Cast: John Halliday

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


The Philadelphia Story

1940 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey

Synopsis Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry nouveau riche George Kittredge (John Howard). Wedding preparations are complicated when she is blackmailed by publisher...

8.0

26K votes

8.0

26K votes

Desire

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · John Halliday · William Frawley

Synopsis Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without...

7.0

758 votes

7.0

758 votes

Peter Ibbetson

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Ann Harding · Ida Lupino · John Halliday

Synopsis This romantic period drama was acclaimed by surrealists when it was released in 1935. Cooper stars in the titular role, an architect who travels to meet with the Duke of Towers and receive a commission from him. He discovers that...

7.0

684 votes

7.0

684 votes

Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Leslie Howard · Ingrid Bergman · Edna Best · John Halliday

Synopsis After a successful tour ended in New York, the famous violinist Holger Brandt returns to his home in Stockholm. In the birthday party of his beloved daughter Ann Marie, he feels attracted by and plays with her piano teacher, Anita...

6.6

399 votes

6.6

399 votes

Bed of Roses

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Constance Bennett · Joel McCrea · John Halliday · Pert Kelton

Synopsis Florry and Minnieare ex-hookers who leave prison, determined to find the good life with rich men. Along the way Florrie meets and falls in love with cotton barge owner Dan. She must choose between living on a barge with her...

6.5

149 votes

6.5

149 votes

Smart Woman

1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Mary Astor · Robert Ames · John Halliday · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Sexist tale in which Mrs. Nancy Gibson is blamed for husband Donald's philandering because she takes a trip without him. To make him jealous, she turns her attentions to another man (Sir Guy Harrington).

6.4

93 votes

6.4

93 votes

Finishing School

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction George Nichols Jr. · Wanda Tuchock

Cast Frances Dee · Billie Burke · Ginger Rogers · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Virginia Radcliff, a remarkably unspoiled but naive rich-kid, finds herself at a swank girls' school where everything appears prim and proper, but the motto is essentially "Don't Get Caught." On a surreptitious field trip to the city (engineered by "Pony"),...

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

The Dark Angel

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Fredric March · Merle Oberon · Herbert Marshall · Janet Beecher

Synopsis Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

6.0

24 votes

Lydia

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Merle Oberon · Edna May Oliver · Alan Marshal · Joseph Cotten

Synopsis Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for...

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 votes

5.9

221 votes

Blockade

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Henry Fonda · Leo Carrillo · John Halliday

Synopsis Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal...

5.5

205 votes

5.5

205 votes

That Certain Age

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Deanna Durbin · Melvyn Douglas · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich

Synopsis Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own...

5.0

29 votes

5.0

29 votes

Mystery Woman

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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Hollywood Boulevard

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast John Halliday · Marsha Hunt · Robert Cummings · C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the...

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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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Arsène Lupin Returns

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Virginia Bruce · Warren William · John Halliday

Synopsis A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is...

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The House on 56th Street

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Gene Raymond · John Halliday

Synopsis This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin falls in love with Monte Van Tyle and breaks the news to lover Fiske that she is leaving him. She and Monte marry and move...

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Millie

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Helen Twelvetrees · Lilyan Tashman · Robert Ames · James Hall

Synopsis Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

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The Ruling Voice

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Walter Huston · Loretta Young · Dudley Digges · David Manners

Synopsis For the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he's built.

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