William Haines
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Leaving his Virginia hometown at age 14 to earn a living, William Haines was an assistant bookkeeper at a New York bond house when he sent in his photograph to a "New Faces" contest sponsored by movie producer Samuel Goldwyn. The winners of the... more
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Cast: William Haines Esther Ralston Conrad Nagel Edgar Kennedy Nat Levine
Tags: War Adventure Drama War
Length: 68min
Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars William Haines, Esther Ralston and Conrad Nagel are game, but all three are a bit long in tooth for their characters. In a throwback...
Cast: William Haines Dore Schary Greta Meyer John Miljan Judith Allen
Tags: Comedy
Length: 63min
Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS Baby Star selection, starred former MGM light leading man William Haines in his penultimate film role. Well cast as Bob Preston,...
Cast: William Haines Neil Hamilton Jean Hersholt Madge Evans Virginia Bruce
Length: 73min
"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932 MGM programmer Are You Listening?, the film is concerned with the burgeoning broadcast industry. William Haines plays a...
Cast: Marie Dressler William Haines Leila Hyams Sam Wood Cedric Gibbons
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 90min
Screenland magazine summed up the William Haines vehicle The Girl Said No thusly: "The star plays another of his cut-up roles that make the critics gnash their teeth and the audience chortle." Had this review been printed in the 1990s, the character...
Cast: Jimmy Durante William Haines Ernest Torrence Oliver Marsh Sam Wood
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Comedy
Length: 96min
Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by Charles MacArthur from the "Wallingford" short stories by George Randolph Chester. Haines of course plays the title character,...
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith William Haines Ray Milland Oliver Marsh Jack Conway
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 80min
Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon honoring his MGM contract in such forgettable fare as Just a Gigolo. Based on a weather-beaten David Belasco play, the film casts...
Cast: William Haines Madge Evans Cliff Edwards Conrad Nagel Harry A. Pollard
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 82min
In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries test out his new invention in the big race and finds he needs a sponsor. Fortunately, the beautiful but haughty daughter of a...
Cast: William Haines Cliff Edwards Leila Hyams Fred Niblo Charles B. Middleton
Length: 71min
A pleasant enough western parody starring one of the victims of sound, William Haines, Way Out West is the story of a carnival huckster forced to work on a western ranch in order to repay a couple of cowboys he once fleeced. There's a sandstorm, a...
Cast: William Haines Hedda Hopper Sam Wood Walter Walker Marjorie Rambeau
Tags: Drama
Length: 77min
Previously filmed in 1922, the 1917 stage farce The Impostor was reheated in 1931 as the William Haines vehicle A Tailor Made Man. Essaying his usual brash wisecracker, Haines plays John Paul Bart, a pants-presser who tries to crash High Society by...
Cast: Clarence Brown William Haines Karl Dane Anita Page Cedric Gibbons
Length: 75min
MGM house director Clarence Brown's first all-talkie, this pleasantly innocuous comedy drama stars William Haines as Jack Kelly, a carefree sailor picking up innocent Alice Brown (Anita Page) at a Ladies' Uplift Society Dance. Their whirlwind romance,...
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