Ferike Boros
Actor · 1873 – 1951 · Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
Ferike Boros (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1951) was a Hungarian-born American stage and movie actress. Born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, in 1873, Boros was on stage starting in 1893. She moved to London in 1903, two years later appearing at Covent Garden. In Hungary, she performed in the National Court Theatre (NCT) in Budapest. In 1909, while still with the NCT, she visited the United States and Canada as part of a trip around the world to report on how dramatic productions were staged in each country that she visited. As she visited various theatrical managers in New York City, she regularly encountered rejection despite her official letter (written in English) from the NCT. In one office she was told, "Oh, Mr. Belasco is flooded with crazy communications from freaks and fakirs and cranks ..." After being well-coached in English and the conventions of American show business, she had a long career on the Broadway stage and in theatrical touring companies, from 1909 through 1927; thereafter she was seen in character roles in motion pictures. Boros died in her home in Van Nuys, California, on 16 January 1951, aged 77. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ferike Boros, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.5DramaRomanceAn elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937 · 228 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeA small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Little Caesar
1931 · 313 votes
Movie7.5DramaIn Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · 111 votes
Movie6.9DramaSoap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
The Younger Generation
1929 · 12 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaHilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
The Talk of the Town
1942 · 133 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942 · 55 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaEmbittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · 20 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Love Affair
1939 · 132 votes
Movie7.2ComedyRomancePolly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Bachelor Mother
1939 · 82 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceAn office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Christmas in July
1940 · 91 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceA vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
East Side, West Side
1949 · 26 votes
Movie5.8DramaA London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Light That Failed
1939 · 8 votes
Movie7.7DramaDuring the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
The World and the Flesh
1932 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaAt a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now reunite?
This Love of Ours
1945 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceA wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939 · 26 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceDon Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Caught in the Draft
1941 · 19 votes
Movie4.8DramaThrillerBallet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
Specter of the Rose
1946 · 10 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceTony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Huddle
1932 · 6 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceA working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
Rafter Romance
1933 · 13 votes
Movie5.4CrimeRomanceDiabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Rio
1939 · 14 votes
Movie9.0DramaJim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Girl from God's Country
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.7CrimeComedyIn order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Born Reckless
1930 · 16 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Princess O'Rourke
1943 · 21 votes
Movie6.9DramaWarEnglishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
The Pied Piper
1942 · 15 votes