Cast: Walter Connolly

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


It Happened One Night

1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across country by bus, a fugitive from high society. En route, she meets the man of...

7.9

16K votes

7.9

16K votes

The Good Earth

1937 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Paul Muni · Luise Rainer · Walter Connolly · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. By diligence and frugality the two manage to enlarge their property. But then a famine forces them...

7.3

537 votes

7.3

537 votes

Lady for a Day

1933 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

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,"...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

So Red the Rose

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Walter Connolly · Randolph Scott · Janet Beecher

Synopsis SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's...

7.1

21 votes

7.1

21 votes

Man's Castle

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Loretta Young · Marjorie Rambeau · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

7.0

332 votes

7.0

332 votes

Libeled Lady

1936 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy

Synopsis Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury for...

7.0

468 votes

7.0

468 votes

Twentieth Century

1934 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Barrymore · Carole Lombard · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and...

6.8

502 votes

6.8

502 votes

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Nils Asther · Walter Connolly · Gavin Gordon

Synopsis The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. However, Robert postpones their wedding to rescue some orphans in an orphanage in Chapei section that is burning in the...

6.7

518 votes

6.7

518 votes

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Synopsis When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Broadway Bill

1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson

Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill than for his wife Margaret or his job at father-in-law J. L. Higgins's business. When...

6.5

294 votes

6.5

294 votes

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mickey Rooney · Walter Connolly · William Frawley · Rex Ingram

Synopsis The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1939 film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel of the same name, starring Mickey Rooney in the title role.

6.2

435 votes

6.2

435 votes

Too Hot To Handle

1938 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Myrna Loy · Walter Pidgeon · Walter Connolly

Synopsis Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant....

6.2

75 votes

6.2

75 votes

Four's a Crowd

1938 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Rosalind Russell · Patric Knowles

Synopsis Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert. When he finds out that Pat...

6.0

61 votes

6.0

61 votes

The Captain Hates the Sea

1934 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Victor McLaglen · Wynne Gibson · Alison Skipworth · John Gilbert

Synopsis Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune...

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Let's Get Married

1937 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Ida Lupino · Walter Connolly · Ralph Bellamy · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis Joe Quinn, a wealthy political boss, wants his daughter Paula, known as "Red," to marry socially connected George Willoughby, who is running for Congress with Joe's assistance. Red is amenable to the marriage until she learns that her father and...

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Servants' Entrance

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

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Bridal Suite

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Wilhelm Thiele

Cast Annabella · Robert Young · Walter Connolly · Reginald Owen

Synopsis An American playboy dumps his greedy finace and ends up marrying a woman from the alps.

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East of Fifth Avenue

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Wallace Ford · Mary Carlisle · Dorothy Tree · Walter Connolly

Synopsis A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion...

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The Great Victor Herbert

1939 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Walter Connolly · Mary Currier · Allan Jones · Mary Martin

Synopsis In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the...

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Not rated