Robert McWade
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1872-01-23
Locus Natus: Buffalo, New York, USA
Et ut: Robert McWade Jr., Robert Mc Wade
42nd Street
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
release : 1933.03.11popularis : 7.868
The Phantom of Crestwood
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
release : 1932.10.14popularis : 1.931
Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
release : 1932.05.25popularis : 11.451
Feet First
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...
release : 1930.10.30popularis : 2.227
Good Intentions
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
release : 1930.06.29popularis : 0.191
Straight from the Heart
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...
release : 1935.03.22popularis : 0.22
The First Year
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy...
release : 1932.07.30popularis : 0.947
Heroes for Sale
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...
release : 1933.06.17popularis : 2.72
The Dragon Murder Case
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk....
release : 1934.08.25popularis : 4.264
Movie Crazy
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
release : 1932.09.23popularis : 2.17
The Kennel Murder Case
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...
release : 1933.10.28popularis : 5.475
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 : 4.449
I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...
release : 1933.09.23popularis : 4.093
Of Human Hearts
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...
release : 1938.02.11popularis : 4.475
The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...
release : 1932.12.31popularis : 3.764
Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...
release : 1935.11.30popularis : 2.803
Hard to Handle
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
release : 1933.01.28popularis : 1.052
Pick-up
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison,...
release : 1933.03.24popularis : 2.976
The Healer
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the...
release : 1935.06.14popularis : 1.399
Mary Jane's Pa
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...
release : 1935.04.27popularis : 2.414
Mister Cinderella
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in...
release : 1936.10.22popularis : 4.398
Midnight Alibi
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
release : 1934.07.12popularis : 2.474
Anything Goes
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However,...
release : 1936.01.24popularis : 2.558
Bunker Bean
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
release : 1936.06.26popularis : 1.565
California Straight Ahead
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
release : 1937.04.16popularis : 0.552
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 0.971
Too Many Cooks
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
release : 1931.07.18popularis : 1.326
We're on the Jury
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
release : 1937.02.12popularis : 1.099
Night Work
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's...
release : 1930.08.03popularis : 1.099
Mountain Justice
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
release : 1937.04.24popularis : 1.602
Ladies of the Jury
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her...
release : 1932.02.02popularis : 1.453
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has...
release : 1931.10.03popularis : 0.704
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...
release : 1938.02.12popularis : 1.857
His Night Out
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...
release : 1935.10.01popularis : 0.834
Moonlight Murder
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
release : 1936.03.27popularis : 0.619
Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the...
release : 1934.01.16popularis : 1.763
The Pay-Off
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and...
release : 1930.10.14popularis : 2.605
The Solitaire Man
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...
release : 1933.09.22popularis : 1.799
Operator 13
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...
release : 1934.06.08popularis : 3.101
Old Hutch
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
release : 1936.09.25popularis : 0.974
Society Doctor
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
release : 1935.01.25popularis : 3.385
The Sins of the Children
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
release : 1930.06.27popularis : 2.421
The Prizefighter and the Lady
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
release : 1933.11.10popularis : 1.785
Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...
release : 1931.01.26popularis : 5.113
The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...
release : 1934.11.17popularis : 0.924
Back Street
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
release : 1932.08.04popularis : 3.464
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 : 1.553
Thirty Day Princess
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly...
release : 1934.05.18popularis : 1.512
Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
release : 1933.02.04popularis : 2.579
On Such a Night
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
release : 1937.08.27popularis : 0.385
High Tension
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
release : 1936.07.10popularis : 1.714
Kept Husbands
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled...
release : 1931.02.22popularis : 2.468
15 Maiden Lane
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
release : 1936.10.16popularis : 1.915
Cappy Ricks Returns
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of...
release : 1935.09.25popularis : 0.711
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...
release : 1932.11.09popularis : 8.032
No Ransom
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...
release : 1934.10.07popularis : 1.693
This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...
release : 1937.05.28popularis : 3.014
Let’s Be Ritzy
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
release : 1934.05.01popularis : 0.761
Hold That Girl
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses...
release : 1934.03.23popularis : 0.608
Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
release : 1935.09.01popularis : 2.513
Madame Racketeer
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...
release : 1932.07.23popularis : 1.132
The Home Towners
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his...
release : 1928.11.03popularis : 0.946
The Countess of Monte Cristo
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow...
release : 1934.03.18popularis : 1.28
Flaming Gold
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
release : 1932.09.28popularis : 0.992
It's a Wise Child
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
release : 1931.04.10popularis : 1.007
College Rhythm
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...
release : 1934.11.23popularis : 2.563
Next Time We Love
A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
release : 1936.01.30popularis : 3.255
Fog
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion...
release : 1933.11.11popularis : 0.926
The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
release : 1937.04.23popularis : 2.883
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 : 0.535
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 : 2.492
Skyline
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by...
release : 1931.10.08popularis : 3.808
The Big Cage
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
release : 1933.05.01popularis : 2.254