Barbara Weeks
Actor · 1913 – 2003 · Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Movies23
Movie6.5ComedyParty Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
Party Husband
1931 · 2 votes
Movie4.5HistoryMusicMr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Movie5.6ComedyA trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · 13 votes
Movie5.1DramaA two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Now I'll Tell
1934 · 7 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaBefore his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
She Was a Lady
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyRomanceMusical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.
Palmy Days
1931 · 8 votes
Movie9.0ComedyGangsters, gold-digging dames, and other assorted characters nettle an overworked custodian in this odd farce.
Olsen’s Big Moment
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.5CrimeAfter being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
School for Girls
1934 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaWhen her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
The Quitter
1934 · 1 votes
Movie4.9CrimeAn unexpected pregnancy disrupts the lifestyle of a young female hoodlum who joins her fellow delinquents on regular robbery sprees.
Gun Girls
1957 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DramaA wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".
Men in Her Life
1931 · 5 votes
Movie7.0MusicWesternIn an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
The Old Wyoming Trail
1937 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceAspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Dramatic School
1938 · 7 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomanceAnn, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Illicit
1931 · 23 votes
Movie9.0WesternWanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
Sundown Rider
1932 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaModest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Cheaters at Play
1932 · 1 votes
Movie3.8ActionAdventureThis is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ActionAdventureSoldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Soldiers of the Storm
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.0CrimeMysteryFormer lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
The Crosby Case
1934 · 6 votes
Movie4.4DramaThrillerA newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.
The Violent Years
1956 · 41 votes
Movie6.6MysteryCrimeOn the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
By Whose Hand?
1932 · 5 votes
Movie6.5DramaWesternLarry Clarke rides into the town of Mesa, Arizona, from Texas, where he has just sold his ranch. Several people call him "Ted Crockett",who supposedly has been dead for five years, and a bartender advises him to say he is Crockett, as he can aid the law abiding citizens that way. Both Red Grindy, leader of the town's badmen, and Sheriff Ben Adams are fooled by Larry's resemblence to Crockett, as is Crockett's young widow, Mary, until Larry convinces her his isn't. He finds that all of the Crockett cowhands, with the exception of Neal King, are systematically rustling Mary's cattle. Larry takes charge, sends to Texas for his riders and then brings to an end the reign of terror Grindy and his men have over the territory. Creased in the head by a gunshot, Larry is freed of his amnesia and turns out to actually be Ted Crockett.
One Man Justice
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaA dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
Woman Unafraid
1934 · 3 votes