Cast: Phyllis Brooks
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Phyllis Brooks. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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
In Old Chicago
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady
Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...
6.6
340 votes
6.6
340 votes
The Unseen
1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Allen
Cast Joel McCrea · Gail Russell · Herbert Marshall · Phyllis Brooks
Plot When Elizabeth Howard (Gail Russell) comes to fashionable Crescent Drive to take charge of two motherless children, she finds them spoiled, unmanageable yet strangely cognizant of all the weird events...
6.2
46 votes
6.2
46 votes
Slightly Honorable
1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Pat O'Brien · Edward Arnold · Broderick Crawford · Ruth Terry
Plot A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
5.7
119 votes
5.7
119 votes
Lady in the Dark
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Ginger Rogers · Ray Milland · Warner Baxter · Jon Hall
Plot Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.
5.2
57 votes
5.2
57 votes
No Place for a Lady
1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast William Gargan · Margaret Lindsay · Phyllis Brooks · Dick Purcell
Plot Gargan is a private eye. He uncovers the murder of a wealthy widow and returns some stolen car tires as well.
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Straight Place and Show
1938 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast The Ritz Brothers · Richard Arlen · Ethel Merman · Phyllis Brooks
Plot The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Up the River
1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Preston Foster · Tony Martin · Phyllis Brooks · Slim Summerville
Plot Con men go to jail and become stars of the football team.
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Dangerous Passage
1944 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Robert Lowery · Phyllis Brooks · Charles Arnt · Jack La Rue
Plot While living in Central America, Joe Beck receives word that his grandfather has passed away and left him $200,000. Beck prepares to travel to Galveston, Texas to claim his inheritance,...
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Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Shirley Temple · George Murphy · Jimmy Durante · Phyllis Brooks
Plot An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the...
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Walking Down Broadway
1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Claire Trevor · Phyllis Brooks · Leah Ray · Dixie Dunbar
Plot Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Shirley Temple · Randolph Scott · Jack Haley · Gloria Stuart
Plot Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for...
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City Girl
1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Ricardo Cortez · Phyllis Brooks · Robert Wilcox · Douglas Fowley
Plot A racketeer uses a waitress to get information from the district attorney whom she comes to love.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Sidney Toler · Phyllis Brooks · Victor Sen Yung · Eddie Collins
Plot While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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Another Face
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Christy Cabanne
Cast Wallace Ford · Brian Donlevy · Phyllis Brooks · Erik Rhodes
Plot Notoriously ugly gangster Donlevy has plastic surgery, heads to Hollywood, and breaks into the movies.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Sidney Toler · Ricardo Cortez · Phyllis Brooks · Slim Summerville
Plot Mary Whitman, an old friend of Charlie's in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final.
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Dangerously Yours
1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Cesar Romero · Phyllis Brooks · Jane Darwell · Alan Dinehart
Plot A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with...
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The Flying Squad
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Brenon
Cast Sebastian Shaw · Phyllis Brooks · Jack Hawkins · Basil Radford
Plot Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who...
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You Can't Have Everything
1937 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Alice Faye · Don Ameche · The Ritz Brothers · Charles Winninger
Plot Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just...
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