Beverly Roberts
Actor · 1914 – 2009 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Beverly Roberts was only a teenager when she was accepted for dramatic training. Years later, she began singing in venues, including nightclubs. One fateful night, a talent scout from a movie studio heard her beautiful voice and so began the next chapter in her life. She acted with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, and Pat O'Brien. She decided to return to great love--singing, as well as acting on stage and television.
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Movie6.0AdventureActionAdventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
Call of The Yukon
1938 · 4 votes
Movie5.5ComedyActionAn investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
Tropic Fury
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaA businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Her Husband's Secretary
1937 · 3 votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedyUnable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Expensive Husbands
1937 · 4 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaSearching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Two Against the World
1936 · 10 votes
Movie5.2DramaRomanceHard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
God's Country and the Woman
1937 · 5 votes
- Movie6.5DramaCrime
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
I Was a Convict
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.5AdventureDramaIn this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaAn aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
China Clipper
1936 · 12 votes
Movie5.8WarAdventureAmerican businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
West of Shanghai
1937 · 10 votes
Movie6.4RomanceComedyRaised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
The Perfect Specimen
1937 · 7 votes
Movie5.2ComedyWarBroadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Sons o' Guns
1936 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaMusicNeurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
The Singing Kid
1936 · 2 votes
Movie7.5DramaCrimeIn this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Tenth Avenue Kid
1938 · 2 votes
Movie5.0DramaCrimeA prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
Main Street Lawyer
1939 · 2 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaA prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
Buried Alive
1939 · 7 votes
Movie7.7AdventureComedyA troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Flirting with Fate
1938 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedySalesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Hot Money
1936 · 2 votes
Movie8.0MysteryCrimeAngry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
Making the Headlines
1938 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ActionCrimeTo spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
The Daredevil Drivers
1938 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
First Offenders
1939 · 1 votes