Lillian Yarbo
Actor · 1905 – 1996 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Lillian Yarbo is an actress, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Great Man's Lady (1942).
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Movie7.5ComedyRomanceAlice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
You Can't Take It with You
1938 · 466 votes
Movie7.2WesternComedyTom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Destry Rides Again
1939 · 205 votes
Movie6.4WesternFarmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Return of Frank James
1940 · 146 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
The Gang's All Here
1943 · 42 votes
Movie6.4MusicRomanceStarstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · 14 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeJoe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
They Drive by Night
1940 · 139 votes
Movie7.0MusicRomanceIn 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939 · 42 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceA working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Stella Dallas
1937 · 101 votes
Movie6.3ComedyMysterySuper-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ComedyIn the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
The Naughty Nineties
1945 · 32 votes
Movie5.4RomanceDramaA bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.
Night Unto Night
1949 · 9 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceAn opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · 19 votes
Movie6.6DramaMusicAlice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Lillian Russell
1940 · 13 votes
Movie7.5ComedyLiving with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
My Brother Talks to Horses
1947 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaWhen a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Big Town Girl
1937 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
The Family Next Door
1939 · 5 votes
Movie5.3CrimeDramaA merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Wives Under Suspicion
1938 · 12 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMarriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyHenry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Henry Aldrich for President
1941 · 2 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceYoung lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Kentucky
1938 · 13 votes
Movie10.0AdventureComedyFather goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyLupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Redhead from Manhattan
1943 · 4 votes
Movie5.5WesternThe Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · 4 votes
Movie6.3WesternDramaIn Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
The Great Man's Lady
1941 · 12 votes