List of the best Kay Johnson movies: Madam Satan(1930), American Madness(1932), Of Human Bondage(1934), White Banners(1938), Thirteen Women(1932), Mr. Lucky(1943), Son of Fury(1942) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1930
115 Minutes
Kay Johnson Reginald Denny Lillian Roth Roland Young Elsa Peterson Boyd Irwin Wallace MacDonald Wilfred Lucas
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. But Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections. An elaborate masquerade ball is to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
Mrs. Phyllis Dickson
Frank Capra Walter Huston Pat O'Brien Kay Johnson Constance Cummings Gavin Gordon
bank president bank teller wife co-worker criminal detective melodramatic gutsy touching spirited bank vault party family home small town false accusations loyalty bank robbery moral dilemma infidelity
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day.
Drama
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Norah
Leslie Howard Bette Davis Frances Dee Kay Johnson Reginald Denny Alan Hale Reginald Owen
student waitress friend daughter bleak intense passionate london café apartment paris obsession abuse infidelity unrequited love aspirations love temptation fall 1930s
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Drama
USA
1938
88 Minutes
Marcia Ward
Claude Rains Fay Bainter Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville Henry O'Neill Kay Johnson James Stephenson J. Farrell MacDonald William Pawley John Ridgely Mary Field
housekeeper inventor teen boy daughter wife mechanic emotional moving indiana small town house inventions theft family mother/son relationship mentorship science love rise 1910s
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Helen Dawson Frye
Irene Dunne Ricardo Cortez Myrna Loy Jill Esmond Florence Eldridge Kay Johnson Julie Haydon Mary Duncan Peg Entwistle Elsie Prescott Wally Albright
young woman leader outcast detective son hypnotist eerie melodramatic suspenseful new york city circus train beverly hills, calif. police station murder racism hypnosis investigation mother/child relationship friendship
Ursula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers.
Comedy, Drama
1943
100 Minutes
Mrs. Mary Ostrander
Cary Grant Laraine Day Charles Bickford Gladys Cooper Alan Carney Henry Stephenson Paul Stewart Kay Johnson Florence Bates
shiite con artist impostor volunteer love interest suspenseful engaging ship pier scam world war ii love gambling draft transformation temptation adventure 1940s
A floating-casino operator (Cary Grant) cons an heiress (Laraine Day) into having games of chance at a ball for the war effort.
Adventure
USA
1942
98 Minutes
Helena
Tyrone Power Gene Tierney Frances Farmer George Sanders Roddy McDowall John Carradine Elsa Lanchester Harry Davenport Kay Johnson Dudley Digges Halliwell Hobbes
knight uncle nephew love interest ship mate ex-girlfriend rousing spirited amusing polynesia ship estate bristol, england inheritance travel love vindication fortune love revenge
Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.