List of the best Emma Dunn movies: The Wet Parade(1932), It's Tough to Be Famous(1932), Dr. Kildare's Crisis(1940), You Can't Fool Your Wife(1940), The Penalty(1941), The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood(1932), This Modern Age(1931), Dr. Kildare's Strange Case(1940), The Talk of the Town(1942), Ladies in Retirement(1941), Son of Frankenstein(1939), Young Dr. Kildare(1938) ... ...
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1932
120 Minutes
Mrs. Chilcote
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.
Drama
1932
79 Minutes
`'Moms'` McClenahan
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Mary Brian Walter Catlett Oscar Apfel Emma Dunn J. Carrol Naish David Landau Claire MacDowell Louise Beavers Ivan Linow Harold Minjir
naval officer personal assistant wife sailor reporter agent witty emotional amusing submarine parade new york city banquet hall party hero worship celebrity privacy media circus marital problems heroism
A Navy war hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) marries his girlfriend (Mary Brian) and tries to avoid publicity.
Drama
1940
75 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Robert Young Laraine Day Emma Dunn Nat Pendleton Bobs Watson Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Nell Craig Frank Orth
dr. kildare nurse fiancée brother mentor doctor melodramatic hospital office household epilepsy wedding romantic dilemma medical profession siblings love sacrifice quest 1940s
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) corrects Kildare's (Lew Ayres) diagnosis of nurse Lamont's brother's (Robert Young) head problem.
Comedy
1940
68 Minutes
Mother Fields
Lucille Ball Jimmy Ellison Robert Coote Virginia Vale Emma Dunn Elaine Shepard William Halligan Oscar O'Shea Norman Mayes Patsy O'Byrne Dell Henderson
wife husband mother playboy seductress lighthearted amusing household nightclub apartment office party marriage separation seduction impersonation mistaken identity in-laws temptation rivalry
An outcast husband (James Ellison) flirts with another woman who turns out to be his wife (Lucille Ball).
6.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
79 Minutes
"Ma" McCormick
Edward Arnold Gene Reynolds Lionel Barrymore Marsha Hunt Robert Sterling Emma Dunn Veda Ann Borg Richard Lane Gloria DeHaven Grant Mitchell Phil Silvers
The son of a murderer is entangled in his father's crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life.
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Mrs. Sarah Cohen
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.
5.4/10
Drama
USA
1931
76 Minutes
Mrs. Margaret Blake
Joan Crawford Pauline Frederick Neil Hamilton Monroe Owsley Hobart Bosworth Emma Dunn Albert Conti
Young American woman reunites with estranged divorcée mother living chic, carefree life in Paris. She falls for Harvard football star on vacation, but his conservative parents disapprove of the demimonde lifestyle of the two expatriates.
Drama
1940
76 Minutes
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Shepperd Strudwick Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger John Eldredge Nell Craig George H. Reed
doctor nurse mentor surgeon patient rival tense melodramatic hospital city car mentorship medical profession romance love triangle malpractice unlikely allies discovery rivalry 1940s
Kildare (Lew Ayres) tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), and faces a rival for nurse Lamont (Laraine Day).
7.5/10
Comedy
USA
1942
118 Minutes
Mrs. Shelley
Cary Grant Jean Arthur Ronald Colman Edgar Buchanan Glenda Farrell Charles Dingle Emma Dunn Rex Ingram Leonid Kinskey Tom Tyler Don Beddoe
fugitive teacher professor foreman lawyer witty charming summerhouse courtroom false accusations love triangle law love quest escape pursuit 1940s
An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
92 Minutes
Sister Theresa
Ida Lupino Louis Hayward Evelyn Keyes Elsa Lanchester Edith Barrett Isobel Elsom Emma Dunn Clyde Cook Queenie Leonard
actress retiree housekeeper sister nephew melodramatic chilling england household countryside deception murder family isolation revenge fall 1940s
The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
7.1/10
Horror
USA
1939
99 Minutes
Amelia
Basil Rathbone Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Lionel Atwill Josephine Hutchinson Donnie Dunagan Emma Dunn Edgar Norton Perry Ivins Lawrence Grant Lionel Belmore
frankenstein's monster ygor scientist inspector wife son creepy dark thrilling family home castle frankenstein village laboratory graveyard family honor father/son relationship scientific experiments monsters murder vindication
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Lynne Carver Nat Pendleton Jo Ann Sayers Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Monty Woolley Phillip Terry Don "Red" Barry
doctor mentor mother father love interest politician emotional intense solemn connecticut bar house hospital new york city mentorship terminal illness depression medicine family growing up
Dr. James Kildare decides to take a position at a large New York hospital instead of joining his father's country practice but he finds himself in serious trouble when he saves a suicidal woman.
6.8/10
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Mrs. Platt
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Charles Butterworth Otto Kruger Hedda Hopper Laura Hope Crews Emma Dunn Roscoe Karns Eddie Anderson
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
6.1/10
Action
USA
1935
69 Minutes
Mrs. Phelan
Norman Foster Evalyn Knapp Esther Ralston Eric Linden Purnell Pratt Irene Franklin Emma Dunn Gilbert Emery Russell Hicks Christian Rub Francis Macdonald
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
8.4/10
Comedy
USA
1940
128 Minutes
Mrs. Jaeckel
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Jack Oakie Reginald Gardiner Henry Daniell Billy Gilbert Maurice Moscovich Emma Dunn Grace Hayle Carter DeHaven Bernard Gorcey
barber dictator girl adviser hilarious cheeky dark incredible europe airplane hospital barbershop government offices stadium anti-semitism fascism persecution propaganda world war i loyalty
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1938
69 Minutes
Mrs. Briggs
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.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1939
86 Minutes
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Lana Turner Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds Lynne Carver Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Harlan Briggs
intern physician nurse patient sister criminal melodramatic engaging new york city hospital basement apartment false accusations medical profession injury investigation framed for murder confidence discovery quest
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1933
74 Minutes
Mrs. Kane
Joe E. Brown Patricia Ellis Claire Dodd Frank McHugh Preston Foster Russell Hopton Sterling Holloway Emma Dunn Charles Wilson Jessie Ralph Douglas Dumbrille
baseball player girlfriend manager gambler teammate amusing heartwarming chicago baseball field baseball love success rivalry underdog adventure 1930s
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
5.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
65 Minutes
Mrs. Davis
Jane Withers John McGuire Sally Blane Sidney Toler Gloria Roy Gordon Westcott Francis Ford Emma Dunn
orphan adoptive father adoptive mother tramp child actor charming hilarious heartwarming orphanage family home theater farm train chicago adoption vaudeville false accusations child exploitation assumed identity running away
After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
5.7/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Ma Hardy
Pat O'Brien Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Dick Foran Ann Sheridan Johnnie Davis Ronald Reagan Emma Dunn Granville Bates James Stephenson Hobart Cavanaugh
singer musician beautiful woman boyfriend agent lighthearted spirited amusing cheery dude ranch wyoming train new york city rodeo struggling musicians deception assumed identity city vs. country show business country music
An actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy.
6.6/10
Romance
USA
1938
91 Minutes
Ma Hawkins
Gary Cooper Merle Oberon Walter Brennan Patsy Kelly Fuzzy Knight Mabel Todd Henry Kolker Harry Davenport Emma Dunn Walter Walker Berton Churchill
wealthy girl father maid cowboy best friend lighthearted tender charming city household bar palm beach, fla. montana wealth father/daughter relationship impersonation deception elopement romance love
A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Mrs. Martha Kildare
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Lionel Atwill Laraine Day Helen Gilbert Nat Pendleton Sara Haden Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Grant Mitchell Walter Kingsford
doctor mentor nurse tycoon daughter housekeeper engaging positive hospital new york city household office cottage medicine friendship research psychosomatic illness quacks experimental medicine quest
Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of... See full summary »
6.0/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
83 Minutes
Aunt Jane Hopkins
Alice Faye James Dunn Ned Sparks Lyda Roberti Cliff Edwards Arline Judge Eleanor Powell Benny Rubin Emma Dunn Roger Imhof George White
producer singer boyfriend aunt performer rival spirited charming florida train georgia theater new york city club show business performance family competition scandal marriage
A vacationing Broadway producer, George White, stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram. He sees his name in lights on a local theater and is scandalized over the unauthorized ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Mrs. Mayhew
Edward G. Robinson Genevieve Tobin Glenda Farrell Robert Barrat Gordon Westcott Hobart Cavanaugh George Meeker Henry B. Walthall Sidney Toler Emma Dunn Willard Robertson
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Orphanage matron
Sybil Jason Glenda Farrell Robert Armstrong Edward Everett Horton Jack LaRue Arthur Vinton J. Carrol Naish Edgar Kennedy Addison Richards Emma Dunn Ward Bond
young girl father schemer friend hatcheck girl gangster charming suspenseful amusing new york city hotel orphanage street orphans crime great depression debt kidnapping guardianship rescue
A young girl endears herself to her caretakers after her father is murdered by mobsters.
Comedy
1941
95 Minutes
Martha
Carole Lombard Robert Montgomery Gene Raymond Jack Carson Philip Merivale Lucile Watson William Tracy Charles Halton Esther Dale Emma Dunn William Edmunds
husband wife romantic rival colleague spirited amusing endearing new york city ski resort nightclub world's fair ferris wheel marital problems courtship rules love discovery pursuit 1940s
Bickering New Yorkers (Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery) learn from a lawyer that, technically, they're not married.
Musical, Comedy
1941
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Fay Bainter Virginia Weidler Ray McDonald Richard Quine Donald Meek Luis Alberni James Gleason Emma Dunn Frederick Burton
singer girlfriend performers producer charming lighthearted united states new york city stage deception ambition music broken home broadway temptation underdog 1930s
Talented young hopefuls strive for their big break on Broadway in this follow-up to "Babes in Arms.".
7.1/10
Fantasy
USA
1942
76 Minutes
Fredric March Veronica Lake Robert Benchley Susan Hayward Cecil Kellaway Elizabeth Patterson Robert Warwick Eily Malyon Nora Cecil Emory Parnell Aldrich Bowker
witch puritan fiancée politician doctor socialite melodramatic amusing charming lighthearted salem, massachusetts jail inn witchcraft love triangle magic revenge curse love transformation
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
7.9/10
Comedy
USA
1936
115 Minutes
Gary Cooper Jean Arthur George Bancroft Lionel Stander Douglas Dumbrille Raymond Walburn Margaret Matzenauer H.B. Warner Warren Hymer Muriel Evans Ruth Donnelly
heir reporter lawyer amusing charming spirited new york city small town vermont fame wealth love small-town life city vs. country love discovery transformation rise 1930s
A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1938
86 Minutes
Freddie Bartholomew Mickey Rooney Charles Coburn Herbert Mundin Terry Kilburn Gale Sondergaard Peter Lawford Walter Tetley Peter Ellis George Zucco Matthew Boulton
delinquent thief headmaster wife schoolboy friend cheeky confident london jewelry shop boys school woods ship party reform orphanage trust loyalty friendship crime
A spoiled orphan, raised by a couple of con artists, gets sent to a mercantile marine vocational school for orphaned boys, where he learns about friendship and ethics, and uncovers a new future.
6.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Walter Catlett Ted Healy Johnnie Davis Lee Dixon Mabel Todd George MacFarland Halliwell Hobbes Edward Brophy
A former student, who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student's stage show.
7.1/10
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
84 Minutes
Dick Powell Linda Darnell Jack Oakie Edgar Kennedy John Philliber Edward Brophy George Cleveland Paul Guilfoyle George Chandler Eddie Acuff Marion Martin
reporter old man fortuneteller colleague uncle editor witty endearing newsroom household opera house racetrack hotel news precognition death wedding gambling quest rivalry
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Musical
1940
90 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Louis Hayward Lucille Ball Virginia Field Ralph Bellamy Maria Ouspenskaya Mary Carlisle Katharine Alexander Edward Brophy Walter Abel Harold Huber
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).
5.7/10
Comedy
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Paul Lukas Loretta Young Frank McHugh Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Walter Byron Ferdinand Gottschalk Joseph Cawthorn Paul Porcasi Mary Doran Lucien Prival
Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.
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