List of the best Alfred Santell movies: Orchids and Ermine(1927), The Life of Vergie Winters(1934), That Brennan Girl(1946), Breakfast for Two(1937), Polly of the Circus(1932), The Hairy Ape(1944), Winterset(1936), The Right to Romance(1933), Having Wonderful Time(1938), Daddy Long Legs(1931), Our Leading Citizen(1939), Aloma of the South Seas(1941) ... ...
Comedy, Romance
USA
1927
70 Minutes
Director
Colleen Moore Jack Mulhall Sam Hardy Gwen Lee Alma Bennett Hedda Hopper Kate Price Jed Prouty Emily Fitzroy Yola d'Avril Brooks Benedict
young woman millionaire valet amusing endearing spirited hotel romance secret identity true love wealth deception underdog love discovery 1920s
A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Romance
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Director
Ann Harding John Boles Helen Vinson Betty Furness Frank Albertson Lon Chaney Sara Haden Molly O'Day Ben Alexander Donald Crisp Maidel Turner
John Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1946
95 Minutes
Director
James Dunn Mona Freeman June Duprez Frank Jenks Dorothy Vaughan Charles Arnt Rosalind Ivan Fay Helm Bill Kennedy Connie Leon Edythe Elliot
The film begins on Mother's Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman) buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy's youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck Herbert Marshall Glenda Farrell Eric Blore Etienne Girardot Donald Meek Frank M. Thomas Pierre Watkin Sidney Bracey Harold Goodwin
Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.
Drama
USA
1932
69 Minutes
Director
Marion Davies Clark Gable C. Aubrey Smith Raymond Hatton David Landau Maude Eburne
trapeze artist minister doctor bishop heckler uncle melodramatic witty uplifting circus church small town vermont house unlikely romance traveling performers religion marriage prejudice censorship
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Drama
USA
1944
90 Minutes
Director
William Bendix Susan Hayward John Loder Dorothy Comingore Roman Bohnen Tom Fadden Alan Napier Charles Cane
socialite engineer laborer beautiful woman tender uneasy dark ship new york city forbidden love class conflict working class loneliness identity self-esteem forbidden love quest 1940s
During the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.
Drama
USA
1936
78 Minutes
Director
Burgess Meredith Margo Edward Ciannelli John Carradine Edward Ellis Paul Guilfoyle Maurice Moscovich Stanley Ridges Willard Robertson Mischa Auer Myron McCormick
gangster son italian immigrant innocent man police officer gripping inspiring rousing household courtroom college new york state murder legacy wrongful conviction corruption father/son relationship quest revenge
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Director
Ann Harding Robert Young Nils Asther Sari Maritza Irving Pichel Helen Freeman Stephen Chase Delmar Watson Louise Carter Bramwell Fletcher Patricia O'Brien
Dr "Peggy" Simmons, a successful and respected plastic surgeon, encounters job stress beyond her control. Lacking a social side to her harried life and desperately seeking romance, she ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1938
71 Minutes
Director
Ginger Rogers Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lucille Ball Peggy Conklin Lee Bowman Eve Arden Dorothea Kent Red Skelton Donald Meek Jack Carson Allan Lane
typist waiter camper social director woman friend madcap emotional endearing resort new york city new york state breakup friendship vacation jealousy romance love transformation rivalry
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Director
Janet Gaynor Warner Baxter Una Merkel John Arledge Claude Gillingwater Effie Ellsler Kendall McComas Kathlyn Williams Elizabeth Patterson Louise Closser Hale
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
89 Minutes
Director
Bob Burns Susan Hayward Gene Lockhart Joseph Allen Jr. Elizabeth Patterson Charles Bickford Otto Hoffman Clarence Kolb Paul Guilfoyle Fay Helm Kathleen Lockhart
Lem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1941
77 Minutes
Director
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Biography
1943
92 Minutes
Director
Michael O'Shea Susan Hayward Frank Craven Osa Massen Harry Davenport Virginia Mayo Ralph Morgan Louise Beavers Jonathan Hale Leonard Strong
author wife prospector sailor hobo publisher engaging fascinating spectacular yukon san francisco alaska new york city japan lifestyle changes marriage social activism war imperialism jack london
The writer (Michael O'Shea) joins the Alaskan gold rush, goes to sea, finds a wife (Susan Hayward) and covers the Russo-Japanese War.
Drama
1937
77 Minutes
Director
Dr. Kildare (Joel McCrea) saves a gangster's (Lloyd Nolan) life and helps an ex-convict (Barbara Stanwyck) find her child.