Vivienne Osborne
Actor · 1896 – 1961 · Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Vera Vivienne Spragg (December 10, 1896 – June 10, 1961) was an American stage and film actress known for her work in Broadway theatre and in silent and sound films.
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Movie6.6DramaRomanceA simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Dragonwyck
1946 · 126 votes
Movie10.0DramaUnable to support her second child, a boy, Alice Baldwin gives him up to the wife of Edward Stevens, a wealthy manufacturer. Her other child, a daughter, grows up, marries, and selfishly neglects her mother. Twenty years pass, and Alice's son, Edward, Jr., wins a place in the Stevens piano factory and falls in love with Julia Brennon, the owner's daughter. Meanwhile, the mother leaves home when her son-in-law objects to her presence, and she is rescued from a suicide attempt by Edward and Julia. At his foster father's home he realizes her identity, and at last they find happiness together.
Mother Eternal
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceEllie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Primrose Path
1940 · 26 votes
Movie5.7ActionAdventureWhen her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Captain Caution
1940 · 11 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeA shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
So You Won't Talk?
1940 · 4 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaA foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932 · 7 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceThe French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andre Morand is wrongfully convicted of a murder, he escapes the firing squad with the help of his friend, Jean. Taking refuge in a mission run by the uncle of the beautiful Margot, Andre agrees to care for the sick there. After professing his love for Margot, he learns that she is engaged to Jean, who is now sick. Vowing to return to aid Jean and others, Andre prepares to face death, but a series of events may turn things in his favor.
The Devil's in Love
1933 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaThe daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue.
Two Kinds of Women
1932 · 3 votes
Movie6.2MysteryThrillerAfter her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from her dead brother, he coaxes her into participating in a séance. While her fiancé first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.
Supernatural
1933 · 33 votes
Movie6.2DramaA day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Life Begins
1932 · 8 votes
Movie9.0DramaA stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
Husband's Holiday
1931 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceA society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
No More Ladies
1935 · 9 votes
Movie5.5ComedyIn this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
Week-End Marriage
1932 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Two Seconds
1932 · 25 votes
Movie6.8ComedyThe Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
The Dark Horse
1932 · 8 votes
Movie2.9DramaCrimeIgnored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
I Accuse My Parents
1944 · 33 votes
Movie5.5MysteryThree playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
The Crime Nobody Saw
1937 · 4 votes
Movie4.9MysteryA young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Sinner Take All
1936 · 8 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIn Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Champagne Waltz
1937 · 2 votes
Movie7.2DramaThis drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Luxury Liner
1933 · 4 votes
Movie9.0ComedyThe blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
Wives Never Know
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Men Are Such Fools
1932 · 1 votes
Movie4.1MusicAn orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Let's Sing Again
1936 · 7 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaPeople in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · 11 votes