Dorothy Mackaill
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In defiance of her father's wishes, 11-year-old Dorothy Mackaill ran away from her British hometown and headed for London, hoping to launch a show business career. While still in her teens, she secured work as a chorus dancer in England and France,... more
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Cast: Victor Jory Dorothy Mackaill John Lodge Claud Allister Norman Lee
Tags: Action Thriller Spy Film Action Mystery
Length: 63min
After making his first appearance as the title character in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Lodge was rushed to England to star in the quota quickie Bulldog Drummond at Bay. Though lacking the polish of Hollywood's Drummond pictures, this...
Cast: Adele Buffington Phil Rosen June Collyer Dorothy Mackaill Alan Mowbray
Length: 65min
Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting programmers in its brief two-year existence. The Cheaters stars a pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd as Steve Morris, a habitual jailbird...
Cast: Adele Buffington Regis Toomey Phil Rosen Dorothy Mackaill Alan Hale
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Crime
Length: 66min
Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments, including casting and choice of material. Waning silent star Dorothy Mackaill was top-billed as Mame, one of five mail-order...
Cast: Mickey Rooney Ed Wynn Dorothy Mackaill Art Caesar Charles "Chuck" Riesner
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 67min
Somebody at MGM had the bright idea in 1933 to build a series of feature films around the talents of popular radio comedians. This bright idea fizzled after a handful of misbegotten epics starring the likes of Jack Pearl, aka Baron Munchausen, and Ed...
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith Dorothy Mackaill Sam Hardy Jack Mulhall E. Mason Hopper
Length: 66min
Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out quite a few impressive "B-plus" productions. One of the best and best-received was the "locked door" murder mystery, Curtain...
Cast: Humphrey Bogart Dorothy Mackaill Thornton Freeland Jo Swerling Ted Tetzlaff
Length: 68min
Based on a story by Ursula Parrott, this omantic drama from Columbia Pictures was one of Humphrey Bogart's first leading roles. Working-class pilot and mechanic Jim Leonard (Bogart) gives flying lessons to wealthy heiress Carol Owen (Dorothy...
Cast: Clark Gable Carole Lombard Travis Banton Grant Mitchell Wesley Ruggles
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance
Length: 81min
No Man of Her Own represented the only time that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard co-starred in the same picture (at the time the film was made, both were married to other people; their romance and subsequent marriage was several years in the offing)....
Cast: B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason Dorothy Mackaill Cyril Ring Tom Moore Mabel Van Buren
Length: 61min
In this romantic melodrama, a woman tries to protect her sister-in-law from the advances of a bad boy out to take advantage of her (which would also prevent an ensuing scandal from tainting her cop-turned-lawyer husband), but goes too far and kills...
Cast: William Wellman Dorothy Mackaill Victor Varconi Gustav von Seyffertitz Clarence Muse
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 65min
A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre production-code drama directed by William A. Wellman from a play by Houston Branch). The role eventually went ot Dorothy Mackaill, an...
Cast: Joan Blondell John Francis Dillon Conrad Nagel Dorothy Mackaill H.B. Warner
Tags: Drama
Length: 70min
In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her the moon, but ends up leaving her with a baby and a very bitter aftertaste. She then becomes cynical, and angry at all men...
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