List of the best Dawn O'Day movies: Anne of Green Gables(1934), Steamboat 'Round the Bend(1935), Man From Frisco(1944), Law of the Underworld(1938), Mother Carey's Chickens(1938), Stella Dallas(1937), Vigil in the Night(1940), Bombardier(1943), Four Jacks and a Jill(1941), City Girl(1930), Young America(1932), Liliom(1930) ... ...
Drama
USA
1934
79 Minutes
Dawn O'Day Tom Brown O.P. Heggie Helen Westley Sara Haden Murray Kinnell Gertrude Messinger June Preston Charley Grapewin Hilda Vaughn
orphan doctor brother sister schoolboy emotional charming prince edward island farm school orphanage family feud illness young love adoption farming forbidden love growing up underdog 1900s
A romantic teenage girl is adopted by a pair of elderly siblings in turn-of-the-century Canada.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
96 Minutes
Will Rogers Dawn O'Day Irvin S. Cobb Eugene Pallette John McGuire Berton Churchill Francis Ford Roger Imhof
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Drama
USA
1944
91 Minutes
Matt Braddock (a fictional version of real-life Henry Kaiser) is an engineer with revolutionary ideas for shipbuilding. When he tries to set up yards for prefabricating ships on the West ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
61 Minutes
Chester Morris Dawn O'Day Edward Ciannelli Walter Abel Richard Bond Lee Patrick Paul Guilfoyle Frank M. Thomas Eddie Acuff Jack Arnold Jack Carson
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution.
Drama
1938
82 Minutes
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
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
USA
1940
96 Minutes
Carole Lombard Brian Aherne Dawn O'Day Julien Mitchell Robert Coote Brenda Forbes Rita Page Peter Cushing Ethel Griffies Doris Lloyd Emily Fitzroy
nurse doctor boss nun sister engaging emotional touching london hospital medicine love guilt sexual harassment redemption pursuit rise sacrifice 1940s
A nurse loses her job after selflessly taking the blame for a fatal mistake her sister and co-worker made; she is subsequently employed at a poorly-equipped hospital, where she finds romance and tragedy.
War
USA
1943
99 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Randolph Scott Dawn O'Day Eddie Albert Walter Reed Robert Ryan Barton MacLane Leonard Strong Richard Martin Russell Wade James Newill
major captain pilot secretary cadet friend moving emotional thrilling arizona air force base airplane japan school friendship love triangle world war ii air force bombing espionage
Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
68 Minutes
Ray Bolger Desi Arnaz Dawn O'Day June Havoc Eddie Foy Jr. Jack Durant Henry Daniell Fritz Feld
singer immigrant bandleader mobster cab driver nightclub owner amusing charming new york city nightclub deception show business music industry organized crime transformation quest 1940s
Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.
Drama, Romance
USA
1930
68 Minutes
Charles Farrell David Torrence Mary Duncan Edith Yorke Dawn O'Day Tom McGuire Richard Alexander
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Doris Kenyon Ralph Bellamy Tommy Conlon Raymond Borzage Beryl Mercer Sarah Padden Robert Homans Dawn O'Day Betty Jane Graham Louise Beavers
Already in trouble with the law, Arthur and his friend Nutty break into a drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. The druggist's wife, Mrs. Doray, asks for custody. When he hears... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1930
94 Minutes
Charles Farrell Rose Hobart Estelle Taylor H.B. Warner Lee Tracy Walter Abel Mildred Van Dorn Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Lillian Elliott Dawn O'Day Bert Roach
Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at a Budapest amusement park, becomes enamored of Julie, a servant girl, and though under the influence of Madame Muskat, a sideshow entrepreneur, he marries... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1932
123 Minutes
John Barrymore Ethel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Ralph Morgan Diana Wynyard Tad Alexander C. Henry Gordon Edward Arnold Gustav von Seyffertitz Dawn O'Day Jean Parker
mystic czar nicholas ii child prince princess doctor dark intense russia palace party hypnosis czarina alexandra royalty rasputin assassination revolution quest rise fall
A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
Fantasy
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Edward Arnold Walter Huston James Craig Jane Darwell Simone Simon Gene Lockhart John Qualen Frank Conlan Lindy Wade George Cleveland Dawn O'Day
farmer senator devil wife assistant neighbor crafty dark uneasy new hampshire farm town greed corruption debt farming promises friendship temptation pursuit
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Western
USA
1925
56 Minutes
Tom Mix Beatrice Burnham Arthur Morrison Seessel Anne Johnson Warner Oland Fred Kohler Charles Newton Joe Rickson Mabel Ballin Charles LeMoyne Harold Goodwin
lawman sister daughter rancher lawyer thug rousing suspenseful striking spirited texas ranch courtroom cave range town kidnapping assumed identity family search
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Drama
USA
1934
82 Minutes
William Powell Edna Best Colin Clive Hobart Cavanaugh Henry O'Neill Phil Regan Donald Crisp J.M. Kerrigan Arthur Treacher Maxine Doyle Arthur Aylesworth
British officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
83 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Hardie Albright Lionel Belmore Harry Beresford George Brent Bette Davis Noel Francis Blanche Frederici Alan Hale Harry Holman Olin Howland
Following the death of Selena's father, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.