List of the best Faye Emerson movies: Danger Signal(1945), Lady Gangster(1942), Guilty Bystander(1950), Crime by Night(1944), The Mask of Dimitrios(1944), Nobody Lives Forever(1946), Hotel Berlin(1945), Uncertain Glory(1944), Nine Lives Are Not Enough(1941), Between Two Worlds(1944), The Hard Way(1942), The Desert Song(1943) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
78 Minutes
Hilda Fenchurch
Faye Emerson Zachary Scott Mona Freeman Richard Erdman Rosemary DeCamp Herman Brix John Ridgely Mary Servoss Joyce Compton Virginia Sale Addison Richards
con artist rich girl jealous woman mother widower professor suspenseful brooding gripping dark los angeles house murder inheritance greed revenge con game new identity revenge pursuit
A very romantic murderer has plans to seduce, marry and kill a beautiful woman for her wealth, but finds her younger sister to be even better prey.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
62 Minutes
Dot Burton
Faye Emerson Jacqueline Wells Frank Wilcox Roland Drew Jackie Gleason Ruth Ford Virginia Brissac Dorothy Vaughan Dorothy Adams William Hopper Vera Lewis
aspiring actress bank robber district attorney radio host inmate detective suspenseful fiery gritty prison bank hospital cell bank robbery prison life unlikely romance prison break betrayal injustice escape
Dot Burton (Faye Emerson) has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Zachary Scott Faye Emerson Mary Boland Sam Levene J. Edward Bromberg Kay Medford
detective ex-wife doctor smuggler moll brother dark intense suspenseful new york city hotel office jail warehouse kidnapping murder smuggling drinking family investigation
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
72 Minutes
Ann Marlow
Jane Wyman Jerome Cowan Faye Emerson Charles Lang Eleanor Parker Stuart Crawford Cyrus W. Kendall Charles Wilson Juanita Stark Creighton Hale George Guhl
Detective Sam Campbell and his perky sidekick Robby Vance are called in on a routine child support dispute. Things take an unexpected turn when the client's ex-father-in-law, the head of a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
95 Minutes
Irana Preveza
Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Zachary Scott Faye Emerson George Tobias Victor Francen Steven Geray Florence Bates Edward Ciannelli Kurt Katch Marjorie Hoshelle
crime boss writer stranger mistress colonel intricate gritty istanbul morgue paris apartment research murder crime ring blackmail assassination discovery revenge 1940s
Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.
Romance
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Toni Blackburn
John Garfield Geraldine Fitzgerald Walter Brennan Faye Emerson George Coulouris George Tobias
con artist ex-girlfriend criminal widow partner soldier emotional cool new york city california hideout pier con game romance one last job crime forbidden love escape 1940s
Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.
Drama
USA
1945
98 Minutes
Tillie Weiler
Helmut Dantine Andrea King Raymond Massey Faye Emerson Peter Lorre Alan Hale George Coulouris Henry Daniell Peter Whitney Helene Thimig Steven Geray
rebel actress general civilian informant hostess emotional gripping hotel berlin world war ii espionage emigration politics nazis escape underdog 1940s
In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.
War
USA
1944
102 Minutes
Louise
Errol Flynn Paul Lukas Jean Sullivan Lucile Watson Faye Emerson James Flavin Douglas Dumbrille Dennis Hoey Sheldon Leonard Odette Myrtil Francis Pierlot
After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Nazis.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Rose Chadwick
Ronald Reagan Joan Perry James Gleason Peter Whitney Faye Emerson Howard da Silva Edward Brophy Charles Drake Vera Lewis Ben Welden Howard C. Hickman
mistress daughter chauffeur tycoon newspaper reporter editor thrilling witty melodramatic suspenseful newsroom boardinghouse household bedroom murder investigation journalism organized crime media circus schemes embezzlement
An investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
Fantasy
1944
112 Minutes
Miss Maxine Russell
John Garfield Paul Henreid Eleanor Parker Sydney Greenstreet Faye Emerson Sara Allgood Isobel Elsom George Tobias Edmund Gwenn
pianist wife steward reporter reverend sailor bleak dreamy emotional london apartment limbo ship world war ii air raids death suicide judgment supernatural discovery
A ship sails on with a cynical newsman (John Garfield), a suicidal couple (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker) and others who are dead but don't know it.
Drama
USA
1942
109 Minutes
Ice Cream Parlor Waitress
Ida Lupino Dennis Morgan Joan Leslie Jack Carson Gladys George Faye Emerson Paul Cavanagh Leona Maricle Roman Bohnen Ray Montgomery Jacqueline Wells
singer sister band leader dancer somber sad dark broadway theater stage new york city small town sister relationship fame success singing love triangle rise fall 1940s
Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Musical
USA
1943
90 Minutes
Hajy
Dennis Morgan Irene Manning Bruce Cabot Lynne Overman Gene Lockhart Faye Emerson Victor Francen Curt Bois
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
War
USA
1943
124 Minutes
Susan McMartin
John Ridgely Gig Young Arthur Kennedy John Garfield Charles Drake Harry Carey George Tobias Faye Emerson
pilot soldier gunner sergeant father mechanic thrilling intense airplane california hawaii philippines world war ii aviation battle death quest 1940s
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Richard Whorf George Tobias Gene Lockhart Alan Hale Betty Brewer Donald MacBride Howard da Silva Willard Robertson Faye Emerson
farmer owner girl friend farmhand tense melodramatic florida atlanta farm farming worker's rights friendship framed for murder small-town life greed underdog love sacrifice 1940s
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick.... See full summary »