Larry Steers
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1888-02-14
Locus Natus: Indiana, USA
Et ut: Lawrence Wells Steers, Lawrence Steers, L.W. Steers
So This Is New York
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of...
release : 1948.06.01popularis : 1.695
Ladies of the Chorus
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and...
release : 1948.12.30popularis : 8.42
Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are...
release : 1937.02.26popularis : 2.636
Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her...
release : 1922.05.07popularis : 2.036
The Right of Way
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with...
release : 1920.02.29popularis : 1.579
The Gangster
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental...
release : 1947.11.25popularis : 9.335
Up The Road With Sallie
Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to...
release : 1918.04.01popularis : 0.564
The Hushed Hour
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for...
release : 1919.05.18popularis : 1.185
Hitchhike to Happiness
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them...
release : 1945.07.16popularis : 2.731
The Widow's Might
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is...
release : 1918.01.28popularis : 1.117
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and...
release : 1938.07.20popularis : 6.39
The Unsuspected
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
release : 1947.10.11popularis : 4.376
Ann Vickers
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married...
release : 1933.09.26popularis : 2.904
Night Editor
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
release : 1946.03.29popularis : 4.092
The City of Dim Faces
Chinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang Lung. Because Elizabeth wants Jang Lung to be raised...
release : 1918.07.15popularis : 2.842
The Phantom Flyer
A modern range war -- modern for 1928 -- complete with oil derricks in the backyard, horsemen being pursued by motorcyclists, and there's stunt flyer...
release : 1928.02.25popularis : 0.808
Redskin
Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos...
release : 1929.09.22popularis : 4.492
The Wheel of Life
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat...
release : 1929.06.15popularis : 3.108
Hearts and Spangles
Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.
release : 1926.06.15popularis : 1.638
The Undercover Man
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...
release : 1949.03.21popularis : 4.738
The Best People
Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...
release : 1925.11.09popularis : 0.79
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they...
release : 1932.02.03popularis : 3.783
Night World
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...
release : 1932.05.04popularis : 2.39
Alice in Movieland
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes...
release : 1940.03.03popularis : 3.711
Sunny
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play...
release : 1941.05.30popularis : 1.613
Rendezvous
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
release : 1935.10.25popularis : 2.14
King of Burlesque
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...
release : 1936.01.03popularis : 3.409
I Love a Mystery
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the...
release : 1945.01.25popularis : 1.46
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 1.626
Love Before Breakfast
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues...
release : 1936.03.09popularis : 2.549
Crime, Inc.
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his...
release : 1945.04.15popularis : 3.094
If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
release : 1932.11.18popularis : 4.497
The Black Widow
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development...
release : 1947.11.01popularis : 3.627
The Secret Garden
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's...
release : 1919.01.12popularis : 3.028
Bride of the Storm
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island...
release : 1926.02.20popularis : 1.067
The Huntress
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She...
release : 1923.08.20popularis : 1.805
The Claw
Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where...
release : 1927.05.08popularis : 1.53
The Dummy Owner
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of...
release : 1938.01.08popularis : 3.968
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his...
release : 1949.10.20popularis : 6.174
Clipped Wings
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of...
release : 1937.12.02popularis : 1.001
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
release : 1947.04.25popularis : 5.209
The King of the Kongo
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a...
release : 1929.08.29popularis : 6.027
Just Off Broadway
Tom Fowler watches in horror as his brother Ed is gunned down in cold blood. With his dying breath, Ed asks his brother to bring the killer to...
release : 1929.05.01popularis : 1.804
Grief Street
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing...
release : 1931.10.01popularis : 6.052
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his...
release : 1941.08.07popularis : 10.409
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
release : 1938.03.12popularis : 1.448
Breakfast for Two
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...
release : 1937.10.22popularis : 3.004
A Cafe in Cairo
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought...
release : 1924.12.07popularis : 0.907
Mystic Faces
Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is...
release : 1918.09.08popularis : 0.879
Her Country First
During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by...
release : 1918.09.22popularis : 0.553
The Great Lover
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
release : 1931.07.18popularis : 4.604
Cock of the Air
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
release : 1932.01.23popularis : 3.723
Lord Byron of Broadway
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he...
release : 1930.02.28popularis : 1.725
The Lost Special
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
release : 1932.11.25popularis : 1.778
The Thoroughbred
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a...
release : 1930.08.09popularis : 1.362
Soul of the Beast
This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
release : 1923.05.06popularis : 3.685
The Roaring Road
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter...
release : 1919.04.26popularis : 2.962
The Blot
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...
release : 1921.09.04popularis : 5.694
Pan Handlers
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
release : 1936.02.29popularis : 1.796
Broadminded
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin,...
release : 1931.08.01popularis : 7.347
Vogues of 1938
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too....
release : 1937.08.18popularis : 3.182
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...
release : 1937.01.08popularis : 3.179
The Man Who Found Himself
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it...
release : 1937.04.02popularis : 6.661
A Man to Remember
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
release : 1938.10.14popularis : 4.216
Blondie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...
release : 1938.11.30popularis : 5.061
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
release : 1932.10.15popularis : 2.447
Hold That Kiss
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
release : 1938.05.13popularis : 4.477
A Very Honorable Guy
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...
release : 1934.04.18popularis : 1.25
City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was...
release : 1939.11.15popularis : 2.719
To Beat the Band
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the...
release : 1935.11.23popularis : 1.135
Everybody's Doing It
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
release : 1938.01.14popularis : 2.089
Kind Lady
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea...
release : 1935.12.06popularis : 2.946
Manhattan Parade
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
release : 1931.12.24popularis : 3.472
Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is...
release : 1936.12.25popularis : 2.818
Old Man Rhythm
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
release : 1935.08.02popularis : 0.871
His Greatest Gamble
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
release : 1934.08.10popularis : 1.52
Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 2.899
Journal of a Crime
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
release : 1934.03.10popularis : 6.968
Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...
release : 1933.09.29popularis : 4.262
King for a Night
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
release : 1933.12.09popularis : 2.05
Here Comes the Band
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...
release : 1935.08.30popularis : 4.07
Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...
release : 1936.01.17popularis : 0.685
Champagne Charlie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
release : 1936.05.06popularis : 2.132
All About Eve
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo...
release : 1950.11.09popularis : 14.989
Tail Spin
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...
release : 1939.02.19popularis : 1.867
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
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...
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 0.998
Midnight
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 6.914
At the Circus
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take...
release : 1939.10.20popularis : 7.741
Good Girls Go to Paris
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...
release : 1939.06.20popularis : 8.904
Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
release : 1939.06.30popularis : 1.446
Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
release : 1939.08.10popularis : 4.626
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...
release : 1939.10.19popularis : 13.899
Christmas Holiday
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...
release : 1944.07.31popularis : 2.471
Day-time Wife
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
release : 1939.11.24popularis : 5.379
First Love
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's...
release : 1939.11.10popularis : 2.073
Reno
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
release : 1939.12.01popularis : 1.845
Swanee River
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,...
release : 1939.12.29popularis : 2.548
The Invisible Killer
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of...
release : 1939.11.14popularis : 7.218
Eternally Yours
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a...
release : 1939.10.07popularis : 5.627
Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
release : 1931.11.07popularis : 3.165
Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...
release : 1938.02.25popularis : 4.973
Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
release : 1938.12.30popularis : 4.577
Portia on Trial
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle...
release : 1937.11.08popularis : 4.269
Law of the Underworld
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
release : 1938.05.06popularis : 3.685
The Winning Ticket
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
release : 1935.02.08popularis : 2.922
All the King's Men
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...
release : 1949.11.16popularis : 14.671
Confessions of a Queen
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship....
release : 1925.03.30popularis : 1.375
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...
release : 1932.10.30popularis : 11.4
The Secret Fury
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen...
release : 1950.02.21popularis : 6.609
Transatlantic
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund...
release : 1931.08.19popularis : 2.864
Love Crazy
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
release : 1941.05.23popularis : 4.299
My Dear Secretary
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...
release : 1948.11.05popularis : 2.77
Race Street
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
release : 1948.09.11popularis : 1.578
Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...
release : 1946.10.10popularis : 2.043
The Judge Steps Out
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
release : 1947.12.15popularis : 1.76
Daybreak
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
release : 1931.05.02popularis : 4.799
The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler,...
release : 1937.06.24popularis : 2.145
Smartest Girl in Town
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
release : 1936.11.27popularis : 1.837
Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
release : 1938.06.24popularis : 1.816
He Married His Wife
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...
release : 1940.01.19popularis : 2.554
Broadway Melody of 1940
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...
release : 1940.02.09popularis : 6.525
The Gold Rush
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
release : 1925.07.13popularis : 15.765
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...
release : 1936.04.09popularis : 13.825
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...
release : 1941.02.25popularis : 7.542
The Saint Takes Over
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 2.786
Music in My Heart
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
release : 1940.01.04popularis : 6.117
Mexican Spitfire
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a...
release : 1940.01.12popularis : 3.219
Fireman, Save My Child
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for...
release : 1932.02.20popularis : 2.519
Murder with Pictures
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...
release : 1936.09.24popularis : 3.945
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
release : 1944.10.11popularis : 14.911
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
release : 1944.10.25popularis : 11.205
On the Riviera
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French...
release : 1951.04.20popularis : 2.736
Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 5.337
Fingerprints Don't Lie
A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
release : 1951.02.23popularis : 2.985
The Great Sinner
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
release : 1949.06.29popularis : 15.064
Government Girl
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
release : 1943.11.05popularis : 2.969
The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....
release : 1946.04.04popularis : 2.764
Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
release : 1940.11.15popularis : 1.192
Wife vs. Secretary
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than...
release : 1936.02.28popularis : 10.65
Old Wives for New
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
release : 1918.05.18popularis : 6.321
Christmas in July
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...
release : 1940.10.25popularis : 10.434
Thunder in the Night
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a...
release : 1935.09.16popularis : 3.023
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...
release : 1940.12.19popularis : 5.013
Talent Scout
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
release : 1937.07.24popularis : 2.5
Brides Are Like That
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...
release : 1936.04.18popularis : 3.608
City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...
release : 1940.09.21popularis : 5.102
My Son, My Son!
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled...
release : 1940.03.21popularis : 2.635
Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 1.664
Kitty Foyle
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
release : 1940.12.27popularis : 5.037
College Coach
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a...
release : 1933.11.04popularis : 5.65
One Night in the Tropics
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million...
release : 1940.11.15popularis : 4.62
Comrade X
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
release : 1940.12.13popularis : 7.434
Sky Murder
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US...
release : 1940.09.27popularis : 3.388
Red, Hot and Blue
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
release : 1949.09.05popularis : 2.94
Irene
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....
release : 1940.04.23popularis : 3.165
Too Many Husbands
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
release : 1940.04.03popularis : 4.068
The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...
release : 1940.08.01popularis : 7.629
Young People
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 2.741
Girl in 313
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
release : 1940.05.31popularis : 1.383
The Ghost Breakers
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...
release : 1940.06.21popularis : 10.998
Road to Singapore
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
release : 1940.03.22popularis : 8.337
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
release : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.226
Down Argentine Way
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...
release : 1940.10.11popularis : 6.306
City of Chance
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
release : 1940.01.13popularis : 1.437
'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.
release : 1940.08.08popularis : 0.521
Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...
release : 1937.02.05popularis : 1.026
You're a Sweetheart
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...
release : 1937.12.26popularis : 2.648
Rhythm on the Range
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...
release : 1936.07.01popularis : 2.285
Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...
release : 1937.10.08popularis : 8.097
White Pongo
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a...
release : 1945.11.02popularis : 5.576
Rock Island Trail
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
release : 1950.05.18popularis : 1.837
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself...
release : 1918.07.19popularis : 1.366
Music for Madame
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party...
release : 1937.10.08popularis : 3.356
Exposed
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
release : 1947.09.08popularis : 4.438
The Magnificent Rogue
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
release : 1946.11.07popularis : 2.083
Flame of Barbary Coast
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito...
release : 1945.05.28popularis : 15.002
Seven Days Leave
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is...
release : 1930.01.24popularis : 4.101
Swing, Sister, Swing
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...
release : 1938.12.16popularis : 0.981
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
Juvenile Court
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...
release : 1938.09.10popularis : 1.799
Chain Gang
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
release : 1950.11.01popularis : 2.716
The Road to Reno
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact...
release : 1931.09.25popularis : 4.889
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But...
release : 1918.03.10popularis : 1.433
The Cowboy Quarterback
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his...
release : 1939.07.29popularis : 2.677
The Secret Call
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a...
release : 1931.07.24popularis : 2.149
Curtain Call
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
release : 1940.04.18popularis : 2.856
Forty Little Mothers
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...
release : 1940.04.26popularis : 4.07
Opening Day
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
release : 1938.11.12popularis : 1.245
Blonde Inspiration
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
release : 1941.02.07popularis : 3.864
711 Ocean Drive
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up...
release : 1950.07.01popularis : 11.634
Brooklyn Orchid
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
release : 1942.01.31popularis : 1.25
Slightly French
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new...
release : 1949.02.02popularis : 1.319
Break of Hearts
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance...
release : 1935.05.31popularis : 6.915
The Love Gamble
Peggy Mason joins her boyfriend Douglas Wyman at a secluded cabin. When he confesses his love and the fact he is still a married man Peggy is...
release : 1925.09.11popularis : 0.661
The Big Game
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
release : 1936.10.09popularis : 5.256
A Free Soul
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...
release : 1931.06.02popularis : 4.682
They're Always Caught
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...
release : 1938.07.03popularis : 6.59
This Time for Keeps
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
release : 1942.03.01popularis : 3.271
Champagne for Caesar
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley...
release : 1950.05.11popularis : 4.166
Panama Lady
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...
release : 1939.05.12popularis : 2.074
Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...
release : 1938.02.05popularis : 6.223
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome...
release : 1931.10.10popularis : 9.716
The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...
release : 1936.11.17popularis : 7.692
The Widow from Monte Carlo
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...
release : 1935.12.19popularis : 2.548
Fun on a Weekend
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth...
release : 1947.05.15popularis : 2.912
Born to Be Bad
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master...
release : 1950.09.28popularis : 4.619
The Great Impersonation
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...
release : 1935.12.08popularis : 2.043
What Every Woman Knows
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...
release : 1934.10.18popularis : 2.717
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...
release : 1939.12.01popularis : 9.104
The Rage of Paris
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...
release : 1938.06.09popularis : 2.615
New Brooms
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a...
release : 1925.10.12popularis : 0.733
Ruthless
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to...
release : 1948.04.16popularis : 9.31
Mary Regan
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for...
release : 1919.05.04popularis : 1.215
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up...
release : 1948.02.07popularis : 0.629
Let Them Live
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
release : 1937.04.25popularis : 2.057
A Place in the Sun
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
release : 1951.06.12popularis : 16.738
The Lodge in the Wilderness
Jim Wallace, a young engineer, is engaged by Hammond, manager of an estate in the Northwest, to build flumes for a logging camp, but Donovan, the...
release : 1926.07.11popularis : 2.054
Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...
release : 1933.11.01popularis : 1.761
Dancing in the Dark
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...
release : 1949.12.02popularis : 2.645
Glamour for Sale
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
release : 1940.09.27popularis : 1.076
Pretty Baby
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
release : 1950.09.16popularis : 3.317
You May Be Next!
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
release : 1936.02.05popularis : 1.864
If You Could Only Cook
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
release : 1935.12.30popularis : 4.492
The Fountainhead
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...
release : 1949.06.25popularis : 10.869
The Great Jewel Robber
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood...
release : 1950.07.15popularis : 3.874
Father of the Bride
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...
release : 1950.05.18popularis : 8.699
Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...
release : 1934.11.23popularis : 16.916
Body and Soul
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...
release : 1947.11.11popularis : 18.087
Our Wife
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
release : 1941.08.20popularis : 3.572
The Wrong Road
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...
release : 1937.10.11popularis : 2.515
Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
release : 1937.04.10popularis : 15.008
Hold That Ghost
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...
release : 1941.08.08popularis : 12.65
Keep 'Em Flying
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott &...
release : 1941.11.27popularis : 2.579
Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
release : 1931.01.25popularis : 7.297
Money and the Woman
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
release : 1940.08.17popularis : 2.734
The Merry Frinks
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
release : 1934.05.26popularis : 5.503
A Song for Miss Julie
Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
release : 1945.02.19popularis : 3.647
She Had to Eat
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...
release : 1937.07.02popularis : 1.62
Railroaded!
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an...
release : 1947.09.25popularis : 9.071
Getting Gertie's Garter
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession...
release : 1945.11.27popularis : 4.802
White Tie and Tails
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
release : 1946.08.30popularis : 3.007
You Gotta Stay Happy
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the...
release : 1948.10.28popularis : 1.787
Dragonwyck
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation...
release : 1946.04.19popularis : 8.849
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her...
release : 1947.09.01popularis : 6.148
Reform Girl
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost...
release : 1933.03.04popularis : 0.817
Incendiary Blonde
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged...
release : 1945.07.25popularis : 4.563
Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...
release : 1932.12.10popularis : 1.653
My Man Godfrey
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in...
release : 1936.09.02popularis : 8.755
Magnificent Doll
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne...
release : 1946.12.08popularis : 5.067
One Hundred Men and a Girl
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few...
release : 1937.09.05popularis : 2.526
The Crowd
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress,...
release : 1928.03.03popularis : 8.771
Possessed
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer...
release : 1931.11.21popularis : 4.837
Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her...
release : 1933.11.24popularis : 6.954
Young Widow
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
release : 1946.03.01popularis : 4.419
Here Comes Happiness
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor...
release : 1941.03.15popularis : 2.456
Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...
release : 1941.04.25popularis : 7.067
They Were Expendable
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...
release : 1945.12.07popularis : 19.18
The Affairs of Susan
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different...
release : 1945.07.08popularis : 2.041
Female
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design...
release : 1933.11.11popularis : 4.739
The Gay Divorcee
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...
release : 1934.10.12popularis : 6.937
The Jolson Story
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....
release : 1946.10.10popularis : 3.292
Goin' to Town
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a...
release : 1935.04.25popularis : 2.605
I'm No Angel
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...
release : 1933.10.06popularis : 4.322
Weird Woman
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the...
release : 1944.03.01popularis : 4.087
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
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis...
release : 1951.05.23popularis : 8.511
Blonde Venus
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...
release : 1932.09.23popularis : 9.632