Biography: Ross Alexander |
A stage actor from age 16, arrow-narrow American leading man Ross Alexander hit Broadway at 18, appearing opposite Blanche Yurka in Enter Madame. He made his first film, The Wiser Sex, in 1932. Two years later he was signed to a long-term Warner Bros.... more
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart Marie Wilson
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 85min
Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight in history. Pat O'Brien stars as Dave Logan, a man completely obsessed with starting the first commerical airline across the...
Length: 68min
In this comedy a sneaky salesman tries to sell an inventor's newest product, a water-based fuel. Before the inventor can finish testing the product he needs cash, so the salesman desperately endeavors to come up with some by creating a phony stock...
Tags: Drama
Length: 60min
In this drama, a press agent loses his job and becomes a Hollywood radio columnist. He is angry about having to change careers and ends up launching a smear campaign upon the actor who got him fired. He begins by announcing that the star's brother is...
Cast: Pat O'Brien
Tags: Drama
Length: 83min
In this drama, the big city wife of a small town doctor learns a valuable lesson as she struggles to adapt to rural life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Dick Powell Ruby Keeler
Length: 109min
This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the genteel pressures of Powell's girlfriend and nightclub partner Ruby Keeler, Powell dons Navy garb and becomes a hero. Busby...
Cast: ZaSu Pitts Edward Everett Horton
Tags: Comedy
Length: 68min
Consigned to the Warner Bros. "B" unit in the mid-1930s, director Robert Florey must have had a high old time trying to inject some visual dynamics into such unprepossessing projects as Going Highbrow. Guy Kibbee and ZaSu Pitts star as Mr. and Mrs....
Tags: Romance Crime Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 70min
In this romantic crime drama a young Detroit criminal flees into the West after killing his boss. It was accidental, but he fears retaliation. He finds work in Colorado building the great dam, proves to be a hard-working honest young man and is...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 66min
Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well nephew of wealthy apple merchant Fred Schultz (Joe Cawthorn). Cut off without a cent, Bill soon finds out who his real friends...
Cast: Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Lionel Atwill Basil Rathbone
Tags: Costume Adventure Swashbuckler Adventure
Length: 120min
When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee, Tasmania-born Errol Flynn. Adapted from the novel by Rafael Sabatini, the film is set during the oppressive reign of King James...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Cast: James Cagney Olivia de Havilland Mickey Rooney Joe E. Brown William Shakespeare William Dieterle
Tags: Romance Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 117min
Max Reinhardt's legendary Hollywood Bowl production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was transferred to the screen by Warner Bros. in 1935. Like most of Shakespeare's comedies, the story contains several seemingly unrelated plotlines, all...
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