List of the best Cecil Cunningham movies: Cowboy Serenade(1942), The Awful Truth(1937), The Hidden Hand(1942), Their Own Desire(1929), Swing High, Swing Low(1937), Artists and Models(1937), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise(1931), The Captain Is a Lady(1940), Safe in Hell(1931), Lady of the Tropics(1939), The Life of Vergie Winters(1934), My Reputation(1946) ... ...
Western
USA
1942
66 Minutes
Priscilla Lock
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Fay McKenzie Cecil Cunningham Rand Brooks Addison Richards Tristram Coffin Slim Andrews Melinda Leighton John Berkes Forrest Taylor
gene autry sidekick gambler father daughter girlfriend engaging suspenseful spirited cattle ranch train saloon bar car ranchers gambling cheating murder plot abduction schemes
Gene goes after a gambling ring and learns it is headed by McKenzie's father.
Comedy
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Aunt Patsy
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Ralph Bellamy Alex D'Arcy Cecil Cunningham Molly Lamont Esther Dale Joyce Compton Robert Allen Robert Warwick Mary Forbes
husband wife neighbor heiress music teacher mother amusing charming hilarious madcap new york city apartment marriage reconciliation divorce new love love transformation 1930s
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
Horror
USA
1942
67 Minutes
Lorinda Channing
Craig Stevens Elisabeth Fraser Jacqueline Wells Willie Best Frank Wilcox Cecil Cunningham Ruth Ford Milton Parsons Roland Drew Tom Stevenson Marian Hall
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1929
65 Minutes
Aunt Caroline
Norma Shearer Belle Bennett Lewis Stone Robert Montgomery Helene Millard Cecil Cunningham Henry Herbert Mary Doran June Nash
daughter father mother fiancée love interest melodramatic emotional california household romance divorce marriage father/daughter relationship family love discovery 1920s
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Murphy
Carole Lombard Fred MacMurray Charles Butterworth Jean Dixon Dorothy Lamour Harvey Stephens Cecil Cunningham Charles Arnt Franklin Pangborn Anthony Quinn Charles Judels
singer jazz musician roommate old flame agent hypochondriac gripping brooding panama court apartment club new york city radio station musicians poverty marriage jealousy infidelity depression
A singer stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by work and the arrival of an old flame.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
97 Minutes
Stella
Jack Benny Ida Lupino Richard Arlen Gail Patrick Ben Blue Judy Canova Cecil Cunningham Donald Meek
ad executive girlfriend model business owner socialite chairman winsome lighthearted witty new york city office miami pool ballroom advertising beauty pageant business deal career vs. love big break love triangle
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1931
74 Minutes
Madame Panoramia
Greta Garbo Clark Gable Jean Hersholt John Miljan Alan Hale Hale Hamilton Hilda Vaughn Russell Simpson Cecil Cunningham Ian Keith Marjorie King
Fleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue.
Comedy
USA
1940
63 Minutes
Mrs. Jane Homans
Charles Coburn Beulah Bondi Virginia Grey Helen Broderick Billie Burke Dan Dailey Helen Westley Marjorie Main Cecil Cunningham Clem Bevans Francis Pierlot
husband wife spinster elderly woman director endearing spirited cottage retirement home bedroom window ledge ship sea aging retirement attempted suicide infidelity insurance loneliness love
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1931
65 Minutes
Angie
Dorothy Mackaill Donald Cook Ralf Harolde Morgan Wallace Victor Varconi Ivan F. Simpson John Wray Nina Mae McKinney Gustav von Seyffertitz Cecil Cunningham Charles Middleton
After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.
Drama
USA
1939
92 Minutes
Robert Taylor Hedy Lamarr Joseph Schildkraut Gloria Franklin Ernest Cossart Mary Taylor Charles Trowbridge Frederick Worlock Paul Porcasi Margaret Padula Cecil Cunningham
beautiful woman american millionaire adventurer priest colonel moving sad melodramatic saigon, vietnam yacht restaurant factory palace bigotry wealth immigration love triangle marriage colonialism
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Romance
USA
1934
83 Minutes
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 »
Romance
USA
1946
96 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Warner Anderson Lucile Watson John Ridgely Eve Arden Jerome Cowan Esther Dale Scotty Beckett Bobby Cooper Leona Maricle
widow major boyfriend son love interest moving emotional lake forest, ill. ski resort california chicago mourning relationships gossip romantic dilemma love triangle love love forbidden love discovery
A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.
Drama
USA
1941
89 Minutes
Charles Boyer Margaret Sullavan Richard Carlson Frank McHugh Tim Holt Frank Jenks Esther Dale Samuel S. Hinds Peggy Stewart Nell O'Day Kitty O'Neil
shopgirl banker manufacturer mistress son wife melodramatic moving sad cincinnati shop train station boat new york city apartment affair unrequited love social ostracism father/son relationship business
Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.
Musical, Comedy
1942
101 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Robert Young Ethel Waters Reginald Owen Grant Mitchell Lionel Atwill Edward Ciannelli Mitchell Lewis Larry Nunn Dennis Hoey Mona Barrie
A torpedoed newsman (Robert Young) foils Nazi spies in Cairo with a Hollywood singer (Jeanette MacDonald) and her maid (Ethel Waters).
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
101 Minutes
Red Skelton Lucille Ball Gene Kelly Douglas Dumbrille Rags Ragland Donald Meek George Givot Zero Mostel Tommy Dorsey Virginia O'Brien Louise Beavers
singer dancer nightclub employee louis xv madame du barry charming new york city nightclub french royal court love triangle unrequited love marrying for money performance sacrifice temptation rivalry french revolution
A night club's coatroom attendant who's in-love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Biography
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Felix Bressart Marsha Hunt Fay Holden Samuel S. Hinds Kathleen Howard George Lessey William Henry Henry O'Neill John Eldredge
mother orphan doctor butler sister senator touching emotional orphanage wisconsin train household texas death social activism deception adoption religion relationships underdog
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Biography
USA
1931
91 Minutes
Greta Garbo Ramon Novarro Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone C. Henry Gordon Karen Morley Alec B. Francis Blanche Frederici Edmund Breese Helen Jerome Eddy Frank Reicher
mata hari officer general chief spy love interest sultry melodramatic thrilling paris nightclub apartment world war i espionage seduction jealousy affair love sacrifice rivalry
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Drama
USA
1932
94 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Herbert Marshall Cary Grant Dickie Moore Robert E. O'Connor Gene Morgan Rita La Roy Sidney Toler Morgan Wallace Francis Sayles Gertrude Short
A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation.
Drama
USA
1932
120 Minutes
Walter Huston Lewis Stone Dorothy Jordan Neil Hamilton Emma Dunn Frederick Burton Reginald Barlow John Larkin Gertrude Howard Robert Young Jimmy Durante
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.