May Robson

May Robson plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra’s wonderful and enduring comedy/drama, based on a short story by Damon Runyon, with a hilarious and heartwarming script by Robert Riskin. When Louise (Jean Parker) announces that she plans to visit her mother to introduce her aristocratic fiancé, Apple Annie’s friends, including gangster Dave the Dude (Warren William), Judge Henry D. Blake (Guy Kibbee) and Missouri Martin (Glenda Farrell), rally around to transform her from a poor street peddler into the society matron her daughter is expecting to see.

After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a Northerner carpetbagger intent on destroying him.

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his Four Daughters.

A boxing champ on the lamb finds refuge and redemption at a farm for delinquent youths. But a cop looking for his own redemption is on his trail.

Una joven llega a Hollywood con sueños de estrellato y solo los logra con la ayuda de un protagonista alcohólico cuyos mejores días han quedado atrás.

Jean Harlow stars as an ambitious showgirl loved by two very different men in the dramatic musical Reckless. Theatrical promoter Bob Harrison (Franchot Tone) loves Mona (Harlow), but he cannot compete with wealthy socialite Ned Riley (William Powell) when Riley buys every seat in the theater to be able to watch Mona's performance alone. Ned and Mona wed, but Ned's family rejects Mona as a shameless gold digger. Torn between his family's rejection and his love for Mona, Ned commits suicide--leaving Mona to put her life and career back together. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern, Jack King and Burton Lane.

Anna Neagle stars in this biopic of English nurse and First World War martyr Edith Cavell. Matron of a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI, Cavell makes no distinction between the civilian casualties, Allied troops and German soldiers brought in for treatment. However, her sympathy for the plight of the Belgians leads her to become involved with a secret underground resistance movement that helps refugees and escaped prisoners of war to cross the border into neutral Holland. When the German high command becomes suspicious of her activities, Cavell is branded a spy and faces execution by firing squad.

A girl and her family heading West packed in a 1910 flivver discover that the car is worth $10,000.

A secretary becomes so valuable to her boss that it jeopardizes his marriage.

A simple barmaid named Joan (Michele Morgan) sacrifices her own safety to help five fugitive British airmen escape from France.

A rare missing fossil, a stuffy paleontologist, an heiress in love and a pet leopard are the makings of a screwball comedy far ahead of its time.

Neurotic Nina Leeds marries Sam Evans but has a son by Dr. Darrell.