Biography: Bessie Love |
Love was born Juanita Horton. While still a Los Angeles high school student she began appearing in films in 1915. She was given her screen name by filmmaker D.W. Griffith. In 1916 she began appearing in lead roles opposite several major stars, and... more
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Cast: Maggie Smith Bernard Lee
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 97min
Maggie Smith makes her film debut in this outing as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of George Nader. Nader is a fugitive from justice who can expect no help from his fellow criminals. He takes refuge in Smith's...
Cast: Kenneth More Peter Hunt Freddie Francis Henry Cornelius Georges Auric
Tags: Comedy
Length: 93min
In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films. Cornelius' Next to No Time (based on a story by Paul Gallico) stars Kenneth More as a milquetoast engineer who has lost a lot...
Cast: Emma Dunn
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
In this melodrama, a young secretary becomes the Kept Woman of her lascivious employer. When she encounters her high school sweetheart, she ends up leaving and returning to her hometown and her poor, struggling family. They need her income...
Cast: Ned Sparks
Length: 69min
The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to capture the villains. Margaret Holt (Bessie Love) and her brother Victor (Bert Morehouse) team up to destroy the drug peddlers...
Cast: Bessie Love Cliff Edwards
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Drama
Length: 78min
The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait College, where everyone is in a blue funk over the dilemma of gridiron star Tom (Stanley Smith). Since the only thing he's ever...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 71min
Silent-screen comedian Harry Langdon was the darling of the critics in 1927, but his career quickly lost momentum, and by the time talkies came in, Langdon was considered a has-been, reduced to starring in 2-reelers for comedy producer Hal Roach. In...
Cast: Jack Benny Marie Dressler
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 100min
Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading players of MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929. The story concerns a troupe of travelling entertainers, all of whom would like to escape...
Tags: Romance Showbiz Comedy Backstage Musical Musical
Length: 104min
This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriting team of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Freed later became unit producer of the legendary Freed...
Length: 74min
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some...
Cast: William C. DeMille Conrad Nagel Leila Hyams
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy
Length: 80min
In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the happy couple comes to call, they spend much of their time lecturing him about class equality. The wealthy husband is...
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