List of the best Minna Gombell movies: After Tomorrow(1932), Block-Heads(1938), Sunbonnet Sue(1945), Champagne Charlie(1936), Pagan Love Song(1950), Swingin' on a Rainbow(1945), Wild Girl(1932), Hoopla(1933), Babbitt(1934), Penthouse Rhythm(1945), Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost(1942), The Merry Widow(1934) ... ...
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Else Taylor
Charles Farrell Marian Nixon Minna Gombell William Collier Josephine Hull William Pawley Greta Grandstedt Ferdinand Munier Nora Lane
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Comedy
USA
1938
55 Minutes
Mrs. Hardy
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Patricia Ellis Minna Gombell Billy Gilbert James Finlayson
war hero best friend veteran wife neighbor hunter charming hysterical wild apartment france trenches friendship world war i accident modernization adventure rescue 1930s
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
89 Minutes
Mrs. Fitzgerald
Gale Storm Phil Regan George Cleveland Minna Gombell Edna Holland Raymond Hatton Charles D. Brown Alan Mowbray
It's 1890s New York, and a rich society woman is scandalized that her niece is planning on a show-business career; not only that, but her first engagement is to be singing and dancing in a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1936
58 Minutes
Lillian Wayne
Paul Cavanagh Helen Wood Thomas Beck Minna Gombell Herbert Mundin Noel Madison Montagu Love
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry. When he double-crosses them he's murdered and the murderer blackmails the girl. Then he is murdered.
Musical, Romance
USA
1950
76 Minutes
Kate Bennett
Esther Williams Howard Keel Rita Moreno Minna Gombell Charles Mauu Philip Costa Dione Leliani Marcelle Corday
A man from Ohio inherits a coconut plantation and falls in love with a half-American, half-Tahitian beauty. Song-and-swim musical ensues in the tropical paradise.
Musical, Romance
1945
72 Minutes
Minnie Regan
Jane Frazee Stanley Brown Harry Langdon Minna Gombell Lita Ward Tim Ryan Paul Harvey Wendell Niles
An unpaid songwriter (Jane Frazee) hounds a bandleader and finds herself a new partner (Brad Taylor).
Drama
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Millie the Prostitute
Charles Farrell Joan Bennett Ralph Bellamy Eugene Pallette Irving Pichel Minna Gombell Willard Robertson Sarah Padden
Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane,a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City.She is affected when two criminals are pursued ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Carrie
Clara Bow Preston Foster Richard Cromwell Herbert Mundin James Gleason Minna Gombell Florence Roberts Roger Imhof
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the son of the show's manager.
Drama
USA
1934
74 Minutes
Zilla Reisling
Guy Kibbee Aline MacMahon Claire Dodd Maxine Doyle Glen Boles Minna Gombell Alan Hale Berton Churchill Russell Hicks Nan Gray Arthur Aylesworth
husband father businessman wife child gripping somber profound united states small town business money morality family consumerism high society temptation wretched excess transformation 20th century
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
60 Minutes
Taffy
Kirby Grant Lois Collier Edward Norris Eric Blore Minna Gombell Edward Brophy Judy Clark Marion Martin Donald MacBride Henry Armetta Jimmie Dodd
Entertainer siblings Patty, Bill, Hank and Johnny Davis all quit their jobs when they discover that their friend, Linda Reynolds, has secured them an audition with her boss, New York ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
1942
70 Minutes
Edith Fitzbadden
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Donald MacBride Minna Gombell Don Barclay
Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) uses dog fur to pose as Lord Epping on business with Carmelita (Lupe Velez), but a group of saboteurs up to no good in the basement try to drive them away by making the house seem haunted by ghosts.
Musical, Comedy
1934
99 Minutes
Marcelle
Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Edward Everett Horton Una Merkel George Barbier Herman Bing Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Peggy Watts
widow count ambassador stranger groom king airy charming paris marshovia mansion marriage taxes national security schemes deception identity love pursuit quest
A playboy prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a tiny kingdom is sent to woo a rich widow (Jeanette MacDonald) in Paris.
Drama
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Aunt Carrie
Frankie Darro Dorothy Coonan Edwin Phillips Rochelle Hudson Sterling Holloway Arthur Hohl Ann Hovey Minna Gombell
teen boy high-school student police officer teen girl aunt panhandler gritty dark profound train cleveland chicago camp dump new york state great depression unemployment child labor friendship quest
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Miss LaSeur
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Norman Foster William Gargan Marian Nixon The Mills Brothers Eugene Pallette Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Leila Bennett Franklin Pangborn
A struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Nellie Chase
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Adventure
USA
1940
119 Minutes
Spanish Eva
Clark Gable Spencer Tracy Claudette Colbert Hedy Lamarr Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill Chill Wills Marion Martin Minna Gombell Joe Yule Horace Murphy
partner sheriff oil baron love interest engaging emotional texas south america revolution oil business law romance wealth rivalry rise transformation love 1930s
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
Musical
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Mrs. Hofbauer
Luise Rainer Fernand Gravey Miliza Korjus Hugh Herbert Lionel Atwill Curt Bois Leonid Kinskey Al Shean Minna Gombell George Houston Bert Roach
composer wife opera singer father count publisher airy creative melodramatic vienna café theater street palace ambition romance music infidelity devotion rise
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Cora Withering
Dick Powell Anita Louise Allen Jenkins Ronald Reagan Walter Catlett Harold Huber Larry Williams Thurston Hall Minna Gombell Joyce Compton Robert Warwick
salesman boss beautiful woman aunt fan jockey lighthearted mellow store hotel party racetrack parade maryland horse racing impersonation wager advertising sabotage quest
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Drama
USA
1939
116 Minutes
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.
Western
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Randolph Scott Robert Ryan Anne Jeffreys George "Gabby" Hayes Jacqueline White Steve Brodie Tom Keene Robert Bray Lex Barker Walter Reed Dean White
outlaw gang member daughter ranger fiancée sundance kid gritty confident tense oklahoma frontier town bank house street outlaws land rush murder father/daughter relationship gunfight
When part of Oklahoma Territory becomes officially part of the U.S., Vance Cordrell is forced to deal with some of the most infamous outlaws of the Old West.