Bringing Up Baby (1938) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a ...

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Anna Karenina (1935) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson

This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character, the sheltered wife of Czarist official Rathbone. Intending to dissuade Rathbone's brother (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, Garbo is sidetracked by her own fascination with dashing military officer Fredric March. ...

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A Star Is Born (1937) more movies like this

directed by Jack Conway, William Wellman
featuring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine

A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a "true behind-the-scenes" story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, the small-town ...

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Dancing Lady (1933) more movies like this

directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire

Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with his society friend, wealthy young Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) spots Janie in the burleycue chorus ...

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Lady for a Day (1933) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks

May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle other street merchants and beggars to pony up part of their weekly earnings to her--yet she never seems to spend any of the money on herself. This is because Annie has a daughter named Louise (Jean Parker), who has been ...

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Wife vs. Secretary (1936) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, Hobart Cavanaugh

Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may have once harbored a secret desire for her boss, but she's perfectly content with boyfriend James Stewart. Accompanying Gable on a crucial business trip, Jean answers the phone in her boss' suite. Myrna, on the other end of ...

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Reckless (1935) more movies like this

directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Rosalind Russell, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney

Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible for the celebratedBombshell (itself a film à clef loosely based on Clara Bow) -- with the added appeal of William Powell. One can readily see the chemistry between the two stars at work, which would lead to their impending ...

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The Texans (1938) more movies like this

directed by James Hogan
featuring Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings

In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with ranch owner Ivy Preston (Joan Bennett). Although a loyal Southerner, Jordan can't get past the waste and tragedy of the four years that have just ended, but Ivy is eager to help keep the war for the Confederacy alive, ...

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Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940) more movies like this

directed by James Hogan
featuring Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford

Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young girl returning to her grandmother's ranch in Texas. Old Mrs. Dangerfield (May Robson) is experiencing a rash of cattle rustlings and, fed up with her no-good grandson Carter's (John Miljan) handling of the emergency, she ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson, Walter Brennan

The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind, what with its similarities in period, costumes, color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Selected from hundreds of applicants (a precursor to ...

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Lady by Choice (1934) more movies like this

directed by David Burton
featuring Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl

Promoted as a follow-up to Frank Capra's 1933 hit Lady for a Day, Lady by Choice resembles the earlier film only in its choice of leading lady. May Robson plays a drunken derelict who'd once been quite a heartbreaker. Her self-respect is restored when she is asked to pose as fan-dancer Carole Lombard's mother. Lombard is part of the deal only to ...

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It Happened in New Orleans (1930) more movies like this

directed by Kurt Neumann
featuring Bobby Breen, May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Louise Beavers, Alan Mowbray

In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his beloved mammy and sent to New York to live with his Yankee grandma. At first the family resents the rebel upstart, but soon he charms them into loving him with his singing ability. The story is also called Rainbow on the ...

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Rubber Tires (1927) more movies like this

directed by Alan Hale
featuring Bessie Love, Erwin Connelly, May Robson, Harrison Ford

Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as motels) are referred to the 1927 film Rubber Tires. It all begins when the Stack family sells all its worldly possessions, invests in a car, and heads to California. Every possible disaster befalls them, from flat tires to ...

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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Wilcox
featuring Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, H.B. Warner

Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of the Germans. Such a film was British producer Herbert Wilcox's Hollywood production Nurse Edith Cavell, in which Wilcox's future wife Anna Neagle portrayed the titular martyred Englishwoman. Ms. Neagle plays the legendary ...

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Little Orphan Annie (1932) more movies like this

directed by John S. Robertson
featuring Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson, Matt Moore

Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60 minutes. Annie (played by 12-year-old Mitzi Green) is a spunky and spirited child who runs away from the orphanage where she is mistreated and manages to come under the watchful eye of Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks (Edgar Kennedy), ...

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