List of the best J. Edward Bromberg movies: Hollywood Cavalcade(1939), Lady of Burlesque(1943), Voice in the Wind(1944), Mr. Moto Takes a Chance(1938), Suez(1938), Cloak and Dagger(1946), Guilty Bystander(1950), The Mark of Zorro(1940), Seventh Heaven(1937), The Return of Frank James(1940), Son of Dracula(1943), Salome, Where She Danced(1945) ... ...
Romance
USA
1939
96 Minutes
Dave Spingold
Alice Faye Don Ameche J. Edward Bromberg Alan Curtis Stuart Erwin Jed Prouty Buster Keaton Donald Meek George Givot
actress director producer actor lighthearted hilarious emotional new york city los angeles broadway theater movie set hollywood career jealousy friendship fame rise growing up 1930s
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
91 Minutes
S.B. Foss
Barbara Stanwyck Michael O'Shea J. Edward Bromberg Iris Adrian Marion Martin Pinky Lee Frank Conroy Gloria Dickson
burlesque dancer comedian police officer stripper charming lighthearted backstage stage theater new york city murder investigation show business unrequited love mystery pursuit rivalry 1940s
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
Drama
USA
1944
74 Minutes
Dr. Hoffman
Francis Lederer Luis Alberni J. Edward Bromberg David Cota Olga Fabian Alexander Granach Sigrid Gurie J. Carrol Naish Hans Schumm
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
63 Minutes
Rajah Ali
Peter Lorre Rochelle Hudson Robert Kent J. Edward Bromberg Chick Chandler George Regas
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
Biography
USA
1938
104 Minutes
Prince Said
Tyrone Power Loretta Young Annabella Leon Ames J. Edward Bromberg Joseph Schildkraut Henry Stephenson Sidney Blackmer
nobleman lover napoleon iii native beautiful woman melodramatic spectacular egypt france desert palace imperialism construction romance exile suez canal quest sacrifice love rivalry
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
106 Minutes
Trenk
Gary Cooper Lilli Palmer Robert Alda Vladimir Sokoloff J. Edward Bromberg Marjorie Hoshelle Ludwig Stossel Helene Thimig Dan Seymour Marc Lawrence James Flavin
traitor secret agent undercover agent boy spy imaginary friend airplane switzerland escape pursuit escape rescue
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Varkas
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.
Adventure
USA
1940
93 Minutes
Don Luis Quintero
Tyrone Power Linda Darnell Basil Rathbone Gale Sondergaard Eugene Pallette J. Edward Bromberg Montagu Love Janet Beecher Robert Lowery Chris-Pin Martin George Regas
zorro governor captain niece wife thrilling spirited uplifting frenetic california mansion corruption heroism justice defending the helpless rescue quest sacrifice 19th century
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Romance
USA
1937
102 Minutes
Aristide the Astrologer
Simone Simon James Stewart Jean Hersholt Gale Sondergaard Gregory Ratoff J. Edward Bromberg John Qualen Victor Kilian Thomas Beck Sig Ruman
sewer cleaner girl priest sister neighbor friend engaging moving uplifting paris café apartment hospital trenches church faith love devotion family violence
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1940
92 Minutes
George Runyan
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.
Horror
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Prof. Lazlo
Lon Chaney Robert Paige Louise Allbritton Evelyn Ankers Frank Craven J. Edward Bromberg Samuel S. Hinds Adeline de Walt Reynolds Pat Moriarity Etta McDaniel George Irving
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
Drama
USA
1945
90 Minutes
Professor Max
Yvonne De Carlo Rod Cameron David Bruce Walter Slezak Albert Van Dekker Marjorie Rambeau J. Edward Bromberg
seductress ballerina prince journalist singer outlaw melodramatic tender outlandish berlin ballroom arizona san francisco concert hall espionage franco-prussian war on the run patronage american west love triangle
A Viennese ballerina is forced to flee to Arizona during the Franco-Prussian War, where she proceeds to vamp numerous men in order to get what she wants.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1936
86 Minutes
Judge Booth
Shirley Temple Robert Young Alice Faye Eugene Pallette Helen Westley Arthur Treacher Allan Lane J. Edward Bromberg
A young girl lost in Shanghai is taken in by an American playboy and his girlfriend.
Adventure
USA
1940
113 Minutes
Flaubert
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Ian Hunter Peter Lorre Albert Van Dekker Paul Lukas Edward Ciannelli J. Edward Bromberg John Arledge Frederick Worlock Bernard Nedell
prisoner prostitute killer religious person captor cynic dark eerie profound intense prison island jungle french guiana boat religious conversion prison break death penal system boats
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
War
USA
1942
104 Minutes
Durand
Joan Crawford John Wayne Philip Dorn Reginald Owen Albert Basserman John Carradine Ann Ayars J. Edward Bromberg Moroni Olsen Henry Daniell Arthur Space
socialite fiancé munitions maker pilot resistance fighter tense patriotic melodramatic paris family home factory countryside nazi collaboration nazi occupation love triangle deception world war ii undercover operations discovery escape
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Drama
USA
1948
133 Minutes
Hotel manager
Ingrid Bergman Charles Boyer Charles Laughton Louis Calhern Ruth Warrick Roman Bohnen Stephen Bekassy Ruth Nelson Curt Bois J. Edward Bromberg Michael Romanoff
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
Comedy
USA
1936
97 Minutes
Franz Brenner
Janet Gaynor Loretta Young Constance Bennett Simone Simon Don Ameche Paul Lukas Tyrone Power Alan Mowbray Wilfrid Lawson J. Edward Bromberg Virginia Field
salesgirl model nobleman doctor roommate magician melodramatic spirited amusing budapest, hungary apartment doctor's office shop romance marriage ambition rags to riches growing up discovery 1930s
Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1943
92 Minutes
Claude Rains Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster Edgar Barrier Jane Farrar Barbara Everest Steven Geray Frank Puglia Hans Herbert Fritz Feld J. Edward Bromberg
disfigured person murderer opera singer suitor stalker violinist suspenseful eerie melodramatic opera house paris france stage catacombs obsessive love rise to stardom opera mysterious deaths dark secrets investigation
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.