List of the best Katharine Alexander movies: Enchanted April(1935), Death Takes a Holiday(1934), Operator 13(1934), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934), On the Sunny Side(1942), The Great Man Votes(1939), She Married Her Boss(1935), Splendor(1935), That Certain Woman(1937), The Painted Veil(1934), Moonlight Murder(1936), The Girl From 10th Avenue(1935) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
66 Minutes
Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot
Ann Harding Frank Morgan Katharine Alexander Reginald Owen Jane Baxter Ralph Forbes Jessie Ralph Charles Judels Rafaela Ottiano
For Lotty Wilkins, romance is no longer part of her marriage. In an effort to find what's missing from her life, she and three other women rent an Italian villa for the month of April, ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1934
78 Minutes
Alda
Fredric March Evelyn Venable Guy Standing Katharine Alexander Gail Patrick Helen Westley Kathleen Howard Kent Taylor Henry Travers G.P. Huntley Jr. Otto Hoffman
prince father daughter death dark passionate tender estate italy death forbidden love father/daughter relationship heartbreak sacrifice forbidden love metamorphosis 1930s
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Adventure
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Pauline Cushman
Marion Davies Gary Cooper Jean Parker Katharine Alexander Ted Healy Russell Hardie Henry Wadsworth Douglas Dumbrille Willard Robertson Fuzzy Knight Sidney Toler
actress southern belle spy confederate soldier union soldier servant melodramatic thrilling suspenseful american south washington, d.c. farmhouse household assumed identity espionage romantic dilemma american civil war secret mission deception adventure
Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Arabel Barrett
Norma Shearer Fredric March Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan Katharine Alexander Una O'Connor Ian Wolfe Marion Clayton Ralph Forbes Vernon Downing
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest chilling melodramatic london mansion bedroom poetry confinement illness incest romance sexual repression forbidden love escape transformation
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1942
69 Minutes
Mrs. Mary Andrews
Roddy McDowall Jane Darwell Freddie Mercer Stanley Clements Katharine Alexander Don Douglas Ann E. Todd Jill Esmond Leon Tyler Fred Walburn
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Miss Agnes Billow
John Barrymore Peter Holden Virginia Weidler Donald MacBride William Demarest Katharine Alexander Bennie Bartlett Brandon Tynan Elisabeth Risdon Granville Bates Luis Alberni
professor daughter son teacher mayor political boss engaging bleak heartwarming uplifting small town college household office family political corruption education small-town life self-esteem transformation
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Gertrude Barclay
Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas Michael Bartlett Raymond Walburn Jean Dixon Katharine Alexander Edith Fellows Clara Kimball Young Grace Hayle Charles Arnt
secretary boss friend daughter sister playboy frenetic hilarious playful new york city office household pennsylvania department store work vs. family ambition romance working woman family dysfunction rivalry
An efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
Drama
USA
1935
77 Minutes
Martha Lorrimore
Miriam Hopkins Joel McCrea Paul Cavanagh Helen Westley Billie Burke Katharine Alexander Ruth Weston David Niven Ivan F. Simpson Arthur Treacher Torben Meyer
The once-great Lorrimore family faces bankruptcy unless older son Brighton marries wealthy Edith Gilbert. When Brighton instead returns from a trip with his new wife Phyllis, she receives a... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
93 Minutes
Mrs. Lloyd Rogers
Bette Davis Henry Fonda Ian Hunter Anita Louise Donald Crisp Hugh O'Connell Katharine Alexander Mary Philips Minor Watson Ben Welden Sidney Toler
bootlegger widow secretary attorney playboy father melodramatic disheartening emotional chicago apartment europe marriage illegitimate child inheritance elopement love custody battle forbidden love sacrifice
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Drama
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Mrs. Townsend
Greta Garbo Herbert Marshall George Brent Warner Oland Jean Hersholt Beulah Bondi Katharine Alexander Cecilia Parker Soo Yong Billy Bevan Forrester Harvey
pretty woman bacteriologist diplomat wife neighbor father emotional passionate striking austria hong kong house bedroom hospital jungle infidelity romantic dilemma medicine marriage loneliness
A wife neglected by her husband, a medical researcher in China, falls in love with a dashing diplomatic attaché.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
65 Minutes
Louisa Chiltern
Chester Morris Madge Evans Leo Carrillo Frank McHugh Benita Hume Grant Mitchell Katharine Alexander J. Carrol Naish H.B. Warner Duncan Renaldo Leonard Ceeley
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Drama
1935
69 Minutes
Valentine French Marland
Bette Davis Ian Hunter Colin Clive Alison Skipworth John Eldredge Philip Reed Katharine Alexander
young man shopgirl ex-girlfriend friend landlady husband witty melodramatic new york city church café apartment restaurant office class distinctions drunkenness marriage gossip redemption high society
A spurned New York socialite (Ian Hunter) gets drunk and wakes up married to an honest working girl (Bette Davis).
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Julia Patterson
Constance Bennett Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Billie Burke Harvey Stephens Henry Travers William Demarest Katharine Alexander
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Musical
1940
90 Minutes
Miss Olmstead
Maureen O'Hara Louis Hayward Lucille Ball Virginia Field Ralph Bellamy Maria Ouspenskaya Mary Carlisle Katharine Alexander Edward Brophy Walter Abel Harold Huber
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).
Drama
USA
1939
116 Minutes
Madame de Lys
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Cedric Hardwicke Thomas Mitchell Edmond O'Brien Alan Marshal Walter Hampden Harry Davenport Katharine Alexander George Zucco Fritz Leiber
gypsy bishop beautiful woman monster hunchback deacon suspenseful passionate heartwarming touching paris church courtroom notre dame cathedral cathedral jail love corruption rescue framed
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Musical, Romance
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Miss Harkness
Deanna Durbin Edmond O'Brien Don Taylor Jeffrey Lynn Ray Collins Hugo Haas Harry Davenport Griff Barnett Katharine Alexander James Todd Morris Ankrum
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Musical
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Harriet Ingalls
Jeanette MacDonald Lew Ayres Ian Hunter Frank Morgan Wally Vernon Rita Johnson Virginia Grey William Cargan Katharine Alexander Al Shean Esther Dale
Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
87 Minutes
Claire Lodge
William Powell Myrna Loy Florence Rice John Beal Jessie Ralph Edgar Kennedy Sidney Toler Mary Gordon Barnett Parker Katharine Alexander Priscilla Lawson
artist sister young woman fiancé ex-wife free spirit amusing lighthearted city trailer wedding opposites attract siblings love triangle matchmaking marriage love rivalry adventure 1930s
Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger's milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.