The Painted Veil (1934) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt

A W. Somerset Maugham novel was the source for the fair-to-middling Greta Garbo vehicle The Painted Veil. In a situation comparable to the plotlines of most of her silent films, Garbo is lovelessly married to Herbert Marshall, but carries a flaming torch for George Brent. (Also harking back to Garbo's silent days is the fact that neither one of ...

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) more movies like this

directed by Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, Richard Boleslawski
featuring Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph

Based on a popular drawing-room drama by Frederick Lonsdale, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney stars Joan Crawford as a jewel thief who poses as an aristocrat. It is Crawford's intention to pilfer a valuable pearl necklace while attending a society party in the company of partner-in-crime William Powell. Here she attracts the attention of Robert Montgomery ...

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The Garden of Allah (1936) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, Tilly Losch

Marlene Dietrich stars as the noble Domini Enfilden in this third film version of Robert Hichens' 1904 novel. After caring for her dying father, Domini is told by her Mother Superior (Lucille Watson) that she should go to the Algerian desert to rest and seek sanctuary. On her way to the town of Beni-Mora, Domini meets the ill-tempered and ...

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Hollywood Party (1934) more movies like this

directed by Allan Dwan, Charles "Chuck" Riesner, Edmund Goulding, George Stevens, Richard Boleslawski, Roy Rowland, Sam Wood
featuring Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Lupe Velez, Polly Moran

Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933 . Under the less-than-sterling guidance of "kicked upstairs" MGM producer Harry Rapf, production dragged on interminably, using up the talents of five directors (none of whom were credited) and seven writers. The "all star" cast lineup slowly dwindled ...

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Spring Byington, Thurston Hall, Elizabeth Risdon, Rosalind Keith

After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora Goes Wild. She plays a prim small-town schoolteacher, raised in an oppressive environment by two maiden aunts. Seeking surreptitious adventure, Dunne writes a steamy romance novel in her spare time--which becomes a ...

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Rasputin and the Empress (1932) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard

It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous Barrymores -- Ethel, John and Lionel -- appeared together for the only time in Rasputin and the Empress. As for the end result, John offers the subtlest (!) performance as Russian Prince Paul Chegodieff; Lionel throws all caution ...

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Les Miserables (1935) more movies like this

directed by Richard Boleslawski
featuring Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, John Beal, Marilyn Knowlden, Frances Drake

Richard Boleslawski directed this lavish adaptation of Victor Hugo's oft-filmed epic novel. Fredric March stars as Jean Valjean, who is hauled into prison for stealing a loaf of bread. After ten years at hard labor, he escapes from the merciless prison but the years have taken their toll and Valjean is now a hard and embittered man. Valjean ...

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