List of the best Johnnie Davis movies: Over the Goal(1937), Brother Rat(1938), A Child Is Born(1940), Cowboy From Brooklyn(1938), Men Are Such Fools(1938), Hollywood Hotel(1937), Varsity Show(1937) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
63 Minutes
Tiny Waldron
football player football coach college sweetheart roommate lawyer police officer rousing suspenseful confident college campus stadium football field jail football college athletics friendship college life responsibility gambling sports
Injured Carlton College quarterback Ken Thomas makes a promise to his girlfriend that he won't play again. Then, when she relents, crooks hoping to make money from the big game, kidnap him.
Comedy
USA
1938
90 Minutes
A. Furman Townsend, Jr.
Priscilla Lane Wayne Morris Ronald Reagan Johnnie Davis Jane Bryan Eddie Albert Jane Wyman Henry O'Neill Gordon Oliver Larry Williams William Tracy
cadet friend wife instructor hilarious witty virginia military institute lexington, va. pregnancy secret friendship marriage military quest love temptation 1930s
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Drama
USA
1940
79 Minutes
Ringer Banks
Geraldine Fitzgerald Jeffrey Lynn Gladys George Gale Page Spring Byington Johnnie Davis Henry O'Neill John Litel Gloria Holden Johnny Downs Eve Arden
A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Jeff Hardy
Pat O'Brien Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Dick Foran Ann Sheridan Johnnie Davis Ronald Reagan Emma Dunn Granville Bates James Stephenson Hobart Cavanaugh
singer musician beautiful woman boyfriend agent lighthearted spirited amusing cheery dude ranch wyoming train new york city rodeo struggling musicians deception assumed identity city vs. country show business country music
An actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Tad Turkel
Wayne Morris Priscilla Lane Humphrey Bogart Hugh Herbert Penny Singleton Johnnie Davis Mona Barrie Marcia Ralston Gene Lockhart Kathleen Lockhart Donald Briggs
secretary advertising executive radio station manager roommate fiancée copywriter amusing melodramatic spirited tender new york city advertising office nightclub ship apartment ambition marriage sexism gender roles jealousy
Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push her ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
109 Minutes
Georgia
Dick Powell Rosemary Lane Hugh Herbert Lola Lane Ted Healy Glenda Farrell Johnnie Davis Frances Langford Alan Mowbray Mabel Todd Allyn Joslyn
saxophonist starlet look-alike agent waiter director melodramatic amusing spirited stage movie theater movie studio hotel talent show business success rags to riches fame music rise
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Buzz Bolton
Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Walter Catlett Ted Healy Johnnie Davis Lee Dixon Mabel Todd George MacFarland Halliwell Hobbes Edward Brophy
A former student, who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student's stage show.