Alex Melesh
Actor · 1890 – 1949 · Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Movies24
Movie7.0CrimeDramaThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Manhattan Melodrama
1934 · 81 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942 · 55 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceThe beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
The Heavenly Body
1944 · 13 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceDespite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Golden Boy
1939 · 36 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943 · 23 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Comrade X
1940 · 27 votes
Movie5.7WarDramaAmbassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow
1943 · 21 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
The Great Flamarion
1945 · 35 votes
Movie6.4AdventureComedyPoor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
The Fuller Brush Man
1948 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DramaFantasyThe ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
Beyond Tomorrow
1940 · 42 votes
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceWhen Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
This Is the Night
1932 · 18 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaAfter saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
I'll Give a Million
1938 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ComedyA Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Girl Without a Room
1933 · 4 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
Movie4.5ComedyA Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
On Your Toes
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceTwo strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Lucky Partners
1940 · 11 votes
Movie10.0MysteryOn her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Fatal Lady
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.7ComedyMusicA songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Two for Tonight
1935 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaComedyPromises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Sudden Money
1939 · 3 votes
Movie5.1AdventureDramaA young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
The Yellow Ticket
1931 · 16 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeWhen her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being deported via a train full of criminal aliens, g-men, reporters - and foreign agents trying to smuggle her off and into the hands of the murderous gang.
Exile Express
1939 · 2 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMusicA Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Paris Honeymoon
1939 · 2 votes
Movie7.1ComedyMusicThe top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
The Big Broadcast
1932 · 9 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceStory of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!
His Private Life
1928 · 1 votes