Cast: Frances Dee

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast James Ellison · Frances Dee · Tom Conway · Edith Barrett

Synopsis Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian tending Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland, whose mind has been burnt out by a tropical disease. But Betsy comes to fall in...

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 Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Angela Lansbury · Ann Dvorak · John Carradine

Synopsis Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafes and Folies Bergere crowd, and then...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Frances Dee · Kay Johnson

Synopsis The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version of Of Human Bondage (the first of three), the introverted...

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Joel McCrea · Frances Dee · Charles Bickford · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · George Raft · Frances Dee · Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

Direction Hugh Munro Neely

Cast Jane Fonda · Frances Dee · Kitty Carlisle · Molly Haskell

Synopsis Jane Fonda narrates the story of the years between the ascent of talkies until late in 1934, when the Hays Office cracked down on what it perceived as immorality in Hollywood movies. The emphasis is on how women were portrayed,...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Synopsis Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's the passenger in a car that kills a little girl,...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Francis Lederer · Frances Dee · Benita Hume · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew

Synopsis In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris, and King Louis goes undercover to find one, thereby meeting...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Fredric March · Margaret Sullavan · Frances Dee · Glenn Ford

Synopsis An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his dying wife in Austria, he has a dangerous encounter with...

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On a surreptitious field trip to the city (engineered by "Pony"),...

Direction Rowland Brown

Cast George Bancroft · Judith Anderson · Frances Dee · Chick Chandler

Synopsis Bill Bailey is a bail bondsman who's been helping out the mob for years. He falls for a pretty shoplifter named Elaine. She's actually slumming, as she's from a wealthy family. This leaves Bailey's girlfriend, club owner Ruby in the...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Joel McCrea · Laura Hope Crews · Eric Linden

Synopsis A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke

Synopsis Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Joel McCrea · Bob Burns · Frances Dee · Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis This is one of those history lesson films that tell us an interesting story about the expansion of this country, the failure of the US Post Office to meet the demands for communication in the rapidly expanding country of the...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Ann Dvorak · Frances Dee · Lee Tracy

Synopsis A beautiful girl convinces a reporter to cover up her involvement in a murder.

Direction John H. Auer

Cast John Wayne · Frances Dee · Edward Ellis · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to investigate the death of a friend who is found shot to death after spending the evening in The Inferno, a night club that fronts for an illicit gambling operation. It is...

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Walter Huston · Frances Dee · Minna Gombell · Frank Conroy

Synopsis Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant Walsh, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia, requests permission to re-enlist...