Biography: John Gilbert |
A major talent of the silent era, John Gilbert is best remembered today as a textbook victim of the Hollywood machinery, a classic example of the motion picture industry's ability not only to manufacture stars but also destroy them. Born John Pringle... more
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The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Cast: Lewis Milestone
Tags: Detective Film Adventure Comedy Mystery
Length: 80min
It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As irascible captain Helquist (Walter Connolly) pilots his boat along the Atlantic, an assortment of subplots involving a vast...
Cast: Mervyn LeRoy
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 90min
Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but because his type of florid romantic fare was no longer popular. Gentleman's Fate attempted to alter Gilbert's image by casting...
Tags: Drama
Length: 77min
Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies hasn't seen this marvelously black comedy. In perhaps his best performance of the sound era (with his supporting role in 1934's...
Cast: Greta Garbo John Gilbert Rouben Mamoulian
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Biopic Historical Film Romance
Length: 101min
If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most luxuriously romantic of her talkie features. The star is cast as 17th-century Swedish queen Christina, who feels that she can best...
Tags: Drama
Length: 75min
Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, Redemption was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but was held from release until distribution of his second, One Glorious Night. The official reason, as handed down by the MGM publicity...
Cast: Tod Browning Mae Clarke
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 68min
This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top of a skyscraper. The story is based on a play called -Rivets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith Jean Hersholt
Tags: Melodrama Drama Mystery Crime
Length: 73min
In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her other boyfriend--the real killer. When her husband dies, the magician gets plastic surgery until he resembles the killer and...
Tags: Drama
Length: 71min
Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his 250,000-per-picture contract, signed just before talkies came on. West of Broadway wasn't a bad Gilbert vehicle by any means,...
Cast: Lionel Barrymore Hedda Hopper
Tags: Romance Action Romantic Drama
Length: 86min
Based on +Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less single-handedly caused the downfall of silent-screen matinee idol John Gilbert, whose ardent declarations of "I love you, I...
Cast: Wallace Beery
Length: 83min
In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out from carousing with pals Tripod (Wallace Beery) and Ginger (Jim Tully) to woo and marry Joan (Leila Hyams), the lovely pay...
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