Juliette Compton
Actor · 1899 – 1989 · Columbus, Georgia, USA
From Wikipedia Juliette Compton (May 3, 1899 – March 19, 1989) was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with That Hamilton Woman in 1941. She had started her career with a season in the Ziegfeld Follies and then stage appearances in London where she also acted in British films. Compton married James Bartram in 1931. They separated in 1936 and finally divorced in 1942.
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Movie6.4DramaRomanceMogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Morocco
1930 · 171 votes
Movie6.8DramaAdventureYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934 · 65 votes
Movie7.1DramaHistoryThe story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
That Hamilton Woman
1941 · 95 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaA struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Westward Passage
1932 · 6 votes
Movie5.1DramaNaval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
Devil and the Deep
1932 · 16 votes
Movie6.7DramaUnscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
The Match King
1932 · 7 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceKay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Ladies of Leisure
1930 · 31 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
White Heat
1927 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomancePeg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Peg o' My Heart
1933 · 6 votes
Movie9.0DramaA stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
Husband's Holiday
1931 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaThe dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Rich Man's Folly
1931 · 6 votes
Movie10.0RomanceIn Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.
Human Desires
1924 · 1 votes
Movie5.9FantasyRomanceA young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Berkeley Square
1933 · 16 votes
Movie6.0DramaFresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
The Man Called Back
1932 · 3 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceA society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
No More Ladies
1935 · 9 votes
- Movie10.0RomanceDrama
A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.
The Wine of Life
1924 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceUpholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Irene
1940 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceAfter Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Behold My Wife!
1934 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaA lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Anybody's Woman
1930 · 6 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaFredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
Strangers in Love
1932 · 5 votes
Movie9.0AdventureThe Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1928 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history and her troubled relationship with her son, Ralph, and his family.
Movie8.0ThrillerCrimeMerchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaIn this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
Unfaithful
1931 · 2 votes