Biography: Frankie Thomas |
The son of actors Frank M. Thomas and Mona Bruns, Frankie Thomas made his first stage appearance in 1932. The following year, the 12-year-old Thomas played the lead in the Broadway comedy-drama Wednesday's Child. He went on to star in the 1935 film... more
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Cast: Walter Huston Kay Francis
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 93min
A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White. Walter Huston is a tower of strength as MacKenzie Scott, a brilliant musician falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to Life....
Cast: Edmund Lowe William Gargan
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 60min
Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally bickering ex-WWI pilots. The "official" plot is carried along by Frank Albertson as Bob Ames, a young airplane fancier who...
Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter (1939)
Cast: John Litel Bonita Granville
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 70min
The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars Bonita Granville as the plucky Nancy. Nancy's father Judge Drew (John Litel) is tormented by the fact that an old friend has...
Cast: Harry Carey Frankie Thomas Leon Ames
Length: 67min
Universal's Code of the Streets stars the Little Tough Guys, an offshoot of Warner Bros.' Dead End Kids. This time Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan),...
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
Cast: Milo Anderson
Tags: Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 60min
This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by -Nancy Drew creator Carolyn Keene. Bonita Granville returns as the ebullient titular teenaged sleuth, while Frankie Thomas portrays Nancy's best friend...
Tags: Detective Film Comedy Mystery
Length: 67min
Nancy Drew -- Detective was the first in a series of breezy B-pictures based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene. Bonita Granville is perfectly cast as Nancy, while John Litel and Frankie Thomas are equally effective as Nancy's attorney...
Tim Tyler's Luck [Serial] (1937)
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: min
The 12-episode Universal serial Tim Tyler's Luck was based on the comic strip of the same name by Lyman Young (the brother of "Blondie" creator Chic Young). Frankie Thomas stars as youthful adventurer Tim Tyler, who heads to Africa in search of his...
Cast: O.P. Heggie Edward H. Sloman Richard Quine
Tags: Animal Picture Drama
Length: 72min
Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in 1924 with Jackie Coogan. The second filmization, produced in 1935, stars child actors Frankie Thomas, Helen Parrish and Richard...
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