List of the best Lee Tracy movies: Blessed Event(1932), The Night Mayor(1932), The Nuisance(1933), High Tide(1947), Advice to the Lovelorn(1933), Crashing Hollywood(1938), Behind the Headlines(1937), Clear All Wires(1933), The Payoff(1942), Bombshell(1933), The Half-Naked Truth(1932), Doctor X(1932) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1932
84 Minutes
Alvin `'Al'` Roberts
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
65 Minutes
Mayor Bobby Kingston
Lee Tracy Evalyn Knapp Eugene Pallette Warren Hymer Don Dillaway Vince Barnett Astrid Allwyn Barbara Weeks Gloria Shea Emmett Corrigan Tom O'Brien
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Joseph Phineas `'Joe'` Stevens
Lee Tracy Madge Evans Frank Morgan Charles Butterworth John Miljan Virginia Cherrill David Landau Greta Meyer Herman Bing Samuel S. Hinds Syd Saylor
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
72 Minutes
Hugh Fresney
Lee Tracy Don Castle Jacqueline Wells Anabel Shaw Douglas Walton Regis Toomey Francis Ford Anthony Warde
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
62 Minutes
Toby Prentiss
Lee Tracy Sally Blane Sterling Holloway Jean Adair Paul Harvey
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Michael Winslow
Lee Tracy Joan Woodbury Paul Guilfoyle Lee Patrick Richard Lane Bradley Page Tom Kennedy George Irving Frank M. Thomas Jack Carson Alec Craig
husband wife mobster screenwriter producer actress witty lighthearted train hollywood, calif. movie studio movie set movies organized crime bank robbery show business look-alikes transformation pursuit 1930s
An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
58 Minutes
Eddie Haines
Lee Tracy Diana Gibson Donald Meek
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But ... See full summary »
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1933
78 Minutes
Buckley Joyce Thomas
Lee Tracy Benita Hume Una Merkel James Gleason Alan Edwards Eugene Sigaloff Ari Kutai
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
74 Minutes
Brad McKay
Lee Tracy Tom Brown Tina Thayer Evelyn Brent Jack LaRue Ian Keith Robert Middlemass John Maxwell John Sheehan Harry C. Bradley Forrest Taylor
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Comedy
USA
1933
95 Minutes
E.J."Space"Hanlon
Jean Harlow Lee Tracy Franchot Tone Frank Morgan Una Merkel Pat O'Brien C. Aubrey Smith
movie star publicist father brother millionaire emotional amusing hollywood, calif. fame romance exploitation deception acting love transformation 1930s
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Comedy
USA
1932
75 Minutes
carnival barker exotic dancer sheriff theatrical producer friend madcap lighthearted hilarious new york city hotel office theater carnival broadway carnivals relationships blackmail assumed identity love interest love
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.
Horror
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Lee Taylor
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Lee Tracy Preston Foster Robert Warwick Mae Busch
doctor daughter reporter police officer serial killer dark creepy thrilling emotional laboratory long island, n.y. estate murder supernatural experiments journalism science mystery pursuit love
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Drama
USA
1943
64 Minutes
Griff Thompson
Guy Kibbee Gloria Dickson Lee Tracy Otto Kruger Victor Jory Larry Parks Rex Williams Frank Sully Don Beddoe Douglas Leavitt Minor Watson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Drama
USA
1930
94 Minutes
The Buzzard
Charles Farrell Rose Hobart Estelle Taylor H.B. Warner Lee Tracy Walter Abel Mildred Van Dorn Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Lillian Elliott Dawn O'Day Bert Roach
Liliom, a merry-go-round barker at a Budapest amusement park, becomes enamored of Julie, a servant girl, and though under the influence of Madame Muskat, a sideshow entrepreneur, he marries... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
113 Minutes
Max Kane
Marie Dressler Jean Harlow John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Madge Evans Jean Hersholt Karen Morley
businessperson socialite husband wife actor doctor engaging melodramatic playful household new york city social standing marriage social event quest wretched excess 1930s
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Crime, Drama
1930
82 Minutes
Bill O'Brien
Edmund Lowe Catherine Dale Owen Frank Albertson Marguerite Churchill William Harrigan Lee Tracy Warren Hymer Ferike Boros
After returning home from war, a former gangster (Edmund Lowe) opens a club and maintains ties with his criminal friends.