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Renee Whitney is a Actor American born on 9 february 1912 at Chicago (USA)
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Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
Fog Over Frisco (1934)
, 1h8Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Hugh Herbert, Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel
Roles Girl in Jake's Office (Uncredited)
Rating64%
Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a spoiled, bored, wealthy socialite who finances her extravagant lifestyle by exploiting her fiancé Spencer Carlton's (Lyle Talbot) access to her stepfather's brokerage firm and using her connection to steal security bonds for crime boss Jake Bello (Irving Pichel).
The Circus Clown (1934)
, 1h3Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Dorothy Burgess, Don Dillaway, Gordon Westcott, Charles C. Wilson
Roles Sympathetic Circus Girl
Rating60%
The Circus Clown is about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
I've Got Your Number (1934)
, 1h9Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Eugene Pallette, Henry O'Neill
Roles Loretta Kennedy
Rating62%
Switchboard operator Marie Lawson (Joan Blondell) is conned by admirer Nicky (Gordon Westcott), who tells her it is just a practical joke, into redirecting a phone call. However, Nicky uses what he learns to his own benefit, costing the intended recipient a lot of money. When the victim complains to Marie's boss, telephone repairmen Terry Riley (Pat O'Brien) and John (Allen Jenkins) are called in to see if the phone was tapped. When it is found not to be, Marie loses her job.
Fashions of 1934 (1934)
, 1h18Directed by William Dieterle, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Reginald Owen, Verree Teasdale
Roles Chorus Girl / Girl Chased by Snap (uncredited)
Rating65%
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash (William Powell) goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap (Frank McHugh) and fashion designer Lynn Mason (Bette Davis) to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses. Lynn discovers that top designer Oscar Baroque (Reginald Owen) gets his inspiration from old costume books, and she begins to create designs the same way, signing each one with the name of an established designer.
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
, 1h7Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Alice White, Arthur Hohl
Roles Bessie
Rating65%
The unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney), runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will, and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Bette Davis), who left him to due his lack of ethics, accepts a position at the allegedly legitimate firm owned by Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart), Corrigan investigates Wallingham's background and discovers his rival is even more duplicitous than he is. He exposes Wallingham as a phony and promises to go straight if Joan will come back to him.
Kansas City Princess (1934)
, 1h4Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert, Osgood Perkins, T. Roy Barnes
Roles Mrs. 'Lovums' Ashcraft
Rating60%
The Personality Kid (1934)
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd, Robert Gleckler, Henry O'Neill, Bess Flowers
Roles Party Guest
Rating58%
Registered Nurse (1934)
, 1h3Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Sidney Toler, Gordon Westcott, Minna Gombell
Roles Ethel Smith
Rating58%
Journal of a Crime (1934)
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays
Actors Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Frank Reicher, Douglass Dumbrille
Roles Woman Talking to Man at Play Party (uncredited)
Rating59%
Francoise is a jealous wife who spies on her playwright husband, Paul, one evening after a play and overhears him and his lover Odette, the star of the show, quarreling in the street about him leaving his wife. He protests because he does not want to hurt his wife. Paul comes home at 3am and finds that Francoise has waited up for him. Unbeknownst to him, she is distressed at the news and pretends that she knows nothing of the affair. She attempts to seduce him but fails. The more he tries to tell her that he's leaving her, she become increasingly agitated, speaking more rapidly as she backs out the door and leaves him alone in the bedroom.
The Big Shakedown (1934)
, 1h4Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Henry O'Neill
Roles Mae LaRue
Rating61%
The melodramatic plot of the Warner Bros. release centers on Jimmy Morrell and Norma Nelson, who plan to wed as soon as their neighborhood pharmacy begins to show a profit. The opportunity arises when former bootlegger Dutch Barnes offers Jimmy a job duplicating name brand toothpaste and cosmetics that can be made cheaply and then sold in the bottles and jars of reputable pharmaceutical companies at regular prices. When Dutch asks him to copy the formula for a popular brand of antiseptic, Jimmy refuses, claiming he's unable to get a key ingredient, but when Dutch offers him a bonus hefty enough to allow Jimmy to marry Norma, he agrees.
Wonder Bar (1934)
, 1h24Directed by Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee
Roles (uncredited)
Rating64%
Wonder Bar is set in a Parisian nightclub, with the stars playing the ‘regulars’ at the club. The movie revolves around two main story points, a romance and a more serious conflict with death, and several minor plots. All of the stories are enlivened from time to time by extravagant musical numbers. The more serious story revolves around Captain Von Ferring (Robert Barrat), a German military officer. Ferring has gambled on the stock market and lost, now broke after dozens of failed investments, he is at the Wonder Bar to try and pull a one night stand before killing himself the following day. Al Wonder (Al Jolson) knows about Ferring's plan.
Hi, Nellie! (1934)
, 1h15Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Robert Barrat, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill
Roles Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Rating68%
Side Streets (1934)
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Aline MacMahon, Paul Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Dorothy Tree, Helen Lowell, Henry O'Neill
Roles Mabel Vernon
Rating68%
Elinor Norton (1934)
, 1h11Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claire Trevor, Gilbert Roland, Henrietta Crosman, Hugh Williams, Norman Foster, Cora Sue Collins
Roles Publisher's Staff
Rating58%