Cast: Beryl Mercer

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


The Public Enemy

1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Synopsis A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Miracle Woman

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · David Manners · Sam Hardy · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis Stanwyck's particularly fine as evangelist Florence "Faith" Fallon, who becomes very successful thanks to her way with words, some fake miracles, and the talents of shady promoter Hornsby (Sam Hardy). After blind ex-pilot John Carson (David Manners) hears her on...

6.7

318 votes

6.7

318 votes

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Taylor · Charles Butterworth · Betty Furness

Synopsis The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, which results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon and generous philanthropist. Merrick falls in love with Hudson's widow,...

6.6

317 votes

6.6

317 votes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Richard Greene · Basil Rathbone · Wendy Barrie · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound. First casting of Rathbone...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Night Must Fall

1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Montgomery · Rosalind Russell · Dame May Whitty · Alan Marshal

Synopsis Crotchety old Mrs. Bransom hires a charming young man named Danny as a live-in companion. Less charmed by Danny is Mrs. Bransom's niece, Olivia, a repressed young woman who suspects Danny of foul play. When news of a local murder...

6.3

167 votes

6.3

167 votes

Inspiration

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Montgomery · Lewis Stone · Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis Yvonne is a Parisian woman with a disreputable past. When this past returns to haunt her, she decides to leave her boyfriend in order to presever his honor. Later, she returns to him, but the couple have many more trials...

6.3

80 votes

6.3

80 votes

Smilin' Through

1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Norma Shearer · Fredric March · Leslie Howard · O.P. Heggie

Synopsis John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned when her parents were lost at sea. Kathleen is five,...

6.2

61 votes

6.2

61 votes

Berkeley Square

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne

Synopsis A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Young America

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Doris Kenyon · Ralph Bellamy · Tommy Conlon

Synopsis Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears them arguing over him, Arthur runs away. When...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

5.9

135 votes

The Little Minister

1934 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Katharine Hepburn · John Beal · Alan Hale · Donald Crisp

Synopsis In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the...

5.6

86 votes

5.6

86 votes

Blind Adventure

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Robert Armstrong · Helen Mack · Roland Young · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis King Kong co-star Robert Armstrong plays Richard Bruce, an American in London who stumbles into the lair of a kidnap-blackmail gang. Playing his cards close to his vest, Bruce manages to get his hands on the "secret papers" that are...

5.2

53 votes

5.2

53 votes

The Richest Girl in the World

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis A witty Norman Krasna script distinguishes this airy romantic comedy. Millionairess Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be...

4.9

33 votes

4.9

33 votes

Seven Days Leave

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Gary Cooper · Beryl Mercer · Daisy Belmore · Nora Cecil

Synopsis A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that he is in fact her...

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A Woman Is the Judge

1939 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Frieda Inescort · Otto Kruger · Rochelle Hudson · Mayo Methot

Synopsis A famous woman jurist at the peak of her career resigns the bench to defend her daughter against a murder charge.

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East Lynne

1931 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ann Harding · Clive Brook · Conrad Nagel · Cecilia Loftus

Synopsis The trophy wife of a stodgy man of wealth yearns for a more interesting life.

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Outward Bound

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Milton · Ray Enright

Cast Leslie Howard · Alison Skipworth · Beryl Mercer · Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Synopsis A disparate group of passengers, finding themselves aboard a darkened, fog-enshrouded crewless boat, realize the one thing they have in common is that they are all dead, with the possible exception of a young suicide couple who have not quite...

Not rated

Not rated

In Gay Madrid

1930 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Ramon Novarro · Dorothy Jordan · Lottice Howell · Claude King

Synopsis Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school...

Not rated

Not rated

The Matrimonial Bed

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Frank Fay · James Gleason · Lilyan Tashman · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis Leopold Trebel (Frank Fay) is a man who was in a train wreck five years earlier and was taken for dead by his wife, Juliet (Florence Eldridge) Leopold and Juliet have both remarried. Leopold, who remembers nothing that occurred before...

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Not rated

The Man in Possession

1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Montgomery · Charlotte Greenwood · Irene Purcell · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis An out-of-luck heiress falls for the man appointed to dispose of her property.

Not rated

Not rated