Cast: May Robson

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Synopsis David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting with his potential benefactors, Huxley meets Susan Vance (Hepburn) who...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society lady. This treatment of a Damon Runyon story was, next to "It's a Wonderful Life,"...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Fredric March · Basil Rathbone · Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis Anna Karenina (Garbo), a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. Karenin (Basil Rathbone), her husband, refuses to give her a divorce, but,...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Synopsis Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor...

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 Jack Conway

Cast Jean Harlow · Chester Morris · Lewis Stone · Leila Hyams

Synopsis Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur...

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Tommy Kelly · May Robson · Walter Brennan · Victor Jory

Synopsis Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Includes the whitewash episode, puppy love, the graveyard murder,...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast John Garfield · Claude Rains · Ann Sheridan · May Robson

Synopsis Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona, run...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Fred Astaire

Synopsis Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he...

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 Michael Curtiz

Cast Priscilla Lane · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Gale Page

Synopsis Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Michèle Morgan · Paul Henreid · Thomas Mitchell · Laird Cregar

Synopsis An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Myrna Loy · May Robson

Synopsis The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Franchot Tone · May Robson

Synopsis Producer David O. Selznick had dreams of musical stardom for Jean Harlow when he cast her in the melodrama Reckless, based on the tragic life of Broadway singer Libby Holman (called Mona Leslie in the movie). Harlow is charming in...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Ray Milland · Roland Young · Alan Marshal

Synopsis Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob, Mrs. Vincent's son. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money in Bob's latest venture, the...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Alexander Kirkland · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during WWI. Nina would have...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Joan Blondell · May Robson · Edward Everett Horton

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Leatrice Joy · Victor Varconi · May Robson · Alice Lake

Direction Alan Hale

Cast Bessie Love · Erwin Connelly · Frank Coghlan Jr. · May Robson

Synopsis The Stack family of New York City has fallen on difficult financial times. Pa Stack squandered the family's money by buying a home in Newhall, California, hoping that there would be oil on the land.

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Pat O'Brien · Wayne Morris · Joan Blondell · May Robson

Synopsis Hayseed boxer Morris won't fight until he finds the mother who abandoned him as a baby; O'Brien is scheming manager who gets him into the ring by hiring gin-soaked kleptomaniac Robson to pose as the old dame.