Direction: Roy Del Ruth

Direction Roy Del Ruth

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

Plot 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...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Louis Calhern · Noel Francis

Plot At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bebe Daniels · Ricardo Cortez · Dudley Digges · Una Merkel

Plot Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout, he wastes no time before seeing her. It turns...

Direction Roy Del Ruth · W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel

Plot Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show, but he is short of money. He gets an offer of money by the young widow Lilian, if she can dance in...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Helen Vinson · Russell Hopton

Plot Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Don DeFore · Ann Harding · Charles Ruggles · Victor Moore

Plot A hobo and friends take up residence in a mansion whilst the family is away on Christmas holiday.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · Margaret Lindsay · Leslie Fenton

Plot When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and...

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Plot The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Robert Taylor · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Judy Garland

Plot A young singer/dancer (Eleanor Powell) goes to New York City in hopes of becoming a Broadway star. Along the way she encounters two vaudeville hopefuls (George Murphy and Buddy Ebsen),...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel

Plot Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway....

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...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Joan Blondell · Roland Young · Carole Landis · Billie Burke

Plot Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis),...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast George Raft · Virginia Mayo · Gene Lockhart · Raymond Burr

Plot Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky,...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Harry Langdon · Alberta Vaughn · Jack Cooper · Tiny Ward

Plot Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Harry Langdon · Andy Clyde · Madeline Hurlock · Tiny Ward

Plot The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab....

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Karl Malden · Claude Dauphin · Patricia Medina · Steve Forrest

Plot After several women are murdered, the police are baffled who the suspect is. All evidence points to Bonnard, but soon it becomes apparent that it is something that is stronger...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Virginia Mayo · Doris Day · Gordon MacRae

Plot Broadway director Bix Bixby, down on his luck (thanks to gambling), is reluctantly persuaded to go to West Point military academy (with Eve, his gorgeous assistant and on-and-off love) to...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Beverly Garland · Bruce Bennett · Lon Chaney Jr. · George Macready

Plot A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Jack Smith · Leon Ames

Plot The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

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

Plot 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...