Patricia Ellis
Actor · 1918 – 1970 · Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Movies24
Movie6.9ComedyDramaBroadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
42nd Street
1933 · 224 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWarIt's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Block-Heads
1938 · 152 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Three on a Match
1932 · 75 votes
Movie6.9ComedyCrimeAn ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Picture Snatcher
1933 · 27 votes
Movie4.2ComedyExtra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Convention City
1933 · 5 votes
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A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Hollywood Newsreel
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.3ComedyMusicA henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Love Begins at Twenty
1936 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Harold Teen
1934 · 2 votes
Movie4.8DramaGenerational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
The World Changes
1933 · 8 votes
Movie6.5ComedyPiccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Here Comes the Groom
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaTrucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
The St. Louis Kid
1934 · 6 votes
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeA detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
The Lady in the Morgue
1938 · 5 votes
Movie4.8CrimeDramaThe life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Back Door to Heaven
1939 · 4 votes
Movie5.7ComedyThe king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
The King's Vacation
1933 · 3 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyComplications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Let’s Be Ritzy
1934 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMusicA young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Sing Me a Love Song
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryViewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.7MysteryA murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
While the Patient Slept
1935 · 9 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935 · 12 votes
Movie6.5ComedyA PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
A Night at the Ritz
1935 · 2 votes
Movie7.5MusicComedyJudy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
The Circus Clown
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937 · 5 votes
Movie5.5RomanceCrimeAn honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
The Payoff
1935 · 8 votes