List of the best Jed Prouty movies: Down on the Farm(1938), Father Steps Out(1941), Every Saturday Night(1936), Roar of the Press(1941), It's a Great Life(1929), The Broadway Melody(1929), Exile Express(1939), Hollywood Cavalcade(1939), Pot o' Gold(1941), Ella Cinders(1926), His Brother's Wife(1936), Orchids and Ermine(1927) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Jed Prouty Spring Byington Louise Fazenda Russell Gleason Kenneth Howell George Ernest June Carlson Florence Roberts Billy Mahan Eddie Collins Dorris Bowdon
Jones family outing as they vacation with country aunt (Fazenda), fall in love, enter contests, fight political corruption, and so on.
Comedy
USA
1941
63 Minutes
A remake of Monogram's 1934 "City Limits" with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1936
60 Minutes
Mr. Evers
June Lang Thomas Beck Jed Prouty Spring Byington Florence Roberts Kenneth Howell
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1941
71 Minutes
Gordon MacEwan
Wallace Ford Jean Parker Jed Prouty Suzanne Kaaren Robert Frazer John Holland Paul Fix Eddie Foster Matty Fain Betty Compson Dorothy Lee
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Musical
USA
1929
94 Minutes
Mr. David Parker
Rosetta Duncan Vivian Duncan Lawrence Gray Jed Prouty Benny Rubin
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1929
110 Minutes
Uncle Jed
Bessie Love Anita Page Charles King Jed Prouty Kenneth Thomson Edward Dillon Mary Doran J. Emmett Beck Marshall Ruth Drew Demorest
dancer sister theatrical producer lover lighthearted melodramatic rousing new york city broadway theater vaudeville show business love triangle sister relationship love temptation rise 1920s
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Hanley
Anna Sten Alan Marshal Jerome Cowan Jed Prouty Walter Catlett Stanley Fields Leonid Kinskey Irving Pichel Harry Davenport Addison Richards Feodor Chaliapin
Spies will not stop at murder in their attempts to wrest a secret formula for a deadly poison away from American scientists.
Romance
USA
1939
96 Minutes
Chief of Police
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.
Musical, Comedy
1941
86 Minutes
J.K. Louderman
James Stewart Paulette Goddard Charles Winninger Mary Gordon Jed Prouty Donna Wood
store owner music lover uncle singer girlfriend bandleader endearing amusing lighthearted spirited store boardinghouse factory jail radio station music radio business success family
A harmonica player (James Stewart) woos a landlady's daughter (Paulette Goddard) and joins a conductor's (Horace Heidt) orchestra.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1926
67 Minutes
Mayor
Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes Vera Lewis Doris Baker Emma Gordes Mike Donlin Jed Prouty Jack Duffy Harry Allen D'Arcy Corrigan Alfred E. Green
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, ... See full summary »
Drama
1936
90 Minutes
Bill Arnold
Barbara Stanwyck Robert Taylor Jean Hersholt Joseph Calleia Samuel S. Hinds Edith Atwater Jed Prouty Rafael Corio Sherry Hall John Eldredge
epidemiologist gambler gangster brother model father melodramatic uplifting engaging laboratory casino south america family home new york state jungle medicine gambling siblings love triangle debt
A vengeful woman (Barbara Stanwyck) marries the brother of a scientist (Robert Taylor) working on a cure for spotted fever.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1927
70 Minutes
Leander Blom
Colleen Moore Jack Mulhall Sam Hardy Gwen Lee Alma Bennett Hedda Hopper Kate Price Jed Prouty Emily Fitzroy Yola d'Avril Brooks Benedict
young woman millionaire valet amusing endearing spirited hotel romance secret identity true love wealth deception underdog love discovery 1920s
A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1931
85 Minutes
Harry Evans
Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery Neil Hamilton Marjorie Rambeau Irene Rich Hale Hamilton Conchita Montenegro Jed Prouty Albert Conti Henry Armetta George Davis
secretary foreign correspondent old flame aunt uncle alcoholic melodramatic shocking tender salon nightclub mexico new york city europe hotel female sexuality love triangle commitment marriage infidelity
Against her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover.
Drama
1935
70 Minutes
Orville Schmelling
Edmund Lowe Claire Trevor Tom Brown Eugene Pallette Adrienne Ames Ford Sterling Herbert Mundin Jed Prouty David Torrence
Musical, Comedy
1937
84 Minutes
Tommy Bitters
Deanna Durbin Adolphe Menjou Alice Brady Eugene Pallette Mischa Auer Billy Gilbert Alma Kruger J. Scott Smart Jed Prouty Jameson Thomas Howard C. Hickman
A girl (Deanna Durbin) finds a famous conductor (Leopold Stokowski) for her trombonist father's (Adolphe Menjou) out-of-work orchestra.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Bruce Cabot Gertrude Michael Regis Toomey Edgar Kennedy Tully Marshall Jackie Searle Frederick Vogeding Gustav von Seyffertitz Jed Prouty
A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
Western
USA
1936
61 Minutes
Richard Dix Margaret Callahan Erik Rhodes Owen Davis Jr. Ray Mayer Harry Jans Joe Sawyer J. Carrol Naish Sheila Terry J.M. Kerrigan Jed Prouty
Criminal lawyer Bill Fenwick goes undercover in Nevada to catch gold thieves when the gang kills his brother.
Comedy
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Olivia de Havilland William Frawley Roscoe Karns Joe King Ruth Donnelly Paul Harvey Eddie Shubert G. Pat Collins Spencer Charters Gene Morgan
pitcher fiancée baseball manager baseball player gambler wife hilarious thrilling chicago baseball field stadium household baseball gambling lying kidnapping engagement love rise transformation
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Romance
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Ann Harding John Boles Helen Vinson Betty Furness Frank Albertson Lon Chaney Sara Haden Molly O'Day Ben Alexander Donald Crisp Maidel Turner
John Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin ... See full summary »