Biography: Frank Albertson |
Some actors can convey wide-eyed confusion, others are adept at business-like pomposity; Frank Albertson was a master of both acting styles, albeit at the extreme ends of his film career. Entering movies as a prop boy in 1922, Albertson played bit... more
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Cast: Allan Lane
Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 63min
The RKO Radio backlot gets quite a workout in the peppy "B" comedy-mystery Fugitives for a Night. When movie executive Maurice Tenwright (Russell Hicks) is murdered, the prime suspect is would-be actor Matt Ryan (Frank Albertson). As stooge and...
Cast: Ginger Rogers David Niven Garson Kanin Charles Coburn
Tags: Romance Comedy Slapstick
Length: 82min
Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large department store. Single and with no steady beau, Polly leads a quiet life until she discovers a baby left at her doorstep. While...
Cast: Lucille Ball
Length: 67min
In this homespun comedy, a farm family in Iowa lead a pastoral existence until old Ma decides that they must pull up stakes and head for Hollywood so their daughter can become a movie star. As it turns out, it is Pa who becomes the movie star, while...
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Fred MacMurray George Stevens
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama Family Drama Romance
Length: 99min
Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the "better people." Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a...
Cast: Franz Waxman
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 72min
A diverse group of ship passengers end up marooned on an isolated South Pacific island. Unfortunately, the contents of the hold, a number of potentially dangerous wild animals, also survived the wreck. Among the survivors is a criminal who proves to...
Cast: Cary Grant
Length: 83min
Elissa Landi plays an opera star (she's dubbed by Nina Koshetz) who marries arrogant millionaire Cary Grant (dubbed by himself). Grant's dreams of connubial bliss are shattered when he's forced to trail along while Landi tours the world with a huge...
Cast: Margaret Lindsay Anita Louise Warren Hull Arthur Treacher
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 60min
This cozy little Warner Bros. drama was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Lillian Day. Ruth Donnelly stars as Lizzie, a personal maid who after serving several of New York's "best" families, elects to work in the middle-class home of insurance...
Cast: Ann Rutherford Smiley Burnette John Farrell MacDonald
Tags: Melodrama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 68min
In her first starring role, 18-year-old Ann Rutherford plays Joan, a singer in a cheap waterfront café. Gambling-ship proprietor Ronny (Frank Albertson), on the lam from the police after accidentally shooting a treacherous underling (Grant Withers),...
Tripping Through the Tropics (1934)
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This two-reeler from Columbia's recently formed shorts department features a very funny Billy Gilbert, who all but steals the show away from the overdone romantic story line of two young people who avidly dislike each other but somehow manage to wind...
Cast: Basil Rathbone George B. Seitz
Tags: Thriller Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 78min
Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome artist Henry Abbott (Basil Rathbone). She is persuaded to invite Abbott into her home, only to discover that he has a sinister...
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