Cast: Evelyn Venable

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Evelyn Venable. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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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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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