Roberta Smith
Actor
Movies9
Movie5.0DramaMusicIn this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
The Mayor of 44th Street
1942 · 5 votes
Movie10.0ComedyExcitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Down on the Farm
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceComedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
The Town Went Wild
1944 · 3 votes
Movie5.3CrimeDramaA tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Boys' Reformatory
1939 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMuggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Block Busters
1944 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyJackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
What a Life
1939 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaAdventureFrancis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.
Girls Under 21
1940 · 4 votes
Movie8.0MusicUgly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Nobody's Darling
1943 · 1 votes
Movie5.1MysteryA female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
Dangerous Intruder
1945 · 7 votes