Joan Peers

Movies9

• Movie5.4

  Comedy

  Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.

  Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

  1931 · 33 votes

• Movie5.9

  MusicComedy

  This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

  Paramount on Parade

  1930 · 10 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyCrime

  A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

  The Tip-Off

  1931 · 6 votes

• Movie8.5

  Drama

  Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.

  Tol'able David

  1930 · 2 votes

• Movie6.5

  RomanceDrama

  Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.

  Rain or Shine

  1930 · 10 votes

• Movie8.1

  Drama

  In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.

  Over the Hill

  1931 · 7 votes

• Movie6.2

  MusicDrama

  This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in mom's footsteps.

  Applause

  1929 · 27 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.

  Anybody's War

  1930 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyDrama

  18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.

  Around the Corner

  1930 · 1 votes