May Boley
Actor · 1881 – 1963 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Movies24
Movie7.2ComedyDramaA happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Women
1939 · 184 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 · 57 votes
Movie5.4RomanceComedyTwo starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Ready, Willing and Able
1937 · 8 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaGypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
The Informer
1935 · 132 votes
Movie6.9DramaAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Lady with Red Hair
1940 · 7 votes
Movie5.6AdventureDramaHerman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Moby Dick
1930 · 11 votes
Movie5.6MysteryThrillerWhen a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933 · 19 votes
Movie4.2DramaRomanceMildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Lilies of the Field
1930 · 4 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
Movie7.3ComedyLos Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933 · 3 votes
Movie5.8RomanceDramaA vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.
The Dance of Life
1929 · 12 votes
Movie8.0DramaDee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
The Woman from Hell
1929 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ActionWesternClint Belmet is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson and Jim Bridger talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
Fighting Caravans
1931 · 20 votes
Movie7.3DramaAt Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
Without Orders
1936 · 3 votes
Movie6.4RomanceComedyWhen upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Tovarich
1937 · 5 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss--and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?
The Great Pie Mystery
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWesternA singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DramaA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
Dangerous Curves
1929 · 7 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
A Woman Commands
1932 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceRollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
Going Wild
1930 · 4 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeShirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Prison Farm
1938 · 4 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaAn elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
The Expert
1932 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaWesternA New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Henry Goes Arizona
1939 · 4 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMusicA successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
Children of Pleasure
1930 · 4 votes