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: Will Rogers Maureen O'Sullivan Irene Rich
Tags: Comedy
Length: 92min
Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a significant change of locale. Although newly rich Texas mill owner Hiram Draper (Rogers) intensely despises all things British...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical
Length: 60min
Shortly before retiring from films to become an actor's agent (and, incidentally, Mrs. Alan Ladd), the ebullient Sue Carol starred in The Big Party. Carol and Dixie Lee (Mrs. Bing Crosby) play a couple of funloving gals who take jobs as dress models....
Cast: Leo McCarey Bela Lugosi H.B. Warner
Tags: Drama
Length: 73min
This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them for as much money has he can get and then squanders the money in an illicit speak-easy where he has fallen for the lovely...
Cast: John Stuart
Length: 91min
Based on the oft-filmed French play La Mome, The Brat stars pert Betty Balfour in the title role. Our orphaned heroine drifts from one disaster to another, finally landing a job as a singer in a seedy dive. A slick safecracker talks her into helping...
Cast: John Wayne Stuart Erwin
Tags: War Drama Action Drama War
Length: 75min
John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent passages with intertitles. After a brief shore leave in Singapore, where sailors have the opportunity to slake their thirsts...
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees
Length: 60min
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies. The audience was expected to believe that the twentysomething Twelvetrees and Frank Albertson are...
Cast: John Ford David Butler Stepin Fetchit Ward Bond George O'Brien Helen Chandler
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 90min
One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler. George O'Brien is cast as cadet John Randall, star player for the Army college football team. His principal gridiron opponent...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 72min
In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing (though it's as Duke Morrison), Lois Moran stars as Mary, a pretty young singer who is sought after by two competing composers....
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 6rlmin
Much of Fox's Prep and Pep was filmed on location at Culver Military Academy in Indiana. David Rollins plays Cyril Reade, the ne'er-do-well son of a former Culver star athlete. Struggling to live up to his dad's reputation, Cyril fails miserably and...
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