Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
January 13, 1893
Died
October 19, 1947 (age 54)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
90 films


Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · 1h 34m · US
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.


Suspense
1946 · 1h 41m · US
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.


Random Harvest
1942 · 2h 5m · US
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.


Journey for Margaret
1942 · 1h 21m · US
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.


For Me and My Gal
1942 · 1h 44m · US
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.


Eyes in the Night
1942 · 1h 20m · US
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.


Panama Hattie
1942 · 1h 19m · US
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.


Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · 1h 48m · US
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.


Cairo
1942 · 1h 41m · US
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.


Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · 1h 29m · US
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.


Her Cardboard Lover
1942 · 1h 33m · US
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.


I Married an Angel
1942 · 1h 24m · US
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.


Mrs. Miniver
1942 · 2h 14m · US
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.


Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · 1h 25m · US
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?


Tortilla Flat
1942 · 1h 45m · US
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.


Pacific Rendezvous
1942 · 1h 16m · US
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.


Sunday Punch
1942 · 1h 16m · US
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.


Ship Ahoy
1942 · 1h 35m · US
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.


Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942 · 1h 32m · US
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.


The Bugle Sounds
1942 · 1h 42m · US
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.


Mr. and Mrs. North
1942 · 1h 7m · US
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.


Johnny Eager
1941 · 1h 47m · US
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.


Design for Scandal
1941 · 1h 25m · US
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.


Shadow of the Thin Man
1941 · 1h 37m · US
While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of corruption, blackmail, gambling scandals, and criminal intrigue. As Nick investigates, he encounters suspicious bookmakers, dishonest officials, rival gangsters, and a mysterious killer determined to stay ahead of the law. Nora, as always, is never far from the action, bringing her quick wit and fearless curiosity to the case.


Married Bachelor
1941 · 1h 21m · US
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.


Honky Tonk
1941 · 1h 45m · US
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.


You'll Never Get Rich
1941 · 1h 28m · US
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.


Life Begins for Andy Hardy
1941 · 1h 41m · US
With his high school graduation behind him, Andy Hardy decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but Andy isn't sure that's what he wants to do so he heads off to New York City to find a job. Too proud to accept any help from Betsy Booth, Andy finds that living on his own isn't so easy. With perseverance he eventually finds a job and even gets to date the pretty receptionist in his office. He also has to face several of life's lessons leading him to conclude that he may still have a bit of growing up to do.


Whistling in the Dark
1941 · 1h 18m · US
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.


Ringside Maisie
1941 · 1h 35m · US
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.


I'll Wait for You
1941 · 1h 13m · US
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.


The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941 · 1h 18m · US
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.


The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940 · 1h 5m · US
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.


Blondie Plays Cupid
1940 · 1h 12m · US
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.


Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940 · 1h 12m · US
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.


The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · 1h 11m · US
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.


Island of Doomed Men
1940 · 1h 7m · US
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.


Blondie on a Budget
1940 · 1h 12m · US
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.


The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940 · 1h 7m · US
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.


His Girl Friday
1940 · 1h 32m · US
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.


Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · 1h 12m · US
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · 2h 10m · US
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.


Golden Boy
1939 · 1h 39m · US
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.


Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939 · 1h 12m · US
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.


Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.


Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · 2h 1m · US
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.


The Lady and the Mob
1939 · 1h 6m · US
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.


Blondie Meets the Boss
1939 · 1h 15m · US
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.


The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939 · 1h 11m · US
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.


Blondie
1938 · 1h 10m · US
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.


Holiday
1938 · 1h 37m · US
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!


Joy of Living
1938 · 1h 31m · US
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.


There's Always a Woman
1938 · 1h 21m · US
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.


She Married an Artist
1937 · 1h 17m · US
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.


Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 · 1h 8m · US
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.


The Awful Truth
1937 · 1h 31m · US
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.


Life Begins with Love
1937 · 1h 12m · US
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.


It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · 1h 7m · US
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.


Criminals of the Air
1937 · 1h 1m · US
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.


Motor Madness
1937 · 1h 1m · US
After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.


Woman in Distress
1937 · 58m · US
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.


She Couldn't Take It
1935 · 1h 17m · US
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.


She Married Her Boss
1935 · 1h 25m · US
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.


Love Me Forever
1935 · 1h 31m · US
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.


The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · 1h 33m · US
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.


Mills of the Gods
1934 · 1h 6m · US
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)


Fugitive Lady
1934 · 1h 6m · US
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.


Broadway Bill
1934 · 1h 44m · US
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...


One Night of Love
1934 · 1h 24m · US
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.


Twentieth Century
1934 · 1h 31m · US
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.


Sisters Under the Skin
1934 · 1h 5m · US
Wealthy, aging millionaire John Hunter Yates (Frank Morgan) seeks to recapture his youth by pursuing a young actress, Blossom Bailey (Elissa Landi), leading him from America to Europe, where he finances her and a musician lover, only to realize his mistakes and return to his neglected wife, Elinor, understanding their true connection.


It Happened One Night
1934 · 1h 45m · US
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.


Man's Castle
1933 · 1h 15m · US
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.


Before Midnight
1933 · 1h 3m · US
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.


Fog
1933 · 1h 10m · US
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."


My Woman
1933 · 1h 16m · US
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.


Brief Moment
1933 · 1h 9m · US
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.


Lady for a Day
1933 · 1h 36m · US
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.


The Woman I Stole
1933 · 1h 10m · US
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.


Cocktail Hour
1933 · 1h 13m · US
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.


Parole Girl
1933 · 1h 7m · US
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.


No More Orchids
1932 · 1h 11m · US
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.