Cast: Helen Westley

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


All This, and Heaven Too

1940 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil

Plot Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is...

6.9

576 votes

6.9

576 votes

Death Takes a Holiday

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander

Plot Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian...

6.7

513 votes

6.7

513 votes

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Ethel Merman

Plot This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

6.5

106 votes

6.5

106 votes

The Baroness and the Butler

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

Roberta

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Randolph Scott

Plot Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt,...

6.3

170 votes

6.3

170 votes

Café Metropole

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Loretta Young · Tyrone Power · Adolphe Menjou · Gregory Ratoff

Plot Victor Lobard, the smooth and nimble owner of the Café Metropole in Paris, has only ten days to replace a small fortune he embezzled from the business; he and a...

6.1

57 votes

6.1

57 votes

Adam Had Four Sons

1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Warner Baxter · Susan Hayward · Fay Wray

Plot Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie...

5.9

108 votes

5.9

108 votes

Banjo on My Knee

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Ernie Holley runs away on his wedding night because he thinks he has killed a wedding guest. His father Newt and bride Pearl find him in New Orleans and persuade...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Heidi

1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Shirley Temple · Jean Hersholt · Arthur Treacher · Helen Westley

Plot Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before the sweet little child has...

5.3

516 votes

5.3

516 votes

Lady from Louisiana

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast John Wayne · Ona Munson · Ray Middleton · Henry Stephenson

Plot Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted...

5.2

50 votes

5.2

50 votes

Zaza

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Claudette Colbert · Herbert Marshall · Bert Lahr · Helen Westley

Plot A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat.

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The Captain Is a Lady

1940 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Robert B. Sinclair

Cast Charles Coburn · Beulah Bondi · Virginia Grey · Helen Broderick

Plot Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the...

Not rated

Not rated

Lady with Red Hair

1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Claude Rains · Richard Ainley · Laura Hope Crews

Plot A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown...

Not rated

Not rated

Moulin Rouge

1934 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Constance Bennett · Franchot Tone · Tullio Carminati · Helen Westley

Plot A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that...

Not rated

Not rated

My Favorite Spy

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Kay Kyser · Ellen Drew · Jane Wyman · Robert Armstrong

Plot Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.

Not rated

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Wife, Husband and Friend

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Loretta Young · Warner Baxter · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Plot Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Not rated

Not rated

Half Angel

1936 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Frances Dee · Brian Donlevy · Charles Butterworth · Helen Westley

Plot Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

Not rated

Not rated

Dimples

1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Frank Morgan · Robert Kent · Helen Westley

Plot Dimples is a busker - a street entertainer, and lives in mid-19th century New York City's Bowery with her kindhearted but pickpocketing Grandfather, Prof. Eustace Appleby. Dimples is a talented...

Not rated

Not rated

Lillian Russell

1940 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Henry Fonda · Edward Arnold

Plot Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

Not rated

Not rated

Stowaway

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Robert Young · Alice Faye · Eugene Pallette

Plot Ching-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker,...

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Not rated