Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Read More »
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Small Town Girl (1936) William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard, Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. Read More »
Too Young to Kiss (1951) Robert Z. Leonard, June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. 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 »
Strange Interlude (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Drama
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak – and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Read More »
The Secret Heart (1946) Robert Z. Leonard, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Drama, Romance
Brillant pianist Larry Addams allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee, and two small children Read More »
Lovers Courageous (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Drama, Romance
Englishman and family black sheep travels the world working odd jobs while dreaming of being a playwright. Read More »
When Ladies Meet (1933) Harry Beaumont, Robert Z. Leonard, Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Comedy, Romance
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Read More »
Duchess of Idaho (1950) Robert Z. Leonard, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. Read More »
The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama
Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Read More »
The Man from Down Under (1943) Robert Z. Leonard, Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Drama, War
A crusty old Sargent of the Queen’s Australian army in World War I befriends a small orphaned boy and his tiny sister on the night he is to go back to Australia. Read More »
Piccadilly Jim (1936) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Comedy, Romance
Jim’s father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. Read More »
The Delicious Little Devil (1919) Robert Z. Leonard, Mae Murray, Richard Cummings, Harry L. Rattenberry, Comedy, Drama
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy’s father, believing her to be after the family’s money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
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In Gay Madrid (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Lottice Howell, Drama, Musical, Romance
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father’s old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian’s daughter, Carmina. But when Ricardo’s former girlfriend Goyita arrives for a visit, events take a serious turn …
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941) Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley, James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Drama, Musical, Romance
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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