Ann Dvorak Movies

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Muni

A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930)...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with...

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Conrad Nagel

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Johnson

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Bickford

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an...

Genre: Western

Cast: Glenn Ford

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Blondell

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Fonda

An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Dvorak

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ann Dvorak

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Aline MacMahon

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Blyth

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Dvorak

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franchot Tone

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Lyle Talbot

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marjorie Main

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Bennett

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornel Wilde

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Dvorak

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

Genre: Music

Cast: Rudy Vallee

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Manners

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles 'Chic' Sale

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aline MacMahon

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Dvorak

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Dvorak

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Phil Regan

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Muni

A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gail Russell

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Moore

Silent version of the 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson novel originally ran 3 hours but all but 50 minutes of that are now lost.

Genre:

Cast: Adda Gleason

Phemie, an avowed man-hater, marries Joe, the village blacksmith.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Winifred Allen

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Dvorak

A 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Kaley

A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Lawlor

Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Ireland

A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Givot

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preston Foster

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosetta Duncan

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Brent

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Haines

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elliott Nugent

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross Alexander

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Preston Foster

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ted Healy

The 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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bessie Love

An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.

Genre: Music

Cast: Raymond Hackett

At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Buzzell

An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Lunt

This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music. For several of these song writers,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gus Edwards

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Ray

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Eric Portman

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lawrence Gray

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen H. Bogart

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Spencer

Early Vitaphone short.

Genre: Music

Cast: Lionel Belmore