List of the best Polly Moran movies: Reducing(1931), Prosperity(1932), Down to Their Last Yacht(1934), Politics(1931), Way Out West(1930), The Girl Said No(1930), The Passionate Plumber(1932), Red River Range(1938), Hollywood Party(1934), Chasing Rainbows(1930), Remote Control(1930), London After Midnight(1927) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1931
75 Minutes
Marie Dressler Polly Moran Anita Page William Collier Jr. Lucien Littlefield Sally Eilers William Bakewell Billy Naylor Jay Ward
beautician sister social climber daughter boyfriend husband lighthearted amusing family home spa new york city sauna family feud siblings poverty class conflict love triangle social climbing love transformation
A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1932
87 Minutes
Lizzie Praskins
Marie Dressler Polly Moran Anita Page Norman Foster Jacquie Lyn Jerry Tucker Charles Giblyn Frank Darien Henry Armetta John Miljan John Roche
banker mother wife mother-in-law child con artist amusing cheeky spirited bank church wedding barbershop train store family business bank failure family dysfunction stock market crash scam
In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy, Romance
USA
1934
64 Minutes
Mary Boland Polly Moran Ned Sparks Sidney Fox Sidney Blackmer Sterling Holloway Marjorie Gateson Irene Franklin
A family loses everything in the crash of 1929 except for their yacht. In order to make money, they rent out the yacht. A couple of guys feel sorry for the young maiden, who has everything ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1931
71 Minutes
Marie Dressler Polly Moran Roscoe Ates Karen Morley William Bakewell John Miljan Joan Marsh Tom McGuire Kane Richmond Mary Alden Bob Perry
music teacher mother tenant daughter racketeer boyfriend cheeky positive small town household political rally club attic town hall election corruption reform small-town life murder racketeering
Wives go on strike to make their husbands vote for a mother (Marie Dressler) running for mayor against corruption.
Comedy, Western
USA
1930
71 Minutes
Pansy
William Haines Leila Hyams Polly Moran Cliff Edwards Francis X. Bushman Jr. Vera Marsh Charles Middleton Jack Pennick Buddy Roosevelt Jay Wilsey
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1930
90 Minutes
Polly
William Haines Leila Hyams Polly Moran Marie Dressler Francis X. Bushman Clara Blandick William Janney Frank Coghlan Jr. Phyllis Crane William V. Mong
college graduate salesman secretary executive dowager father cheery madcap amusing new york city office bar bank restaurant career aspirations romantic dilemma love triangle father/son relationship confidence marriage
A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.
Comedy
USA
1932
73 Minutes
Albine
Buster Keaton Jimmy Durante Irene Purcell Polly Moran Gilbert Roland Mona Maris Maude Eburne Henry Armetta Paul Porcasi Jean Del Val August Tollaire
To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.
Western
USA
1938
56 Minutes
Mrs. Maxwell
John Wayne Ray Corrigan Max Terhune Polly Moran Adrian Booth Kirby Grant Sammy McKim William Royle
Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Henrietta Clemp
Jimmy Durante Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Lupe Velez Polly Moran Charles Butterworth Eddie Quillan June Clyde George Givot Jack Pearl Ted Healy
actor manager baron millionaire explorer frenetic amusing campy movie theater mansion party show business lions party dreams competition rivalry pursuit 1930s
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1930
100 Minutes
Polly
Bessie Love Charles King Jack Benny George K. Arthur Polly Moran Gwen Lee Nita Martan Eddie Phillips Marie Dressler Youcca Troubetzkoy
singer partner manager vaudevillian performer wife endearing engaging amusing stage backstage vaudeville show dressing room relationships performance heartbreak show business marriage friendship love
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1930
62 Minutes
Polly
Nick Grinde William Haines Charles King Mary Doran John Miljan Polly Moran J.C. Nugent Edward Nugent Wilbur Mack James Donlan Edward Brophy
A radio announcer suspects a cohort sends coded messages over the air to his bank-robber friends.
Horror
USA
1927
60 Minutes
Lon Chaney Marceline Day Henry B. Walthall Percy Williams Conrad Nagel Polly Moran Edna Tichenor Claude King Jules Cowles Andy McLennan
The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
97 Minutes
Polly
Elliott Nugent Robert Armstrong Cliff Edwards Sally Starr Phyllis Crane Polly Moran Lee Shumway Dorothy Dehn Max Davidson Oscar Rudolph Delmer Daves
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1929
94 Minutes
The Maid
Roland Young Boris Karloff Dorothy Sebastian Ernest Torrence Natalie Moorhead Sydney Jarvis Polly Moran George Cooper Kamiyama Sojin Claude Fleming Clarence Geldart
On a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1928
82 Minutes
Peggy's maid
Marion Davies William Haines Dell Henderson Paul Ralli Tenen Holtz Harry Gribbon Sidney Bracey Polly Moran Albert Conti John Gilbert Mae Murray
actress actor studio head director father emotional charming studio hollywood, calif. theater ambition fame filmmaking love triangle love rise transformation 1920s
A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
Romance
USA
1949
101 Minutes
Mrs. McGrath
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Judy Holliday Tom Ewell David Wayne Jean Hagen Hope Emerson Polly Moran Marvin Kaplan Paula Raymond Tommy Noonan
lawyer husband wife amusing engaging hilarious playful courtroom city household marriage love lawyers adultery love rivalry 1940s
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Polly
Joan Crawford Robert Armstrong Marie Prevost Kent Douglas John Miljan Purnell Pratt Hale Hamilton Polly Moran Robert E. O'Connor Tyrrell Davis William Bakewell
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1921
117 Minutes
Orchestra Leader
Wallace Reid Gloria Swanson Elliott Dexter Bebe Daniels Monte Blue Wanda Hawley Theodore Roberts Agnes Ayres Theodore Kosloff Polly Moran Raymond Hatton
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near ... See full summary »