Doctor Bull 1933  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Dr. Bull
Director: John Ford
Cast: Will Rogers, Vera Allen, Marian Nixon, Howard Lally, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine, Berton Churchill, Rochelle Hudson, Elizabeth Patterson, Ralph Morgan
Dr. Bull (Will Rogers) is a small-town physician who dispenses wisdom along with his prescriptions. However, when he falls in love with widow Janet Cardmaker (Vera Allen), gossip abounds among the town's residents.
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Garden of Eden 1928 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George, Charles Ray, Edward Martindel
Talented operatic student Toni (Corinne Griffith) leaves her aunt and uncle's home and heads to Budapest after receiving a job offer. Finding out that this job is no more than a high-priced girlie show, she is distraught until taken under the wing of a wardrobe assistant, Rosa (Louise Dresser), who is more than she appears to be. Rosa invites Toni to accompany her to Monte Carlo, and the adventures begin in this fun, elaborate silent film, which was "lost" for many years.
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Maid of Salem 1937  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Louise Dresser, Gale Sondergaard, Beulah Bondi, Bonita Granville, Donald Meek, Harvey Stephens, E.E. Clive, Benny Bartlett, Edward Ellis, Virginia Weidler, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Barbara Clark (Claudette Colbert) lives in Salem, Massachusetts, during the "witch trials" of colonial days. When she falls in love with Roger Coverman (Fred MacMurray) who is on the lam from Virginia, her romance causes a scandal. After young Ann Goode (Bonita Granville) pretends to be possessed, she is tried and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Now, Barbara is accused of witchcraft, but Roger arrives in town to save Barbara and Ann, and all ends well.
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Mammy 1930  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth, Stanley Fields, Tully Marshall, Mitchell Lewis, Jack Curtis, Noah Beery
Good musical numbers include "The Call of the South" and "To My Mammy" in this otherwise dated film about a romance among performers in a minstrel show.
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The Scarlet Empress 1934  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon, Olive Tell, Jameson Thomas, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ruthelma Stevens, Davison Clark, Erville Alderson, Maria Riva, Akim Tamiroff
To improve the royal bloodline, the Empress Elizabeth (Louise Dresser) of Russia imports German Princess Sophia (Marlene Dietrich) as the bride for her dull-witted son, the Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe). When the Empress dies, Sophia leads her troops to the palace and ascends to the throne as Catherine the Great. While this story is not historically accurate, it represents one of the best biographical efforts of the 1930s.
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 State Fair 1933 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Henry King
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, Louise Dresser, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, Frank Melton, John Sheehan
A farm family heads to the state fair in this delightful story about life in mid-America. Remade in 1945 and 1962. An Oscar nomination was received for Best Picture.
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The Third Degree 1926 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Louise Dresser, Dolores Costello, Tom Santschi, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jason Robards Sr., David Torrence, Kate Price, Harry Todd, Michael Vavitch, Fred Kelsey
Circus performer Alicia Daley (Louise Dresser) ends up with her back to the wall and no way out when her past (she deserted her husband and baby daughter) catches up with her.
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The Three Sisters 1930  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Sloane
Cast: Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola, Kenneth MacKenna, Joyce Compton, June Collyer, Addie McPhail, Cliff Saum, Sidney De Gray, Paul Porcasi, John St. Polis, Herman Bing
This film is about three Italian sisters, Carlotta (Joyce Compton), Elena (June Collyer), and Antonia (Addie McPhail), who head in separate directions after World War I and leave their mother (Louise Dresser) behind.
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The World Moves On 1934 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Ford
Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Raul Roulien, Stepin Fetchit, Sig Ruman, Lumsden Hare, Louise Dresser, Dudley Digges, Frank Melton, Brenda Fowler, Russell Simpson, Marcelle Corday
This is the saga of two wealthy Louisiana families enduring grim changes in Europe and America during a 100-year period. The Girards of French heritage and the Warburtons from England intermarry and form a successful business alliance. They corner the cotton business in the South, but, personally, they fight each other. Nevertheless, their fortunes grow–until the stock market plunge in the 1920s destroys the empire. Mrs. Warburton (Madeleine Carroll) and Richard Girard (Franchot Tone) survive and begin anew only to find World War II now closing in on them. A strong anti-war film.
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| 1. Doctor Bull (1933)
aka: Dr. Bull
2. The Eagle (1925)
3. Garden of Eden (1928)
4. Maid of Salem (1937)
5. Mammy (1930)
6. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
7. State Fair (1933)
8. The Third Degree (1926)
9. The Three Sisters (1930)
10. The World Moves On (1934)
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