William Burress Movies

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grace Moore

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Phillips

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Phillips

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Farnum

George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Farnum

The School for Scandal is a 1914 silent comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Joyce

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Bancroft

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura La Plante

Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

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

Just prior to World War I, the Kaiser sends Baron von Zeller to inform Emperor Franz Josef of Austria that he is ready to declare war on France....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Brockwell

When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Kirkwood

An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dustin Farnum

Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Moore

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joe E. Brown

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 elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Genre: Romance

Cast: May Robson

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Blondell

Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martha Raye

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Constance Cummings

M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her...

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Cast: Gladys Walton

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henrietta Crosman

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred Astaire

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Shirley Temple

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Phillips