
Joan Valerie
Actor · 1911 – 1983 · Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA
Movies24
Movie6.8AdventureDramaTwo boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · 42 votes
Movie7.1WesternDramaThere's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Westward the Women
1951 · 86 votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceAn aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Government Girl
1943 · 9 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
Movie6.0ComedyMusicDoc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Rio Rita
1942 · 19 votes
Movie5.2DramaA young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
A Life of Her Own
1950 · 20 votes
Movie7.1ComedyRomanceAn infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
It's Love I'm After
1937 · 39 votes
Movie6.2CrimeMysteryWhen Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Murder Over New York
1940 · 20 votes
Movie7.3RomanceDramaStories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Free, Blonde and 21
1940 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
The Hucksters
1947 · 21 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceA Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Go-Getter
1937 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyFather sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Young as You Feel
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.9MusicRomanceThree young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Three Daring Daughters
1948 · 7 votes
Movie5.3CrimeDramaA man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940 · 3 votes
Movie6.6ComedyMysteryMillionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940 · 12 votes
Movie5.1RomanceDramaA man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Alcatraz Island
1937 · 12 votes
Movie5.5AdventureComedyThe Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
A Trip to Paris
1938 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyAn alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
The Great Profile
1940 · 4 votes
Movie7.0RomanceActionA detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Missing Witnesses
1937 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicAlice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Lillian Russell
1940 · 13 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaVera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Confession
1937 · 18 votes
Movie7.7CrimeMysteryA wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940 · 22 votes
Movie6.7AdventureDramaA naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Submarine Patrol
1938 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceA happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.
Jennie
1940 · 1 votes