Biography: Osgood Perkins |
American actor Osgood Perkins primarily played character roles on-stage, but during the '20s and '30s made the occasional foray into feature films. His son is actor Anthony Perkins. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide more
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Cast: Henry Fonda Lucille Ball
Tags: Musical Romance Drama
Length: 90min
If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with Lily Pons. At least that was producer Pandro S. Berman's reasoning when he cast Pons in the 1935 musical romance I Dream too Much. The...
The Secret of the Chateau (1935)
Tags: Mystery
Length: 67min
Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau. The plot is set in motion by a rare Gutenberg bible, much coveted by a variety of thieves and mountebanks. Chief Inspector...
Cast: Joan Blondell Hugh Herbert Glenda Farrell Robert Armstrong William Keighley
Tags: Comedy
Length: 64min
Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a saucy-eyed manicurist who takes it on the lam when she loses a diamond entrusted to her by her gangster boyfriend Dynamite (Robert...
Cast: Dolores Del Rio Reginald Owen William Dieterle
Tags: Comedy Drama Sophisticated Comedy Biopic Romance
Length: 79min
No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican accent held in check, the ravishingly beautiful Dolores Del Rio plays 18th-century French courtesan DuBarry like a 20th-century...
Cast: George Cukor Clive Brook Tallulah Bankhead
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 83min
Renowned American-born London stage star Tallulah Bankhead made her feature sound film debut in this drama based on Donald Ogden Stewart's story -New York Lady. Bankhead plays Nancy Courtney, a gold-digging socialite who sets her sights on Norman...
Cast: Louise Brooks Evelyn Brent
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 70min
Based on a play by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em stars Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks as sisters in competition over the affections of Lawrence Gray. One sister covers for the other when a large amount of money is stolen,...
Cast: Sam Hardy
Length: 65min
Busy character actor Sam Hardy was afforded a rare starring role when he played the title character in High Hat. Despite his ritzy nickname, High Hat is a mere movie dress extra at First National Pictures (where the film was shot). Even so, he regards...
Cast: Richard Dix Mary Brian Malcolm St. Clair
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 7rlmin
Steelworker Dundee Reilly (Richard Dix) comes to the defense of Mary Malone (Mary Brian), who is being annoyed by a brawny masher. Reilly knocks the cad out, but only later does he realize that he's just k.o.'d heavyweight boxing champion Killer Agera...
Cast: Clara Bow
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Crime
Length: 6rlmin
F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of this, the finished film was poor and did nothing for anyone's career -- except Hughes' co-star, a fresh young thing named Clara...
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