Ann Hovey

Movies14

• Movie6.9

  ComedyDrama

  Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

  42nd Street

  1933 · 224 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyDrama

  When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

  Gold Diggers of 1933

  1933 · 182 votes

• Movie5.6

  MysteryComedy

  A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

  Super-Sleuth

  1937 · 5 votes

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

  Wild Boys of the Road

  1933 · 53 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.

  Annapolis Salute

  1937 · 3 votes

• Movie6.2

  Drama

  Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.

  Mary Stevens, M.D.

  1933 · 15 votes

• Movie5.9

  CrimeThriller

  A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

  Journal of a Crime

  1934 · 14 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

  On Again—Off Again

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie6.4

  ActionDrama

  An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

  Danger Patrol

  1937 · 5 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

  Private Detective 62

  1933 · 26 votes

• Movie5.1

  RomanceComedy

  Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

  Easy to Love

  1934 · 10 votes

• Movie6.6

  ActionAdventure

  A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

  Behind The Headlines

  1937 · 4 votes

• Movie7.7

  AdventureComedy

  A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.

  Flirting with Fate

  1938 · 3 votes

• Movie9.0

  WesternHistory

  It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.

  The Glory Trail

  1936 · 1 votes