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Tag Archives: Maureen O’Sullivan
Stage Mother (1933) Charles Brabin, Alice Brady, Maureen O’Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Drama, Musical, Romance

A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband’s stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. Read More »
Cardinal Richelieu (1935) Rowland V. Lee, George Arliss, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Drama, History, Romance

Released generally as Cardinal Richelieu, this George Arliss vehicle was based on the popular 19th-century blank-verse play by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Read More »
Let Us Live (1939) John Brahm, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Crime, Drama

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.
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Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1942) Richard Thorpe, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Action, Adventure

Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York. At a trial over custody of Boy, Tarzan becomes violent and is jailed. With the help of the pilot’s girlfriend Tarzan (who has since escaped, diving off the Brooklyn Bridge) finds the circus. He and the circus elephants complete the classic rescue.
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The Devil-Doll (1936) Tod Browning, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Sci-Fi, Horror

Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil’s Island. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist’s methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
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