Moonyeen... Lujosa producción del famoso productor Irving Thalberg, en persona, para mayor gloria de su esposa, la ya en aquel momento "star" del estudio Norma Shearer.

Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.

Un estadounidense se alista en la Legión Extranjera Francesa, con el fin de rescatar a un amigo de la infancia.

Un anciano invita a tres de sus hijos ilegítimos a vivir con él.

Norma Martin (Clara Bow) is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes (Larry Charters) she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.

During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.

An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).

A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower). The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un perro salva la vida de un joven soldado en el campo de batalla.

La acción transcurre en el año 1897, donde cazadores de fortuna que vienen de todo el país se dirigen hacia la zona de Klondike en el Yukón para buscar oro, en un largo y peligroso viaje que pone a prueba a los aventureros.

Ann Dolan (Norma Shearer), una vendedora ambulante, se enamora de Joe Adams (Ralph Forbes), un vendedor rival de otra firma de trajes y capas. Sin embargo, su compromiso es breve, porque Ann, que está financiando la educación de su hermano, se niega a renunciar a su trabajo itinerante. Joe se ocupa de la hija de un tendero, pero regresa con Ann cuando su hermano se casa.

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.

When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

A retelling of Cinderella in 1920s Britain.