Polly Ward
Actor
Movies17
Movie7.4ComedyDramaPickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.
St. Martin's Lane
1938 · 28 votes
Movie6.2DramaA kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
The Old Curiosity Shop
1934 · 4 votes
Movie7.1DramaThe husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Shooting Stars
1928 · 19 votes
Movie5.9ComedyGeorge Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
It's in the Air
1938 · 11 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaA young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
It's a Bet
1935 · 2 votes
Movie5.9MusicComedyNew Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
New Faces
1954 · 9 votes
Movie8.0MusicComedyA worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Feather Your Nest
1937 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0WarComedy
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Women Aren't Angels
1943 · 1 votes
Movie8.2MusicDramaThe tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
Harmony Heaven
1930 · 3 votes
Movie8.2ComedyFantasyA soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Alf's Button
1930 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Thank Evans
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
This Marriage Business
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
Shipmates o' Mine
1936 · 2 votes
Movie8.5ComedyMusicThe commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
His Lordship
1932 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyEddie Marston and his future father-in-law, Lord Milchester, struggle valiantly and comedically to balance their attempts to save Eddie's failing newspaper with their rampant hedonism.
Hold My Hand
1938 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0
'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
Kentucky Minstrels
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Annie Laurie
1936 · 1 votes