Cast: Alison Skipworth
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alison Skipworth. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter
Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie
Plot 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...
6.6
856 votes
6.6
856 votes
The Devil is a Woman
1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Lionel Atwill · Cesar Romero · Edward Everett Horton
Plot Coquettish Spanish vixen Concha (Marlene Dietrich) toys with long-suffering lover "Pasqualito" (Lionel Atwill, in a surprisingly sympathetic role for once) while entertaining the advances of hot-blooded revolutionary Cesar Romero, in...
6.6
688 votes
6.6
688 votes
Dangerous
1935 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Bette Davis · Franchot Tone · Margaret Lindsay · Alison Skipworth
Plot Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his...
6.6
245 votes
6.6
245 votes
The song of songs
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Brian Aherne · Lionel Atwill · Alison Skipworth
Plot Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms...
6.5
177 votes
6.5
177 votes
Night After Night
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast George Raft · Constance Cummings · Wynne Gibson · Mae West
6.5
42 votes
6.5
42 votes
Six of a Kind
1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns
Plot The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase,...
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling
Plot 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...
6.4
330 votes
6.4
330 votes
Tonight or Never
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Gloria Swanson · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Greig · Ferdinand Gottschalk
Plot Sexy Gloria Swanson (adorned in an array of stunning Coco Chanel gowns) stars in this romantic comedy as Nella Vago, a Hungarian opera diva whose singing coach insists that her...
6.1
191 votes
6.1
191 votes
Raffles
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction George Fitzmaurice
Cast Ronald Colman · Kay Francis · Bramwell Fletcher · Frances Dade
Plot A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he...
6.0
22 votes
6.0
22 votes
The Girl from 10th Avenue (Men on Her Mind)
1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Alfred E. Green
Cast Bette Davis · Ian Hunter · Colin Clive · Alison Skipworth
Plot When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a...
5.9
27 votes
5.9
27 votes
The Princess Comes Across
1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Douglass Dumbrille · Alison Skipworth
Plot A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
5.9
30 votes
5.9
30 votes
Becky Sharp
1935 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke
Plot Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's...
5.8
116 votes
5.8
116 votes
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone
Plot President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
5.6
39 votes
5.6
39 votes
Satan Met a Lady
1936 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Bette Davis · Warren William · Alison Skipworth · Arthur Treacher
Plot The second of three film adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon.
5.6
121 votes
5.6
121 votes
Here Is My Heart
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tuttle
Cast Bing Crosby · Kitty Carlisle · Roland Young · Alison Skipworth
Plot A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
1934 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Victor McLaglen · Wynne Gibson · Alison Skipworth · John Gilbert
Plot 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...
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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.
Plot 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...
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Devotion
1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Robert Milton
Cast Ann Harding · Leslie Howard · Robert Williams · O.P. Heggie
Plot The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) "dutiful" daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself, and takes a job as governess to his son. Adapted from...
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Stolen Holiday
1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Kay Francis · Claude Rains · Ian Hunter · Alison Skipworth
Plot Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well...
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Oh, for a Man!
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Hamilton MacFadden
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Reginald Denny · Marjorie White · Warren Hymer
Plot Carlotta Manson is a young and beautiful opera star who wants some spice in her personal life. She threatens to forsake opera for a wild, romantic fling. One night, a...
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