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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