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Laugh and Get Rich (1931) Gregory La Cava, Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee
The Austin family faces the depression head on with Sarah running a boarding house Read More »
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) George Archainbaud, Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin Read More »
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) Lloyd Corrigan, Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
On vacation, schoolteacher/detective Miss Withers flies to Catalina Island Read More »
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. Read More »
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) George Archainbaud, Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. Read More »
Parnell (1937) John M. Stahl, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver
Alas, an aristocrat and a barrister on the same plateau. Read More »
The Conquerors (1932) William A. Wellman, Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire. Read More »
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) George B. Seitz, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon
When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an “old maid schoolteacher” from Nebraska. Read More »
David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. Read More »
Only Yesterday (1933) John M. Stahl, Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman Read More »
Ladies of the Jury (1932) Lowell Sherman, Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Ken Murray, Comedy, Mystery
Society Matron, Mrs. Crane, is selected as a juror in the trail of an ex-chorus girl, Yvette Gordon, who’s accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. Read More »
Lydia (1941) Julien Duvivier, Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick Read More »
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) Norman Taurog, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Comedy, Sport
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden’s championship team.
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