Walter Connolly

Coast Guard (1939)

Cast: Randolph Scott Ralph Bellamy Walter Connolly Frances Dee Robert Middlemass   

Tags: Action Drama Romance 

Length: 72min

In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon tires of his hyper-masculine behavior. She leaves him. He tries to win her back by showing off in a Navy plane, but ends up...

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Those High Grey Walls (1939)

Cast: Charles Vidor Walter Connolly Paul Fix Don Beddoe Oscar O'Shea   

Tags: Prison Film Drama 

Length: 81min

In this prison drama, a physician ends up incarcerated after he treats a long-time patient who was a fugitive convict. As soon as he gets there, the doctor tries to get on the medical staff, but the head doctor will not allow it. When a prisoner's...

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Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Cast: Ginger Rogers Tim Holt Gregory La Cava Walter Connolly James Ellison   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 83min

A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) is a millionaire who feels neglected by his family. His wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), daughter Katherine...

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The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

Cast: Mary Martin Hans Dreier Allan Jones James Finlayson Andrew L. Stone   

Tags: Biopic Musical 

Length: 84min

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's...

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Bridal Suite (1939)

Cast: Robert Young Gus Kahn Arthur Treacher Reginald Owen William Thiele   

Tags: Docudrama Comedy Romance 

Length: 69min

Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite. Annabella stars as Luise Anzengruber, a poor but cheerful young lady who manages an Alpine hotel. When handsome playboy Neill...

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Penitentiary (1938)

Cast: Jean Parker John Brahm Marc Lawrence Walter Connolly Marjorie Main   

Tags: Prison Film Drama 

Length: 74min

Penitentiary was the first of two remakes of Howard Hawks' 1931 prison flick The Criminal Code (the second remake was 1950's Convicted). Sent to prison on a manslaughter charge, young William Jordan (John Howard) is befriended by the man who sent him...

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Four's a Crowd (1938)

Cast: Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Rosalind Russell Margaret Hamilton   

Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 91min

A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Rosalind Russell and Patric Knowles. Flynn plays a publicity agent hired to stir up "good press" for a...

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Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Cast: Clark Gable Myrna Loy Walter Pidgeon Leo Carrillo Walter Connolly   

Tags: Action Comedy 

Length: 105min

Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on...

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The Girl Downstairs (1938)

Cast: Franchot Tone Reginald Gardiner Walter Connolly Norman Taurog Rita Johnson   

Tags: Drama Romance 

Length: 73min

"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three Hollywood screen appearances in MGM's The Girl Downstairs. A Cinderella yarn, the film stars Gaal as scullery maid Katerina Linz,...

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