Winnie Lightner
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Actress/comedienne Winnie Lightner (born Winifred Reeves in Greenport, Long Island) appeared in a few early musicals until her retirement in 1934. Before coming to film, she had been popular in Broadway musicals and in vaudeville. ~ Sandra Brennan,... more
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Cast: Jack Holt Roy William Neill Edward S. Brophy Leonard Spigelgass Frank Conroy
Length: 68min
I'll Fix It is a strange bit of goods, condemning the excesses of capitalism while still allowing the chief capitalist to come off as a "good guy." Powerful businessman Bill Grimes (Jack Holt) so loves his kid-brother Bobby (Jimmy Butler) that he uses...
Cast: Lloyd Bacon Chic Johnson Ole Olsen Charles Grapewin Ray Enright
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 66min
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson's final film for Warner Bros. is as much a vehicle for comedienne Winnie Lightner as it is for the venerable vaudeville team. The premise: Gertie (Lightner) marries Harlan (Johnson), then divorces him to marry Guthrie...
Cast: Fred Astaire Joan Crawford Clark Gable Robert Z. Leonard Franchot Tone
Tags: Musical Romance Backstage Musical
Length: 93min
Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with...
Cast: Loretta Young Ray Enright Gregg Toland James Ellison Guy Kibbee
Length: 60min
A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate gambler. The clerk, Buster Green, falls in love with handsome Wallie Dennis (Norman Foster) at a dance and marries him after a...
Cast: Joe E. Brown Lloyd Bacon Hobart Bosworth Frank S. Hagney Claudia Dell
Tags: Comedy
Length: 75min
Joe E. Brown had a fondness for playing milquetoast characters forced into situations calling for acute athletic prowess, mainly because he was an excellent athlete himself. In Sit Tight, our hero, a would-be wrestler named JoJo, is forced to enter...
Cast: Roy Del Ruth Guy Kibbee Charles Butterworth Art Caesar Evelyn Knapp
Length: 68min
The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members of a traveling carnival troupe managed by the eternally besotted Colonel Gowdy (Guy Kibbee). A Jill-of-all-trades, Pat does...
Cast: Joe E. Brown Sally O'Neil Ann Sothern Roy Del Ruth William Holmes
Tags: Comedy Musical Sports Drama
Length: 78min
The opening attraction at New York's Hollywood Theatre, Hold Everything was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr. For the film, both Lahr and most of the score were jettisoned,...
Cast: Darryl F. Zanuck Roy Del Ruth Charles Butterworth Art Caesar William Holmes
Tags: Comedy
Length: 78min
In this comedy, one of the first to be completely shot in Technicolor, two shop clerks go out on the town to look for wealthy fellows to shower with them gifts and show them a good time. They end up pursuing two disparate men, a poor one and a rich...
Cast: Lloyd Bacon Charles Butterworth Walter Miller Frank Conroy Bobby Watson
Length: 78min
"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the ~New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the Technicolor comedy Manhattan Parade. Winnie Lightner plays Doris, the wife and business partner of Herbert (Charles Butterworth),...
Cast: Lloyd Bacon Tully Marshall Sally Eilers Chester Morris Louise Beavers
Tags: Comedy
Length: 70min
Its breezy, upbeat title notwithstanding, She Couldn't Say No leans heavily toward the melodramatic. Winnie Lightner plays Winnie Harper, a brassy cabaret singer who falls in love with gentleman gangster Jerry Casey (Chester Morris). So smitten is...
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