List of the best Evelyn Venable movies: Female Fugitive(1938), Death Takes a Holiday(1934), Heritage of the Desert(1939), Double Door(1934), Hollywood Stadium Mystery(1938), Vagabond Lady(1935), Harmony Lane(1935), Streamline Express(1935), The County Chairman(1935), The Little Colonel(1935), Alice Adams(1935), The Frontiersmen(1938) ... ...
Drama
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Peggy Mallory, Ann Williams
Evelyn Venable Craig Reynolds Reed Hadley John Kelly Charlotte Treadway Reginald Sheffield
Insurance investigators go after a ring of truck hijackers.
Fantasy
USA
1934
78 Minutes
Fredric March Evelyn Venable Guy Standing Katharine Alexander Gail Patrick Helen Westley Kathleen Howard Kent Taylor Henry Travers G.P. Huntley Jr. Otto Hoffman
prince father daughter death dark passionate tender estate italy death forbidden love father/daughter relationship heartbreak sacrifice forbidden love metamorphosis 1930s
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Western
USA
1939
74 Minutes
Miriam Naab
Donald Woods Evelyn Venable Russell Hayden Robert Barrat Sidney Toler C. Henry Gordon
gunslinger rancher son daughter outlaw scientist suspenseful wild melodramatic wild west desert ranch wilderness abduction hired killers love triangle family ties unlikely allies real estate rescue
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
75 Minutes
Anne Darrow
In a spooky New York City mansion, a wealthy but mean old woman threatens to return her sister to the home's secret torture chamber when the sister objects to the woman's trying to ruin the... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
66 Minutes
Neil Hamilton Evelyn Venable Jimmy Wallington Barbara Pepper Lucien Littlefield Lynne Roberts Charles Williams James Spottswood Reed Hadley Robert Homans William Haade
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Romance
USA
1935
72 Minutes
Robert Young Evelyn Venable Berton Churchill Reginald Denny Frank Craven Forrester Harvey Dan Crimmins Ferdinand Gottschalk
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Douglass Montgomery Evelyn Venable William Frawley Adrienne Ames Joseph Cawthorn David Torrence Gilbert Emery Lloyd Hughes Al Herman Cora Sue Collins
composer fiancée wife minstrel father music teacher spirited melodramatic kentucky plantation family home saloon church new york city stephen foster songwriting marital problems father/son relationship alcoholism financial troubles
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Comedy
USA
1935
70 Minutes
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a super-speed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive confidence man, a stage director masquerading as a steward in hopes of ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Lucy Rigby
Will Rogers Kent Taylor Evelyn Venable Louise Dresser Mickey Rooney Berton Churchill Frank Melton Robert McWade
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Elizabeth
Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Bill Robinson Evelyn Venable John Lodge Sidney Blackmer
colonel daughter husband grandchild veteran swindler cheeky charming moving kentucky household garden staircase woods pride war culture clash family deception courage
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
99 Minutes
Mildred "Georgette" Palmer
Katharine Hepburn Fred MacMurray Fred Stone Evelyn Venable Frank Albertson Ann Shoemaker Charley Grapewin Grady Sutton Hedda Hopper Jonathan Hale Hattie McDaniel
daughter mother father wealthy man amusing emotional spirited small town household midwest aspirations social standing class distinctions romance dining love quest 1930s
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Western
USA
1938
71 Minutes
June Lake
William Boyd George "Gabby" Hayes Russell Hayden Evelyn Venable William Duncan Clara Kimball Young Charles Anthony Hughes Dickie Jones Roy Barcroft Emily Fitzroy
A pretty and gentle schoolteacher from Boston transforms the lives of a spoiled boy and the other residents at 'Bar 20' Ranch, and is courted by Crockett city's Mayor, who is really a livestock thief.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Lucy Olcott
Pauline Lord W.C. Fields ZaSu Pitts Evelyn Venable Kent Taylor Charles Middleton Donald Meek Jimmy Butler George Breakston Edith Fellows Virginia Weidler
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy ... See full summary »