Alison Skipworth Movies

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charlotte Henry

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Raft

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alison Skipworth

After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Lukas

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor McLaglen

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ronald Colman

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Harding

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Howard

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Clive Brook

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: William Powell

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.

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Cast: Joe E. Brown

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alison Skipworth

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Dale Owen

Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Warner Baxter

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Bennett

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stuart Erwin

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Talmadge

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gertrude Michael

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier...

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Cast: Frankie Darro

In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frances Dee

When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elliott Nugent

The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Binney

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Slim Summerville