Biography: Beverly Roberts |
Educated in New York and London, actress Beverly Roberts came to Hollywood in 1936 with impeccable stage credits; she'd just spent several seasons with Eva le Galliene's Civic Repertory. Signed by Warner Bros., Roberts spent the next few years playing... more
Find videos of Beverly RobertsFree Beverly Roberts videos- Movies (18)
- Videos
- 1
- 2
Cast: Johnny Downs Beverly Roberts
Tags: Drama
Length: 63min
That fine stage and screen actor Walter Abel enjoys a rare movie starring role in Columbia's First Offenders. Upset with the rising phenomenon of juvenile delinquency, district attorney Gregory Stone (Abel) resigns from office to become a full-time...
Cast: Barton MacLane
Length: 62min
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company. ~ Sandra Brennan, All...
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1939)
Cast: Jack Holt Lewis D. Collins Noah Beery, Jr. John Qualen
Tags: Drama
Length: 64min
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works...
Tags: Thriller Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 65min
Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly large and loyal fan following. Accordingly, Making the Headlines posted a profit despite its many production shortcomings. The...
Cast: Andy Devine
Tags: Adventure
Length: 62min
Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and ratchet-voiced Andy Devine. Arlen plays private detective Dan Burton, assigned to prevent enemy agents from taking over an old rubber...
Tags: Political Drama Prison Film Drama Horror
Length: 74min
A man is wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to prison. Realizing that he is the victim of political shenanigans, he dutifully does his time. Eventually he comes up for parole, but the crooked official behind his incarceration, fearing that the...
Cast: Bruce Cabot Ben Welden Adele Buffington
Tags: Crime
Length: 60min
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the...
Cast: Joe E. Brown Leo Carrillo Frank McDonald
Length: 69min
Flirting with Fate is one of the lesser Joe E. Brown vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew. Brown is cast as Dixon, the manager of a third-rate vaudeville troupe stranded in a mythical South American country. Completely broke, Dixon hits...
Cast: Al St. John Lyle Talbot
Tags: Adventure
Length: 70min
In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a story. Included in her animal entourage are a pair of bear cubs, a talking rook, and a homeless collie. After she gets lost, a...
Cast: B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason
Length: 60min
Who better to direct Warner Bros.' Daredevil Drivers than B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, the fast-action specialist who staged the chariot race sequence in 1925's Ben-Hur? Dick Purcell stars as suspended racecar driver Bill Foster who lands a job with a...
- 1
- 2
Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.