Biography: May Robson |
Born Mary Robison. In her late teens she moved to the U.S. with no intention of becoming an actress; a few years later she became a widow, and in 1884 she took up acting to support her three children. She played both leads and supporting roles on the... more
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Cast: Alan Ladd Paul Henreid Thomas Mitchell
Length: 91min
At first glance, we seem to be watching the 1934 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee, which opens with a montage of Paris nightspots. Suddenly, however, stock footage from that earlier film is cut short, the screen goes dark, and an...
Cast: Lupe Velez John Barrymore
Tags: Comedy
Length: 96min
The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final screen performance, but the film isn't quite as bad as it's supposed to be. Barrymore plays himself, a washed-up ham actor up to...
Length: 56min
Though one would never know it, the bucolic comedy-mystery Granny Get Your Gun was based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason" novels! In place of lawyer-sleuth Mason, the audience is offered one Minerva "Granny" Hatton (May Robson),...
Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Cast: Anthony Quinn Akim Tamiroff Broderick Crawford
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 68min
Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young girl returning to her grandmother's ranch in Texas. Old Mrs. Dangerfield (May Robson) is experiencing a rash of cattle rustlings...
Cast: Ronald Reagan
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 100min
In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by cheating his own partner. This precipitates her hasty return to the US where she meets the partner's granddaughter. The...
Cast: Jane Wyman Pat O'Brien Joan Blondell
Tags: Sports Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 92min
Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another, similarly titled prizefight picture. In Kid from Kokomo, Wayne Morris once more plays a small-town rube who's good with his...
Cast: Michael Curtiz Claude Rains
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 103min
This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel. Whereas the first film was a chronicle of the Lemp family, this one centers on the Masters family. This film is also...
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 86min
In this comedy, a young woman is determined to spend a weekend with her lover before he takes off to Europe for his new job. Her mother, a devout feminist, disapproves of her daughter's plan. When her daughter learns that her mother had a similar...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Comedy Musical Romance
Length: 104min
In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene O'Dare, an Irish girl of humble beginnings who comes to New York in search of work. She finds a place as a shopgirl at a fashionable...
Cast: Herbert Wilcox Anna Neagle George Sanders Edna May Oliver
Tags: War Drama Propaganda Film War Drama Biopic Docudrama
Length: 95min
Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of the Germans. Such a film was British producer Herbert Wilcox's Hollywood production Nurse Edith Cavell, in which Wilcox's...
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