Buddy Messinger Movies

The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mabel Normand

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

A Sunkist Comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buddy Messinger

Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Jerome Eddy

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chick Chandler

When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Lake

A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely...

Genre: Drama

Cast: T.D. Crittenden

In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Francis Carpenter

A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gay Seabrook

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart...

Genre: Western

Cast: Robert Livingston

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Rice

A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginald Denny

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Brady

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Montgomery

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franchot Tone

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buddy Messinger

Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buddy Messinger

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ray Milland

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jane Wyman

Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buddy Messinger

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Morgan

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ricksen

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Orson Welles

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Cooper

Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ricksen

Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ricksen

Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Pickford

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupe Vélez

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marsha Hunt

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Bendix

A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruth Clifford

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Alexander

Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura La Plante

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Nichols

Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Francis Carpenter

Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Peil Jr.

Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georgie Stone