Greta Meyer Movies

One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Grant Richards

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Winninger

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Tracy

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Harding

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he...

Genre: Action

Cast: Grant Withers

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Stone

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Harlow

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Rainer

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patric Knowles

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Roger Pryor

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Henry Fonda

Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ernest Truex

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grace Moore

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 happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

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

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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

In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Virginia Bruce

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Walton

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Pearl

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

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check...

Genre: War

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

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

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glenda Farrell

To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Catlett

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Dix

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Montgomery

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Glenda Farrell