List of the best Gertrude Short movies: Beggar on Horseback(1925), Leap Year(1924), Stella Dallas(1937), Blonde Venus(1932), The Key(1934), Follow the Fleet(1936) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1925
70 Minutes
Gladys Cady
Edward Everett Horton Esther Ralston Erwin Connelly Gertrude Short Ethel Wales Theodore Kosloff Betty Compson James Mason Frederick Sullivan
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but fearing poverty, proposes to the wealthy Gladys Cady. One night, he dozes in an armchair and has a nightmare of a wedding and ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1924
56 Minutes
Molly Morris
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Mary Thurman Lucien Littlefield Clarence Geldart Harriet Hammond Allen Durnell Gertrude Short John McKinnon Maude Wayne Winifred Greenwood
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Carrie Jenkins
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
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A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
USA
1932
94 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Herbert Marshall Cary Grant Dickie Moore Robert E. O'Connor Gene Morgan Rita La Roy Sidney Toler Morgan Wallace Francis Sayles Gertrude Short
A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation.
Drama
USA
1934
82 Minutes
William Powell Edna Best Colin Clive Hobart Cavanaugh Henry O'Neill Phil Regan Donald Crisp J.M. Kerrigan Arthur Treacher Maxine Doyle Arthur Aylesworth
British officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1936
110 Minutes
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Randolph Scott Harriet Hilliard Astrid Allwyn Harry Beresford Russell Hicks Brooks Benedict Ray Mayer Lucille Ball Addison Randall
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A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.