Ethel Sykes
Actor · 1906 – 1961 · Kapowsin, Washington, USA
Movies17
Movie7.8ComedyRomanceA runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
It Happened One Night
1934 · 1.5K votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Imitation of Life
1934 · 88 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceAn American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Give Me Your Heart
1936 · 8 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeSassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Big Brown Eyes
1936 · 31 votes
Movie10.0DramaA theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
Hitch Hike To Heaven
1936 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceA chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
The Florodora Girl
1930 · 6 votes
Movie5.2ComedyFamilyA schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
1933 · 9 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
Uppercutlets
1936 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceA young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Blind Date
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaAn ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
Whirlpool
1934 · 9 votes
MovieComedyThis amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.
Movie5.5ComedyMusicPreviously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Lady Be Careful
1936 · 4 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
Half-Baked Relations
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
The Brain Busters
1936 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
The Big Squeal
1933 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyElmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
Why Pay Rent?
1935 · 1 votes
- MovieComedy
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
Gents of Leisure
1931