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The Office Wife (1930) Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz, Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the ‘Office Wife’. Read More »
Party Husband (1931) Clarence G. Badger, Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, Dorothy Peterson
Early Talkie titanness Dorothy Mackaill stars in this steamy pairing of racy dramas that tested the limits of the censors Read More »
The Reckless Hour (1931) John Francis Dillon, Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner, Drama, Romance
In New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn’t want to get married but had been stringing her along. Read More »
No Man of Her Own (1932) Wesley Ruggles, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Drama, Romance
Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. Read More »
Safe in Hell (1931) William A. Wellman, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Drama
Sought by the New Orleans police for accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a woman flees New Orleans for a Caribbean island. Read More »
Kept Husbands (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Drama, Romance
Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire Arthur Parker invites Richard for dinner with his family. Arthur’s daughter Dot (Mackaill) is instantly impressed and infatuated with Richard She vows to marry him within a month.
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Bright Lights / Adventures In Africa (1930) Michael Curtiz, Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Musical, Drama
The lovely young star of a Broadway show is giving an interview to several newspaper writers and tells them about her wild life, parts of which involved “hula dancing” in Africa and an involvement with a dangerous Portuguese smuggler. Unbeknownst to her, the smuggler has showed up at the theater on that very night.
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