Tag Archives: Alfred E. Green

Eminent psychologist Dr. Brenner (Erwin Kalser) invites cartoonist Bill Harrison (Allyn Joslyn) along with his spouse, Jack (Evelyn Keyes), into a feast honoring war refugees. Read More »

Fred, an Englishmen, (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) , wanted for murder, winds up on a fishing boat in The South Seas, run by Nichols. Read More »

In the small town of Pewamo, Claude Dodd, an electrician singing baritone in the local Strawberry Festival is heard by the owner of the Morpheus Mattress Company Read More »

Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Read More »

Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »

To share expenses unemployed Alabama move in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster’s mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster’s bodyguard. Read More »

The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. A young woman, Allison, plots to become his second wife. Read More »

A wife and husband’s marriage is destroyed due to her infidelity. Read More »

The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Read More »

International singing sensation Nino Martini made his American film debut in the Jesse L. Lasky production Here’s to Romance. His career bankrolled by the beneficent opera diva Mme. Schumann-Heink (playing herself), singer Nino Donelli (Martini) hits the big time, and as a bonus falls in love with his leading lady Lydia Lubov (Anita Louise). For a while, however, their romance is nearly loused up by wealthy, self-centered art patrons Kathleen and Emery Gerard (Genevieve Tobin and Reginald Denny). Also complicating matters is amorous ballerina Rosa (Maria Gambarelli), but she leaves the scene after turning down both Nino and Emery. Often listed as a 20th Century-Fox release, Here’s to Romance was actually one of the last Fox releases before the merger with 20th Century.
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A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market…for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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GREEN GODDESS, THE, George Arliss, Alice Joyce, H.B. Warner, 1930

An airplane carrying three Brits–Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern–crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India. His subjects believe that their Green Goddess has given them the lives of the three Brits as payment for the lives of the Rajah’s brothers. They will execute them when the brothers are executed. Trahern and the Crespins must figure a way to use the Rajah’s radio to call India for help.
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