Colin Clive
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Leading man Colin Clive was born in France to a British colonel and his wife. Clive's own military career was cut short by a knee injury, which fortunately did not prevent him from becoming an actor. Clive was brought to Hollywood on the strength of... more
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History is Made at Night (1937)
Cast: Jean Arthur Leo Carrillo Colin Clive Charles Boyer Frank Borzage   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance 
Length: 98min
History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins deceptively in screwball-comedy fashion with socialite Jean Arthur and handsome head waiter Charles Boyer "meeting cute." But there's...

Cast: Paul Muni Louis Hayward Colin Clive Anatole Litvak Minor Watson   
Tags: Melodrama War Drama Drama War 
Length: 85min
Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Paul Muni stars as Maury, an unorthodox, abrasive WWI fighter-pilot whose skill in the air is compromised by his...

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Cast: James Whale Boris Karloff Dwight Frye Colin Clive Ernst Thesiger   
Tags: Creature Film Sci-Fi Horror Science Fiction 
Length: 75min
This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling...

Cast: Peter Lorre Colin Clive Ted Healy Frances Drake Karl W. Freund   
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 70min
In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would give up everything he has in life for the love of Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), star of the Parisian Horror Theatre. But Yvonne...

The Widow from Monte Carlo (1936)
Cast: Warren William Dolores Del Rio Colin Clive Louise Fazenda Herbert Mundin   
Length: 63min
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to...

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Cast: Ronald Colman Colin Clive Joan Bennett Nigel Bruce Montagu Love   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 70min
The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Colman, playing a refugee Russian prince, is the "man" in question, and the owners of the "broken bank"--that...

Cast: James Whale Colin Clive Jane Wyatt Lionel Atwill Diana Wynyard   
Tags: Courtroom Drama Marriage Drama Drama Mystery 
Length: 90min
A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this drama from director James Whale. Lady Clare Corven (Diana Wynyard) is the wife of Sir Gerald Corven (Colin Clive), and by all appearances they're a happy...

Cast: Ronald Colman Loretta Young Colin Clive C. Aubrey Smith Richard Boleslawski   
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Adventure Historical Film 
Length: 90min
Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's military forces in India. Though produced on a superficially lavish scale, the film inexpensively sidesteps several of Clive's...

Cast: Colin Clive Peggy Wood William Keighley George Brent Leo G. Carroll   
Length: 75min
The Right to Live was the second film version of Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame (the first, produced in 1929, starred Conrad Nagel), which in its original form posed the question "Can there truly be such a thing as a mercy killing?" Put simply,...

The Girl From Tenth Avenue (1935)
Cast: Bette Davis Colin Clive Alison Skipworth Ian Hunter Helen Jerome Eddy   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance 
Length: 69min
The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play +Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a shop girl offered 100 dollars to keep drunken socialite Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) out of trouble. The next morning, alas,...
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