Joseph Cawthorn Movies

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Blondell

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Travis

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bela Lugosi

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Irene Dunne

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

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 young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mary Pickford

Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

Male and female sales agents, Phil and Ruth, for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order. For a while Phil succeeds and puts on an exhibition but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Bellamy

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

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

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Lederer

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglass Montgomery

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ross Alexander

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

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ross Alexander

Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Randolph Scott

A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olive Borden

Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Geoffrey Kerr

An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rod La Rocque

A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sally O'Neil

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

Genre: Music

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Betty Compson

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ida Lupino

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Ellis

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Carrillo

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Pickford

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Genre: War

Cast: Fredric March

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

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Margot Grahame

A young lady impersonates a famous sportswoman while trying to win over a man.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Bellamy

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Page

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Lukas

A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Farrell

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor