Cast: Edna May Oliver

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Synopsis A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Ronald Colman · Elizabeth Allan · Edna May Oliver · Reginald Owen

Synopsis An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young

Synopsis England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Synopsis Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious quartet are very close and happy despite limited means. Laurie...

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Synopsis In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they are happy living in their one room cabin. With the...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Richard Dix · Ann Harding · Edna May Oliver · Guy Kibbee

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Richard Dix · Irene Dunne · Estelle Taylor · William Collier Jr.

Synopsis The Best Picture of 1931 chronicles one family's experiences in the restless days of settling the American West. Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of an Oklahoma town and the homesteaders who came there from...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edna May Oliver · Lew Fields

Synopsis This is the film version of Vernon and Irene Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Walter Huston · Conrad Nagel · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis As the Great War breaks out, Ann Vickers, a serious, independent and forthright woman, falls for an officer who jilts her before she can tell him she's pregnant. After an abortion, she throws herself into social work, stirring things up...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Edna May Oliver · Hugh Herbert · Dorothy Lee · Russell Gleason

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Merle Oberon · Edna May Oliver · Alan Marshal · Joseph Cotten

Synopsis Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Leslie Howard · Norma Shearer · John Barrymore · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall passionately in love. Since their families would disapprove, they marry...

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason · Mae Clarke

Synopsis The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. Naturally, suspicion falls on his wife and her boyfriend, who were present. Inspector Piper investigates with the unsolicited aid of teacher Hildegard Withers, a...

Direction Lloyd Corrigan

Cast Edna May Oliver · James Gleason · Lola Lane · George Meeker

Synopsis On vacation, schoolteacher/detective Miss Withers flies to Catalina Island; on landing, a passenger is found mysteriously dead. With local authorities unwilling to make waves over a natural (they hope) death, Miss Withers interests her old friend Inspector Piper in the...

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Edna May Oliver · James Gleason · Bruce Cabot · Gertrude Michael

Synopsis There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Edna May Oliver · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sonja Henie · Tyrone Power · Rudy Vallee · Edna May Oliver

Synopsis Studio publicist (Power) discovers Minnesota skating teacher (Henie) and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Nelson Eddy · Eleanor Powell · Frank Morgan · Edna May Oliver

Synopsis West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.