
Helen Troy
Actor · 1903 – 1942 · San Francisco, California, USA
Movies12
Movie6.6MusicRomanceSteve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937 · 15 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceA starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange roommate, and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Live, Love and Learn
1937 · 8 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeA shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
So You Won't Talk?
1940 · 4 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaCricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
1937 · 9 votes
Movie7.7DramaAnna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Big City
1937 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceJessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Mannequin
1938 · 22 votes
Movie7.0DramaMusicJulia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Song and Dance Man
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.0RomanceDramaHospital intern Allen Meighan assures himself residency when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse Claire Donahue, and she with him, but she's married to the physically abusive Tom.
Between Two Women
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.0MusicComedyBoisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
Everybody Sing
1938 · 8 votes
Movie6.4ComedyMusicA waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings.
Kid Nightingale
1939 · 4 votes
Movie7.5ActionComedyBonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Human Cargo
1936 · 2 votes
- Movie8.0ComedyRomance
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
Village Barn Dance
1940 · 1 votes