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False Faces (1932) Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee
Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics Read More »
Deluge (1933) Felix E. Feist, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Sidney Blackmer
New York City awaits a massive series of tidal waves which has already struck the North American west coast. Read More »
Triple Justice (1940) David Howard, George O’Brien, Virginia Vale, Peggy Shannon, Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Rancher Brad Henderson (George O’Brien) rides to Star City to be the best man at the wedding of his boyhood friend Read More »
Back Page (1934) Anton Lorenze, Peggy Shannon, Russell Hopton, Claude Gillingwater, Crime, Drama
Peggy Shannon plays a young female reporter who is fired from a big city newspaper, then decides to take over a troubled small town newspaper. She encounters difficulties with small town politics, getting advertisers to help keep the paper afloat, and issues with 1930’s feminism in the resistance she receives from the town’s residents to her attempts to run the newspaper. An insightful story of a woman’s determination to succeed in an era long before the women’s rights movement.
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Fixer Dugan (1939) Lew Landers, Lee Tracy, Virginia Weidler, Peggy Shannon
A young girl is orphaned when her mother, a circus aerialist, is killed in a fall. A rival circus informs the sheriff that the girl is an orphan, and she is subsequently placed in an orphanage. The circus’ manager, known as “The Fixer”, determines to help out the girl and punish the rival circus owner.
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