A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold-digger. Read More »
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Five and Ten (1931) Robert Z. Leonard, Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life Read More »
Cain and Mabel (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O’Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. Read More »
Marianne (1929) Robert Z. Leonard, Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray
During World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who is fighting at the front. Read More »
Blondie of the Follies (1932) Edmund Goulding, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove
Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. Read More »
Polly of the Circus (1932) Alfred Santell, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith
After Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is injured while acting, she’s brought to the home of a nearby ministry, John Hartley. Read More »
Ever Since Eve (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Comedy, Romance
Marge is a competent secretary, but her managers are more enthusiastic about her abilities. Read More »
Hearts Divided (1936) Frank Borzage, Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. Read More »
Going Hollywood (1933) Raoul Walsh, Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D’Orsay, Musical, Romance
Sylvia is the French teacher at Briarcroft’s School for Girls, but she wants to find romance. Read More »
Operator 13 (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Drama, History, Romance
Gail Loveless, a spy known as Operator 13 working for the Union and Federal cause during the Civil War, posing as a Confederate woman named Anne Claybourne, meets and falls in love with Confederate Captain Jack Galliard. Dusguised as an octoroom maid at a Confedarate military ball, she learns and relays secrets to the Union forces that are devastating to the Rebel cause. Assigned to the case to track down and kill the spy maid, Galliard learns she is also the woman he loves, but proceeds with his assignment. He captures her but is in danger of being captured himself as Federal forces are approaching. Gail/Anne saves him and they part to wait until peace comes to resume their romance.
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