Cast: Dorothy Burgess
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dorothy Burgess. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 22
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Robert Youngson
Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant
Plot A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the...
6.5
24 votes
6.5
24 votes
Hold Your Man
1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Jean Harlow · Clark Gable · Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Burgess
Plot Eddie Hall and his partner Slim are a pair of nickel-and-dime con men on the hustle. Nearly caught by the police, Eddie ducks into Ruby Adams's apartment and convinces her...
6.2
37 votes
6.2
37 votes
Fashions of 1934
1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast William Powell · Bette Davis · Frank McHugh · Hugh Herbert
Plot Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. His assistant Lynn poses as An American interested in a dress and Snap conceals a camera...
6.1
90 votes
6.1
90 votes
Taxi!
1932 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast James Cagney · Loretta Young · George E. Stone · Guy Kibbee
Plot Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the...
6.1
35 votes
6.1
35 votes
Ladies They Talk About
1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton · William Keighley
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Preston Foster · Lyle Talbot · Dorothy Burgess
Plot Gun moll Nan Taylor, caught after an otherwise successful bank robbery, falls for radio crusader David Slade and confides her guilt to him. Much to her surprise, he turns her...
6.0
75 votes
6.0
75 votes
In Old Arizona
1928 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings · Raoul Walsh
Cast Warner Baxter · Edmund Lowe · Dorothy Burgess · Tom Smith
Plot Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot...
5.5
58 votes
5.5
58 votes
Black Moon
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Jack Holt · Fay Wray · Dorothy Burgess · Cora Sue Collins
Plot A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her....
5.4
22 votes
5.4
22 votes
The Circus Clown
1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joe E. Brown · Patricia Ellis · Dorothy Burgess · Don Dillaway
Plot Joe E. Brown plays a dual role as young acrobat Happy and his father Chuck. In the opening scene we see Chuck Howard telling his old boss at the circus...
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Girls in Chains
1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Arline Judge · Roger Clark · Robin Raymond · Barbara Pepper
Plot When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls' reformatory.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Edwin L. Marin
Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Patricia Ellis · Phillip Reed
Plot When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Ladies Must Love
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast June Knight · Neil Hamilton · Sally O'Neil · Dorothy Burgess
Plot Three Broadway gold-diggers sign a contract to share their ill-gotten gains, and convince their more morally upstanding roommate, Jeannie, into signing it as well. When she falls for a Park...
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From Headquarters
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast George Brent · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette · Robert Barrat
Plot A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead. He was actually a vicious blackmailer. It's up to police lieutenant Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates like...
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A Modern Hero
1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Richard Barthelmess · Jean Muir · Marjorie Rambeau · Verree Teasdale
Plot Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him...
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The Stoker
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Chester M. Franklin
Cast Monte Blue · Dorothy Burgess · Noah Beery · Natalie Moorhead
Plot A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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Play Girl
1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Winnie Lightner · Loretta Young · Norman Foster · Guy Kibbee
Plot A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.
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It's Great to Be Alive
1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Raul Roulien · Edna May Oliver · Gloria Stuart · Herbert Mundin
Plot An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of...
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall
Cast Dorothea Wieck · Alice Brady · Baby LeRoy · William Frawley
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Charles Ruggles · Ann Dvorak · Eugene Pallette · Robert Barrat
Plot After 20 years of writing for The Balance, Asaph has become a conservative shadow of his former self. When his ex-college chum visits Asaph, he cannot believe the change. So...
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Village Tale
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction John Cromwell
Cast Randolph Scott · Kay Johnson · Robert Barrat · Janet Beecher
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The West Side Kid
1943 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Don 'Red' Barry · Henry Hull · Dale Evans · Chick Chandler
Plot Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing...
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