Actor
británico nacido en Bristol. De familia de actores, emigró a
Hollywood en 1923. Su primera película fué "Esta
es la noche" de 1932. Con "No soy ningún
ángel" de 1933, se ganó la simpatía del público
y empezó a actuar como protagonista. Tuvo dos nominaciones al
Oscar, pero solo consiguió un "Oscar Honorífico" por
toda su carrera en 1970.
Sylvia Sidney,Fredric March,
Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence
Britton, Esther Howard, George Irving, Kent
Taylor, Charles Colman, Leonard Carey, Milla
Davenport, Robert Greig, Rev. Neal Todd, Mildred
Boyd
Plot:
Charlie Baxter 'DeBrion' is the
leading man in a play written by Jerry. Jerry
drinks a lot which causes problems, but he gets
married to Joan. It doesn't last long and she
goes to live with her dad. However, she is
preggers and becomes critically ill. Eventually,
Jerry is allowed to see her, and promises to lead
a better life.
4. The Devil and the Deep (1932)
Character Name:
Lieutenant Jacques
Release Date:
August 12, 1932
Director:
Marion Gering
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper,
Charles Laughton, Gordon Wescott, Paul Porcasi,
Juliette Compton, Arthur Hoyt, Dorothy Christy,
Henry Kolker
Plot:
Sturm is in charge of a
submarine, and believes his wife, Pauline, to be
having affairs with other men. He drives her out
of the house, and she then spends the night on
the desert with Semper. The submarine is about to
sail, and Pauline rushes on to the ship to warn
Semper that her husband will try to kill him.
Sturm deliberately causes a collision, which
causes the sub to sink. However, Semper rescues
everyone, but leaves Sturm to perish with the
submarine.
5. Blonde Venus (1932)
Character Name:
Nick Townsend
Release Date:
Sept 16, 1932
Director:
Josef von Sternberg
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert
Marshall, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita LaRoy,
Robert Emmet O'Connor, Sidney Toler
Plot:
Helen has no money, but a sick
husband, Edward. She needs money to pay for his
treatment, and has sec with Nick Townsend in
order to get it. When Edward finds out where the
money has come from, he gets mad. She then turns
to full on prostitution, but eventually manages
to stop. She meets Nick again, who runites her
with her husband and son.
Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott,
Edward Woods, Lillian Bond, William Collier Sr.,
Jane Darwell, Rita La Roy, Rose Coughlan, Oscar
Appel, Jessie Arnold, Grady Sutton
Plot:
Ruth argues with her lover, Bill,
and spends most of a day with another man, Romer.
She loses her job due to gossip, and, while she
is preparing to marry Bill, she visits Romer.
People think the worst, but eventually everything
is sorted out.
7. Madame Butterfly (1932)
Character Name:
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Release Date:
Dec 10, 1932
Director:
Marion Gering
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Sylvia Sidney, Charlie Ruggles,
Sandor Kallay, Irving Pichel, Helen Jerome Eddy,
Edmund Breese, Judith Vasselli, Louise Carter,
Dorothy Libaire, Shiela Terry
Plot:
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in
Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she
keeps his japanese home as he left it. He returns
three years later, having married again in
America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is
over. She has had a child in his absence, who is
sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Mae West, Gilbert Roland, Noah
Beery Sr., Rafaela Ottiano, David Landau,
Rochelle Hudson, Owen Moore, Fuzzy Knight,
Tammany Young, Dewey Robinson, Grace LaRue, Harry
Wallace, James C. Eagle, Robert E. Homans, Tom
Kennedy, Arthur Houseman, Wade Boteler, Aggie
Herring, Louise Beavers, Lee Kohlmar, Tom McGuire
Plot:
Lady Lou owns a saloon, run by
Gus. Capt. Cummings (from a local church mission)
visits Lou often hoping to save her. She falls
for him. Lou kills a nasty criminal, and Cummings
turns out to be a police agent, who arrests her.
9. Woman Accused (1933)
Character Name:
Jeffrey Baxter
Release Date:
February 17, 1933
Director:
Paul Sloane
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Nancy Carroll, John Halliday,
Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Norma Mitchell,
Jack La Rue, Frank Sheridan, John Lodge, William
J. Kelly, Harry Holman, Jay Belasco, Gertrude
Messinger, Lora Andre, Donald Stuart, Gregory
Golubeff, Robert Quirk, Amo Ingraham, Dennis
Beaufort, Gaylord Pendleton
Plot:
Glenda and Jeffrey's romance, is
threatened by the return of Leo (Glenda's Ex).
Glenda kills Leo, after threatens to murder
Jeffrey. Glenda, Jeffrey and some friends go on a
cruise, where Leo's partner (Stephen) tries to
get Glenda to confess to the murder. She doesn't.
Fredric March, Jack Oakie,
Carole Lombard, Sir Guy Standing, Forrester
Harvey, Kenneth Howell, Layland Hodgson, Virginia
Hammond, Crawford kent, Douglas Scott, Robert
Manning, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Jacques Jou-Jerville,
Russell Scott, Paul Cremonsi, Yorke Sherwood
Plot:
Young and Crocker dislike each
other. Young is an example to young recruits sent
to the front. Young gets uptight about the
senseless death going on about him, and the Major
orders him to go on leave. He relaxes a little,
but comes back to the front to find that another
observer has been killed as the result of Crocker's
attempt to get medals. Young commits suicide.
Crocker covers up his act, and gets everyone to
believe that Young was killed on a mission. He is
buried a hero.
11. Gambling Ship (1933)
Character Name:
Ace Corbin
Release Date:
June 23, 1933
Director:
Loius Gasnier, Max Marcin
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns,
Glenda Farrell, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton,
Charles Williams, Edwin Maxwell, Harry Shutan,
Frank Moran, Spencer Chartes, Otho Wright, Evelyn
Silvie, Kate Campbell, Edward Gargan, Jack Grey,
William Welsh, Sid Saylor, Hooper Atchley, Larry
Alexander, Louis Natheaux, Gum Chung
Plot:
Ace (a gambler) is posing as a
businessman, and Eleanor (a moll looking for a
sucker) is posing as a socialite. She is the
girlfriend of Joe, who owns a gambling ship and
has big debts. Joe sells his ship to Ace, who
then steals all Manning's (an old enemy) gambling
trade. In the end, the ship is taken by Manning's
gang, but then they all get washed overboard. The
ship crashes on rocks, but Ace and Eleanor make
it to shore.
12. I'm No Angel (1933)
Character Name:
Jack Clayton
Release Date:
October 6, 1933
Director:
Wesley Ruggles
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Mae West, Edward Arnold, Rolf
Harolds, Russell Hopton, Gertrude Michael, Kent
Taylor, Dorothy Peterson, Gregory Ratoff,
Gertrude Howard, William Davidson, Nigel
deBrulier, Irving pichel, George Bruggeman, Nat
Pendleton, Morrie Cohen, Walter Walker
Plot:
Tira works in Bill's circus, and
lives with Slick (a pickpocket). Tira also has a
hotel room, wher she has...erm....visitors. One
visitor is knocked out by jealous Slick, who
steals his diamond ring. When the man comes to,
he gets Slick arrested. Tira needs money, so she
agrees to do a dangerous lion act. After the show,
Kirk and Jack (socialites) go backstage to see
Tira. Kirk has a short romance with Tira, but
then it is Jack's turn.
Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen,
Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper, Jack
Duffy, Leon Errol, Louise Fazenda, W.C. Fields,
Alec B. Francis, Skeets Gallagher, Lillian Harmer,
Raymond Hatton, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett
Horton, Roscoe Karns, Baby LeRoy, Lucien
Littlefield, Mae Marsh, Polly Moran, Jack Oackie.
Plot:
You're not going to tell me you
don't know the story of Alice In Wonderland!!!!!
Go and read the book.......available from ALL
booksellers!
Sylvia Sidney, Edward Arnold,
Henry Stephenson, Vince Barnett, Edgar Norton,
Ray Walker, Lucien Littlefield, Robert McWade,
George Baxter, Marguerite Namara
Plot:
Princess Caterina arrives in the
U.S. and gets the mumps. A look-alike substitute,
Nancy Lane, is found to take her place with
Porter Madison when they go on a sleigh ride.
Porter is a big publisher, Nancy a showgirl. They
fall in love, but both think the object of their
desire is out of their league. They can get
married in the end though.....
15. Born To Be Bad(1934)
Character Name:
Malcolm Trevor
Release Date:
May 18, 1934
Director:
Lowell Sherman
Studio:
Twentieth Century
Cast list:
Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk,
Henry Travers, Russell Hopton, Andrew Tombes,
Howard Lang, Harry Green, Marion Burns, Paul
Harvey, Charles Coleman, Matt Briggs, Geneva
Mitchell
Plot:
Letty is engaged in the rapid
accumulation of money, and has a wayward son.
Fuzzy had taken her in to show her the error of
her ways, but it hadn't worked. The boy is hurt
by Malcom's truck and the mother attempts to
obtain damages. Instead her son is taken away
from her and Malcolm and his wife (Alice) look
after him. Malcolm has an affair with Letty,
induced by her, which she attempts to use against
him to get her son back. It doesn't work, so she
leaves and goes to work for Fuzzy.
16. Kiss and Make Up(1934)
Character Name:
Dr. Maurice Lamar
Release Date:
July 13, 1934
Director:
Harlan Thompson
Studio:
Paramount Publix
Cast list:
Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin,
Edward Everett Horton, Lucien Littlefield, Mona
Maris, Katherine Williams, Lucille Lund, Rafael
Storm, Mme. Bonita, Doris Lloyd, Milton Wallace,
Sam Ashe, Helena Phillips, Toby Wing, Henry
Armetta, George Andre Beranger, Judith Arlen,
Jean Gale, Hazel Hayes, Lee Ann Meredith, Helene
Cohan, Jean Carmen, GiGi Parrish, Ann Hovey,
Betty Bryson, Jaqueline Wells, Wampus Baby Stars
of 1934
Plot:
Lamar owns a beuty salon, which
is a haven for women who want to be beautiful.
His plain secretary, Anne, is in love with him.
Lamar makes Eve (the wife of Marcel Caron) into
vision of lovelieness, but she is so obsessed
with the daily routine to keep herself this way,
that he leaves her. She marries Lamar, who soon
realises he has just married a load of cosmetics.
He then realises his true love has been with him
all the time, Anne.
Frances Drake, Edward Everett
Horton, Rosita Moreno, George Barlie, Nydia
Westman, Charles Ray, Charles Arnt, Rafael Corio,
Clara Lou Sheridan, Henrietta Burnside, Joe North
Plot:
While in Paris, Julian suddenly
finds he has three women (Susie, Anna and
Marguerite), and two men out to get him (Paul and
Ramon) It all ends happily with Anna and Julian
ending up together.
Elissa Landi, Lynne Overman,
Sharon Lynne, Michelette Burani, Paul Forcasi,
Adrian Rosley, Cecellis Parker, Frank Albertson,
Wilfred Hari, Torben Meyer, Harold Berquist,
Diana Lewis, Richard Bonellu
Plot:
Gerald falls in love with
tempremental Oprera star, Lisa. Married life
turns out not to be so glorious, so Gerald
returns to the States while his wife is on tour
in Europe. Lisa learns of Geralds intentions to
divorce her, and returns to the States too. She
wins him back from his new love, Flora.
19. Wings in the Dark (1935)
Character Name:
Ken Gordon
Release Date:
February 1, 1935
Director:
James Flood
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Cast list:
Myrna Loy, Roscoe Karns, Hobart
Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Bert Hanlon, James Burtis,
Russell Hopton, Samuel S. Hinds, Arnold Korff,
Matt McHugh, Graham McNamee, Alfred Delcambre
Plot:
Ken is a flier trying to perfect
instruments for safe flying in the dark or fog.
As his devices near completion, he is blinded in
a gas explosion. Sheila, a writer/flier is in
love with him, but the feeling is not mutual. Ken
goes to live in the country with his mechanic and
dog for company. He tries to be a writer but
never knows the cheques he cashes are from Sheila.
Sheila attempts a dangerous flight from Moscow to
New York. When she gets into trouble, Ken
realises he loves her. He and his dog go up in
the fog, and lead her to safety by means of the
instruments he perfected.
20. The Last Outpost (1935)
Character Name:
Michael Andrews
Release Date:
October 11, 1935
Director:
E. Lloyd Sheldon
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Cast list:
Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael,
Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff,
Billy Bevan, Georges Renevant, Margaret Swope,
Jameson Thomas, Nick Shaid, Harry Semels, Meyer
Ouhayoun, Frazier Acosta, Malay Clu, Elspeth
Dudgeon, Beulah McDonald, Robert Adair, William
Brown, Claude King, Olaf Hytten, Frank Elliott,
Frant Dawson
Plot:
Michael Andrews, a British
Officer, is captured by the Kurds. John Stevenson,
a Lawrence of Arabia charcter, frees him. They
move an Armenian Tribe across the desert to
safety. The scene shifts to a hospital in Egypt
where ANdrews is recuperating after a scuffle
with Stevenson. He gets interested in Nurse
Rosemary, who turns out to be Stevenson's wife,
who hasn't seen him since their wedding day.
Stevenson comes to Cairo and finds out about
Andrews and his wife. He follows Andrews, who has
to mop up some enemy tribes. All but Andrews and
Stevenson are killed in a battle. They set off to
cross the desert to safety, but Stevenson is
mortally wounded by pursuing tribesmen. He dies
after commending the welfare of his wife to
Andrews.
Katharine Hepburn, Brian Aherne,
Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Paley, Dennie Moore, Lennox
Pawle
Plot:
Henry Scarlett is forced to flee
France and takes his daughter, Sylvia with him.
She is disguised as a man. They meet Monkley, a
cockney bloke, and swindle some people in London.
Sylvia falls for an artist and abandons her
disguise, but he refuses to take her seriously.
Her rival runs away, and leaves the way clear for
Sylvia's romance.
Joan, Bennett, Walter Pidgeon,
Lloyd Nolan, Alan Baxter, Marjorie Gateson,
Isabel Jewell, Douglas Fowley, henry Kleinbach,
Joseph Sawyer, Dolores Casey, Doris Canfield,
Edwin Maxwell, Helen Brown, Sam Flint, Joe
Picorri, Charlie Wilson, Charles Martin, Frances
McDonald, Eddie Conrad, Ed Jones
Plot:
Eve is in love with detective
Danny Barr. And whilst he is keen on her too, she
keeps him in his proper place. When Danny
investigates a gem theft, Eve is sure his
interest in Mrs Cole is not all in the line of
duty. Eve loses her job, but gets a new one as a
reporter. A child murder takes place, and Eve
tricks Benny into confessing that Russ Cortig is
the killer. Eve gets fired, and Danny quits the
force. Danny witnesses the murder of Cortig, by
the gang boss, and the murderers grab him. Eve
tips off the police and Danny makes an escape.
All the theives/murderers are caught. Did you get
all that???
23. Suzy (1936)
Character Name:
Andre
Release Date:
July 24, 1936
Director:
George Fitzmaurice
Studio:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast list:
Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone,
Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Reginald Mason, Inez
Courtney, Geta Mayer, David Clyde, Christian Rub,
George Spelvin, Una O'Conner, Charles Judels,
Theodore Von Eltz, Stanley Morner
Plot:
Suzy marries Terry, an Irish
inventor. She thinks he's been killed by a spy,
and goes to Paris. There she marries Andre (a
famous French flyer). Terry is not dead, and
comes to Paris to work for Andre. Andre is then
killed by the spy, Mme Eyrelle, why Terry is
flying. When Terry lands the plane, he and Suzy
put Terry's body in the plane so that people will
think he was killed in combat. It works, and Suzy
and Terry begin a new life together.
24. Wedding Present (1936)
Character Name:
Charlie
Release Date:
October 9, 1936
Director:
Richard Wallace
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Cast list:
Joan Bennett, George Bancroft,
Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart, William Demarest,
Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy, Purnell Pratt,
Douglas Wood, George Meeker, Lois Wilson, John
Henry Allen, George Offerman, Jr., Damon Ford,
Heine Conklin, Billy Engel, Ray Hanson, Jack
Mulhall, Cy Ring, Charles Williams, Marshall Ruth,
Eddie Phillips, Allen Fox
Plot:
Charlie is a funloving
scatterbrain who is suddenly thrust into a
responsible editorial position at the paper where
he works. He carries things to far, and causes
his girlfriend, Rusty, to announce her engagement
to Dodacker. He is not so much bothered about
losing her as he is about what wedding present to
give. He sends everything he can think of, and on
the wedding day, drives up in an ambulance and
kidnaps the bride!
Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne,
Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion, John Turnbull,
Arthur Hardy, Iris Ashley, Garry Marsh, Andrea
Malandrinos, Alfred Wellesley, Marie Wright,
Buena Bent, Charles Farrell, Hal Gordon, Quinton
MacPherson
Plot:
Ernest Bliss has inherited £2,000,000
and bets £50,000 that he can earn his own living
for a year without using any of his fortune for
himself. He has various jobs and looks set to win
the wager. However, he breaks the terms a few
days before he would win, when he finds that his
sweetheart (who he met in his first job) is going
to marry her employer in order to provide a home
for her sick sister.
Grace Moore, Aline MacMahon,
Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Catherine
Doucet, Gerald Oliver Smith, Luis Alberni, Emma
Dunn, George Pearce, Frank Puglia
Plot:
Unable to get a visa to enter
the U.S. opera star Louise pays Jimmy to marry
her. The arrangement is that they will have a
quick divorce. After the ceremony, the couple go
their separate ways. Later on, they fall in love
for real.
27. Topper (1937)
Character Name:
George Kerby
Release Date:
July 16, 1937
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Studio:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast list:
Constance Bennett, Roland Young,
Billie Burke, Alan Mowbrayy, Eugene Pallette,
Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Virginia Sale,
Theodore Von Eltz, J. Farrell McDonald, Elaine
Shepard, "Three Hits and a Miss"
Plot:
Topper is a hen-pecked banker.
Marion and George (Toppers principle stockholder),
get killed in a car accident. Before they can
rest in peace they must perform a good deed -
stop Topper from being so damn domesticated.
28. The Toast of New York(1937)
Character Name:
Nick Boyd
Release Date:
July 30, 1937
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer,
Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, Thelma Leeds, Clarence
Kolb, Billy Gilbert, George Irving, Frank M.
Thomas, Russell Hicks, Oscar Apfel, Lionel
Belmore, Robert McClung, Robert Ducley, Dewey
Robinson Stanley Fields, Gavin Gordon, Joyce
Compton, Virginia Carroll
Plot:
This is the story of Jim Fisk.
He drops his medicine show ath the beginning of
the American Civil War, to prosper at cotton
smuggling, and play the stock market. Attacked by
the press for feeding on small investors, Fisk
enters upon a financial struggle with Cornelius
Vanderbilt. He loses, and his odd career is cut
short by mob violence.
Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy,
Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Marguerite
Churchill, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Robert
Allen, Robert Warwick, Mary Forbes, Claud
Allister, Zita Moulton
Plot:
Jerry and Lucy Warriner get a
divorce, because they both believe the other to
be having an affair. They fight for custody of Mr.
Smith (the dog!), and Lucy wins. Jerry gets
visiting rights. They both get new partners, but
in the end they discover the awful truth - they
cannot live apart.
Katharine Hepburn, Charles
Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May
Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving,
Tala Birrell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly
Argumento:
El Doctor Huxley, un cientifico
dedicado por entero a la arquelogía, espera
impaciente el momento de su boda, que ha de
celebrarse al día siguiente, y la concesión de
una ayuda de un millón de dolares para su museo
arqueológico.
31. Holiday (1938)
aka Free To Live
aka Unconventional Linda
Character Name:
Johnny Case
Release Date:
June 15, 1938
Director:
George Cukor
Studio:
Columbia Picture
Cast list:
Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan,
Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker,Binnie
Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell
Plot:
Johnny takes time out from work
to see the world around him. He gets engaged to
Julia, who tries to make him conform. Her sister,
Linda falls in love with Johnny, but hides her
feelings. After several family arguements, Julia
and Johnny realise they should not get married.
Linda and Johnny get it together...
Victor McLaglen, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Cianelli, Joan
Fontaine, Montague Love, Robert Coote, Abner
Biberman, Lumsden Hare
Plot:
Three British seargents, Cutter,
MacChesney and Ballantine are sent to determine
what happened when everyone at an outstation in
India is killed by natives. Later, they discover
a temple, where are large number of natives are
planning to destroy the British troops in the
area. The three seargents and their water carrier,
Gunga Din, are taken prisoner and tortured. The
british troops approach, but do not know that
they are marching into a trap. Gunga Din, though
badly wounded, blows a bugle-call to warn them,
and then dies. The seargents are rescued, and
Gunga Din is given full honours.
33. Solo los ángeles tienen alas (1939)
Personaje:
Jeff Carter
Director:
Howard Hawks
Estudio:
Columbia
Reparto:
Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess,
Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Ruman, Victor
Kilian, John Carrol, Allyn Joslyn, Donald Barry,
Noah Beery, Jr., Melissa Sierra, Lucio Villegas,
Forbes Murray, Maciste, Pat Flaherty, Pedro Regas,
Pat West.
Argumento:
En Barranca, un pequeño puerto
sudamericano, Jeff y su socio "El Holandés",
dueño del hotel, taberna y almacen del
pueblecito, mantienen una modesta linea aerea.
Una noche, el barco que conduce a Bonnie a los
EEUU, hace una breve escala en Barranca. Bonnie
es corista y conoce a Jeff en mal momento.
34. In Name Only (1939)
Character Name:
Alec Walker
Release Date:
August 18, 1939
Director:
John Cromwell
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Carole Lombard, Kay Francis,
Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katherine Alexander,
Jonathan Hale, Maurice Moscovich, Nella Walker,
Peggy Ann Garner, Spencer Charters.
Plot:
Maida marries Alec for his money.
Alec falls in love with Julie. He asks Maida for
a divorce but she says no. Maida schemes to save
the marriage in order to hold onto the family
money. Alec falls ill with Pneumonia, and Julie
is the one who pulls him through it. Maida
realises she has lost the battle.
Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene
Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff
Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks,
Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frant Orth, John
Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert,
Pat West, Edwin Maxwell
Plot:
Hildy Johnson, who has recently divorced
Walter Burns, announces she is leaving his
newspaper to remarry, and settle down to a
peaceful life. She agrees to cover one more story
before leaving, but this story proves that she is
made to be a reporter.
36. My Favorite Wife (1940)
Character Name:
Nick Arden
Release Date:
May 17, 1940
Director:
Garson Kanin
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick,
Ann Schoemaker, Scotty Beckett, Mary Lou
Harrington, Donald MacBride, Hugh O'Connell,
Granville Bates, Pedro de Cordoba
Plot:
Nick marries Bianca, but a short time later
Ellen, (his first wife) turns up after having
been stranded on a desert island for seven years.......
Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Alan
Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving
Bacon, Elizabeth Risdon, Ann Revere, Richard
Alden, Phil taylor, Rita Quigley, Libby Taylor,
Richard Gaines, George Houston
Plot:
Matt Howard, who is friens with Thomas
Jefferson, goes to work for Fleetwood Peyton.
Matt falls in love with Jane Peyton. Matt and
Jane marry and return to the Howard's home
district. Then, encouraged by Jefferson, Matt
enters politics. Then war breaks out....
Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey,
John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary
Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Lionel
Pape
Plot:
Tracy Lord throws out her husband C.K. Dexter
Haven soon after they get married. Dexter arrives
at Tracy's home the day before the wedding with a
writer (Mike Connor) and photographer (Liz Imbrie)
from "Spy" magazine. He is determined
to spoil the wedding.
39. Penny Serenade (1941)
Character Name:
Roger Adams
Release Date:
April 24, 1941
Director:
George Stevens
Studio:
Columbia
Cast list:
Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan,
Ann Doran, Eva Tee Kuneye, Leonard Wiley, Wallis
Clark, Walter SOderling, Baby Biffle
Plot:
In Japan, an earthquake causes the death of
Roger and Julie's unborn child. Back in America,
they adopt a baby despite the family's precarious
financila condition. They raise their daughter
until the age of 6, when she dies suddenly. Grief
almost separates Roger and Julie, but they are
brought together agin when they are offered
another chance to adopt!
40. Sospecha (1941)
Personaje:
Johnie Aysgarth
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Estudio:
RKO Radio
Reparto:
Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel
Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather
Angel, Auriol Lee, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G.
Carroll
Argumento:
Johnnie se sincera por primera vez en su vida
cuando se enamora de Lina. Cuando Beaky, un amigo,
muere de repente, Lina sospecha que Johnnie es un
asesino y que ella será la próxima víctima.
Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan,
Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle, Emma Dunn, Rex
Ingram, Leonid Kinskey, Tom Tyler, Don Beddoe,
George Watts, Clyde Fillmore, Frank M. Thomas,
Lloyd Bridges, with lots and lots of others...
Plot:
Leopold Dilg is wanted for murder and arson,
and persuades the prettiest girl in town, Nora,
to hide him in a house which she has rented to a
law school dean (Michael) for the summer. Michael
becomes Dilg's defence lawyer, and they both try
to win Nora's heart.
Ginger Rogers, Wlater Slezak, Albert Dekker,
Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, Harry Shannon,
Natasha Lytess, John Banner, with lots, lots more.
Plot:
Pat is a radio correspondant, covering Europe
in 1938. when he meets Kate. She is married to
Baron Von Luber, and Austrian who is a Nazi
secret agent. Pat falls in love with Kate, whilst
trying to expose the Baron as an agent.
Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper,
Alan Carney, Henry Stephenson, Paul Stewart, Kay
Johnson, Vladimir Sokoloff, Walter Kingsford,
Erford Gage, J.M. Kerrigan, Edward Fielding, John
Bleifer, Juan Varro, Don Brodie and many more
Plot:
Joe is owner of a big gambling ship, the
Fortuna. In order escape the draft and continue
his profession, he takes on the identity of a
dead man. There the trouble starts.
John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane
Clark, Warner Anderson, William Prince, Robert
Hutton, Peter Whitney, Tom Tully, Faye Emerson,
Warren Douglas, John Forsythe, John Alvin, Bill
Kennedy, William Challee, Whit Bissell, John
Whitney, George Lloyd, Maurice Murphy
Plot:
A story about a submarine whose destination
is.....Tokyo. Everything that could happen to the
Copperfin does happen. However, captained by
Cassidy, the submarine isn't destroyed at the end.
45. Once Upon a Time(1944)
Character Name:
Jerry Flynn
Release Date:
May 11, 1944
Director:
Alexander Hall
Studio:
Columbia
Cast list:
Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson,
Howard Freeman, William Demarest, Art Baker, Paul
Stanton, Micky McGuire
Plot:
The story of one boy, his pet caterpillar and
man who wants to make them famous.
46. None But the Lonely Heart(1944)
Character Name:
Ernie Mott
Release Date:
September 22, 1944
Director:
Clifford Odets
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Ethel Barrymore, Jane Wyatt, June Duprez,
Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Roan Bohnen,
Konstantin Shayne, Dan Duryea, Rosalind Ivan,
Diedre Vale, Eva Leonard Boyne, Queenie Vasser,
Katherine Allen, Joseph Vitale, Morton Lowry,
William Challee, Skelton Knagg, Virginia Farmer,
Art Smith, Milton Wallace, Helen Thimig, Renie
Riano, Macel Dill
Plot:
Ernie joins a gang of theives, because he is
bitter about the loss of his father, and the
struggle his mother has had operating a second-hand
store. He is nearly caught, and returns home to
find his mother has become a "Fence",
in order to get rich quick because she is dying
of cancer.
Raymond Massey, Priscilla Lane, Josephine
Hull, Jean Adair, Jack carson, Edward Everett
Horton, Peter Lorre, james Gleason, John
Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry
Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser, Chester Clute,
Charles Lane, Edward McWade, Leo White, Spencer
Charters, Hank Mann, Lee Phelps
Plot:
Mortimer, a drama critic, has just got
married and is about to go away on his honeymoon,
when he discovers insanity runs in his faily. His
sweet maiden aunts poison lonely old men and have
13 corpses buried in the cellar.....
Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms,
Jane Wyman, Eve Arden, Victor Francen, Alan Hale,
Dorothy Malone, Tom Andrea, Selena Royle, Donald
Woods, Henry Stephenson, Paul Cavanagh, Sig Ruman,
Carlos Ramirez, Malida Mldova, George Zortich,
Adam and Jayne DiGatano, Clarence Muse, John
Alvin, George Riley, Howard Freeman, Bobby Watson,
John Pearson, Herman Bing, Mary Martin
Plot:
The story of Cole Porters career
49. Encadenados (1946)
Personaje:
T.R. Devlin
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Estudio:
RKO Radio
Reparto:
Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern ,
Madame Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni
Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis, Wally Brown,
Gavin Gordon, Sir Charles Mendl, Ricardo Costa,
Eberhard Krumschmidt, Fay Baker
Argumento:
Following World War 2, a Nazi agent is
convicted of treason and US intelligence agents
realise that his innocent daughter, Alicia can
help trap another Nazi mastermind now living in
Brazil. Alicia, who is persuaded to cooperate by
Agent Devlin goes to Rio where she cultivates the
frienship of the Nazi - Alexander Sebastian.
50. Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The
(1947)
aka Bachelor Knight (1947)
Character Name:
Richard (Dick) Nugent
Release Date:
September 1, 1947
Director:
Irving Reis
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, ray
Collins, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Don
Beddoe, Lillian Randolph, Veda Ann Borg, Dan
Tobin, Ransom Sherman, William Bakewell, Irving
Bacon, Ian Bernard, Carol Hughs, William Hall,
Gregory Gay
Plot:
Dick finds himself squiring a love-sick
teenager, Susan, in order to avoid a tougher
sentence. He finds himself doing things that
really don't suit his age. Eventually, he gets
together with her elder sister, Margaret.
51. Bishop's Wife, The(1947)
Character Name:
Dudley
Release Date:
November 13, 1947
Director:
Henry Koster
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley,
James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester,
Sarah Haden, Karolyn Grimes, Tito Vuolo, Regis
Toomey, Sara Edwards, Margaret McWade, Ann O'Neal,
Ben Erway, Erville Alderson, Bobby Anderson,
Teddy Infuhr, Eugene Borden, Almira Sessions,
Claire DuBrey, Florence Auer, Margaret Wells,
Kitty O'Neill
Plot:
Dudley is an angel who comes to help a bishop,
inswer to the bishops prayer for help in getting
funds for his new cathedral. The bishop is
beginning to lose faith and believes his marriage
is failing. Dudley restores his faith, brings
happiness back to the marriage, but the new
church remains unbuilt.
Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny,
Sharyn Moffett, Connie Marshall, Louise Beavers,
Ian Wolfe, Harry Shannon, Tito Vuolo, Nesto Paiva,
Jason Robards, Lurene Tuttle, Lex Barker, Emory
Parnell
Plot:
The Blanding's are looking for their dream
house. they end up buying a 170 yeard old house
for 5 times more than it is worth. The trouble
starts when the house shows its age and has to be
torn down...
53. Every Girl Should Be Married(1948)
Character Name:
Dr. Madison Brown
Release Date:
December 25, 1948
Director:
Don Hartman
Studio:
RKO Radio
Cast list:
Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan
Mowbray, Elizabeth Risdon, Richard Gaines, Harry
Hayden, Chick Chandler, Leon Belasco, Fred Essler,
Anna Q. Nilsson
Plot:
Anabel, a saleswoman, sees Dr. Brown and
decides he is for her. She investigates
thoroughly until she knows every detail about him.
Dr Brown knows all about it and resists until it
is too late.
54. I Was a Male War Bride(1949)
aka You Can't Sleep Here
Character Name:
Captain Henri Rochard
Release Date:
September 2, 1949
Director:
Howard Hawks
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Cast list:
Ann Sheridan, William Neff, Eugene Gericke,
Marion Marshall, Randy Stewart, Ruben Wendorf,
Lester Sharpe, Ken Tobey, Robert Stevenson,
Alfred Linder, David McMahon, Joe Haworth, John
Whitney, William Self, John Zilly, Bill Murhy
Plot:
Henri is a French captain and Catherine his
assistant, an American WAC. They fall in love and
get married. Catherine wants to return to America,
but Henri will only be permitted immediate entry
to the states if he becomesa "war bride".
Then the fun starts!
