Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys Read More »
Tag Archives: Frank Tuttle
Love Among the Millionaires (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs. Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green
While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
All the Kings Horses (1935) Frank Tuttle, Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Musical, Romance
King Rudolf XIV of Langenstein, is too busy to make love to his wife, Queen Elaine of Langenstein, and good Queen Elaine is upset royally about it. Read More »
The Great John L. (1945) Frank Tuttle, Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, Greg McClure, Biography, Drama, Sport
Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Read More »
Roman Scandals (1933) Frank Tuttle, Eddie Cantor, The Goldwyn Girls, Ruth Etting, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. Read More »
Lucky Jordan (1942) Frank Tuttle, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can’t fix: the draft board. Read More »
Waikiki Wedding (1937) Frank Tuttle, Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter’s pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. Read More »
Men Are Like That (1930) Frank Tuttle, Hal Skelly, Doris Hill, Clara Blandick, Drama, Comedy
This is the first sound version of George Kelly’s THE SHOW OFF. There was a silent version starring Ford Sterling a few years earlier and two MGM versions later on, one starring Spencer Tracy and the other Red Skelton. Read More »
A Cry in the Night (1956) Frank Tuttle, Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Owen Marks, parked at Lovers’ Loop with girlfriend Liz Taggart, surprises a peeping Tom, who knocks him out and kidnaps Liz. The police leap into action when they learn the victim is a cop’s daughter. Kidnapper Harold Loftus, the unhinged product of a smothering mother, makes ineffectual advances toward Liz, who staves him off as the police close in, hindered as much as helped by her overprotective father Capt. Dan Taggart.
Read More »
Here Is My Heart (1934) Frank Tuttle, Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, Roland Young, Musical, Comedy
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
Read More »
Don Juan Quilligan (1945) Frank Tuttle, William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Comedy
In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his late mother. He married the other because she cooks like his mom. He soon finds himself in over his head. A good friend helps extricate him by devising an ingenious plot. The captain is to be blamed for a murder. He can then escape his wives by pretending to be sent to prison.
Read More »
College Holiday (1936) Frank Tuttle, Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Sylvia Smith and Dick Winters share a romantic kiss at a dance, but Sylvia is called away before Dick can learn her full name. Sylvia’s father is about to lose his California hotel, the Casa Del Mar, thanks to the financial blundering of his new business partner J. Davis Bowster. The mortgage is held by eccentric heiress Carola P. Gaye, whose current fascination is with the ancient Greek-style eugenics championed by Prof. Hercules Dove.
Read More »