Etta Moten

Movies8

• Movie6.3

  ComedyRomance

  An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

  Flying Down to Rio

  1933 · 75 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 · 183 votes

• Movie7.1

  ComedyMusic

  Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.

  A Day at the Races

  1937 · 241 votes

• Movie6.1

  CrimeDrama

  A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

  Ladies They Talk About

  1933 · 44 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyRomance

  Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

  Professional Sweetheart

  1933 · 5 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaFantasy

  God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

  The Green Pastures

  1936 · 16 votes

• Movie5.4

  CrimeAction

  A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.

  Born to Sing

  1942 · 5 votes

• Movie5.9

  DramaRomance

  American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.

  Operator 13

  1934 · 18 votes