Cast: Evelyn Venable
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Evelyn Venable. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 15
Death Takes a Holiday
1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander
Synopsis Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian nobleman, Duke Lambert (Standing). He bewilders most, except the lovely...
6.7
513 votes
6.7
513 votes
Alice Adams
1935 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Fred MacMurray · Fred Stone · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father...
6.5
539 votes
6.5
539 votes
The Little Colonel
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Shirley Temple · Sidney Blackmer · Lionel Barrymore · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with...
5.2
133 votes
5.2
133 votes
The Frontiersmen
1938 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast William Boyd · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Russell Hayden · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis Hoppy helps schoolmarm June Lake run her schoolhouse, attended by members of the St. Brendan Boys Choir. The Bar 20 gang capture rustler Sutton and his gang after a fierce gun battle.
4.3
79 votes
4.3
79 votes
David Harum
1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction James Cruze
Cast Will Rogers · Louise Dresser · Evelyn Venable · Kent Taylor
Synopsis Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse,...
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Double Door
1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Evelyn Venable · Mary Morris · Anne Revere · Kent Taylor
Synopsis In a spooky New York City mansion, a wealthy but mean old woman threatens to return her sister to the home's secret torture chamber when the sister objects to the woman's trying to ruin the lives of relatives she doesn't...
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Star for a Night
1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Claire Trevor · Jane Darwell · Arline Judge · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Vagabond Lady
1935 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Sam Taylor
Cast Robert Young · Evelyn Venable · Reginald Denny · Frank Craven
Synopsis Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Pauline Lord · W.C. Fields · ZaSu Pitts · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges...
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Hopalong Cassidy (TV Series)
1935 · Series · 70 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton · Nate Watt · Lesley Selander · Edward D. Venturini
Cast William Boyd · James Ellison · Russell Hayden · Jay Kirby
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Racketeers in Exile
1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast George Bancroft · Evelyn Venable · Wynne Gibson · Marc Lawrence
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Female Fugitive
1938 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast Evelyn Venable · Craig Reynolds · Reed Hadley · John Kelly
Synopsis Insurance investigators go after a ring of truck hijackers.
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Cradle Song
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Dorothea Wieck · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Louise Dresser
Synopsis The only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play
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Heritage of the Desert
1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Lesley Selander
Cast Donald Woods · Evelyn Venable · Russell Hayden · Robert Barrat
Synopsis John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about...
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Lucky Cisco Kid
1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Cesar Romero · Mary Beth Hughes · Dana Andrews · Evelyn Venable
Synopsis Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is...
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