Josephine Whittell Movies

A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hurd Hatfield

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lawrence Tierney

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat Paterson

Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Livingston

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judith Allen

An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.

Genre: Music

Cast: Marion Talley

Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Harding

Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donna Reed

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joel McCrea

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Garland

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Young

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Howard Duff

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gertrude Berg

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lois Wilson

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chester Morris

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Bennett

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean...

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Robson

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marjorie Rambeau

Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ford Sterling

When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Brady

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Montgomery Clift

To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marsha Hunt

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Allyson

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teresa Wright

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Stewart

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Fonda

Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently breaks one of his windows. This mishap coincides...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Blake

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Dunne