The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
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Heritage of the Desert (1939) Lesley Selander, Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance Read More »
The Florentine Dagger (1935) Robert Florey, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith
Juan Cesare, a descendant of the Borgia’s of Vienna, thinks he may have a murder streak in him acquired from his long-dead relatives Read More »
Anthony Adverse (1936) Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods
In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. Read More »
Fog Over Frisco (1934) William Dieterle, Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Arlene Bradford is the quintessential high society bad girl. Read More »
Enemy of Women (1944) Alfred Zeisler, Claudia Drake, Wolfgang Zilzer, Donald Woods
Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. Read More »
Road Gang (1936) Louis King, Donald Woods, Kay Linaker, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. Read More »
Mexican Spitfire (1940) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Comedy
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita’s fiery Latin temper Read More »
Big Town Girl (1937) Alfred L. Werker, Claire Trevor, Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, Drama, Comedy
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a crook. Read More »
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940) Charles Lamont, Donald Woods, Kathryn Adams, Wallace Ford, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. Read More »
The White Angel (1936) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, Biography, Drama
Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent Warner Bros. biopic. The screenplay concentrates on Nightingale’s humanitarian activities during the Crimean War of 1854-55. Defiant in the face of military bureaucracy and the male hierarchy, she organizes a volunteer group of nurses to tend to the military wounded, and also works tirelessly to update and improve the primitive, almost barbaric medical conditions of the Victorian Era.
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