Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand Read More »
Tag Archives: Frances Dee
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 »
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 »
Rich Man’s Folly (1931) John Cromwell, George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Robert Ames
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. 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 »
Blood Money (1933) Rowland Brown, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee
Bill Bailey is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. Read More »
Love Is a Racket (1932) William A. Wellman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Jimmy writes the’Up and Down Broadway’ column to the New York Globe, and he’s head over heels for Mary. Read More »
Gypsy Colt (1954) Andrew Marton, Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee, Drama, Family, Western
Lassie comes home (again) but this time as a horse. Eric Knight shouldn’t have to had break a sweat writing this “original” with the only difference in the basic plot line Read More »
Of Human Bondage (1934) John Cromwell, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Drama, Romance
Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. Read More »