Louise Closser Hale
Actor · 1872 – 1933 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Louise Closser Hale (born Louise Closser) was an American stage and screen actress, as well as a novelist, travel writer, and playwright.
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Movie7.3ComedyWarRufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Duck Soup
1933 · 884 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Shanghai Express
1932 · 245 votes
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceAnn Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Platinum Blonde
1931 · 57 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaAn ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Dinner at Eight
1933 · 133 votes
Movie7.2RomanceDramaWhile giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
The Man Who Played God
1932 · 10 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDocumentaryFilm clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceTwo lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Today We Live
1933 · 20 votes
Movie6.5DramaYoung Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
The Son-Daughter
1932 · 4 votes
Movie5.5DramaHistoryThe story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Rasputin and the Empress
1932 · 15 votes
Movie7.0DramaSocialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.'s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Letty Lynton
1932 · 12 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceAn Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
The White Sister
1933 · 9 votes
Movie4.5DramaRomanceProper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
New Morals for Old
1932 · 6 votes
Movie5.1AdventureDramaAn Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
The Barbarian
1933 · 15 votes
Movie5.4MysteryDramaMrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
The Hole in the Wall
1929 · 9 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceA young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceA derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
The Princess and the Plumber
1930 · 1 votes
Movie4.7ComedyRomanceWealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
Daddy Long Legs
1931 · 5 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceDespite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
No More Orchids
1932 · 11 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaA young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Devotion
1931 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaSocialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Faithless
1932 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DramaA newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Another Language
1933 · 4 votes
Movie4.5WesternComedyDangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
Dangerous Nan McGrew
1930 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ActionRomanceBarnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and hawking rides for the locals. But when Speed's rambunctious flying results in tragedy, he gives up flying in despair and guilt. Alec tracks him down and hopes to get him back on his feet and back in the air.
Sky Bride
1932 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceAfter a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Movie Crazy
1932 · 26 votes