Donald Cook
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1901-09-26
Locus Natus: Portland, Oregon
Et ut: Дональд Кук
Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
release : 1936.05.17popularis : 6.44
Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...
release : 1933.07.13popularis : 20.466
Viva Villa!
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
release : 1934.04.27popularis : 3.599
The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...
release : 1931.04.23popularis : 15.685
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
release : 1935.10.09popularis : 1.342
Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...
release : 1931.12.12popularis : 6.788
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie...
release : 1996.12.17popularis : 4.977
Frisco Jenny
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...
release : 1933.01.14popularis : 2.354
Penguin Pool Murder
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...
release : 1932.12.09popularis : 2.167
Our Very Own
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...
release : 1950.07.27popularis : 2.474
The Casino Murder Case
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...
release : 1935.03.15popularis : 1.574
Party Husband
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring...
release : 1931.06.06popularis : 1.829
Confidential
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
release : 1935.10.16popularis : 3.366
Most Precious Thing in Life
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell,...
release : 1934.06.15popularis : 3.573
The Circus Queen Murder
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an...
release : 1933.04.10popularis : 1.445
The Man Who Played God
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to...
release : 1932.02.09popularis : 3.834
The Mad Genius
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer...
release : 1931.09.30popularis : 5.751
Motive for Revenge
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in...
release : 1935.05.15popularis : 0.678
Murder in the Blue Room
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
release : 1944.10.27popularis : 3.383
The Kiss Before the Mirror
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
release : 1933.05.04popularis : 4.521
The Heart of New York
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
release : 1932.03.26popularis : 3.787
The Leavenworth Case
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he...
release : 1936.01.20popularis : 3.051
Beware Of Ladies
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...
release : 1936.12.21popularis : 2.917
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
Brief Moment
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless...
release : 1933.09.29popularis : 4.744
Jennie Gerhardt
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
release : 1933.06.08popularis : 2.454
The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm...
release : 1933.11.25popularis : 3.114
The 9th Guest
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's...
release : 1934.01.31popularis : 4.216
The Night Is Young
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...
release : 1935.01.11popularis : 2.942
Ellis Island
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...
release : 1936.11.04popularis : 2.062
Ladies Love Danger
Fox comedy about an adventurous young woman
release : 1935.12.12popularis : 0.649
Side Show
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
release : 1931.09.19popularis : 1.344
Circus Girl
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
release : 1937.03.01popularis : 1.245
Long Lost Father
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
release : 1934.01.19popularis : 3.685
Unfaithful
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
release : 1931.03.14popularis : 1.499
The Conquerors
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
release : 1932.11.18popularis : 3.013
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
release : 1932.05.01popularis : 1.083
Whirlpool
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
release : 1934.04.10popularis : 1.578
Fury of the Jungle
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with...
release : 1933.10.23popularis : 0.845
Behind the Evidence
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds...
release : 1935.01.08popularis : 0.846
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 : 3.591
Freedom Comes High
A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.
release : 1943.01.01popularis : 1.429
Murder in the Fleet
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of...
release : 1935.05.24popularis : 8.819
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 : 0.946
Two Wise Maids
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy...
release : 1937.02.15popularis : 3.119
Blonde Ransom
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke...
release : 1945.05.01popularis : 1.88
Bowery to Broadway
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud...
release : 1944.11.03popularis : 1.823
Fugitive Lady
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
release : 1934.12.10popularis : 0.675
The Woman I Stole
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
release : 1933.06.29popularis : 1.604
Roseland
A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.
release : 1930.09.07popularis : 2.595
Ring Around the Moon
Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he...
release : 1936.02.15popularis : 3.627
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'),...
release : 1935.12.10popularis : 2.255
Here Come the Co-eds
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly...
release : 1945.02.02popularis : 3.689
Taxi!
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...
release : 1931.12.29popularis : 7.115
Jealousy
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during...
release : 1934.11.23popularis : 2.423
Gigolette
Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New...
release : 1935.02.15popularis : 0.988
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in...
release : 1931.04.15popularis : 2.486
Private Jones
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter...
release : 1933.03.25popularis : 2.89
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 : 1.211
Can This Be Dixie?
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
release : 1936.11.13popularis : 0.883