Tag Archives: John Boles

In this romance, a homely country girl makes herself over into a gorgeous New York Fashion model. Read More »

An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry Read More »

Ham Hamilton knows that gold-digger Marcia Trent is only after Robert Densmore for his money, so he tells Marcia that Robert is broke and she calls off the announced wedding. Read More »

A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman Read More »

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John Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. Read More »

Jeff Carter, a singer down on his luck, turns to radio acting as a means of supporting his young son Danny. Read More »

The real “message to Garcia” was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General’s help in the Spanish-American war. The fact that the lieutenant made his way to Garcia in absolute safety was ignored in 20th Century-Fox’s Message to Garcia–which is just as well, since otherwise the movie would have been eight minutes long. In the film version, lieutenant John Boles is guided through the treacherous Cuban jungle by Barbara Stanwyck, doing her best to convince us that she’s an Hispanic senorita. Also along for the trip is renegade marine Wallace Beery, who may not be as friendly as he seems. Fighting off Spaniards and spies at every turn, Boles successfully completes his mission. As history, Message to Garcia is about as reliable as the Hearst newspaper dispatches which triggered the Spanish-American war in the first place.
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