List of the best Edwin Maxwell movies: The Taming of the Shrew(1929), Mama Loves Papa(1945), Great God Gold(1935), The Ninth Guest(1934), Mystery of the Wax Museum(1933), The Woman I Stole(1933), The Blue Bird(1940), Girl From Calgary(1932), The Great Moment(1944), Motive for Revenge(1935), The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood(1932), Tiger Shark(1932) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1929
63 Minutes
Baptista
In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1945
61 Minutes
Kirkwood
In 1905, Jessie Todd reads psychologist Basil Pew's book The Woman Behind the Man and becomes inspired to instill the "will to do" in her husband Wilbur. Following a chapter from the book, ... See full synopsis »
Drama
USA
1935
65 Minutes
Nitto
Sidney Blackmer Martha Sleeper Regis Toomey Gloria Shea Edwin Maxwell Ralf Harolde Maria Alba John T. Murray
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1934
65 Minutes
Jason Osgood
Donald Cook Genevieve Tobin Hardie Albright Edward Ellis Edwin Maxwell Vince Barnett Helen Flint Samuel S. Hinds Nella Walker Sidney Bracey
Eight strangers are invited to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. They are greeted, wined and dined, but a voice on the radio tells them they will be murdered unless they outwit Death.
Horror
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Joe Worth
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh Gavin Gordon Edwin Maxwell Holmes Herbert Arthur Edmund Carewe Allen Vincent Monica Bannister Matthew Betz
sculptor partner assistant fiancée reporter creepy tense london new york city wax museum obsession art murder love fall revenge 1930s
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Action
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Lentz
Jack Holt Fay Wray Noah Beery Raquel Torres Donald Cook Edwin Maxwell Charles Browne Ferdinand Munier Lee Phelps
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1940
88 Minutes
Oak
Shirley Temple Spring Byington Nigel Bruce Gale Sondergaard Eddie Collins Edwin Maxwell Thurston Hall Sterling Holloway Claire DuBrey Dorothy Dearing
daughter mother fairy brother lumberjack creative emotional heartwarming moving positive uplifting forest home past future war growing up fairies journey adventure
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
Musical, Comedy
1932
64 Minutes
Earl Darrell
Fifi D'Orsay Paul Kelly Astrid Allwyn Robert Warwick Eddie Fetherston Edwin Maxwell
Biography
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Vice-President of Medical Society
Joel McCrea Betty Field Harry Carey William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Julius Tannen Edwin Maxwell Porter Hall Franklin Pangborn Grady Sutton Harry Hayden
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
60 Minutes
Billy West Edwin Argus Donald Cook Fern Emmett Irene Hervey Doris Lloyd Edwin Maxwell Wheeler Oakman Russell Simpson Dorothea Wolbert Le Strange Millman
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Chauncey Chadwick
George Sidney Charles Murray June Clyde Norman Foster Esther Howard Emma Dunn Eileen Percy Edwin Maxwell Luis Alberni John Roche
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Adventure
1932
80 Minutes
Doctor (uncredited)
Edward G. Robinson Zita Johann Richard Arlen Leila Bennett Vince Barnett J. Carrol Naish William Ricciardi Edwin Maxwell
fisherman coworker sister young man engaging melodramatic boat cabin small town bedroom church jealousy sharks fishing love triangle wedding infidelity rivalry revenge 1930s
A Portuguese tuna fisherman (Edward G. Robinson) catches his bride (Zita Johann) with his first mate (Richard Arlen).
Comedy
USA
1939
110 Minutes
Mercier, the Jeweler
Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Ina Claire Sig Ruman Felix Bressart Alexander Granach Bela Lugosi Gregory Gaye Richard Carle Edwin Maxwell Rolfe Sedan
diplomat count duchess russian amusing charming paris eiffel tower hotel love forbidden love competition communism capitalism love discovery transformation 1930s
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Comedy
USA
1938
68 Minutes
Mondoon
Donald Woods Patricia Ellis Grace Bradley Edward Brophy William Demarest Craig Reynolds Andrew Tombes Bert Roach Leon Weaver Edwin Maxwell Granville Bates
A man has the knack for finding stolen items. Then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Lawyer Kruger
Boris Karloff Warren Hull Jean Rogers Alan Baxter Hobart Cavanaugh Samuel S. Hinds David Oliver Ward Bond Frank Reicher Edwin Maxwell
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Drama
USA
1933
73 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Loretta Young Aline MacMahon Gordon Westcott Robert Barrat Berton Churchill Grant Mitchell Robert McWade Charley Grapewin James Murray Edwin Maxwell
veteran soldier businessman communist wife doctor bleak gritty chicago laundromat hospital prison pennsylvania capitalism communism labor union drug addiction great depression social activism discovery
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Dick Powell Ann Dvorak Fred Allen Patsy Kelly Raymond Walburn David Rubinoff Benny Baker Andrew Tombes Alan Dinehart Paul Harvey Edwin Maxwell
singer dancer manager politician wife rival playful cheeky engaging bus new york city town rally hotel ambition politics radio romance performance rise
Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin Ludwig Donath Tamara Shayne John Alexander Jo-Carroll Dennison Ernest Cossart Scotty Beckett William Forrest
cantor singer actor vaudevillian performer entertainer charming endearing playful rousing synagogue theater nightclub movie studio washington, d.c. backstage al jolson father/son relationship show business career vs. family
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1937
78 Minutes
Tyrone Power Loretta Young Don Ameche Slim Summerville Dudley Digges Walter Catlett George Sanders Jane Darwell Stepin Fetchit Pauline Moore Elisha Cook Jr.
reporter heiress count editor tabloid reporter fiancé madcap playful emotional winsome new york city airport city hall journalism scandal fame deception unlikely romance tabloid journalism love
A financier's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
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, Romance
USA
1940
105 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Mary Boland George Zucco H.B. Warner Dick Purcell Stanley Fields Bunty Cutler Grant Mitchell Ray Walker John Miljan
frenchman duke prisoner servant love interest heiress melodramatic passionate suspenseful ship island louisiana romance journey class distinctions political intrigue love sacrifice adventure 1780s
On a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress.
Drama
USA
1933
72 Minutes
Irene Dunne Walter Huston Conrad Nagel Bruce Cabot Edna May Oliver Sam Hardy Mitchell Lewis Helen Eby-Rock Gertrude Michael J. Carrol Naish Sarah Padden
social worker army officer doctor judge suitor engaging moving profound striking prison havana new york state manhattan social activism prison adultery pregnancy blackmail sacrifice forbidden love
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
Crime, Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
James Cagney Madge Evans Allen Jenkins Dudley Digges Frankie Darro Dorothy Peterson John Marston Charles Wilson Hobart Cavanaugh Raymond Borzage Robert Barrat
corrupt businessman reformed criminal nurse boy gangster guard dark gritty shocking reform school court barn redemption reform political corruption new job rebellion juvenile crime transformation sacrifice
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
113 Minutes
Marie Dressler Jean Harlow John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Madge Evans Jean Hersholt Karen Morley
businessperson socialite husband wife actor doctor engaging melodramatic playful household new york city social standing marriage social event quest wretched excess 1930s
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
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.
War
USA
1930
105 Minutes
Lew Ayres Louis Wolheim John Wray Raymond Griffith Slim Summerville Russell Gleason William Bakewell Scott Kolk Walter Rogers Ben Alexander Owen Davis Jr.
soldier teacher drillmaster student military officer dark brutal profound germany school boot camp trading post trenches world war i patriotism horrors of war growing up adventure 1910s
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.