Cast: Ruth Donnelly

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


Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dana Andrews · Gene Tierney · Gary Merrill · Bert Freed

Synopsis Cop Mark Dixon (Dan Andrews) is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides to cover it up and pin the killing on a racketeer he...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Employees' Entrance

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Warren William · Loretta Young · Wallace Ford · Alice White

Synopsis Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such...

7.0

48 votes

7.0

48 votes

Hands Across the Table

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get a little crazy when Theodore Drew III enters her life....

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

6.8

257 votes

The Secret of Convict Lake

1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Glenn Ford · Gene Tierney · Ethel Barrymore · Zachary Scott

Synopsis Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man who not only framed him, but committed the crime. But...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

Autumn Leaves

1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Joan Crawford · Cliff Robertson · Vera Miles · Lorne Greene

Synopsis Milly, a lonely older woman, marries Burt Hanson, a much younger man. But after the wedding, Milly discovers that Burt has been mentally unhinged by the discovery, some time before, of his first wife Virginia in the arms of his...

6.7

422 votes

6.7

422 votes

Bells of St. Mary's

1945 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Ingrid Bergman · Henry Travers · William Gargan

Synopsis Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in...

6.7

826 votes

6.7

826 votes

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop.

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

Mandalay

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · Ricardo Cortez · Warner Oland · Lyle Talbot

Synopsis Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Hard to Handle

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

Ever in My Heart

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Otto Kruger · Ralph Bellamy · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and marries Mary. Hugo joins the faculty of a small college...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

A Lawless Street

1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Randolph Scott · Angela Lansbury · Warner Anderson · Jean Parker

Synopsis Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed, and alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. The realization that someone in town is paying to have him...

6.0

238 votes

6.0

238 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

Synopsis 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 in. As a "new fish" at San Quentin, Nan fits...

Max

6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

Private Detective 62

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Margaret Lindsay · Ruth Donnelly · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he''s investigating.

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

My Little Chickadee

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Mae West · W.C. Fields · Joseph Calleia · Dick Foran

Synopsis Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for "respectability." Arrived in Greasewood City with...

5.8

36 votes

5.8

36 votes

Female

1933 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz · William Dieterle · William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · George Brent · Johnny Mack Brown · Lois Wilson

Synopsis Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and...

5.8

76 votes

5.8

76 votes

You Belong to Me

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Edgar Buchanan · Roger Clark

Synopsis On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she continue to practice medicine. But will jealous Peter be...

5.6

50 votes

5.6

50 votes

The spoilers

1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Jesse Hibbs

Cast Anne Baxter · Jeff Chandler · Rory Calhoun · Ray Danton

Synopsis Rex Beach's immortal saga of the Yukon!

5.4

81 votes

5.4

81 votes

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bette Davis · Lewis Stone · Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that she...

5.2

42 votes

5.2

42 votes