An American Tragedy 1931  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Claire McDowell, Frederick Burton, Wallace Middleton, Emmett Corrigan, Lucille La Verne, Charles Middleton
Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, this is a drama about Roberta Alden's murder. Her story is told through flashbacks during the ensuing trial. The story was remade in 1951 as "A Place in the Sun." The remake is the better of the two versions.
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Becky Sharp 1935 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, G.P. Huntley, William Stack, George Hassell, William Faversham, Charles Richman, Doris Lloyd, Colin Tapley
Often cited as the first full-length color movie, this film is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." Miriam Hopkins takes on the title role of self-centered social-climber Becky Sharp who does not care how she gets there on her rise to the top of British society.
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Four Faces West 1948  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
aka: They Passed This Way
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia, William Conrad, Martin Garralaga, Raymond Largay, John Parrish, Dan White, Davison Clark, Houseley Stevenson, Sam Flint
Normally honest rancher Ross (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank robbery when his family homestead is threatened. He does, however, leave an IOU with the teller, intending to pay the money back. Sheriff Pat Garrett (Charles Bickford) sets out on his trail as Ross meets several people on his trek to avoid arrest. But Pat gets his man.
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I Walked with a Zombie 1943  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Theresa Harris, Christine Gordon, Jeni Le Gon, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones
When a Canadian nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) arrives on a Caribbean island to care for Jessica (Christine Gordon), the zombie-like wife of planter Paul Holland (Tom Conway), she discovers voodoo and black magic in this near-classic horror story.
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If I Had a Million 1932 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Frances Dee, Charles Ruggles, W.C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, Jack Oakie, Wynne Gibson
This film is a series of stories about what happens when an anonymous man picks names at random from the telephone book and gives those chosen gifts of money.
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If I Were King 1938  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Toler, Paul Harvey, Heather Thatcher, Stanley Ridges, Walter Kingsford
Poet Francois Villon (Ronald Colman) and Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) match wits as Louis grants Villon one week as a grand constable before enacting his sentence of death.
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 Little Women 1933 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Frances Dee, Edna May Oliver, Jean Parker, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Samuel S. Hinds, John Lodge, Douglass Montgomery, Nydia Westman, Harry Beresford, Mabel Colcord, Marion Ballou
Four New England sisters–Meg (Frances Dee), Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Beth (Jean Parker), and Amy (Joan Bennett)–learn to grow and survive under the loving care of their mother, Marmee (Spring Byington) while their beloved father (Samuel S. Hinds) is serving as a chaplain for the Union forces during the Civil War. This is the first film version of Louisa May Alcott's famous book, and it was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Director.
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A Man Betrayed 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wheel of Fortune
Director: John H. Auer
Cast: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford, Ward Bond, Harold Huber, Alexander Granach, Barnett Parker, Edwin Stanley, Harry Hayden
Lawyer Lynn Hollister (John Wayne) arrives in town to take on political corruption and ends up falling in love with a crooked politician's (Edward Ellis) daughter, Sabra Cameron (Frances Dee).
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Meet the Stewarts 1942 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: William Holden, Frances Dee, Grant Mitchell, Anne Revere, Margaret Hamilton, Don Beddoe, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Gateson, Danny Mummert, Marguerite Chapman
Candace (Francis Dee) is a spoiled socialite who agrees to live on the budget of her working-class husband, Michael Stewart (William Holden).
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Monte Carlo 1930 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis, Billy Bevan, Sidney Bracey, Frances Dee, Rolfe Sedan
Countess Vera von Conti (Jeanette MacDonald) is engaged to Prince Otto von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), but she does not love him. So, just before the scheduled wedding, Vera heads for Monte Carlo where she loses, time after time, at the casinos. She meets a mysterious man (Jack Buchanan) who asks if he may touch her hair for luck. He strokes her hair, but it is Vera's luck that changes, and she asks him to stay by her side. What Vera does not know is that he is actually the very wealthy Count Rudolph Falliere who is posing as a commoner in order to be near Vera. The Count plays his game until he ends up winning her heart, and they live happily ever after. Among the songs MacDonald sings is, "Beyond the Blue Horizon."
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Of Human Bondage 1934 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Reginald Sheffield, Desmond Roberts, Tempe Pigott
This screen version of the W. Somerset Maugham story tells the tale of a young medical student (Leslie Howard) who is obsessed with a promiscuous waitress (Bette Davis). The relationship comes close to destroying his personal, as well as professional, life.
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Payment on Demand 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Frances Dee, Peggie Castle, Otto Kruger, Betty Lynn, John Sutton, Walter Sande
The coming divorce of a wealthy couple leads to memories, through flashbacks, of their lives together.
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The Silver Cord 1933 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews, Eric Linden, Frances Dee, Helen Cromwell, Perry Ivins, Reginald Pasch, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Paul Irving
Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) is a domineering mother who tries all the tricks possible to keep her engaged son at home. Meanwhile, her married son (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Irene Dunne) return, and the tricks continue in a attempt to have the couple move in. Fine performance by Laura Hope Crews.
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So Ends Our Night 1941 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Fredric March, Frances Dee, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Erich von Stroheim, Anna Sten, Joseph Cawthorn, Leonid Kinskey, Alexander Granach, Sig Ruman
In this World War II story, political refugees traverse Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the Nazis.
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Souls at Sea 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Olympe Bradna, Robert Cummings, Porter Hall, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Weidler, Stanley Fields, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Gilbert Emery
While Nuggin (Gary Cooper) is being tried for the mass murder of slaves, his story is told in flashback. After the slaves on the ship he and his friend Powdah (George Raft) served on killed the captain, Nuggin secretly put them ashore and returned the ship to the British Navy. The British government then ordered Nuggin to sabotage the slave trade. This film is based on the true story that took place in Philadelphia during 1842.
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Wells Fargo 1937 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan, Henry O'Neill, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Johnny Mack Brown, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jack Clark, Clarence Kolb
As the expansion of the country accelerated in the West in the mid-1800s, the need for better communications and flow of goods was evident, and the Wells Fargo company grew to meet those needs. This saga of these times, was presented in periodic episodes. The film was originally 115 minutes long, but most current prints are edited versions.
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| 1. An American Tragedy (1931)
2. Becky Sharp (1935)
3. Four Faces West (1948)
aka: They Passed This Way
4. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
5. If I Had a Million (1932)
6. If I Were King (1938)
7. Little Women (1933)
8. Love Is a Racket (1932)
9. A Man Betrayed (1941)
aka: Wheel of Fortune
10. Meet the Stewarts (1942)
11. Monte Carlo (1930)
12. Of Human Bondage (1934)
13. Payment on Demand (1951)
14. The Silver Cord (1933)
15. So Ends Our Night (1941)
16. Souls at Sea (1937)
17. Wells Fargo (1937)
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