List of the best Josephine Whittell movies: Mills of the Gods(1935), It's a Gift(1934), The Enchanted Cottage(1945), The Magnificent Dope(1942), The Devil Thumbs a Ride(1947), Larceny on the Air(1937), Standing Room Only(1944), Women Are Like That(1938), The Life of Vergie Winters(1934), Married Before Breakfast(1937), Tugboat Annie Sails Again(1940), State Fair(1945) ... ...
Drama
USA
1935
60 Minutes
Henrietta Hastings
May Robson Fay Wray Victor Jory Raymond Walburn James Blakely Josephine Whittell Mayo Methot
A game-old-girl, Mary Hastings (May Robson), retires as the head of the Hasting Plow Works...only to see it slip rapidly into ruin. Her ne're-do-well son and daughter refuse to part with a ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Mrs. Dunk
W.C. Fields Baby LeRoy Kathleen Howard Tommy Bupp Tammany Young Morgan Wallace Charles Sellon Josephine Whittell T. Roy Barnes
grocer wife child salesman customer land developer hilarious heartwarming grocery store small town household california grove new jersey business orange grove family land ownership domestic life quest
A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.
Romance
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Canteen Manager
Robert Young Dorothy McGuire Herbert Marshall Mildred Natwick Spring Byington Richard Gaines Hillary Brooke Alec Englander Mary Worth Josephine Whittell Robert Clarke
pilot maid landlord fiancée mother emotional heartwarming touching cottage family home love loneliness magic love metamorphosis 1940s
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
Mrs. Hunter
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 »
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
63 Minutes
Diane's mother
Lawrence Tierney Ted North Nan Leslie Betty Lawford Andrew Tombes Harry Shannon Glen Vernon Marion Carr William Gould Josephine Whittell Phil Warren
Law-abiding Jimmy Ferguson soon regrets giving a ride to killer Steve Morgan.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Robert Randall Grace Bradley Willard Robertson Pierre Watkin Granville Bates William Newell Byron Foulger Wilbur Mack Matty Fain Smiley Burnette Josephine Whittell
Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1944
82 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Roland Young Hillary Brooke Porter Hall Clarence Kolb Anne Revere Isabel Randolph Marie McDonald Veda Ann Borg
During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
Kay Francis Pat O'Brien Ralph Forbes Melville Cooper Thurston Hall Grant Mitchell Gordon Oliver John Eldredge Herbert Rawlinson Hugh Compton Sarah Edwards
advertiser father daughter company president fiancé husband cheeky tense engaging melodramatic new york city church office judge's chambers advertising business embezzlement drinking romance competition
Domestic strife results when a man refuses to involve his wife in his struggling business.
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 »
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Robert Young Florence Rice June Clayworth Barnett Parker Warren Hymer Helen Flint Hugh Marlowe Tom Kennedy Edgar Dearing Mary Gordon Harlan Briggs
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1940
77 Minutes
Marjorie Rambeau Alan Hale Ronald Reagan Jane Wyman Clarence Kolb Charles Halton Paul Hurst Victor Kilian Chill Wills Harry Shannon John Hamilton
Now-widowed Tugboat Annie, tugboat queen of the Northwest, struggles to save her job against the competition of rival Captain Bullwinkle.
Musical
USA
1945
100 Minutes
Jeanne Crain Dana Andrews Dick Haymes Vivian Blaine Charles Winninger Fay Bainter Donald Meek Frank McHugh Percy Kilbride Harry Morgan Jane Nigh
mother father daughter son singer reporter lighthearted heartwarming fair trailer iowa infatuation competition love triangle family growing up love quest 1940s
The Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair; each member of the clan has their own reason for doing so.