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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, Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy
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 »
A Lady’s Morals (1930) Sidney Franklin, Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Wallace Beery
Largely fictionalized biopic of turn-of-the-century nightingale Jenny Lind Read More »
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils Read More »
The Forbidden City (1918) Sidney Franklin, Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) Sidney Franklin, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers
Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Read More »
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin, Francis Carpenter, F.A. Turner, Virginia Lee Corbin
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp was another of Fox’s lavishly produced “Sunset Kiddies” series, wherein most of the principal roles were enacted by children. Read More »