List of the best Frances Rafferty movies: Lady at Midnight(1948), Barbary Coast Gent(1944), Dragon Seed(1944), Young Ideas(1943), The War Against Mrs. Hadley(1942), Girl Crazy(1943) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1948
62 Minutes
Ellen McPhail Wiggins
A young couple struggles to raise their adopted daughter, but a mysterious murder reveals the child's unknown fortune and a greedy lawyer who is out to steal it.
Western
USA
1944
87 Minutes
Portia Adair
Wallace Beery Binnie Barnes John Carradine Chill Wills Frances Rafferty Bruce Kellogg Henry O'Neill Ray Collins
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Drama
1944
145 Minutes
Orchid Tan
Katharine Hepburn Walter Huston Aline MacMahon Akim Tamiroff Turhan Bey Hurd Hatfield Frances Rafferty Agnes Moorehead Henry Travers Robert Lewis
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A Chinese villager (Katharine Hepburn), her husband and in-laws (Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon) burn their land to foil Japanese invaders.
Comedy
USA
1943
77 Minutes
Co-Ed
Susan Peters Herbert Marshall Mary Astor Elliott Reid Richard Carlson Allyn Joslyn Dorothy Morris Frances Rafferty George Dolenz Emory Parnell Ava Gardner
Academy Award-winner* Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon) stars as a widow whose grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor in this charming, offbeat comedy directed by... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1942
86 Minutes
Sally
Edward Arnold Fay Bainter Richard Ney Jean Rogers Sara Allgood Spring Byington Van Johnson Isobel Elsom Frances Rafferty Dorothy Morris Halliwell Hobbes
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A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
99 Minutes
Marjorie Tait
Mickey Rooney Busby Berkeley Judy Garland Gil Stratton Robert Strickland Rags Ragland June Allyson Nancy Walker Guy Kibbee Tommy Dorsey Band Frances Rafferty
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A young philandering playboy is sent to a College, somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.