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Tag Archives: Sidney Franklin
The Guardsman (1931) Sidney Franklin, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young

A Vienna based acting couple make magic when they perform together on stage. Read More »
Smilin’ Through (1922) Sidney Franklin, Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford

Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying Read More »
Quality Street (1927) Sidney Franklin

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. Read More »
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. Read More »
Reunion in Vienna (1933) Sidney Franklin, John Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan

An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow Read More »
Smilin’ Through (1932) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard

John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. Read More »
Devil-May-Care (1929) Sidney Franklin, Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Marion Harris

Silent screen heartthrob Ramon Novarro (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) sounds off in his all-talking debut Read More »
Wild Orchids (1929) Sidney Franklin, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther

Lillie Sterling comes with her husband, John, on a business trip to Java, expecting a second honeymoon. Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton

In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Read More »