Cast: Louise Dresser

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early twentieth century cinema. Dietrich is Princess Sophia from Germany, induced...

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Synopsis Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late...

Direction John Ford

Cast Will Rogers · Vera Allen · Marian Nixon · Howard Lally

Synopsis Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in the small town where he practices. When there is a mysterious outbreak of typhoid which the doctor is slow in reacting to,...

Direction John Ford

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Franchot Tone · Reginald Denny · Sig Ruman

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Vilma Bánky · Louise Dresser · Albert Conti

Synopsis Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jack Holt · Ernest Torrence · Esther Ralston · Louise Dresser

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Al Jolson · Lois Moran · Lowell Sherman · Louise Dresser

Synopsis Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell...

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Janet Gaynor · Lew Ayres · Ned Sparks · Walter Connolly

Direction James Cruze

Cast Will Rogers · Louise Dresser · Evelyn Venable · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse,...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Louise Dresser · Rudolph Schildkraut · Milton Holmes · Linda Landi

Synopsis The saga of Hungarian immigrants coming to America. When the father is accused of placing a bomb in the court where he works, he never gives up his patriotism.

Direction Howard Hawks · Lewis Seiler

Cast Arthur Lake · Sue Carol · David Rollins · Louise Dresser

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Lois Moran · Noah Beery · Louise Dresser · Helen Jerome Eddy

Synopsis Edith Gilbert, the daughter of Henry Gilbert--a wealthy but bigoted and puritanical reformer--leaves home following her mother's death to seek her fortune on Broadway. Through her boardinghouse roommate, Edith gets work as a cafe dancer. At the cafe, she attracts...

Direction William Nigh

Cast Lon Chaney · Louise Dresser · Renée Adorée · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Raised by his grandfather to adhere to the ancient laws of China, Mandarin Wu is a strict authoritarian. However, he is a doting father to his beautiful daughter Nang Ping. Nang Ping is to be married to a man of...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Corinne Griffith · Louise Dresser · Lowell Sherman · Maude George

Synopsis Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Rod La Rocque · Louise Dresser · Jobyna Ralston · Cyril Chadwick

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Harvey Stephens · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its advantage, getting even with everyone for every slight--real...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Dolores Costello · Louise Dresser · Rockcliffe Fellowes · Jason Robards Sr.

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Patsy Ruth Miller · Louise Dresser · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jerry Miley

Direction Graeme Ferguson · Saul J. Turell

Cast Jean Acker · Bronco Billy Anderson · Agnes Ayres · John Barrymore

Synopsis A documentary of Hollywood’s first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Louise Dresser · Jack Pickford · Constance Bennett · George Cooper

Synopsis A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of...