Cast: Mary Brian

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


The Front Page

1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All...

6.7

295 votes

6.7

295 votes

6.7

283 votes

Hard to Handle

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

The Virginian

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Huston · Mary Brian · Richard Arlen

Synopsis Molly Wood (Mary Brian) arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian (Gary Cooper), foreman on a local ranch, and Steve, his best fiend, soon become rivals for her affection. Steve falls in with bad...

6.3

147 votes

6.3

147 votes

The Royal Family of Broadway

1930 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor · Cyril Gardner

Cast Ina Claire · Fredric March · Mary Brian · Henrietta Crosman

Synopsis Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling...

5.5

26 votes

5.5

26 votes

Direction Alfred Zeisler

Cast Cary Grant · Mary Brian · Peter Gawthorne · Henry Kendall

Synopsis Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill:...

5.4

163 votes

5.4

163 votes

Direction Louis Lewyn

Cast Jack Oakie · Bing Crosby · Leo Carrillo · Mary Pickford

Synopsis Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.

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Paris at Midnight

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction E. Mason Hopper

Cast Jetta Goudal · Lionel Barrymore · Mary Brian · Edmund Burns

Synopsis In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.

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Burning Up

1930 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Richard Arlen · Mary Brian · Francis McDonald · Sam Hardy

Synopsis Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

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Harold Teen

1928 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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The River of Romance

1929 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Mary Brian · June Collyer · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to...

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The Man I Love

1929 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

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Beau Geste

1926 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Ronald Colman · Neil Hamilton · Ralph Forbes · Alice Joyce

Synopsis Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.

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I Escaped from the Gestapo

1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Harold Young

Cast Dean Jagger · John Carradine · Mary Brian · William Henry

Synopsis A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

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Dragnet

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Henry Wilcoxon · Mary Brian · Douglass Dumbrille · Virginia Dale

Synopsis Wilcoxon, a Scotland Yard inspector, travels to New York to investigate the activities of an international band of jewel thieves.

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Girl Missing

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Glenda Farrell · Ben Lyon · Mary Brian · Lyle Talbot

Synopsis Two sassy gold-diggers stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who goes missing on her wedding night.

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Brown of Harvard

1926 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Haines · Jack Pickford · Mary Brian · Ralph Bushman

Synopsis Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

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Charlie Chan in Paris

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler · Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Warner Oland · Mary Brian · Thomas Beck · John Miljan

Synopsis Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.

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One Year Later

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction E. Mason Hopper

Cast Mary Brian · Russell Hopton · Don Dillaway · DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants...

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Blessed Event

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Lee Tracy · Dick Powell · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins

Synopsis Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk...

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