Geneva Mitchell
Actor · 1907 – 1949 · Medarysville, Indiana, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Geneva Mitchell (February 3, 1907 – March 10, 1949) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 70 films between 1929 and 1946. Mitchell started her career on the stage in a musical comedy. At age 17, she was in the choruses of Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921. She signed a contract with Warner Brothers in October 1929, and with Columbia Pictures in June 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Mitchell from her appearances in the Three Stooges 1935 films Restless Knights, Pop Goes the Easel, and particularly Hoi Polloi. In Hoi Polloi, Mitchell plays a dance instructor who directs the Stooges to "do exactly as I do." Before she begins her dance, a bumblebee lands on her bare back, and then crawls under her dress. She becomes alarmed. Naturally, the Stooges mimic her every startled move. This hilarious footage was to be reused six years later in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.
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Movie7.0DramaEvelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Death Flies East
1935 · 3 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceWildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
Morning Glory
1933 · 59 votes
Movie6.4ComedySet in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
Restless Knights
1935 · 16 votes
Movie7.1ComedyTwo sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Working Girls
1931 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DramaEddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
Madison Square Garden
1932 · 3 votes
Movie7.5DramaComedyA family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
This Side of Heaven
1934 · 6 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFantasyA scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
Night Life of the Gods
1935 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceA young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Blind Date
1934 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeA sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
The Defense Rests
1934 · 10 votes
Movie6.8Drama"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Night World
1932 · 18 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceAfter bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
Skyscraper Souls
1932 · 14 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceShirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Pleasure Cruise
1933 · 4 votes
Movie8.5MysteryHorrorTwo hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
House of Mystery
1931 · 2 votes
Movie5.3ActionComedyGabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
The Devil Is Driving
1932 · 8 votes
Movie8.0MysteryActionInspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Girl in Danger
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaThe popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
Son of the Gods
1930 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
A Man of Sentiment
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceAfter a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Ann Vickers
1933 · 12 votes
Movie6.6RomanceMusicA dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
I Am Suzanne!
1933 · 5 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaAn Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Big City Blues
1932 · 14 votes
Movie8.3DramaComedyWhen a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Party Wire
1935 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaReporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
The Hell Cat
1934 · 2 votes
Movie5.3DramaRomanceAfter a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Millie
1931 · 22 votes
Movie4.8CrimeThrillerA district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
The World Gone Mad
1933 · 13 votes