List of the best Alma Kruger movies: The People vs. Dr. Kildare(1941), Calling Dr. Gillespie(1942), You'll Find Out(1940), Dr. Kildare's Victory(1942), Saboteur(1942), A Scandal in Paris(1946), Blonde Inspiration(1941), 100 Men and a Girl(1937), Mother Carey's Chickens(1938), Dr. Kildare's Strange Case(1940), Do You Love Me?(1946), Dr. Kildare's Crisis(1940) ... ...
Drama
1941
78 Minutes
Molly Byrd
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Bonita Granville Alma Kruger Red Skelton Paul Stanton Diana Lewis
doctor nurse mentor truck driver ice skater lawyer melodramatic inspiring charming road hospital courtroom office medicine media lawsuit reputation mentorship sacrifice quest
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Drama
1942
84 Minutes
Molly Byrd
Lionel Barrymore Philip Dorn Donna Reed Phil Brown Nat Pendleton Alma Kruger Mary Nash Walter Kingsford Nell Craig Ruth Tobey Jonathan Hale
doctor intern nurse parent mental patient girlfriend suspenseful shocking melodramatic hospital doctor's office all-girls school apartment police station murder psychiatry investigation mental illness family quest
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) lets his Dutch colleague (Philip Dorn) handle the case of a homicidal maniac.
Musical, Comedy
1940
97 Minutes
Aunt Margo Bellacrest
Kay Kyser Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Helen Parrish Alma Kruger Dennis O'Keefe Joseph Eggenton
bandleader partygoer heiress aunt prince professor hilarious suspenseful madcap mansion radio station nightclub workshop birthday party storm haunting murder plot inheritance big-band music mystery
A bandleader (Kay Kyser) takes his radio troupe to a gloomy mansion for a debutante's risky 21st birthday.
Drama
1942
92 Minutes
Nurse Molly Byrd
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Ann Ayars Robert Sterling Jean Rogers Alma Kruger Walter Kingsford Nell Craig Ed Gargan Marie Blake Frank Orth
physician intern nurse mentor wealthy girl board member engaging melodramatic new york city hospital ambulance street operating room boardroom workplace politics medicine employment surgery accident romance
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) supports Kildare's (Lew Ayres) crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
108 Minutes
Henrietta Sutton
Bob Cummings Priscilla Lane Norman Lloyd Otto Kruger Alan Baxter Clem Bevans Alma Kruger Vaughan Glaser Dorothy Peterson Ian Wolfe Frances Carson
factory worker model saboteur blind person police officer suspenseful intense gripping united states new york city los angeles sabotage terrorism conspiracy false accusations arson quest pursuit mystery 1940s
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Drama
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Marquise
George Sanders Signe Hasso Carole Landis Akim Tamiroff Gene Lockhart Jo Ann Marlowe Alma Kruger Alan Napier Vladimir Sokoloff Pedro de Cordoba Leona Maricle
petty criminal friend marquis police officer sweetheart cheeky gripping melodramatic france paris marseilles, france jail bank crime theft blackmail impersonation nobility abandonment quest
Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.
Comedy
USA
1941
72 Minutes
Victoria
John Shelton Virginia Grey Albert Van Dekker Charles Butterworth Donald Meek Reginald Owen Alma Kruger Rita Quigley Marion Martin George Lessey
novelist publisher secretary uncle writer alcoholic witty new york city office penthouse family home deception fiction writing publishing integrity love triangle debt transformation 1940s
Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.
Musical, Comedy
1937
84 Minutes
Mrs. Tyler
Deanna Durbin Adolphe Menjou Alice Brady Eugene Pallette Mischa Auer Billy Gilbert Alma Kruger J. Scott Smart Jed Prouty Jameson Thomas Howard C. Hickman
A girl (Deanna Durbin) finds a famous conductor (Leopold Stokowski) for her trombonist father's (Adolphe Menjou) out-of-work orchestra.
Drama
1938
82 Minutes
Aunt Bertha
Ruby Keeler Dawn O'Day Fay Bainter Jimmy Ellison Walter Brennan Donnie Dunagan Frank Albertson Alma Kruger
naval officer widow daughter sister son suitor tender emotional winsome positive family home textile factory mansion massachusetts rhode island unexpected death financial troubles romance hoax family
An 1890s widow (Fay Bainter) has two sons, and two daughters (Ruby Keeler, Anne Shirley) in love with the same man.
Drama
1940
76 Minutes
Molly Byrd
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Shepperd Strudwick Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger John Eldredge Nell Craig George H. Reed
doctor nurse mentor surgeon patient rival tense melodramatic hospital city car mentorship medical profession romance love triangle malpractice unlikely allies discovery rivalry 1940s
Kildare (Lew Ayres) tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), and faces a rival for nurse Lamont (Laraine Day).
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
91 Minutes
Mrs. Joshua Frederick
Maureen O'Hara Dick Haymes Harry James Reginald Gardiner Richard Gaines Stanley Prager B.S. Pully Chick Chandler Alma Kruger Almira Sessions Douglas Wood
teacher headmistress singer bandleader musician cheery frenetic winsome confident conservatory train nightclub dance hall big-band music power of music unrequited love change of lifestyle love triangle pursuit transformation
The woman dean of a music school undergoes a glamorous transformation after she meets a swing bandleader.
Drama
1940
75 Minutes
Molly Byrd
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Robert Young Laraine Day Emma Dunn Nat Pendleton Bobs Watson Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Nell Craig Frank Orth
dr. kildare nurse fiancée brother mentor doctor melodramatic hospital office household epilepsy wedding romantic dilemma medical profession siblings love sacrifice quest 1940s
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) corrects Kildare's (Lew Ayres) diagnosis of nurse Lamont's brother's (Robert Young) head problem.
Drama
USA
1939
86 Minutes
Molly Byrd
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Lana Turner Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds Lynne Carver Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Harlan Briggs
intern physician nurse patient sister criminal melodramatic engaging new york city hospital basement apartment false accusations medical profession injury investigation framed for murder confidence discovery quest
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Lionel Atwill Laraine Day Helen Gilbert Nat Pendleton Sara Haden Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Grant Mitchell Walter Kingsford
doctor mentor nurse tycoon daughter housekeeper engaging positive hospital new york city household office cottage medicine friendship research psychosomatic illness quacks experimental medicine quest
Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1939
93 Minutes
Carole Lombard James Stewart Charles Coburn Lucile Watson Harry Davenport Ruth Weston Donald Briggs Eddie Quillan Esther Dale Rene Orsell Louise Beavers
lawyer judge wife rival daughter son melodramatic family home office marriage employment ambition family illness quest transformation 1930s
A young lawyer (James Stewart) starts a family with the woman (Carole Lombard) he loves instead of with his boss's (Charles Coburn) daughter.
Musical
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Luise Rainer Fernand Gravey Miliza Korjus Hugh Herbert Lionel Atwill Curt Bois Leonid Kinskey Al Shean Minna Gombell George Houston Bert Roach
composer wife opera singer father count publisher airy creative melodramatic vienna café theater street palace ambition romance music infidelity devotion rise
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey Charles Ruggles Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill C. Aubrey Smith Joyce Compton Dalies Frantz Walter Woolf King Phillip Terry Frederick Worlock
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Biography
1938
149 Minutes
Norma Shearer Tyrone Power John Barrymore Gladys George Robert Morley Anita Louise Joseph Schildkraut Henry Stephenson Reginald Gardiner Peter Bull Albert Van Dekker
marie antoinette louis xvi count louis xv duke engaging melodramatic spectacular france palace versailles, france royal life revolution affair execution love growing up wretched excess fall 1790s
The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power) and becomes queen of France.