Loretta Young
It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
It Happens Every Thursday is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Loretta Young, John Forsythe, and Frank McHugh, loosely based on the 1951 autobiographical book of the same title by Jane S. McIlvaine. It was Loretta Young's final theater-released film, as she switched to television work after this movie. The film cost...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•H. B. Warner
Because of You (1952)
Because of You is a 1952 American drama romance film directed by Joseph Pevney and starred Loretta Young and Jeff Chandler. This film was surprising in that it showed a provocative "sexy side" of Miss Young, quite different from her usual dignified brunette "nice girl" part.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Lon Chaney•C. Aubrey Smith
Paula (1952)
Paula is a 1952 American film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, and starring Loretta Young, Kent Smith, and Alexander Knox. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Bruce Cowling
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Cause for Alarm! is a 1951 melodrama suspense film directed by Tay Garnett, written by Mel Dinelli and Tom Lewis, based on a story by Larry Marcus. Ellen narrates the tale of "the most terrifying day of my life", how she was taking care of her bedridden husband George Z. Jones when he suddenly dropped dead. The film is in the public domain.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Florence Vidor
Half Angel (1951)
Half Angel is a 1951 Technicolor comedy directed by Richard Sale, starring Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, and Cecil Kellaway. Nora Gilpin (Young), a prim and proper nurse, is engaged to the stuffy Tim. Unknown to both, Nora is a sleepwalker; during her nocturnal forays, the less-inhibited side of her personality takes over.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gary Cooper
Key to the City (1950)
Key to the City is a 1950 American romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young as mayors who meet in San Francisco, and despite their contrasting personalities and views, fall in love. It was the final film role of Frank Morgan and Clara Blandick.
Starring: Richard Barthelmess•Bruce Cowling•John Forsythe•Otis Skinner
The Accused (1949)
The Accused is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by William Dieterle and written by Ketti Frings, based on Be Still, My Love, a 1947 novel written by June Truesdell. The film stars Loretta Young and Robert Cummings.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Boris Karloff•Warner Baxter
Come to the Stable (1949)
Come to the Stable is a 1949 American comedy drama film that tells the story of two French religious sisters who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital. It stars Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dooley Wilson and Regis Toomey.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Vivienne Osborne•Roland Young
Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
Mother Is a Freshman is a 1949 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Ricardo Cortez•Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Rachel and the Stranger is a 1948 American Western film starring Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. The Norman Foster-directed film was one of the few to address the role of women in the pioneer west, as well as portray early America's indentured servant trade. It was based on the Howard Fast short story "Rachel".
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Janet Gaynor
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven. The plot is about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the 1928 novel of the same name by Robert Nathan.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Myrna Loy•Gail Patrick
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 American comedy film that tells the story of a farmgirl who ends up working as a maid for a Congressman and his politically powerful mother. It stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Charles Bickford, and was adapted by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr from the 1937 Finnish play Juurakon Hulda by Hella W...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gary Cooper
The Perfect Marriage (1947)
The Perfect Marriage is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Lewis Allen and written by Leonard Spigelgass. The film stars Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Charlie Ruggles, Virginia Field, and Rita Johnson. The film was released on February 24, 1947, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gail Patrick•Grant Withers
The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Holly...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•William Demarest•Frank Albertson
Along Came Jones (1945)
Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his long film career.
Starring: Joel McCrea•Jack Oakie•Bruce Cowling•Paul Lukas
And Now Tomorrow (1944)
And Now Tomorrow is a 1944 American drama film based on the best-selling novel, published in 1942 by Rachel Field, directed by Irving Pichel and written by Raymond Chandler. Both center around one doctor's attempt for curing deafness. The film stars Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, and Susan Hayward. Its tagline was Who are you that a man can't make love ...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Walter Huston•Frances Dee
Ladies Courageous (1944)
Ladies Courageous is a 1944 war film based on the novel Looking For Trouble (1941) by Virginia Spencer Cowles. Directed by John Rawlins, the film stars Loretta Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the paramilitary Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron formed in the United States during World War II. Film historians and scholars consi...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Edward G. Robinson•Norman Foster•George Barraud
China (1943)
China is a 1943 film directed by John Farrow and starring Loretta Young, Alan Ladd and William Bendix. Ladd's character David Llewellyn Jones, wearing a fedora, a leather jacket, khakis and a beard stubble, was an inspiration for Indiana Jones. Aside from Tala Birell as one of Jones' paramours at the beginning of the film, the entire supporting cas...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Frances Dee•John Wayne
A Night to Remember (1942)
A Night to Remember is a mystery comedy film starring Loretta Young and Brian Aherne. It was directed by Richard Wallace, and is based on the novel The Frightened Stiff by Kelley Roos. A mystery writer and his wife try to solve a murder when a corpse appears in their Greenwich Village apartment.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•James Cagney
Bedtime Story (1941)
Bedtime Story is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Fredric March, Loretta Young, and Robert Benchley. The supporting cast includes Eve Arden and Joyce Compton.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Winnie Lightner
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
The Lady from Cheyenne is a 1941 American comedy western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Loretta Young, Robert Preston and Edward Arnold.
Starring: Colin Clive•Bruce Cowling•Spencer Tracy
The Men in Her Life (1941)
The Men in Her Life is a 1941 period drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt and Dean Jagger. It is an adaptation of the 1932 novel Ballerina by the British writer Eleanor Smith. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Sound Recording, but lost to That Hamilton Woman. The sets were designed by the...
Starring: Eric Linden•Bruce Cowling•Clark Gable
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
The Doctor Takes a Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy film starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland as a best-selling author and medical school instructor, respectively, who find it convenient to pretend to be married, even though they initially loathe each other.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gene Raymond•Charles Butterworth
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
He Stayed for Breakfast is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, based on the 1934 play Ode to Liberty by Sidney Howard, itself adapted from the French play Liberté provisoire by Michel Duran.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Robert Williams•Wallace Ford
Eternally Yours (1939)
Eternally Yours is a 1939 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Tay Garnett with Walter Wanger as executive producer, from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. The film stars Loretta Young and David Niven, and also features a strong supporting cast including Broderick Crawford, Billie Burke, Eve Arden, ZaSu Pitts, and C. Au...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gail Patrick
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Binnie Barnes in the three title roles, respectively. The film, based on a script by Nunnally Johnson, tells the story of a contractor and his wife, and how their musical ambitions result in marital tensions and a romanti...
Starring: Joseph Cotten•Bruce Cowling•Aline MacMahon
Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Four Men and a Prayer is a 1938 American adventure film directed by John Ford and starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene and George Sanders.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Gail Patrick•Virginia Bruce
Kentucky (1938)
Kentucky is a 1938 American drama sports film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter.
Starring: Otto Kruger•Bruce Cowling•Claire Trevor
Suez (1938)
Suez is an American romantic drama film released on October 28, 1938 by 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Annabella. It is very loosely based on events surrounding the construction, between 1859 and 1869, of the Suez Canal, planned and supervised by ...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Richard Greene•Jean Parker
Three Blind Mice (1938)
Three Blind Mice is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, and David Niven that was based upon a play by Stephen Powys.
Starring: Katherine DeMille•Bruce Cowling•Gail Patrick
Cafe Metropole (1937)
Cafe Metropole is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith, released by 20th Century Fox and starring Loretta Young, Tyrone Power and Adolphe Menjou.
Starring: Robert Taylor•Bruce Cowling•Richard Greene
Love Is News (1937)
Love Is News is a 1937 romantic comedy film starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche. The movie was directed by Tay Garnett and was the first film for which Power had top billing. The picture was remade in 1947 as That Wonderful Urge, with Power again and Gene Tierney.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Marilyn Maxwell•Richard Greene
Love Under Fire (1937)
Love Under Fire is a 1937 American drama film based upon the play by Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by George Marshall and stars Loretta Young, Don Ameche and Frances Drake. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rudolph Sternad.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•George Sanders•Marilyn Maxwell
Second Honeymoon (1937)
Second Honeymoon is a 1937 screwball romantic comedy directed by Walter Lang and starring Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in the main roles. Based on a story by Philip Wylie.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Robert Preston•Richard Greene
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Wife, Doctor and Nurse is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Loretta Young.
Starring: Joseph Cotten•Bruce Cowling•Geraldine Fitzgerald
Ladies in Love (1936)
Ladies in Love (1936) is a romantic comedy film based upon the play by Leslie Bush-Fekete. It was directed by Edward H. Griffith and stars Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young. The film revolves around three roommates in exotic Budapest and their comical romantic adventures. Gaynor, Bennett, and Young were billed above the title, with ...
Starring: William Holden•Bruce Cowling•Marilyn Maxwell
Private Number (1936)
Private Number is a 1936 American drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone. Sometimes known by the alternative title of Secret Interlude, the film was based on the play Common Clay by Cleves Kinkead which had previously been made into a film of the same name in 1930. Following the more rigorou...
Starring: Anne Gwynne•Bruce Cowling•William Bendix
Ramona (1936)
Ramona is a 1936 American Drama Western film directed by Henry King, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound. It was the fourth American feature film using the new three strip Technicolor process. It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Marilyn Maxwell
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
The Unguarded Hour is a 1936 American drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone. In England, a prominent young prosecutor in a murder trial is unaware that his wife is involved.
Starring: Dan Duryea•Bruce Cowling•Wendell Corey
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Call of the Wild is a 1935 American adventure western film an adaptation of Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild. The film is directed by William A. Wellman, and stars Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie. The screenplay is by Gene Fowler and Leonard Praskins. This is the last film to be released under the 20th Century Pictures banner...
Starring: Jeff Chandler•Bruce Cowling•John Forsythe
Clive of India (1935)
Clive of India is a 1935 American historical biographical film starring Ronald Colman about the life of Robert Clive. It was based on R. J. Minney's play of the same name, and was co-written by Minney and W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski. Colin Clive, who appears in the film, was a descendant of Clive.
Starring: Robert Williams•Bruce Cowling•H. B. Warner
The Crusades (1935)
The Crusades is a 1935 American historical adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and originally released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Loretta Young as Berengaria of Navarre and Henry Wilcoxon as Richard I of England. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography as well as for Best Foreign Film at the Venice F...
Starring: Warner Oland•Bruce Cowling•Lon Chaney
Shanghai (1935)
Shanghai is a 1935 film directed by James Flood, produced by Walter Wanger, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Loretta Young and Charles Boyer. The picture's supporting cast features Warner Oland, Alison Skipworth, Charley Grapewin, Olive Tell and Keye Luke, and the running time is 75 minutes.
Starring: C. Aubrey Smith•Bruce Cowling•Betty Compson
Born to be Bad (1934)
Born to Be Bad is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring Loretta Young and Cary Grant, and directed by Lowell Sherman.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Jack Mulhall•Myrna Loy
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young. It was a loose sequel to the 1929 film Bulldog Drummond which had also starred Colman.
Starring: Robert Williams•Bruce Cowling•Conrad Nagel
Caravan (1934)
Caravan is a 1934 American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Erik Charell, and starring Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Phillips Holmes and Jean Parker. Fox also produced a French language version of this film, Caravane (1934) starring Boyer, Annabella, and Conchita Montenegro, with Lou Tellegen in a small role.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Betty Compson•Otis Skinner
The House of Rothschild (1934)
The House of Rothschild is a 1934 American pre-Code historical drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Arliss, Loretta Young and Boris Karloff. It was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and chronicles the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.
Starring: Charlie Murray•Boris Karloff•Bruce Cowling
The White Parade (1934)
The White Parade is a 1934 film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Loretta Young and John Boles. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James.
Starring: George Arliss•Bruce Cowling•Vivienne Osborne
The Devil's in Love (1933)
The Devil's in Love is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by William Dieterle and written by Howard Estabrook. The film stars Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, David Manners, C. Henry Gordon and Herbert Mundin. The film was released on July 21, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Warren William•Bruce Cowling•Ricardo Cortez
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Employees' Entrance is a 1933 pre-Code film about the devious manager of a New York department store and his romantic involvement with a reluctant new employee. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetical...
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.•Bruce Cowling•Ronald Colman
Grand Slam (1933)
Grand Slam is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William Dieterle and Alfred E. Green and starring Paul Lukas, Loretta Young and Frank McHugh. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 18, 1933.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•John Boles•Myrna Loy
Heroes for Sale (1933)
Heroes for Sale (1933) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures. The 76-minute original is considered lost; a 71-minute version is available from Turner Entertainment.
Starring: Carroll Nye•Bruce Cowling•Ralph Forbes
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan, released in the UK as The Kid's Last Fight, is a 1933 American pre-Code film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young. John Wayne has a small supporting role as a frightened boxer. The story was based on a 1933 play called "Sucker" by Bertram Millhauser. The film was remade in 1939 as They Made Me a Criminal.
Starring: Aline MacMahon•Bruce Cowling
Man's Castle (1933)
Man's Castle is a 1933 pre-Code American film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Frank Albertson
Midnight Mary (1933)
Midnight Mary is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, and Franchot Tone.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Wendell Corey
She Had to Say Yes (1933)
She Had to Say Yes is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by George Amy and Busby Berkeley. It was Berkley's directorial debut. Loretta Young stars as a secretary who receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients. The film was promoted with the teaser "We apologize to the men for the many frank revel...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Paul Lukas
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Zoo in Budapest is a 1933 American Pre-Code romance/melodrama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, and Paul Fix. Gene Raymond, playing Zani, a young, mischievous man who has grown up only around the animals and the people that work and visit the zoo. Loretta Young plays Eve, who is an orphan who onl...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Claud Allister
The Hatchet Man (1932)
The Hatchet Man (1932) is a pre-Code film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Edward G. Robinson. Warner Bros. had purchased the David Belasco/Achmed Abdullah play The Honorable Mr. Wong about the Tong gang wars. Made during the few years before strict enforcement of the Production Code, The Hatchet Man has elements that would not be allowe...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•William Demarest
Life Begins (1932)
Life Begins is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, and Glenda Farrell. The film was adapted from the 1932 play of the same name by Mary M. Axelson. It was released by Warner Bros. on September 10, 1932. The film was praised for its honest portrayal of a maternity ward.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Walter Huston
Play Girl (1932)
Play Girl is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, and Norman Foster. The screenplay concerns a young woman who marries a professional gambler.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Dudley Digges
Taxi! (1932)
Taxi! is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney and Loretta Young.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Norman Foster
They Call It Sin (1932)
They Call It Sin is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Loretta Young as a farmer's daughter who follows a traveling salesman to New York City, only to discover he already is engaged.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•George Barraud
Week-End Marriage (1932)
Week-End Marriage is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Loretta Young. It was produced by First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. It is based on the 1932 novel, Week-End Marriage, by Faith Baldwin. The film is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•John Wayne
Beau Ideal (1931)
Beau Ideal is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was based on the 1927 adventure novel Beau Ideal by P. C. Wren, the third novel in a series of five novels based around the same characters. Brenon had directed the first in the series, Beau Geste, which was a very successfu...
Starring: Frank McHugh•Bruce Cowling
Big Business Girl (1931)
Big Business Girl is a 1931 pre-Code First National sound comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Loretta Young, then eighteen years old. It was released theatrically through First National's parent company Warner Bros.
Starring: James Cagney•Jean Harlow•Bruce Cowling
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
I Like Your Nerve is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William C. McGann, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Boris Karloff has a small role.
Starring: Aline MacMahon•Bruce Cowling•Colin Clive
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Platinum Blonde is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy motion picture directed by Frank Capra, written by Jo Swerling and starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow. Platinum Blonde was Robert Williams' last screen appearance; he died of peritonitis three days after the film's October 31 release.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•David Manners•Spencer Tracy
The Right of Way (1931)
The Right of Way is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It stars Conrad Nagel and Loretta Young. The story was filmed previously in 1915 and in 1920.
Starring: Eric Linden•Bruce Cowling
The Ruling Voice (1931)
The Ruling Voice is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster drama directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Walter Huston, Loretta Young, and Doris Kenyon. It had an alternate title Upper Underworld, and was produced by First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.
Starring: Bruce Cowling•George Brent•Gene Raymond
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Three Girls Lost is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Loretta Young, Lew Cody, and John Wayne. The film also featured Ward Bond, and co-starred Wayne with Paul Fix for the first time. Based on a story by Robert Hardy Andrews, the film is about a young man (Wayne) who finds himself suspected of involvement ...
Starring: Bruce Cowling•Charles Butterworth
Too Young to Marry (1931)
Too Young to Marry is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Loretta Young and Grant Withers, a married couple in real life, although it ended with an annulment. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It is based on a 1929 play Broken Dishes by Martin Flavin.
Starring: Marion Burns•Bruce Cowling
The Devil to Pay! (1930)
The Devil to Pay! is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Ronald Colman, Frederick Kerr, Myrna Loy, and Loretta Young. It was written by Frederick Lonsdale and Benjamin Glazer.
Starring: Robert Williams•Wallace Ford•Bruce Cowling
Kismet (1930)
Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film, now considered lost, was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.
Starring: Dorothy Wilson•Bruce Cowling•Lyle Talbot
Loose Ankles (1930)
Loose Ankles is a 1930 pre-Code romantic comedy with songs, produced and released by First National Pictures, which had become a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The film was directed by Ted Wilde and stars Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Louise Fazenda and Edward Nugent. It was a remake of the 1926 silent film titled Ladies at Play, which had bee...
Starring: Aline MacMahon•Bruce Cowling
The Man from Blankley's (1930)
The Man from Blankley's is a lost 1930 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Alfred E. Green. It starred John Barrymore and Loretta Young. The film was based on the 1903 play by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, writing under the pseudonym "F. Anstey". The film was Barrymore's second feature length all-talking film. A previous silent film version of Anst...
Starring: Victor Jory•Bruce Cowling
Road to Paradise (1930)
Road to Paradise is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, and starring Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall and Raymond Hatton. It was directed by William Beaudine and is based on a 1920 play Dodson Mitchell by Zelda Sears called Cornered. The film was a remake of a 1924 silent version, entitled Cornered, w...
Starring: Charles Boyer•Bruce Cowling•Jean Parker
The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
The Second Floor Mystery is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It was based on the 1916 novel The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers. The film stars Grant Withers, Loretta Young, H. B. Warner and John Loder.
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon•Marion Burns•Bruce Cowling
The Truth About Youth (1930)
The Truth About Youth is a 1930 American pre-Code drama with songs produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Directed by William A. Seiter, the film stars Loretta Young, Conway Tearle, David Manners and Myrna Loy. It was based on the 1900 play When We Were Twenty-One, written by Henry V. Esmond.
Starring: Wallace Ford•Bruce Cowling•Lyle Talbot
Fast Life (1929)
Fast Life is a 1929 American drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by John F. Goodrich. It is based on the 1928 play Fast Life by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer. The film stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, William Holden, Frank Sheridan, Chester Morris and Ray Hallor. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 1,...
Starring: Aline MacMahon•Bruce Cowling
The Forward Pass (1929)
The Forward Pass is a 1929 American Pre-Code football drama musical film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young. John Wayne was an uncredited extra in the film. The film is believed to be lost.
Starring: Aline MacMahon•Bruce Cowling
The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)
The Girl in the Glass Cage is a 1929 American part-talkie crime drama film directed by Ralph Dawson and starring Loretta Young, Carroll Nye, Matthew Betz, Lucien Littlefield, and Ralph Lewis. It is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by George Kibbe Turner. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 23, 1929.
Starring: Lon Chaney•Bruce Cowling
Scarlet Seas (1929)
Scarlet Seas is a surviving 1929 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. This film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects whi...
Starring: Carroll Nye•Florence Vidor•Bruce Cowling
The Show of Shows (1929)
The Show of Shows is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all-talking Vitaphone production cost $850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor.
Starring: Victor Jory•Carroll Nye•Bruce Cowling
The Head Man (1928)
The Head Man is a 1928 American drama film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Gerald Duffy, Howard J. Green, Sidney Lazarus and Harvey F. Thew. The film stars Charles Murray, Loretta Young, Larry Kent, Lucien Littlefield, E. J. Ratcliffe and Irving Bacon. The film was released on July 8, 1928, by First National Pictures.
Starring: Betty Compson•Bruce Cowling
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced by Irving G. Thalberg for MGM Pictures. The film was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on the 1923 Broadway stage production Laugh, Clown, Laugh, by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, which in turn was b...
Starring: Charlie Murray•Bruce Cowling
The Magnificent Flirt (1928)
The Magnificent Flirt is a lost 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and written by José Germain Drouilly, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and Jean de Limur. The film stars Florence Vidor, Albert Conti, Loretta Young, Matty Kemp, Marietta Millner and Ned Sparks. The film was released on June 2, 1928, ...
Starring: Carroll Nye•Bruce Cowling