Barbara Kent
Actor · 1907 – 2011 · Gadsby, Alberta, Canada
Canadian born Barbara Kent (born Barbara Cloutman), who resettled, with her family, in California in 1913, was an actress in Hollywood films from 1926 to 1942.
Movies24
Movie7.2DramaRomanceWhen lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Flesh and the Devil
1926 · 66 votes
Movie7.5RomanceDramaTwo lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Lonesome
1928 · 80 votes
Movie7.5DramaRomanceFilm follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Beauty Parlor
1932 · 2 votes
Movie7.3MusicRomanceShy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
The Fleet's In
1942 · 3 votes
Movie4.7DramaRomanceIn early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Vanity Fair
1932 · 6 votes
Movie9.0DramaCrimeJust after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
The Night Ride
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ActionComedyBaseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
Swellhead
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ActionComedyAttorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
Guard That Girl
1935 · 2 votes
Movie4.9ComedyA gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Welcome Danger
1929 · 22 votes
Movie7.0DramaCrimeAfter suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
The Pride of the Legion
1932 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DramaComedyAfter decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Emma
1932 · 15 votes
Movie3.3DramaRomanceA playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
What Men Want
1930 · 3 votes
Movie6.7ComedyAn ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Feet First
1930 · 25 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · 12 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceA grifter in a boxing scam learns a better way from an orphan and a beautiful girl.
The Shakedown
1929 · 16 votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceIn a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Dumb-bells in Ermine
1930 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
That's My Daddy
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.5CrimeDramaFresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Under Age
1941 · 2 votes
Movie8.0WesternSheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.
Prowlers of the Night
1926 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyRomantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Old Man Rhythm
1935 · 4 votes
Movie10.0ActionAn assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
No Living Witness
1932 · 1 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceA young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Indiscreet
1931 · 14 votes
Movie4.1DramaCrimeThe female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Chinatown After Dark
1931 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaKaty Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
Self Defense
1932 · 1 votes