List of the best Etienne Girardot movies: Twentieth Century(1934), Breakfast for Two(1937), Fast and Loose(1939), Grand Old Girl(1936), Danger, Love at Work(1937), In Old Kentucky(1935), The Whole Town's Talking(1935), The Bishop Misbehaves(1935), I Live My Life(1935), Mandalay(1934), Professor Beware(1938), Hearts Divided(1936) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1934
91 Minutes
Mathew J. Clark
John Barrymore Carole Lombard Walter Connolly Roscoe Karns Etienne Girardot Ralph Forbes Charles Levison Edgar Kennedy
theatrical producer actress boyfriend rival accountant mental patient hysterical charming outlandish train new york city chicago theater apartment love triangle actors show business travel love rivalry
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
Comedy
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Mr. Meggs
Barbara Stanwyck Herbert Marshall Glenda Farrell Eric Blore Etienne Girardot Donald Meek Frank M. Thomas Pierre Watkin Sidney Bracey Harold Goodwin
Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
80 Minutes
Christopher Oates
Robert Montgomery Rosalind Russell Reginald Owen Ralph Morgan Etienne Girardot Alan Dinehart Jo Ann Sayers Joan Marsh John Hubbard Tom Collins Sidney Blackmer
amateur sleuth bookseller wife wealthy man inspector butler amusing crafty household library murder investigation literature wealth family mystery discovery 1930s
Rare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.
Drama
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Mr. Mellis
May Robson Fred MacMurray Mary Carlisle Alan Hale Etienne Girardot William Burress Hale Hamilton Edward Van Sloan Fred Kohler Jr. Ben Alexander George Offerman Jr.
principal superintendent teen girl student political boss corrupt businessman melodramatic small town gambling house club school office gambling love triangle political corruption virtue vice underdog wretched excess 1930s
Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Clarence runs a crooked gambling operation in the back room. Miss Bayles uses Clarence's ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Albert Pemberton
Ann Sothern Jack Haley Mary Boland John Carradine Walter Catlett Maurice Cass Alan Dinehart Etienne Girardot E.E. Clive Margaret McWade Margaret Seddon
A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.
Comedy
USA
1935
86 Minutes
Pluvius J. Aspinwall
Will Rogers Dorothy Wilson Russell Hardie Charles Sellon Louise Henry Charles Richman Alan Dinehart Esther Dale Etienne Girardot John Ince Bill Robinson
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Seaver
Edward G. Robinson Jean Arthur Arthur Hohl Wallace Ford Arthur Byron Donald Meek Paul Harvey Edward Brophy Etienne Girardot James Donlan
clerk gangster love interest boss police detective newspaper owner madcap confident intricate witty apartment police station office newsroom hideout mistaken identity wrongfully accused impersonation murder plot crime
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Brooke
Maureen O'Sullivan Edmund Gwenn Lucile Watson Reginald Owen Dudley Digges Norman Foster Lilian Bond Melville Cooper Charles McNaughton Etienne Girardot
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she ... See full summary »
Romance
1935
92 Minutes
Professor
Joan Crawford Brian Aherne Frank Morgan Aline MacMahon Eric Blore Arthur Treacher Fred Keating Jessie Ralph Frank Conroy Etienne Girardot Edward Brophy
socialite archaeologist father millionaire butler grandmother airy witty charming lighthearted new york city yacht greece island connecticut museum class distinctions deception vacation love triangle
An heiress and a young archaeologist fall in love during a chance meeting, but they find that money poses a problem.
Drama
USA
1934
65 Minutes
Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Lyle Talbot Warner Oland Ruth Donnelly Reginald Owen Hobart Cavanaugh David Torrence Rafaela Ottiano Halliwell Hobbes Etienne Girardot
political refugee surgeon gunrunner pimp prostitute beautiful woman tense melodramatic sultry mandalay, myanmar rangoon, myanmar brothel boat city poverty prostitution organized crime blackmail secret past new life
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Comedy
USA
1938
87 Minutes
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 »
Romance
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Marion Davies Dick Powell Charles Ruggles Claude Rains Edward Everett Horton Arthur Treacher Henry Stephenson Clara Blandick John Larkin Walter Kingsford Etienne Girardot
napoleon bonaparte brother socialite suitor teacher passionate lighthearted emotional baltimore france louisiana purchase negotiation impersonation arranged marriage teaching politics love sacrifice rivalry quest
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
116 Minutes
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Cedric Hardwicke Thomas Mitchell Edmond O'Brien Alan Marshal Walter Hampden Harry Davenport Katharine Alexander George Zucco Fritz Leiber
gypsy bishop beautiful woman monster hunchback deacon suspenseful passionate heartwarming touching paris church courtroom notre dame cathedral cathedral jail love corruption rescue framed
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Musical
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Lawrence Tibbett Virginia Bruce Alice Brady Cesar Romero Thurston Hall Luis Alberni George F. Marion Ruth Donnelly Franklyn Ardell Adrian Rosley Christian Rub
opera singer conductor opera director love interest diva friend engaging spirited positive new york city opera house house philadelphia theater opera creative process rehearsal big break egoism new romance
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Comedy
1937
91 Minutes
Brian Aherne Olivia de Havilland Edward Everett Horton Melville Cooper Luis Alberni Lionel Atwill Marie Wilson Lana Turner Linda Perry Craig Reynolds Dorothy Tree
actor countess love interest fan servant amusing outlandish witty paris inn england stage impersonation performance romance misunderstanding theater david garrick rivalry transformation
French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Anna Sten Alan Marshal Jerome Cowan Jed Prouty Walter Catlett Stanley Fields Leonid Kinskey Irving Pichel Harry Davenport Addison Richards Feodor Chaliapin
Spies will not stop at murder in their attempts to wrest a secret formula for a deadly poison away from American scientists.
Drama
USA
1934
70 Minutes
Loretta Young Cary Grant Jackie Kelk Henry Travers Russell Hopton Andrew Tombes Howard H. Lang Harry Green Marion Burns Paul Harvey Charles Coleman
An immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck.