Cast: Joseph Cawthorne

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


The Great Ziegfeld

1936 · Movie · 176 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan

Synopsis At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting...

6.5

687 votes

6.5

687 votes

So Ends Our Night

1941 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Fredric March · Margaret Sullavan · Frances Dee · Glenn Ford

Synopsis An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his dying wife in Austria, he has a dangerous encounter with...

6.2

89 votes

6.2

89 votes

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Dick Powell · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Stuart · Alice Brady

Synopsis In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe, but Ann falls in...

6.1

62 votes

6.1

62 votes

The Taming of the Shrew

1929 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Douglas Fairbanks · Edwin Maxwell · Joseph Cawthorne

Synopsis In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine, is betrothed. This task seems impossible because of Katherine's shrewish...

5.6

74 votes

5.6

74 votes

Sweet Adeline

1934 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Irene Dunne · Donald Woods · Hugh Herbert · Ned Sparks

Synopsis In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star.

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Made on Broadway

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Robert Montgomery · Sally Eilers · Madge Evans · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis Jeff is the supreme press agent who has his own private club where the rich and powerful meet and drink for free. It is free until they need him and he charges a bundle. Jeff has power, influence and a...

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Housewife

1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast George Brent · Bette Davis · Ann Dvorak · John Halliday

Synopsis Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife...

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Whistling in the Dark

1933 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Ernest Truex · Una Merkel · Edward Arnold · John Miljan

Synopsis A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to get writer's help in devising the "perfect crime"

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The Human Side

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Doris Kenyon · Charlotte Henry · Reginald Owen

Synopsis The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

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Dance Hall

1929 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Melville W. Brown

Cast Olive Borden · Arthur Lake · Ralph Emerson · Margaret Seddon

Synopsis A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

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Music in the Air

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Joe May

Cast Gloria Swanson · John Boles · Douglass Montgomery · June Lang

Synopsis Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

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Dixiana

1930 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Luther Reed

Cast Bebe Daniels · Everett Marshall · Bert Wheeler · Robert Woolsey

Synopsis In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.

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They Call It Sin

1932 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Loretta Young · George Brent · Una Merkel · David Manners

Synopsis With time on his hands during a business trip, Jimmy Decker (who's engaged to his boss's daughter) romances small-town church organist Marion Cullen, who follows him to New York only to learn Jimmy's true colors after she's burned her bridges....

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A Tailor Made Man

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast William Haines · Dorothy Jordan · Joseph Cawthorne · Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor’s shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham...

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The Cat and the Fiddle

1934 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard · Sam Wood

Cast Ramon Novarro · Jeanette MacDonald · Frank Morgan · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta, "The Cat and the Fiddle", produced by famed impresario, Jules...

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Lazy River

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Jean Parker · Robert Young · Ted Healy · Nat Pendleton

Synopsis Three ex-cons help save a mother and daughter's shrimp business from wicked slavers.

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The Last Gentleman

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast George Arliss · Edna May Oliver · Janet Beecher · Charlotte Henry

Synopsis In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in...

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Scatterbrain

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Gus Meins

Cast Judy Canova · Alan Mowbray · Ruth Donnelly · Eddie Foy Jr.

Synopsis Eddie MacIntyre, press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J. R. Russell, a producer-director at Perfection Pictures, contrives a scheme to plant his girl friend, actress Esther Harrington, in the Ozark Mountains and then discover her for the role...

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