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Tag Archives: Joel McCrea
These Three (1936) William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea

This first film version of “The Children’s Hour” uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play’s lesbian theme. 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 »
Born to Love (1931) Paul L. Stein, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh

A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried. Read More »
The San Francisco Story (1952) Robert Parrish, Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Blackmer

In the 1850s San Francisco newspaper editor Jim Martin seeks the help of wealthy miner Read More »
Splendor (1935) Elliott Nugent, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh

The once-great Lorrimore family faces bankruptcy unless older son Brighton marries wealthy Edith Gilbert. Read More »
The First Texan (1956) Byron Haskin, Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow

After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out Read More »
The Outriders (1950) Roy Rowland, Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. Read More »
Youth Takes a Fling (1938) Archie Mayo, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Frank Jenks

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. Read More »
Bird of Paradise (1932) King Vidor, Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday

A young man falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl. Read More »
Barbary Coast (1935) Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work Read More »
Business and Pleasure (1932) David Butler, Will Rogers, Jetta Goudal, Joel McCrea

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades Read More »
Four Faces West (1948) Alfred E. Green

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. Read More »
He Married His Wife (1940) Roy Del Ruth, Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young

T.H.”Randy” Randall and Valerie Randall are divorced but friendly Read More »
They Shall Have Music (1939) Archie Mayo, Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds

A boy from the streets of New York finds music tickets to a Heifetz concert, which rekindles his earlier interest in the violin. Read More »