Marian Marsh
Nacimiento : 1913-10-17, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
Muerte : 2006-11-09
Historia
Beautiful Marian Marsh (born Violet Ethelred Krauth) enjoyed a short yet significant film career as the leading lady of several memorable 1930s melodramas opposite some of cinema's best, most charismatic lead actors. Her youthful, wide-eyed innocence combined with an innate delicacy to make a heroine who was the perfect counterbalance to the licentious characters who often menaced her on film.
Florence Randall
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
Margaret Terrill
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
Nora O'Brien
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Ann Baldwin
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
Josie Lamonte
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
Ann Carrington
In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited.
Judy
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Francis
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
Bonnie Blair
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Ann Randall
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Jerry Grant
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
Peggy Woods
A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
Janet Haydon
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Verna Maxwell
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Joan Whittaker
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Sonya
Considerado un estudiante prometedor de la mente criminal, la carrera como criminólogo de Roderick Raskolnikov (Peter Lorre) se ve puesta en peligro por la implacable pobreza de su familia. Con su madre, hermana y novia Sonya (Marian Marsh) muriéndose de hambre poco a poco, vende el reloj de su padre a la maliciosa dueña de una casa de empeños (la Sra. Patrick Campbell). Después de volver para robarla y asesinarla, Raskolnikov, seguro de que puede escapar a la detención, se ofrece voluntario para ayudar al inspector de Policía Porfiry (Edward Arnold) a resolver el crimen.
Thea Hassel
Boris Karloff interpreta a dos hermanos gemelos, uno gentil y de buen corazón, el otro un sádico tiránico y depravado, condenados por culpa de una profecía familiar a terminar con su estirpe asesinándose entre ellos.
A young attorney, Larry Condon, is on a retainer by a nightclub-owning gangster, to carry and deliver what he thinks are legal papers but he is innocently carrying around millions of dollars in stolen bonds. He meets Helen Griffith when she is arrested in a raid on a gambling house and befriends her. She talks him into taking her to the nightclub of the man he is working for and, while there and unobserved by anyone by Larry, he sees her going through the files and desk of the owner. Who is this mystery woman he just got released from jail, and what is she up to?
Sally Sullivan
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
Elnora Comstock
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
Lilian Williams
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
Mary
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
Joan Anderson
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Julia Wilkens
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Jenny Jones
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Corinne Ross
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
Terry Cummings
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Irene Stewart
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Rose Abbott
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.
Susie Sachs
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Lotti Brenner
La historia es la de unos granjeros de buen corazón que adoptan a un muchacho huérfano llamado Karl. Éste crece junto a Stephen, el hijo de la familia. Stephen ingresa como estudiante en una Escuela médica pero, durante una operación, algo sale mal y este hecho puede arruinar toda su carrera. Es entonces cuando Karl, también médico y agradecido por el trato que le dio su familia, acepta cargar con las culpas.
Margie Evans
Un rico productor teatral atrae a una joven chica desesperada a su apartamento. La inocente chica no se da cuenta que el lujurioso productor está planeando hacer algo más que tomar una copa con ella.
Nana Carlova
Prolongación de "Svengali" (1931), continúa el drama de una figura siniestra que adopta a un adolescente como discípulo. En este caso, se trata de un titiritero lisiado (John Barrymore), que rescata a un abusado niño y lo convierte en un gran bailarín de ballet.
Jenny Townsend
El editor de un importante periódico quiere aumentar sus ventas y para ello decide sacar a la luz un caso de asesinato de hace 20 años. La autora fue Nancy Voorhees, que disparó contra su amante. Pero ahora, años después, ella es una feliz madre de familia que no quiere remover su pasado.
Rene March
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
Trilby O'Farrell
Svengali es un profesor de música que utiliza a las mujeres, controlándolas por medio de ciertos poderes hipnóticos y telepáticos. Cuando conoce a la dulce Trilby, una modelo que posa para pintores, y que posee una magnífica voz, decide que la muchacha ha de ser suya... (FILMAFFINITY)
Kay's Friend (uncredited)
La coqueta Kay se propone pescar a Alan, socio del bufete de abogados de su padre. Al mismo tiempo, ha de contener los intentos de seducción de un cazafortunas, que cuenta con la ayuda de su voraz hermana.
Girl Selling Kisses
Dos hermanos ingleses se alistan en las fuerzas aéreas británicas durante la I Guerra Mundial. El objetivo de sus proezas será conquistar el corazón de una hermosa joven.
Harriett Underwood (uncredited)
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Minor Role (uncredited)
Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Self (1930) (as Marilyn Morgan)
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.