365 Nights in Hollywood 1934  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: James Dunn, Alice Faye, Frank Mitchell, John Qualen, Jack Durant, John Bradford, Frank Melton, Grant Mitchell, Addison Richards, Ray Cooke, Lynn Bari, Tyler Brooke
Alice (Alice Faye) leaves Peoria, IL, and heads to Hollywood to make it big in the movies. She enrolls in a fraudulent acting school, but actually receives the lead in a movie when the school's owner gets money from a man looking for an investment. An alcoholic director, Jimmy (James Dunn), is hired to ensure the film will fail, and the fun begins.
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 Baby Take a Bow 1934 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Harry Lachman
Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker, Ralf Harolde, James Flavin, Dorothy Libaire, Richard Tucker, Olive Tell
This is Shirley Temple's first film in which she has a starring role, and she made her name as a young girl who clears her ex-convict father (James Dunn) from the charge of stealing jewels.
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Bad Girl 1931  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, Frank Darien, Paul Fix, William Pawley, Edmund Breese, Sarah Padden, Irving Bacon, Louis Natheaux
A couple have had trouble making ends meet until a new baby arrives. Frank Borzage won an Academy Award as Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture.
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 Bright Eyes 1934 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson, Charles Sellon, Jane Withers, Theodore von Eltz, Brandon Hurst, George Irving
Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple) is orphaned, and a custody battle ensues. This is the film in which Shirley Temple sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop."
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Change of Heart 1934 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Mischa Auer, Jane Darwell, Bess Flowers, Dick Foran, Leonid Kinskey
Following college, four graduates head for New York in search of fame and fortune.
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Government Girl 1943 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dudley Nichols
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley, Jess Barker, James Dunn, Paul Stewart, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Davenport, Sig Ruman, Jane Darwell
When Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) is hired to develop bomber planes, a pretty secretary, Smokey Allard (Olivia de Havilland), shows him the ropes of wartime bureaucracy in Washington D.C.
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Hearts in Bondage 1936 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Ayres
Cast: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J.M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan
During the Civil War, a Union naval officer, Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn), is stripped of his commission after he sinks, instead of obeying orders by Confederate forces to set fire to his ship, the Merrimac. Later, the Confederates raise the Merrimac and restore it. Meanwhile, Reynolds is reinstated and serves on the Monitor during which time he is involved in the historic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man 1962 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
aka: Adventures of a Young Man
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Richard Beymer, Arthur Kennedy, Jessica Tandy, Susan Strasberg, Paul Newman, Simon Oakland, Diane Baker, Eli Wallach, Dan Dailey, Ricardo Montalban, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, James Dunn, Juano Hernandez, Michael J. Pollard
Combining 10 of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, this is the tale of Michigan born and bred Nick Adams (Richard Beymer). Nick leaves his parents' (Arthur Kennedy and Jessica Tandy) home and tries, but fails, to get his desired job as a news reporter in New York City. He enlists in the Italian army during World War I and is taken under the wing of hospital orderly John (Eli Wallach). Nick falls in love with nurse Rosanna (Susan Strasberg) who tragically dies in an air raid. Through all the suffering, Nick finally attains maturity as a responsible man.
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Hold That Woman! 1940  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Martin Spellman, Rita La Roy, Eddie Fetherston, Guy Usher, Paul Bryar, Edwin Miller, Jack Roper, Dave O'Brien, William Newell
Repossessor Jimmy Parker's (James Dunn) current task is to repossess a radio for nonpayment. After accomplishing his mission, he is pursued by gangsters who want the stolen jewels hidden in the radio. After the obligatory escapades, he brings about the capture of the bad guys.
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The Living Ghost 1942  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
aka: A Walking Nightmare
Lend Me Your Ear
Director: William Beaudine
Cast: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey, Vera Gordon, Norman Willis, J. Farrell MacDonald, Minerva Urecal, George Eldredge, Jan Wiley, Lawrence Grant, Howard Banks, Gus Glassmire
Ex-detective Nick Trayne (James Dunn) and his assistant, Billie Hilton (Joan Woodbury), search for wealthy-banker, kidnap-victim Walter Craig (Gus Glassmire), and during the investigation Craig turns up alive but in a catatonic state. To solve the new mystery, Nick and Billie follow a trail of clues that leads them to an old shack where eerie experiments involving zombies have been performed.
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Shadows Over Shanghai 1938 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Lynda Grey, Robert Barrat, Paul Sutton, Edward Woods, Edwin Mordant, Chester Gan, Victor(2) Wong, Edward Keane, Billy Bevan, William Haade
American newspaperman Johnny McGinty (James Dunn) falls in love with a Russian teacher, Irene (Lynda Grey), who works at a mission in Shanghai. After Irene's brother (Edward Woods) gives her a valuable amulet that she must take from Shanghai to San Francisco and ensure that it does not get into the wrong hands, Johnny marries Irene hoping to aid in the effort to get the amulet out of the country. They board a ship for the voyage, but they are not alone; those who want the amulet are hot on its trail.
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Stand Up and Cheer! 1934 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Sylvia Froos, Shirley Temple, Ralph Morgan, John Boles, Nigel Bruce, Stepin Fetchit, Dick Foran
To help bring the country out of the Great Depression, a new Cabinet post–Secretary of Amusements–is designed. It has little impact until young Shirley Dugan (Shirley Temple) shows up. Temple sings "Baby Take a Bow."
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven 1948 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Girl from Texas
Director: William Castle
Cast: Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Lionel Stander, Florence Bates, Michael Chekhov, Margaret Hamilton, Moyna MacGill, Irene Ryan, Colin(2) Campbell, Clem Bevans, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, Erskine Sanford
Texas cowboy Eddie Taylor (Guy Madison) and city-girl Perry Dunklin (Diana Lynn) arrive in New York for fun, adventure, and fortune. But when Eddie falls in love with Perry, she does not return his affections. And while they do buy a Brooklyn riding academy, Eddie spends much of his time keeping Perry out of trouble.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, Ferike Boros, Ted Donaldson, B.S. Pully, Al Bridge, Virginia Brissac, Charles Halton, J. Farrell McDonald
Financial worries of her parents, Katie and Johnny Nolan (Dorothy McGuire and James Dunn), affect the happiness of teenager Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) at the end of the 19th century. Growing up in a tenement existence, Francie wants a better life but struggles just to survive. A tree that survives the seasons is visible from their tenement and is her family's symbol of survival. This film is the first directorial effort of Elia Kazan. Dunn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Garner was presented an Honorary Oscar as Outstanding Child Actress.
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| Oscar: Best Supporting Actor for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) |
1. 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934)
2. Baby Take a Bow (1934)
3. Bad Girl (1931)
4. Bright Eyes (1934)
5. Change of Heart (1934)
6. Government Girl (1943)
7. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
8. Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
aka: Adventures of a Young Man
9. Hold That Woman! (1940)
10. The Living Ghost (1942)
aka: A Walking Nightmare
aka: Lend Me Your Ear
11. The Movie Maker (1967)
12. Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
13. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
14. Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (1948)
aka: The Girl from Texas
15. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
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