Cast: Eric Blore

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


Sullivan's Travels

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest

Plot Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

The Lady Eve

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn · Eugene Pallette

Plot Barbara Stanwyck stars as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Top Hat

1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick

Plot Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

Holy Matrimony

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Monty Woolley · Gracie Fields · Laird Cregar · Una O'Connor

Plot From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.

7.0

129 votes

7.0

129 votes

The Gay Divorcee

1934 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Alice Brady

Plot Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Swing Time

1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Betty Furness · Victor Moore

Plot Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her....

6.8

979 votes

6.8

979 votes

The Shanghai Gesture

1941 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Plot Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in...

6.8

826 votes

6.8

826 votes

The Good Fairy

1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Herbert Marshall · Frank Morgan · Reginald Owen

Plot A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

6.8

247 votes

6.8

247 votes

Shall We Dance?

1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Eric Blore

Plot Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time...

6.8

705 votes

6.8

705 votes

It's Love I'm After

1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Eric Blore

Plot Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant's fiancée Marcia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry's request Basil acts boorishly so as to kill the...

6.6

143 votes

6.6

143 votes

Kitty

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Patric Knowles · Reginald Owen

Plot London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. He paints her as an "anonymous lady" who excites the interest of his...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

Quality Street

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Franchot Tone · Eric Blore · Fay Bainter

Plot England, year 1805. Phoebe and Susan Throssel are sisters living in Quality Street. Phoebe is courted by Dr. Valentine Brown and her sister and noisy neighbors expect a proposal shortly....

6.4

370 votes

6.4

370 votes

6.3

29 votes

Swiss Miss

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Grete Natzler · Walter Woolf King

Plot Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt,...

6.2

81 votes

6.2

81 votes

The Moon and Sixpence

1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Herbert Marshall · Doris Dudley · Eric Blore

Plot Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted...

6.2

130 votes

6.2

130 votes

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1987 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

6.1

63 votes

6.1

63 votes

Joy of Living

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Irene Dunne · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Alice Brady · Guy Kibbee

Plot A young stage star is at the prime of her career. She lives an intensely hectic life, chock full of promotional appearances and shallow, greedy family members. But all this...

6.0

55 votes

6.0

55 votes

Love Happy

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Breakfast for Two

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Glenda Farrell · Eric Blore

Plot Texas socialite Valentine Ransome sets out to reform playboy Jonathan Blair and also to break up his engagement with actress Carol Wallace. Happy-go-lucky Blair has inherited a big steamship company...

5.9

98 votes

5.9

98 votes

I Live My Life

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Joan Crawford · Brian Aherne · Aline MacMahon · Frank Morgan

Plot Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece-where she meets, Terry, an archaeologist. Kay flirts with Terry and he falls for Kay. Kay heads back...

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes