Biography: Emma Dunn |
Matronly British-born actress Emma Dunn was typed as mothers, grandmothers and housekeepers even during her earliest years in the theater. She was 41 when she played her first starring role on stage in 1916's Old Lady 31. She made her first film in... more
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Cast: William Powell Elizabeth Taylor Irene Dunne Michael Curtiz Edmund Gwenn ZaSu Pitts
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Domestic Comedy
Length: 118min
The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947. William Powell is a tower of comic strength as Clarence Day, the benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household. Irene...
Cast: Robert Mitchum
Tags: War Combat Films War Drama
Length: 67min
Adhering to the formula of such previous Pine-Thomas productions as Forced Landing, Flying Blind and Torpedo Boat, Minesweeper is the action-packed story of military men under wartime pressure. Richard Arlen plays Jim Smith, a once-reliable Naval...
Tags: War Drama Comedy Crime War
Length: 67min
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison,...
Cast: Dale Evans
Length: 72min
Five singing farmer boys (the Hoosier Hotshots) have built up quite a following in their local community. Everybody likes them except for one politician. One day, the Baker Boys, as they call themselves, decide to join the Air Corps. Unfortunately,...
Cast: Ernest Truex Johnny Sheffield
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family
Length: 65min
Little Orvie (Johnny Sheffield) is a small boy whose stern father (Ernest Truex) and by-the-book mother (Dorothy Tree) refuse to buy a dog. Orvie befriends a stray mutt, which of course follows him home and just won't leave. Failing to keep the dog's...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 69min
Inspired by the long-running (1937-1949) radio series of the same name, Scattergood Baines came to the screen in 1941, with Guy Kibbee replacing the radio version's Jess Pugh in the title role. In his first movie outing, storekeeper Scattergood...
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Cast: Lucille Ball James Ellison Virginia Vale
Length: 69min
In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home on her future TV series I Love Lucy. Feeling neglected by her husband Andrew (James Ellison), drab housewife Clara Hinklin...
Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941)
Cast: Guy Kibbee Dimitri Tiomkin William Christy Cabanne
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 68min
Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines. Guy Kibbee once again plays the avuncular Mr. Baines, philosophical storekeeper of the mythical town of Coldriver. Though he has...
Scattergood Pulls the Strings (1941)
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 69min
Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series Scattergood Baines. Guy Kibbee returns as Baines, the philosophy-dispensing proprietor of the general store in the village of Coldriver....
Cast: Gale Storm Emma Dunn
Length: 75min
The One Crowded Night of the title takes place at a tourist camp on the outskirts of the Mojave Desert. In true "Grand Hotel" fashion, the film manages to keep several subplots going at once, all of them resolved in one fell swoop by fadeout time....
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