List of the best Sidney Franklin movies: The Good Earth(1937), The Duchess of Buffalo(1926), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1934), The Primitive Lover(1922), Private Lives(1931), The Dark Angel(1935), Her Sister From Paris(1925), The Guardsman(1931), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1957), Reunion in Vienna(1933), Going Straight(1916), Heart o' the Hills(1919) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
138 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Luise Rainer Walter Connolly Tilly Losch Charley Grapewin Jessie Ralph Soo Yong Keye Luke Roland Lui Ching Wah Lee Harold Huber
farmer wife pretty woman son emotional melodramatic china farm farming family poverty aspirations marriage love triangle transformation love sacrifice 1930s
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Romance
USA
1926
70 Minutes
Director
Constance Talmadge Tullio Carminati Edward Martindel Rose Dione Chester Conklin Lawrence Grant Martha Franklin Jean De Briac
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1934
110 Minutes
Director
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.
Romance
USA
1922
68 Minutes
Director
Joe Roberts Chief John Big Tree Kenneth Harlan Constance Talmadge Harrison Ford Clyde Benson
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
Comedy
USA
1931
84 Minutes
Director
Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery Reginald Denny Una Merkel Jean Hersholt George Davis
husband wife ex-husband ex-wife charming madcap switzerland hotel marriage love-hate relationship honeymoon fidelity love pursuit 1930s
Divorced couple unexpectedly meet each other during their honeymoon and rekindle their love.
Drama
USA
1935
110 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Merle Oberon Herbert Marshall Janet Beecher John Halliday Henrietta Crosman Frieda Inescort Claude Allister George Breakston Fay Chaldecott Dennis Chaldecott
soldier cousin girl friend engaging emotional passionate london france england countryside cottage devotion pride love war blindness jealousy love transformation
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Comedy
USA
1925
74 Minutes
Director
A housewife poses as her sister, a notorious dancer, in order to fool her husband and teach him a lesson.
Comedy
USA
1931
83 Minutes
Director
Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne Roland Young ZaSu Pitts Maude Eburne Herman Bing Ann Dvorak
actor actress husband wife amusing lighthearted playful new york city broadway theater infidelity jealousy marriage deception love love forbidden love discovery temptation 1930s
A jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.
Romance
UK|USA
1957
105 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jones John Gielgud Bill Travers Virginia McKenna Susan Stephen Vernon Gray Jean Anderson Maxine Audley Leslie Phillips Laurence Naismith Moultrie Kelsall
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest creepy 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.
Romance
USA
1933
100 Minutes
Director
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Crime, Drama
USA
1916
60 Minutes
Director
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
1919
87 Minutes
Mary Pickford Sidney Franklin Harold Goodwin A.D. Sears Claire McDowell Sam De Grasse W.H. Bainbridge John Gilbert Betty Bouton Fred Warren Fred Huntley
An outsider trying to exploit the area for its coal inflames tensions among rival families in the Kentucky hills.
Musical
1930
86 Minutes
Director
Grace Moore Reginald Denny Wallace Beery Jobyna Howland Gus Shy Gilbert Emery Paul Porcasi Giovanni Martino
A lovestruck composer (Reginald Denny) loses his sight following Swedish diva Jenny Lind (Grace Moore), who loses her voice.
Comedy, Drama
1919
78 Minutes
Director
Mary Pickford Ralph Lewis Kenneth Harlan Melvin Messenger Andrew Arbuckle Max Davidson Paul Mullen
A spoiled and privileged woman (Mary Pickford) must adjust to life in the slums after losing her wealth.
Romance
1924
90 Minutes
Director
Constance Talmadge Ronald Colman Jean Hersholt Albert Gran Robert Rendel Sidney Bracey
An Englishman (Ronald Colman) poses as a doctor to meet the beautiful daughter (Constance Talmadge) of a millionaire.