List of the best Cora Witherspoon movies: The Bank Dick(1940), Quality Street(1937), Dark Victory(1939), Just for You(1952), Libeled Lady(1936), Three Loves Has Nancy(1938), Professor Beware(1938), Follies Girl(1943), Personal Property(1937), Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise(1940), Just Around the Corner(1938), Beg, Borrow or Steal(1937) ... ...
Comedy
1940
74 Minutes
Agatha Sousé
W.C. Fields Cora Witherspoon Una Merkel Evelyn Del Rio Jessie Ralph Franklin Pangborn Shemp Howard Dick Purcell Grady Sutton Russell Hicks
guard bank teller inspector swindler daughter bank robber madcap hilarious lighthearted outlandish small town bank hotel car luck schemes embezzlement hero worship bank heist getaway
A man inadvertently foils a robbery and is awarded the job of bank guard, forcing him to face a real holdup.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
84 Minutes
Patty
Katharine Hepburn Franchot Tone Fay Bainter Eric Blore Cora Witherspoon Estelle Winwood
sister doctor neighbor spinster student soldier amusing emotional charming household school ballroom england siblings courtship napoleonic wars homecoming deception disguise love
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Drama
USA
1939
106 Minutes
Carrie
Bette Davis George Brent Humphrey Bogart Geraldine Fitzgerald Ronald Reagan Cora Witherspoon Henry Travers Virginia Brissac Dorothy Peterson Charles Richman Herbert Rawlinson
heiress stableman doctor best friend housekeeper emotional sad mushy long island, n.y. new york city estate stable vermont terminal illness love triangle death courage love transformation 1930s
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Musical, Comedy
1952
104 Minutes
Mrs. Angevine
Bing Crosby Jane Wyman Ethel Barrymore Bob Arthur Natalie Wood Cora Witherspoon Regis Toomey
songwriter star son daughter headmistress charming uplifting cheery new york city school family home upstate new york resort parenthood adolescence father/son relationship aspirations romantic dilemma infatuation love
The star (Jane Wyman) of a Broadway producer's (Bing Crosby) show helps him with his teenage children, who feel neglected.
Comedy
USA
1936
98 Minutes
Mrs. Burns-Norvell
Jean Harlow Spencer Tracy Myrna Loy William Powell Walter Connolly Charley Grapewin Cora Witherspoon E.E. Clive Bunny Beatty Otto Yamaoka Charles Trowbridge
editor fiancée friend socialite amusing charming playful new york city ocean liner lake hotel family home love romance lawsuit deception love discovery 1930s
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Comedy
USA
1938
69 Minutes
Mrs. Herford
Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Guy Kibbee Claire Dodd Reginald Owen Cora Witherspoon Emma Dunn Charley Grapewin Lester Matthews
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Comedy
USA
1938
87 Minutes
Mrs. Ophelia Pitts
Harold Lloyd Phyllis Welch William Frawley Raymond Walburn Lionel Stander Thurston Hall Cora Witherspoon Sterling Holloway Mary Lawrence Montagu Love Etienne Girardot
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1943
74 Minutes
Mrs. J. B. Hamlin
Wendy Barrie Doris Nolan Gordon Oliver Anne Barrett Arthur Pierson J.C. Nugent Cora Witherspoon William Harrigan Jay Brenan Lew Hearn Cliff Hall
An Army private falls for his father's employee, a dress designer working on a burlesque show.
Comedy
1937
88 Minutes
Mrs. Burns
Jean Harlow Robert Taylor Reginald Owen Una O'Connor Henrietta Crosman E.E. Clive Cora Witherspoon Marla Shelton Forrester Harvey Lionel Braham Barnett Parker
widow fiancé brother maid mother father intricate madcap charming london apartment marrying for money love triangle family business debt unlikely romance forbidden love discovery 1930s
A London playboy (Robert Taylor) moves in with a broke U.S. widow (Jean Harlow), as custodian of her and her possessions.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Susie Watson
Sidney Toler Victor Sen Yung Marjorie Weaver Lionel Atwill Robert Lowery Don Beddoe Leo G. Carroll Cora Witherspoon Kay Linaker Harlan Briggs Charles Middleton
Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.
Musical
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Aunt Julia Ramsby
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".
Drama
USA
1937
72 Minutes
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller
Frank Morgan Florence Rice John Beal Janet Beecher Herman Bing Erik Rhodes George Givot E.E. Clive Tom Rutherfurd Cora Witherspoon Reginald Denny
A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
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.
Western
USA
1939
104 Minutes
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Ann Sheridan Bruce Cabot Frank McHugh Alan Hale John Litel Victor Jory Henry Travers Henry O'Neill Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
sheriff deputy girl thief cattle rustler frenetic thrilling gutsy spirited dodge city, kan. train law and order american west frontier justice cattle drives adventure love pursuit revenge 1870s
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.