Biography: Cliff Edwards |
American entertainer Cliff Edwards, the son of a Hannibal, Missouri railroad worker, was born early enough to remember seeing Hannibal's own Mark Twain during the eminent author's many visits. Dropping out of school at 14, Edwards tackled several odd... more
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Cast: Cliff Edwards
Tags: Escape Film Drama Crime
Length: 64min
This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is incarcerated after killing a gambler. He tries to convince his brother to help him use electricity to blow up the iron bars of his cell...
Cast: Franchot Tone Maureen O'Sullivan George B. Seitz
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 84min
The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama. The nurse would much rather be with the good doctor as she is married to a wretched alcoholic but she cannot bear to leave her...
George White's Scandals (1935)
Cast: Ned Sparks Alice Faye
Tags: Musical
Length: 83min
Broadway producer George White, who was the title character of 1934's George White's Scandals, heads for Florida following his latest hit. He makes it to Georgia where he sees an advertisement for a show called White's Scandals. Suspicious, he attends...
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Comedy
Length: 88min
Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the previous year's It Happened One Night (1934) and a less-sober version of a later generation's The Way We Were (1973). Barbara...
Cast: David O. Selznick
Tags: Drama
Length: 75min
Based on +Veneer, a 1929 Broadway flop by Hugh Stange, this sentimental domestic drama came to the screens in early 1932, first as Love Starved, then under the less inflammatory title of Young Bride. The love-starved young bride is Allie Smith (Helen...
Cast: Joan Crawford Clark Gable
Tags: Melodrama Crime Drama Drama Crime
Length: 82min
Joan Crawford and William Bakewell play the spoiled-rotten grown children of stockbroker William Holden. When Wall Street lays its famous egg in 1929, Crawford and Bakewell find that they can no longer pursue their flamboyant lifestyle (for example,...
Tags: Musical
Length: 84min
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, &Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley...
Cast: Bruce Cabot Ralph Bellamy
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 62min
When Merian C. Cooper was in charge of production at RKO Radio, virtually every other film produced at the studio had an aviation theme or tie-in. Set against the backdrop of a barnstorming air circus, the story concerns the travails -- both in the...
Cast: William Haines
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 82min
In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries test out his new invention in the big race and finds he needs a sponsor. Fortunately, the beautiful but haughty daughter of a...
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Cast: Neil Hamilton Robert Young Helen Hayes Jean Hersholt
Length: 74min
In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is it any wonder that she won an Academy Award? (She truly deserved this Oscar; the jury is still out concerning her cutesy...
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