Frances Dee
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1909-11-26
Locus Natus: Los Angeles, California, USA
Et ut: Frances Marion Dee, Frances Dee McCrea
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral suit in his "land yacht", a custom-built bus he...
release : 1933.01.12popularis : 1.592
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 : 2.368
I Walked with a Zombie
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
release : 1943.04.21popularis : 10.578
Blood Money
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work,...
release : 1933.11.17popularis : 2.565
Souls at Sea
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
release : 1937.09.03popularis : 2.174
Becky Sharp
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...
release : 1935.06.28popularis : 4.657
Of Human Bondage
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
release : 1934.07.20popularis : 11.52
Four Faces West
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...
release : 1948.08.03popularis : 2.902
Little Women
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is...
release : 1933.11.24popularis : 11.504
The Gay Deception
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he...
release : 1935.09.13popularis : 3.44
Payment on Demand
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David...
release : 1951.02.03popularis : 2.982
An American Tragedy
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
release : 1931.08.22popularis : 1.913
Love Is a Racket
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
release : 1932.06.18popularis : 3.345
Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
release : 1942.05.21popularis : 1.522
The Crime of the Century
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t...
release : 1933.02.18popularis : 3.466
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 : 5.504
Mister Scoutmaster
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy...
release : 1953.09.02popularis : 8.076
Gypsy Colt
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
release : 1954.04.02popularis : 1.633
If I Were King
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...
release : 1938.09.28popularis : 5.399
Coast Guard
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the...
release : 1939.08.04popularis : 2.714
Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 9.496
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 : 4.056
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a...
release : 1932.05.06popularis : 1.348
Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
release : 1933.07.28popularis : 2.248
Patrick the Great
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
release : 1945.05.04popularis : 5.102
Finishing School
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the...
release : 1934.05.04popularis : 11.69
So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
release : 1941.02.27popularis : 5.883
Because of You
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
release : 1952.12.04popularis : 2.525
One Man's Journey
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...
release : 1933.08.31popularis : 1.306
Happy Land
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...
release : 1943.11.10popularis : 2.612
Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in...
release : 1931.12.12popularis : 2.073
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her....
release : 1930.10.18popularis : 2.616
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
release : 1961.12.31popularis : 3.001
The Silver Cord
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well...
release : 1933.05.05popularis : 3.672
Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...
release : 2003.05.06popularis : 3.674
The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...
release : 1932.09.17popularis : 2.88
Half Angel
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
release : 1936.05.22popularis : 0.779
Follow Thru
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend,...
release : 1930.09.26popularis : 2.401
Keep 'Em Rolling
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
release : 1934.03.02popularis : 0.983
This Reckless Age
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...
release : 1932.01.09popularis : 2.423
True to the Navy
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets...
release : 1930.05.25popularis : 3.363
King of the Jungle
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
release : 1933.03.10popularis : 1.84
Caught
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline)....
release : 1931.08.08popularis : 1.8
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
release : 1941.10.02popularis : 1.509
Monte Carlo
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
release : 1930.08.27popularis : 2.639
Rich Man's Folly
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies...
release : 1931.11.14popularis : 1.596
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
release : 1988.10.01popularis : 4.339
Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
release : 1951.10.09popularis : 2.036
June Moon
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
release : 1931.03.21popularis : 1.304
Coming Out Party
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...
release : 1934.03.09popularis : 2.581
Along Came Youth
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.
release : 1930.12.20popularis : 0.896
Words and Music
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
release : 1929.08.18popularis : 1.267
A Man from Wyoming
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society...
release : 1930.07.12popularis : 0.629
Nice Women
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
release : 1931.11.28popularis : 0.594
Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
release : 1982.03.08popularis : 3.98