Gwen Lee
Actor · 1904 – 1961 · Hastings, Nebraska, USA
Gwen Lee (born Gwendolyn Lepinski) was an American stage and screen actress.
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Movie7.5CrimeDramaJoe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Fury
1936 · 262 votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceWhen a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Libeled Lady
1936 · 136 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
Sharp Shooters
1928 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceThe story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who sent Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as they reach the age of eighteen, when Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life after reform school.
Lady of the Night
1925 · 16 votes
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After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.
Julius Sizzer
1931
Movie6.1ComedyMusicGopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
Free and Easy
1930 · 14 votes
Movie7.4DramaA despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 · 40 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMusicAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · 36 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceA bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Double Wedding
1937 · 37 votes
Movie10.0DramaIn South Africa, a worker in a diamond mine is sentenced to death for stealing a huge diamond he found in the mine. Before he dies he passes the stone to a local girl, Musa. Known as the "Shah" diamond, it eventually winds up in New York City. Complications ensue, involving a wealthy society matron, her jealous husband, a gang of vicious jewel thieves and a brutal gangster who owns a nightclub. A lost film.
Diamond Handcuffs
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaAn aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.
Show Girl
1928 · 1 votes
Movie5.6DramaGerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
Our Blushing Brides
1930 · 21 votes
Movie4.7DramaRomanceA talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
Lord Byron of Broadway
1930 · 7 votes
Movie4.0AdventureDramaDot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
The Pagan Lady
1931 · 4 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceYvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
Inspiration
1931 · 9 votes
Movie5.9ComedyA Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
A Night at the Movies
1937 · 18 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceJessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Mannequin
1938 · 22 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
A Lady of Chance
1928 · 5 votes
Movie7.0MysteryErnest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest learns that his colleagues are burgling homes in districts they pass through. Ernest sets about to expose Xeno and his cohorts.
A Thief in the Dark
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaIn her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
Untamed
1929 · 11 votes
Movie5.7DramaA department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
One in a Million
1935 · 3 votes
Movie6.0RomanceComedyThe road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Chasing Rainbows
1930 · 3 votes
Movie6.7DramaCrimeMary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
Paid
1930 · 18 votes