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David Manners is a Actor American born on 29 april 1900 at Halifax (Canada)
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Hearts in Bondage (1936)
, 1h12Directed by Lew Ayres
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Henry B. Walthall, Charlotte Henry, Fritz Leiber
Roles Raymond Jordan
Rating56%
This 1936 film is In black and white and is a drama based on events in the American Civil War and starts with citizens choosing loyalty to the Confederate States of America or to the Union in the first days of the crisis. Early scenes show the burning of the USS Merrimack by its Union crew to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. However, the Merrimack, which had been burnt down to the waterline, was later rebuilt by the Confederacy, as an ironclad, and was renamed the CSS Virginia.
A Woman Rebels (1936)
, 1h28Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Allan, David Manners, Lucile Watson
Roles Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
Rating64%
Pamela defies her autocratic father (Donald Crisp), and has a baby out of wedlock with her lover, Gerald Waring (Van Heflin, in his screen debut). Pamela raises her illegitimate daughter as her niece after her pregnant sister (Elizabeth Allan) falls and dies over the death of her young husband and becomes a crusading journalist for women's rights. Eventually she agrees to marry diplomat Thomas Lane (Herbert Marshall) after being unfairly named as co-respondent in Waring's divorce. Hepburn's performance as the defiant young woman is considered the epitome of her feminist characterizations of the 1930s.
Jalna (1935)
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter, C. Aubrey Smith, Peggy Wood, Nigel Bruce, Jessie Ralph
Roles Eden Whiteoaks
Rating60%
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
, 1h27Directed by Stuart Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, Francis L. Sullivan, E. E. Clive
Roles Edwin Drood
Rating63%
The Black Cat (1934)
, 1h5Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Harry Cording, Henry Armetta
Roles Peter Alison
Rating68%
Newlyweds Peter and Joan Alison, on their honeymoon in Hungary, learn that due to a mixup, they must share a train compartment with Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Béla Lugosi), a Hungarian psychiatrist. Eighteen years before, Werdegast went to war, never seeing his wife again. He has spent the last 15 years in an infamous prison camp. On the train, the doctor explains that he is traveling to see an old friend, Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff), an Austrian architect.
The Moonstone (1934)
, 1h2Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors David Manners, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Phyllis Barry, John Davidson, Jameson Thomas, Herbert Bunston
Roles Franklin Blake
Rating50%
As with the book, the film is based around the Herncastle Moonstone, a valuable diamond from India.
The Great Flirtation (1934)
, 1h11Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elissa Landi, Adolphe Menjou, David Manners, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn, Paul Porcasi
Roles Larry Kenyon
Rating54%
Torch Singer (1933)
, 1h11Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti, Charley Grapewin, Baby LeRoy
Roles Michael 'Mike' Gardner
Rating66%
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philandering. Mimi fills in on a children's radio program as the character "Aunt Jenny," singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.
Roman Scandals (1933)
, 1h33Directed by Frank Tuttle, Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, Edward Arnold, Verree Teasdale
Roles Josephus
Rating65%
When kind-hearted delivery boy and self-acclaimed authority on ancient Rome Eddie (Eddie Cantor) is thrown out of his home-town of West Rome, Oklahoma by scheming and corrupt politicians he protests that nothing of the sort would have been allowed to happen in ancient Rome. On his way out of town he imagines that he is back in Imperial Rome, where he is sold in a slave market to good-natured tribune Josephus (David Manners). Eddie soon discovers that Roman society was just as corrupt as in his own town and when he decides to do something about it he becomes involved in court intrigue and a murder plot against the evil Emperor Valerius (Edward Arnold) himself.
From Hell to Heaven (1933)
, 1h10Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames, Sidney Blackmer, David Manners, Verna Hillie
Roles Wesley Burt
Rating61%
A group of people from several walks of life gather to watch a horse race.
The Warrior's Husband (1933)
, 1h15Directed by Walter Lang, Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Elissa Landi, David Manners, Ernest Truex, Katharine Hepburn, Lionel Belmore, Helen Ware
Roles Theseus
Rating62%
In Pontus, the land of the Amazons, the gender roles and natures are completely reversed. Women are the strong sex, thanks to the sacred girdle of the goddess Diana (Roman names are used). It is in the care of queen Hippolyta and her sister Antiope (in the 1932 production played by Katharine Hepburn), the commander of the female armed forces. The men stay at home and take care of the children. Only Sapiens, the new husband of queen Hippolyta, advocates men's rights.
The Girl in 419 (1933)
, 1h7Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Dunn, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, Shirley Grey, Jack La Rue, Johnny Hines
Roles Dr. Martin Nichols
Rating60%
The Devil's in Love (1933)
, 1h10Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, David Manners, C. Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin
Roles Captain Jean Fabien
Rating60%
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
, 1h10Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Paul Cavanagh, Henry Stephenson
Roles Kit Humphreys
Rating64%
A Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged Englishwoman named Margaret "Meg" Fairfield (Burke); her daughter Sydney (Hepburn); Sydney's fiancée Kit Humphreys (Manners); Meg's fiancée Gray Meredith (Cavanagh); and Meg's husband Hilary (Barrymore), who escapes after spending almost twenty years in a mental hospital. After the family discusses Hilary's genetic predisposition toward psychiatric problems, which Sydney seems to have inherited, Hilary and Sydney give up Meg and Kit in order to avoid passing this trait to future generations.
The Mummy (1932)
, 1h13Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Mythologie égyptienne
Actors Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie
Roles Frank Whemple
Rating69%
An ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep (Boris Karloff) is revived when an archaeological expedition in 1921, led by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron), finds Imhotep's mummy. Imhotep had been mummified alive for attempting to resurrect his forbidden lover, the princess Ankh-es-en-amon. Whemple's friend, Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan) inspects the mummy and exclaims "The viscera were not removed. The usual scar made by the embalmers knife is not there." Sir Joseph Wimple responds, "I guessed as much." Despite Muller's warning, Sir Joseph's assistant Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) reads aloud an ancient life-giving scroll – the Scroll of Thoth. Imhotep escapes from the archaeologists, taking the Scroll of Thoth, and prowls Cairo seeking the modern reincarnation of Ankh-es-en-amon.