Ernest Cossart
Actor · 1876 – 1951 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Movies24
Movie6.3MusicDramaAt the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · 148 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Kitty Foyle
1940 · 56 votes
Movie7.0RomanceCrimeMadeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
Desire
1936 · 54 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaWhile vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Angel
1937 · 79 votes
Movie5.5MusicRomanceAn American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Tonight and Every Night
1945 · 21 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaAmerican playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness.
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · 10 votes
Movie6.6DramaMysteryWhen a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Love Letters
1945 · 25 votes
Movie6.1DramaHistoryIn the 15th century, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother, King Edward IV of England.
Tower of London
1939 · 52 votes
Movie7.2RomanceComedyAmateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Cluny Brown
1946 · 106 votes
Movie5.8MusicComedyThe wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck, a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven, whose sister Ulda happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin. After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Knickerbocker Holiday
1944 · 5 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaThree sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939 · 8 votes
Movie6.9DramaEpisodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · 23 votes
Movie7.3ComedyBob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Never Say Die
1939 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceThe three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother.
Three Smart Girls
1936 · 27 votes
Movie7.3RomanceDramaFive young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Kings Row
1942 · 46 votes
Movie5.7DramaCecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Love from a Stranger
1947 · 9 votes
Movie6.0MusicComedyIn this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Top of the Town
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.8DramaA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Light That Failed
1939 · 8 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWhen a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
As Good as Married
1937 · 2 votes
Movie5.0ComedyAfter four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
John Loves Mary
1949 · 7 votes
Movie6.8DramaMusicAt the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.
The Jolson Story
1946 · 18 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceA seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Zaza
1939 · 6 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIn Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Champagne Waltz
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaAn aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Letter of Introduction
1938 · 11 votes