Frances Morris
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1908-08-03
Locus Natus: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Et ut: Francis Morris, Frances Wright
My Girl Tisa
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in...
release : 1948.02.07popularis : 2.199
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...
release : 1937.07.16popularis : 4.479
The Bridge of Sighs
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion...
release : 1936.02.14popularis : 3.556
Wild Is the Wind
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his...
release : 1957.12.11popularis : 10.738
Crime Against Joe
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the...
release : 1956.03.21popularis : 2.07
Edge of Doom
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
release : 1950.08.03popularis : 2.639
The Ridin' Fool
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of...
release : 1931.05.31popularis : 2.579
A Man Betrayed
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...
release : 1941.03.07popularis : 1.906
The Captive City
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
release : 1952.03.26popularis : 3.626
Miss Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
release : 1953.12.23popularis : 6.908
This Side of the Law
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.
release : 1950.06.17popularis : 6.038
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to...
release : 1952.08.20popularis : 14.202
Wedding Present
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...
release : 1936.10.09popularis : 5.108
The Unfaithful
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...
release : 1947.07.01popularis : 5.079
Manhattan Love Song
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...
release : 1934.04.29popularis : 2.25
Fury at Showdown
After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer...
release : 1957.04.18popularis : 2.387
Benjy
Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda...
release : 1951.01.01popularis : 3.675
The Rawhide Terror
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man...
release : 1934.03.19popularis : 3.875
The Big Clock
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned...
release : 1948.03.18popularis : 14.813
Pals of the Range
A cowboy goes after cattle rustlers he finds changing brands.
release : 1935.04.03popularis : 0.589
The Leather Pushers
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 5.122
Never Wave at a WAC
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many...
release : 1953.01.28popularis : 2.484
Hollywood Mystery
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the...
release : 1934.06.20popularis : 1.187
The Boss Cowboy
Both Nolan and Ross are losing cattle and Ross' foreman Kerns is the culprit. When Taylor finds a wanted poster of Kerns he goes after him.
release : 1934.01.31popularis : 5.197
The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
release : 1955.08.26popularis : 33.529
Palm Springs
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 2.297
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul,...
release : 1936.10.06popularis : 9.226
Cocoanut Grove
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
release : 1938.05.20popularis : 1.81
Crime of the Century
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of...
release : 1946.02.28popularis : 1.34
The Virginian
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...
release : 1946.05.05popularis : 12.085
Exclusive
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...
release : 1937.08.06popularis : 3.977
Devil's Squadron
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies,...
release : 1936.04.30popularis : 3.182
She Loves Me Not
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
release : 1934.08.31popularis : 5.968
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...
release : 1934.01.12popularis : 1.763
A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
release : 1939.12.07popularis : 1.534
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
release : 1947.03.01popularis : 3.638
Professor Beware
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...
release : 1938.07.29popularis : 4.549
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob....
release : 1939.12.22popularis : 3.161
Holiday Affair
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by...
release : 1949.12.12popularis : 7.364
Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 1.559
That Brennan Girl
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...
release : 1946.12.23popularis : 6.565
Caught
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...
release : 1949.02.17popularis : 8.961
The Preview Murder Mystery
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist...
release : 1936.02.28popularis : 3.314
Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
release : 1937.12.11popularis : 2.888
Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...
release : 1936.08.20popularis : 1.585
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains...
release : 1949.04.18popularis : 6.667
Two Heads on a Pillow
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
release : 1934.10.02popularis : 1.409
Again Pioneers
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending...
release : 1950.11.01popularis : 0.652
Dixie Dugan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...
release : 1943.03.12popularis : 4.507
Between Midnight and Dawn
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are...
release : 1950.10.01popularis : 2.589
Young Tom Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...
release : 1940.03.15popularis : 2.916
This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...
release : 1942.04.24popularis : 14.948
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
release : 1944.10.25popularis : 11.205
Money to Loan
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...
release : 1939.03.11popularis : 3.181
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their...
release : 1956.10.02popularis : 2.345
Here's to Romance
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising...
release : 1935.10.04popularis : 2.088
The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
release : 1940.04.25popularis : 1.508
The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...
release : 1940.03.01popularis : 5.846
Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a...
release : 1948.05.28popularis : 2.7
Turnabout
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
release : 1940.05.17popularis : 4.365
Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
release : 1940.06.05popularis : 2.288
The Golden Fleecing
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 8.935
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 4.136
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine
A journey inside the world of a legend of modern art and an icon of feminism. Onscreen, the nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and...
release : 2008.06.28popularis : 0.608
Pilgrimage
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
release : 1933.07.12popularis : 6.722
Mrs. Mike
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with...
release : 1949.12.23popularis : 2.279
Afraid to Talk
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
release : 1932.11.17popularis : 2.175
Our Leading Citizen
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to...
release : 1939.08.23popularis : 2.24
Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...
release : 1936.03.06popularis : 1.303
Lumberjack
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It...
release : 1944.04.28popularis : 2.205
Silver Queen
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
release : 1942.11.14popularis : 1.745
The Woman of the Town
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping,...
release : 1943.12.31popularis : 1.952
Gun for a Coward
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological...
release : 1956.12.30popularis : 10.325
The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...
release : 1941.10.01popularis : 4.277
I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
release : 1939.08.01popularis : 6.17
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 3.532
Over My Dead Body
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes)...
release : 1942.01.15popularis : 2.565
Miss Annie Rooney
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her...
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 4.071
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 7.513
Alias Nick Beal
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking...
release : 1949.03.04popularis : 3.569
Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
release : 1938.05.30popularis : 2.832
So Proudly We Hail
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped...
release : 1943.09.09popularis : 9.508
From This Day Forward
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has...
release : 1946.03.02popularis : 6.824
The Killer That Stalked New York
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the...
release : 1950.10.06popularis : 10.776
'G' Men
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....
release : 1935.05.04popularis : 7.951
Thunder
A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.
release : 1929.07.08popularis : 0.873
Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...
release : 1936.06.06popularis : 4.579
Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
release : 1940.07.05popularis : 1.239
The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
release : 1943.01.13popularis : 3.557
Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...
release : 1942.02.01popularis : 0.619
California
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...
release : 1947.02.21popularis : 6.145
Trailing North
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend...
release : 1933.05.15popularis : 0.598
Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...
release : 1936.04.03popularis : 5.769
A Dangerous Profession
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
release : 1949.12.10popularis : 2.398
Caged
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
release : 1950.05.19popularis : 7.073
Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
release : 1955.02.01popularis : 6.86
Strangers in the Night
In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat...
release : 1944.09.12popularis : 2.874
Keep Your Powder Dry
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
release : 1945.04.01popularis : 7.081