Herbert Marshall

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

Narra as provações dos doentes mentais e seus cuidadores em uma enfermaria superlotada de um hospital. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

Adrian Messenger pede a um amigo que verifique uma lista de nomes. E sai em uma viagem. Quando seu avião explode no céu a questão torna-se mais grave. Seu amigo começa a verificar a lista e cada nome parece ter morrido em circunstâncias misteriosas. Conforme ele vai descendo a lista, as mortes se tornam mais recentes. Então começa uma corrida para encontrar os sobreviventes restantes e descobrir porque cada um deles foi colocado nesta lista.

Assinada por Irwin Allen, o mestre das aventuras e fantasias, esta é uma arejada comédia baseada na popular história de Jules Verne. Uma tripulação totalmente heterogênea, incluindo um explorador do Séc. XIX (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), seu assistente (Fabian), um repórter criador de encrencas (Red Buttons), um professor desligado (Richard Haydn) e uma professora moderna (Barbara Eden), parte num balão em expedição rumo a um território africano que não consta dos mapas. Na esperança de fincarem uma bandeira para o Império Britânico, esse estranho grupo precisa enfrentar fortes tempestades, hostis mercadores de escravos, sultões que espirram e o pior de tudo: aguentar um ao outro! Com um elenco de primeira, um romance amalucado e maravilhosas paisagens, Cinco Semanas num Balão é diversão para toda a família da decolagem à aterrissagem!

A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.

Em Londres, a dona de casa americana Katherine "Kit" Preston (Doris Day) está casada há três meses com o executivo americano Anthony "Tony" Preston. Em um dia nublado, enquanto caminhava em um parque, Kit é ameaçada por uma voz que lhe diz que ela vai ser assassinada no final do mês. No dia seguinte, Kit recebe um telefonema do assediador e então ela vai com Tony até a Scotland Yard, mas Inspector Byrnes acredita que Kit está inventando história para receber mais atenção de Tony. Kit hospeda sua tia Bea que veio visita-la, mas só Kit atende as chamadas telefônicas do assediador. Será que Kit está ficando louca?

Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.

Cientista sofre um terrível acidente quando tenta usar seu novo invento - uma revolucionária máquina de teletransporte. Sem perceber, entra na máquina um inseto cujo DNA será transferido para o cientista - que logo irá se transformar numa mosca. Clássico da ficção científica baseado num conto de George Langelaan publicado pela primeira vez em 1957 numa edição da revista Playboy. Dirigido por Kurt Neumann, o filme se tornou uma das maiores bilheterias do estúdio Fox naquele ano e o maior sucesso comercial na carreira do diretor - que nunca soube disso, uma vez que ele morreu apenas um mês antes da estréia. Houve ainda duas sequências: "O Retorno da Mosca" (1959) e "A Maldição da Mosca" (1965). Em 1986 o filme original foi refilmado por David Cronenberg.

A young woman arrives in New York City determined to become a great theatrical star, but discovers that her goal may not be as easily attainable as she had hoped.

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

A rainha Elizabeth I se apaixona pelo cobiçado Sir Walter Raleigh. Além de lidar com os problemas do reino, a rainha ainda deve disputar a atração do rapaz com uma bela mulher mais nova.

Nos dias do rei Henrique IV, os jovens Myles e sua irmã Meg foram criados como camponeses, sem qualquer conhecimento de quem era realmente seu pai. Mas um dia eles viajam para o castelo Mackworth. Lá Myles se apaixona por Anne, filha Mackworth, faz amigos e inimigos, e aprende a ser um cavaleiro, para que, através do plano de Mackworth e seu amigo o príncipe Hal, Myles possa recuperar do maquiavélico Albon seu verdadeiro direito de primogênito, e uso do Escudo Negro de Falworth.

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

Capturado pelo governo britânico por pirataria, o capitão La Rochelle aceita trabalhar para os ingleses como espião, para prender Barbanegra e Providence, dois dos mais perigosos piratas do Caribe. Mas La Rochelle se surpreende ao conhecer Providence, uma das mulheres mais belas que já conhecera. Apaixonados, os dois planejam se tornar uma das maiores forças pirata da região. Providence, no entanto, descobre os planos de La Rochelle para trai-la, planejando vingança contra o capitão que fará de tudo para impedir os planos da rainha dos piratas.

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.

Após um homem perturbado confessar ter assassinado a esposa e ser internado em uma clínica, uma doutora tenta provar sua inocência.

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.

Quando seu pai é enforcado por atirar em sua esposa e seu amante, a linda mestiça Pérola Chavez vai morar com parentes distantes no Texas. Acolhida por Laura Belle e seu filho mais velho advogado Jesse, ela se choca com a hostilidade do proprietário do rancho o senador Jackson McCanles, que vive em uma cadeira de rodas, e com o interesse lascivo do mulherengo e rebelde de seu filho mais novo Lewt. Quase imediatamente as tensões familiares já existentes são exacerbadas pela sua presença e pela forma como ela está fisicamente atraída por Lewt.

Um jovem Bem-de-Vida de Chicago, Larry Darrell, rompe seu noivado com Isabel e viaja pelo mundo em busca da iluminação. Acaba encontrando o seu guru na Índia. Isabel se casa com Gray, e na sequência da crise de 1929, é convidada a viver em Paris com seu rico tio Elliot, um alpinista social. Durante uma temporada em Paris, Larry, tendo alcançado seu objetivo, está junto com Isabel. Quando numa noite resolvem passear por um bairro barra pesada. Larry, Isabel e acompanhantes ficam chocados ao descobrir Sophie, uma amiga de Chicago. Depois de ter perdido o marido e filho em um trágico acidente, Sophie está vivendo uma vida de submundo, com a ajuda de drogas e de um homem bruto e abusivo. Larry tenta reabilita-la, mas seus esforços são sabotados por Isabel, que tenta em vão reacender o interesse de Larry por ela.

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.

Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), a esposa do comerciante Robert Crosbie (Herbert Marshall), mata um homem e alega legítima defesa, mas omite que eles eram amantes. Então a viúva procura o advogado da assassina, chantageando-a com uma carta.

Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) é o correspondente de um jornal de Nova York que viaja para a Europa usando o pseudônimo de Huntley Haverstock, quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial era uma realidade cada vez mais iminente. Inicialmente ele vai para Londres mas logo está em Amsterdã, onde juntamente com várias pessoas testemunha o assassinato de Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), um diplomata holandês. Entretanto, logo ele toma consciência que quem morreu foi um sósia e que Van Meer na verdade foi sequestrado por agentes do inimigo, que querem arrancar do diplomata importantes segredos. Assim sua situação fica desesperadora, pois sua história é em princípio absurda e, além disto, estão querendo matá-lo.

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

Uma mulher deve decidir entre dois homens - um que ela ama, o outro que ela admira e respeita.

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Uma mulher e seu marido tiram férias separadas e ela se apaixona por outro homem.

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.

A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.

When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

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

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.

Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.

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.

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.

Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.

Um ladrão cavalheiro e uma senhora batedora de carteiras unem forças contra a bela proprietário de uma empresa de perfumes. Envolvimentos românticos e ciúmes atrapalham o esquema. O ladrão europeu de Alta Classe, Gaston Monescu, encontra sua alma gêmea Lily, uma batedora de carteiras travestida de condessa. Os dois juntam forças e arrumam emprego com Madame Colet, a bela proprietária da empresa de perfume Colet. Gaston funciona como secretário pessoal de Madame Colet sob o pseudônimo Monsieur La Valle. Rumores começam a circular dizendo que Monsieur La Valle está "roubando" Madame Colet de seus outros pretendentes. Quando o segredo de sua verdadeira identidade começa a ameaçá-lo, Gaston fica preso entre as duas bonitas mulheres.

Uma cantora de cabaré faz acordo com um milionário para pagar a operação do marido gravemente doente. O químico americano Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) se casa com Helen (Marlene Dietrich), uma cantora de cabaré alemã, e começam uma família. Então Ned se envenena com Radium e precisa de um tratamento caro na Alemanha para ter alguma chance de ser curado. A esposa Helen volta ao trabalho no clube noturno para tentar ganhar dinheiro e pagar o tratamento e acaba se tornando popular como a Vênus Loura. Em um esforço para conseguir dinheiro suficiente mais rápido, ela se prostitui com o milionário Nick Townsend (Cary Grant). (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.

Edna Druce é encontrada morta, e sua colega Diana Baring não consegue explicar por que está segurando a arma do crime. A condenação de Diana parece certa, mas o jurado Sir John Menier acredita na inocência dela. No entanto, seus esforços para recolher pistas e ilibar Diana podem acusar outra pessoa.

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.