The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Read More »
Tag Archives: Frances Dee
Gypsy Colt (1954) Andrew Marton, Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee
Lassie comes home (again) but this time as a horse. Eric Knight shouldn’t have to had break Read More »
I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Jacques Tourneur, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison
Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica Read More »
So Ends Our Night (1941) John Cromwell, Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee
The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before Read More »
Wells Fargo (1937) Frank Lloyd, Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee
The third of Paramount’s “deluxe” westerns of the 1930s (following The Texas Rangers and The Plainsman) was Wells Fargo Read More »
A Man Betrayed (1941) John H. Auer, John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis
Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend Read More »
Finishing School (1934) George Nichols Jr., Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers
Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls’ school where everything appears prim and proper Read More »
Four Faces West (1948) Alfred E. Green, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. Read More »
If I Were King (1938) Frank Lloyd, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. Read More »
Headline Shooter (1933) Otto Brower, William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy
Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand Read More »
King of the Jungle (1933) H. Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin, Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee, Sidney Toler
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus. Read More »
Half Angel (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, Charles Butterworth
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Read More »
An American Tragedy (1931) Josef von Sternberg, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee
Having just reached adulthood, Clyde Griffiths has always lamented his lot in life, he the only son of poor missionaries. Read More »
Complicated Women (2003) Hugh Munro Neely, Jane Fonda, Frances Dee, Kitty Carlisle
Jane Fonda narrates the story of the years between the ascent of talkies until late in 1934 Read More »
Becky Sharp (1935) Rouben Mamoulian, Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Read More »