Conrad Nagel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1897-03-15
Locus Natus: Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Et ut: John Conrad Nagel
Tin Hats
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady...
release : 1926.11.28popularis : 0.715
There You Are!
George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.
release : 1926.11.28popularis : 0.52
The Kiss
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
release : 1929.11.15popularis : 4.48
Prospecting for Petroleum
All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.
release : 1946.01.01popularis : 4.084
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
release : 1929.11.23popularis : 8.568
The Fighting Chance
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels...
release : 1920.08.01popularis : 0.698
All That Heaven Allows
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener,...
release : 1955.12.25popularis : 7.505
The Vicious Circle
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all...
release : 1948.07.21popularis : 2.132
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
The Divorcee
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
release : 1930.04.19popularis : 11.236
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
East Lynne
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite...
release : 1931.03.01popularis : 7.26
Kongo
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the...
release : 1932.10.01popularis : 3.416
Hidden Fear
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
release : 1957.07.01popularis : 2.568
Dance Madness
May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked...
release : 1926.01.04popularis : 1.157
Adventures of Rusty
Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog,...
release : 1945.09.06popularis : 0.918
The Ordeal
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce...
release : 1922.05.21popularis : 0.647
The Mysterious Lady
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in...
release : 1928.08.04popularis : 6.24
Stage Struck
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
release : 1948.06.13popularis : 1.381
The Thirteenth Chair
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous...
release : 1929.10.19popularis : 5.422
Divorce In The Family
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel,...
release : 1932.08.27popularis : 6.815
The Bad Sister
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...
release : 1931.03.29popularis : 7.686
The Reckless Hour
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a...
release : 1931.08.15popularis : 2.553
The Constant Woman
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his,...
release : 1933.03.12popularis : 7.777
The Marines Are Coming
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel...
release : 1934.11.19popularis : 6.705
The Pagan Lady
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on...
release : 1931.09.07popularis : 2.442
Dangerous Corner
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
release : 1934.12.04popularis : 3.753
Son of India
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
release : 1931.08.01popularis : 7.092
Glorious Betsy
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include...
release : 1928.04.25popularis : 2.757
Redemption
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée....
release : 1930.04.05popularis : 3.809
Hell Divers
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
release : 1932.01.16popularis : 4.464
Dynamite
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...
release : 1929.12.13popularis : 3.225
One Romantic Night
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
release : 1930.04.30popularis : 1.973
Numbered Men
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded...
release : 1930.06.07popularis : 1.82
The Waning Sex
Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing...
release : 1926.09.05popularis : 1.182
Bank Alarm
A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.
release : 1937.06.07popularis : 1.667
Yellow Cargo
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
release : 1936.11.07popularis : 1.736
Lawful Larceny
During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling house, and her silent partner, Guy Tarlow. Dorsey...
release : 1923.07.22popularis : 1.088
Sacred and Profane Love
Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz,...
release : 1921.05.22popularis : 0.743
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 : 1930.12.11popularis : 1.968
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well...
release : 1924.08.11popularis : 2.017
Sun-Up
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to...
release : 1925.09.20popularis : 0.961
I Want a Divorce
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
release : 1940.09.20popularis : 5.044
The Man Who Understood Women
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
release : 1959.10.02popularis : 3.409
The Gold Racket
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the...
release : 1937.04.10popularis : 4.971
Navy Spy
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of...
release : 1937.03.13popularis : 3.297
The Ship from Shanghai
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
release : 1930.01.31popularis : 1.912
A Stranger in My Arms
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
release : 1959.03.03popularis : 6.173
Fast Life
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor...
release : 1932.12.16popularis : 2.822
Three Who Loved
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
release : 1931.07.03popularis : 1.792
Name the Man
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie...
release : 1924.01.27popularis : 1.015
The Idle Rich
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard...
release : 1929.06.15popularis : 1.285
A Lady Surrenders
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he...
release : 1930.10.06popularis : 1.793
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...
release : 2004.02.03popularis : 3.46
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...
release : 1922.07.10popularis : 1.226
The Exquisite Sinner
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian...
release : 1926.03.28popularis : 2.064
Death Flies East
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row...
release : 1935.02.28popularis : 1.47
The Lost Romance
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the...
release : 1921.05.08popularis : 1.604
Nice People
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A...
release : 1922.07.12popularis : 0.575
Midsummer Madness
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage....
release : 1921.01.23popularis : 1.666
Today
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden...
release : 1930.11.01popularis : 1.224
Saturday Night
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class...
release : 1922.01.29popularis : 1.268
The Michigan Kid
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His...
release : 1928.10.20popularis : 0.921
Three Weeks
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
release : 1924.02.10popularis : 0.836
Tenderloin
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the...
release : 1928.03.14popularis : 0.604
London After Midnight
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.
release : 2002.11.01popularis : 5.258
London After Midnight
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious...
release : 1927.12.03popularis : 3.292
One New York Night
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair,...
release : 1935.03.08popularis : 1.772
Unseen Forces
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children...
release : 1920.11.29popularis : 1.817
The Only Thing
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief...
release : 1925.11.22popularis : 1.631
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 4.998
The Man Called Back
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement...
release : 1932.07.16popularis : 0.959
Quality Street
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she...
release : 1927.11.01popularis : 1.805
The Girl from Mandalay
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that...
release : 1936.04.19popularis : 1.324
Forbidden Fruit
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers,...
release : 1921.01.03popularis : 1.515
The Rejected Woman
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
release : 1924.05.04popularis : 4.337
Forever Yours
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting...
release : 1945.01.26popularis : 2.386
Bella Donna
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes...
release : 1923.03.31popularis : 0.799
The Fatal Impulse
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the...
release : 1960.11.29popularis : 0.853
One Million B.C.
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave...
release : 1940.04.05popularis : 3.416
Lights of Old Broadway
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other...
release : 1925.10.31popularis : 1.009
The Voice of Hollywood
The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary...
release : 1930.08.30popularis : 4.105
State Street Sadie
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.
release : 1928.08.25popularis : 2.305
Caught in the Fog
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who...
release : 1928.08.25popularis : 1.963
Pretty Ladies
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One...
release : 1925.09.06popularis : 5.021
Life in Hollywood No. 7
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
release : 1927.08.25popularis : 0.693
The Terror
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
release : 1928.09.06popularis : 5.655
The Redeeming Sin
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner...
release : 1929.02.16popularis : 1.477
Kid Gloves
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is...
release : 1929.03.23popularis : 0.404
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted...
release : 1930.10.10popularis : 3.713
Ball at Savoy
A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
release : 1936.01.09popularis : 0.656
The Snob
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
release : 1924.11.10popularis : 2.265
One Hour Late
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
release : 1934.12.14popularis : 1.473
Slightly Used
Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she invents a husband for herself called Major...
release : 1927.09.03popularis : 0.931
The Girl from Chicago
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces...
release : 1927.11.09popularis : 1.404
What Every Woman Knows
Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter...
release : 1921.04.24popularis : 2.252
Free Love
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
release : 1930.12.01popularis : 1.531
Heaven on Earth
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in...
release : 1927.03.05popularis : 0.874
Memory Lane
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...
release : 1926.02.01popularis : 4.114
Diamond Handcuffs
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
release : 1928.05.05popularis : 3.236
Second Wife
A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
release : 1930.02.09popularis : 1.567
If I Were Single
Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a...
release : 1927.12.17popularis : 1.191
Married Flirts
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband,...
release : 1924.10.27popularis : 0.923
Little Women
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the...
release : 1918.11.30popularis : 0.533
Cheaper to Marry
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married...
release : 1925.02.09popularis : 2.787
The Mad Empress
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
release : 1939.12.16popularis : 2.056
Fool's Paradise
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him...
release : 1921.12.09popularis : 1.182
Dangerous Journey
Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied...
release : 1944.09.30popularis : 1.275
The Sacred Flame
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is...
release : 1929.11.24popularis : 0.913
Excuse Me
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
release : 1925.01.19popularis : 0.592
So This Is Marriage?
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
release : 1924.11.26popularis : 1.417
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff...
release : 1922.10.22popularis : 1.739
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations....
release : 1961.10.23popularis : 0.707