Adda Gleason Movies

To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and money in the company of Al, the local bootlegger.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Hersholt

True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Farnum

Silas Brown, a close-fisted country hotel-keeper in Hicksville, has a pretty daughter, Betty, who has a devoted suitor in Otis Perkins, a typical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adda Gleason

Jim Carson, a young farmer, loves the school teacher, Helen Dale, and they expect to be married. His father unexpectedly marries a widow who has a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Wheelock

Burkhart, a prominent business man, owner of a leading mercantile establishment, and the popular candidate for governor on the Citizens' ticket,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lafe McKee

Billy Garfield is a bright, young railroad engineer. He runs passenger train No. 6, and next to his locomotive, he loves Marie Shaw. They are engaged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Wheelock

Billy Garrison, a successful young jockey, rides the favorite "Sis" in the Louisville Derby. He does not ride with his customary vigor and dash. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Smith

Dorinda, a mountain girl, left alone by the death of her parents, is adopted by distant relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Greer. Mrs. Greer is not overjoyed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adda Gleason

Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Santschi

Ezra Hickman, of Kankakee, is a political aspirant. At a reception in Washington with his wife and daughter Amy he meets the Ambassador of Selim Bey,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Violet MacMillan

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...

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Cast: Edmund Lowe

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Gale Sondergaard

Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Prevost

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Massey

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Mitchum

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Victor Mature

Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Taylor

After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach...

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Cast: Monroe Salisbury

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

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Cast: Adda Gleason

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Orangey the Cat

Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adda Gleason

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Arthur

Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

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

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Holt

Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Connolly

The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Poor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Devore

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katherine MacDonald

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lawson Butt

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adda Gleason

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Russell

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Russell

Genre: Drama

Cast: Samuel Curtis

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adda Gleason

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Routh

Genre: Drama

Cast: Allan Forrest