List of the best Claude Gillingwater movies: Little Lord Fauntleroy(1921), My Boy(1921), Ticket to Paradise(1936), In Love With Life(1934), Green Eyes(1934), Wives Never Know(1936), Daddy Long Legs(1931), Ann Carver's Profession(1933), Mississippi(1935), Poor Little Rich Girl(1936), The Show Off(1934), Just Around the Corner(1938) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1921
100 Minutes
Earl of Dorincourt
Mary Pickford Jack Pickford Claude Gillingwater Colin Kenny Joseph J. Dowling James Marcus Kate Price Fred Malatesta Rose Dione Frances Marion Arthur Thalasso
earl lord widow grandfather young boy mother uplifting charming endearing heartwarming new york city england family home inheritance family bloodline friendship fortune hunters royalty new life adventure
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Comedy, Drama
1921
60 Minutes
Captain Bill
Jackie Coogan Claude Gillingwater Mathilda Brundage Patsy Marks
boy captain father child grandmother heartwarming cheery ship docks ellis island city rooming house street orphans immigrants friendship family street musicians money adventure
An orphaned boy arriving at Ellis Island avoids deportation by befriending an elderly and kind sea captain.
Comedy
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Forbes
Roger Pryor Wendy Barrie Claude Gillingwater Andrew Tombes Luis Alberni E.E. Clive John Sheehan Russell Hicks Theodore von Eltz Harry Woods Herbert Rawlinson
Janes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
66 Minutes
Morley
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Steven Kester
Shirley Grey Charles Starrett Claude Gillingwater John Wray William Bakewell Dorothy Revier Ben Hendricks Jr. Stephen Chase Arthur Clayton Aggie Herring
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Mr. Gossamer
Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Adolphe Menjou Vivienne Osborne Claude Gillingwater Fay Holden Louise Beavers Constance Bergen Purnell Pratt Irving Bacon Ed Gargan
J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Riggs
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
1933
71 Minutes
Judge Bingham
Fay Wray Gene Raymond Claire Dodd Arthur Pierson Claude Gillingwater Frank Albertson Frank Conroy
wife husband architect singer lawyer judge melodramatic spirited gripping los angeles courtroom nightclub apartment romantic dilemma false accusations career vs. love starting over murder trial marital problems rise
Emasculated by his wife's (Fay Wray) success as an attorney, an architect (Gene Raymond) moonlights as a nightclub singer and is accused of murder.
Musical, Comedy
1935
73 Minutes
General Rumford
Bing Crosby W.C. Fields Joan Bennett Queenie Smith Gail Patrick Claude Gillingwater John Miljan Jan Duggan
A singer (Bing Crosby) in love with a Southern belle (Joan Bennett) becomes the star of a commodore's (W.C. Fields) showboat.
Musical
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Simon Peck
Shirley Temple Alice Faye Jack Haley Gloria Stuart Michael Whalen Sara Haden Jane Darwell Claude Gillingwater Paul Stanton Henry Armetta Charles Coleman
young girl entertainer businessman producer man wife amusing tender city mansion apartment street car radio station father/daughter relationship grief music family city life growing up
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
Comedy
USA
1934
78 Minutes
J.B. Preston
Spencer Tracy Madge Evans Henry Wadsworth Lois Wilson Grant Mitchell Clara Blandick Alan Edwards Claude Gillingwater
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. After they marry Aubrey overspends in setting up their home. When their financial situation gets dire they go back to her parents house... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Samuel G. Henshaw
Shirley Temple Joan Davis Charles Farrell Amanda Duff Bill Robinson Bert Lahr Franklin Pangborn Cora Witherspoon Claude Gillingwater Bennie Bartlett Hal K. Dawson
young girl tycoon father chauffeur janitor airy charming positive melodramatic hotel basement great depression youth optimism dance father/daughter relationship underdog rise 1930s
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with bill "Bojangles" robinson. Based on paul gerard smith's book, "Lucky penny".
Comedy
UK
1938
100 Minutes
Ben Dalton
Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Griffith Jones Vivien Leigh Edmund Gwenn C.V. France Edward Rigby Morton Selten Claude Gillingwater Tully Marshall
aristocrat student professor administrator amusing spirited oxford, england oxford university college honor romance sports culture clash growing up transformation rivalry love 1930s
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Drama, History
1937
112 Minutes
Stephan
Greta Garbo Charles Boyer Reginald Owen Alan Marshall Henry Stephenson Leif Erickson Dame May Whitty C. Henry Gordon Maria Ouspenskaya Claude Gillingwater
napoleon bonaparte countess marie walewska count politician son patriotic melodramatic poland isle of elba france historical events affair imprisonment divorce love sacrifice wretched excess forbidden love 1800s
Married Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo) becomes Napoleon's (Charles Boyer) mistress, followed by the battle of Waterloo.
Drama
USA
1935
68 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Gene Raymond Genevieve Tobin Philip Reed John Eldredge Dorothy Tree Arthur Treacher Doris Lloyd Hale Hamilton Ann Shoemaker Nella Walker
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Drama, History
USA
1935
128 Minutes
Ronald Colman Elizabeth Allan Edna May Oliver Blanche Yurka Reginald Owen Basil Rathbone Henry B. Walthall Donald Woods Walter Catlett Fritz Leiber H.B. Warner
lawyer wealthy man pretty woman emotional melodramatic passionate england london france paris social change love triangle french revolution friendship injustice love forbidden love quest rescue 1780s
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Comedy
1934
92 Minutes
Victor McLaglen Helen Vinson John Gilbert Alison Skipworth Wynne Gibson Walter Connolly Fred Keating Tala Birell Leon Errol Walter Catlett Donald Meek