Biography: Gloria Holden |
British-born Gloria Holden came to the U.S. early on, where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and worked as a model. The sad-faced beauty made her film debut in the title role of Dracula's Daughter (1936); this and her subsequent... more
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Length: 64min
Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the yacht owned by millionaire newspaper publisher Dana Ferris (Samuel Hinds Jr.) Because of his virulent crusade against...
The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
Length: 60min
A widow's grief turns to blind maniacal rage against the daughter she holds responsible for her husband's death in this, the second of three melodramatic films based on a novel by Gene Stratton Porter. In her anger, the mad mother abuses and torments...
Cast: Arch Oboler Claude Rains
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 61min
In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and directed by radio's Arch Oboler (of "Lights Out" fame), the story concerns American businessman John Stephenson (Claude Rains), who...
Cast: Robert Ryan
Tags: Drama War Drama Propaganda Film
Length: 88min
Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO makeup department, Tom Neal plays Taro, the Americanized son of a Japanese diplomat (J. Carroll Naish). During the...
Cast: Ned Sparks
Length: 72min
Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano Bobby Breen, the fact remains that he was one of the most popular box-office attractions of the 1930s. Adapted from Don Blandings'...
Cast: Marjorie Main Ralph Bellamy Doris Kenyon Anne Shirley
Tags: Comedy
Length: 71min
In this comedy, wealthy girls attend boarding school to learn proper etiquette. The well-mannered character of the class is disrupted when one of the proper young women plans to elope with a handsome young simpleton. Unfortunately she is outfoxed by a...
Cast: Gale Sondergaard Joseph Schildkraut Paul Muni Donald Crisp Robert Cummings Max Steiner Perc Westmore William Dieterle
Length: 117min
The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best, even allowing for the dramatic license taken with the material. When first we meet French novelist and essayist Zola, he is...
Cast: Hedda Hopper George Robinson Albert S. D'Agostino Otto Kruger
Tags: Horror
Length: 71min
It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the absence of Bela Lugosi in the cast. Gloria Holden is first-rate as the title character, alias "Countess Marya Zaleska," who...
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