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

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...

Max

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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Not rated

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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Not rated