List of the best George Barbier movies: Millions in the Air(1935), Early to Bed(1936), Here Comes Cookie(1935), The Big Pond(1930), Life Begins at 40(1935), Hold That Kiss(1938), The Adventures of Marco Polo(1938), Mama Loves Papa(1933), The Smiling Lieutenant(1931), Wife vs. Secretary(1936), The Magnificent Dope(1942), Waikiki Wedding(1937) ... ...
6.9/10
Musical
USA
1935
71 Minutes
The daughter of a radio program sponsor wants to get on the air, too. But her father doesn't allows this, so she enters a amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Horace Stanton
Mary Boland Charles Ruggles George Barbier Gail Patrick Robert McWade Lucien Littlefield Colin Tapley Helen Flint Rae Daggett Sidney Blackmer Arthur Hoyt
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem.... See full summary »
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1935
65 Minutes
Harrison Allen
Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.
5.8/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1930
75 Minutes
Mr. Billings
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Col. Joseph Abercrombie
Will Rogers Rochelle Hudson Richard Cromwell George Barbier Jane Darwell Slim Summerville Sterling Holloway Thomas Beck Roger Imhof Charles Sellon John Bradford
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the... See full summary »
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Mr. Piermont
Maureen O'Sullivan Dennis O'Keefe Mickey Rooney George Barbier Jessie Ralph Edward Brophy Fay Holden Phillip Terry Ruth Hussey Barnett Parker Frank Albertson
June Evans, clothing model, and Tommy Bradford, travel agent, both dream of being rich. When they meet at millionaire, J. Westley Piermont's daughter's wedding, they both assume each other ... See full summary »
5.6/10
Drama, History
USA
1938
100 Minutes
Kublai Khan
Gary Cooper Sigrid Gurie Basil Rathbone George Barbier Binnie Barnes Ernest Truex Alan Hale
explorer princess emperor adviser assistant spirited melodramatic peking palace china marco polo expedition travel romance shipwreck discovery love adventure 13th century
Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Mr. Kirkwood
Mary Boland Charles Ruggles Lilyan Tashman George Barbier Morgan Wallace Ruth Warren
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1931
88 Minutes
King Adolf XV
Maurice Chevalier Claudette Colbert Miriam Hopkins Charles Ruggles George Barbier Hugh O'Connell Robert Strange Lon MacSunday Janet Reade Elizabeth Patterson Harry C. Bradley
soldier princess peasant king girlfriend playful amusing cheeky lighthearted flausenthurm palace europe royalty forced marriage adultery love triangle love 19th century
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
7.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
88 Minutes
Underwood
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Myrna Loy May Robson George Barbier James Stewart Hobart Cavanaugh Tom Dugan Gilbert Emery Marjorie Gateson Gloria Holden
publisher wife secretary mother fiancé lighthearted charming new york city office family home hotel havana jealousy misunderstanding secret plans love triangle love temptation 1930s
The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
James Roger Barker
Henry Fonda Lynn Bari Don Ameche Edward Everett Horton George Barbier Frank Orth Roseanne Murray Marietta Canty Hal K. Dawson Josephine Whittell Arthur Loft
young man love interest motivational speaker press agent insurance executive reporter lighthearted airy new york city office ambition love triangle contest culture clash deception transformation rise love 1940s
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
6.1/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1937
89 Minutes
J.P. Todhunter
Bing Crosby Shirley Ross Bob Burns Martha Raye George Barbier Leif Erickson Grady Sutton Granville Bates Anthony Quinn Mitchell Lewis George Regas
advertiser boss contest winner secretary best friend fiancé lighthearted playful amusing hawaii advertising office honolulu island volcano boat publicity stunts manipulation romance volcano vanity
A beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion.
Musical, Comedy
1934
99 Minutes
King Achmet
Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Edward Everett Horton Una Merkel George Barbier Herman Bing Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Peggy Watts
widow count ambassador stranger groom king airy charming paris marshovia mansion marriage taxes national security schemes deception identity love pursuit quest
A playboy prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a tiny kingdom is sent to woo a rich widow (Jeanette MacDonald) in Paris.
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Police Commissioner
Ernst Lubitsch Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Genevieve Tobin Charles Ruggles Roland Young George Barbier Josephine Dunn Richard Carle Charles Judels Barbara Leonard
cheater husband wife mistress doctor intricate hedonistic disheartening profound paris house dinner party infidelity husband/wife relationship friendship secret seduction forbidden love wretched excess discovery
An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Fiske
Shirley Temple George Murphy Jimmy Durante Phyllis Brooks Edna May Oliver George Barbier Edward Ellis Jane Darwell El Brendel Donald Meek Patricia Wilder
orphan nephew band leader uncle landlady daughter winsome spectacular heartwarming new york city hotel stage courtroom broadway theater orphanage orphans musical performance rags to riches communal living family
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
6.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Major Hubert Breckenridge
John Barrymore George Murphy Joan Davis Marjorie Weaver Jack Haley George Barbier Ruth Terry Donald Meek Johnny Downs Paul Hurst
governor coach wrestler student young woman amusing endearing playful american south stadium government offices field college unlikely hero football politics rivalry underdog discovery 1930s
While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine.
Musical, Comedy
1941
80 Minutes
Mr. Walter McCracken
Alice Faye Carmen Miranda John Payne Cesar Romero Cobina Wright Jr. George Barbier Leonid Kinskey Sheldon Leonard Billy Gilbert
salesgirl vice president manager singer company president daughter lighthearted amusing mellow cruise ship havana hotel casino inn vacation business jealousy romance gambling adventure
A salesgirl (Alice Faye) runs aground on a cruise and receives a tour of Havana with an escort (John Payne) as compensation.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1932
85 Minutes
Mr. Randall
Clark Gable Carole Lombard Dorothy Mackaill Grant Mitchell Elizabeth Patterson Lillian Harmer George Barbier J. Farrell MacDonald Charley Grapewin
gambler librarian partner detective wife mistress cheeky confident emotional manhattan small town new york city apartment wall street gambling marriage deception investigation crime relocation
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
5.7/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
66 Minutes
Mr. Drake
Harry Ritz Al Ritz Jimmy Ritz Richard Arlen Ethel Merman Phyllis Brooks George Barbier Sidney Blackmer Will Stanton Ivan Lebedeff Gregory Gaye
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
6.6/10
Drama, History
USA
1935
123 Minutes
Sancho
Loretta Young Henry Wilcoxon Ian Keith Katherine DeMille C. Aubrey Smith Joseph Schildkraut Alan Hale C. Henry Gordon George Barbier Montagu Love Hobart Bosworth
king richard i sultan crusader knight muslim princess spectacular rousing thrilling jerusalem palestine castle palace church crusade captivity politics forced marriage religion war
King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.
6.6/10
Western
USA
1940
92 Minutes
Judge
Henry Fonda Gene Tierney Jackie Cooper Henry Hull John Carradine J. Edward Bromberg Donald Meek Eddie Collins George Barbier Ernest Whitman Charles Tannen
cowboy murderer news reporter young man woman tense confident missouri colorado wild west court search retribution murder robbery trial pursuit revenge 19th century
Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Mr. Marlin
Priscilla Lane Ronald Reagan Jeffrey Lynn May Robson Lee Patrick Helen Westley Walter Catlett Richard Carle George Barbier John Qualen Fay Helm
heiress granddaughter elderly woman boyfriend friend salesgirl amusing lighthearted heartwarming new york city boardinghouse department store europe mansion rags to riches helping others wealth class distinctions romantic dilemma inheritance
An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman who is the one and ... See full summary »
7.7/10
Musical
USA
1942
126 Minutes
Erlanger
James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf George Tobias Irene Manning Rosemary DeCamp Jeanne Cagney S.Z. Sakall George Barbier Walter Catlett
george m. cohan father mother sister theatrical producer songwriter patriotic spirited new york city white house theater ambition actors show business patriotism family romance rise 1940s
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
7.4/10
Comedy
USA
1941
112 Minutes
Dr. E. Bradley
Monty Woolley Bette Davis Ann Sheridan Richard Travis Jimmy Durante Billie Burke Reginald Gardiner Elisabeth Fraser Grant Mitchell George Barbier Mary Wickes
radio host assistant host reporter actress lighthearted witty charming brash playful ohio family home celebrities upper class social life houseguest transformation discovery 1930s
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
6.6/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Col. Weatherby (uncredited)
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Laird Cregar June Havoc Ward Bond Aubrey Mather John Archer George Barbier Frank Orth
socialite entertainer singer showman saloon owner charming uplifting playful england san francisco saloon theater house fame vaudeville marrying for money comeback love triangle show business transformation
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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