Alan Mowbray
23 titles
Filmography
23 results

That Hamilton Woman
(1941)Naval hero Lord Nelson defies convention to court a married woman of common birth.

Terror by Night
(1946)A Holmes lo contratan para evitar el robo de un enorme diamante durante un viaje en tren. En el trayecto, hay un asesinato y la piedra desaparece.

Merrily We Live
(1938)Handsome gentleman vagabond Wade Rawlins shows up on the doorstep of flighty society matron Billie Burke who hires him as a butler and chauffeur.

The Villain Still Pursued Her
(1940)When the holder of their mortgage passes away, a widow and her daughter are made aware of a plot to possess and foreclose on their home.

Stand-In
(1937)A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.

That Uncertain Feeling
(1941)A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups and falls for a man she meets at the doctor's office.
There Goes My Heart
(1938)Eager to break free of her constrained life, heiress Joan Butterfield (Virginia Bruce) runs away from her grandfather's yacht just as reporter Bill Spencer (Fredric March) arrives to get a rare photo of her. Befriended by the kind Peggy (Patsy Kelly), Joan takes an assumed name and moves in with Peggy, then joins her working at Butterfield's department store. Bill, who has begun an article on Joan, visits the store and, recognizing her there, realizes that he has stumbled upon a hot story.
The Gay Deception
(1935)
The Phantom of 42nd Street
(1945)When a stage actor's body is discovered after a performance, theater critic Tony Woolrich teams up with a police detective to solve the crime.

Yokel Boy
(1942)The head of a film studio hires a farmer, who holds the world's record for attending movies, as a publicity stunt to bolster his sagging business.
Topper
(1937)George (Cary Grant) and Marion Kerby (Constance Bennett) are a young, happy-go-lucky couple who love to party. But after a car accident kills them both, they discover that they haven't done enough good deeds to earn a trip to heaven. To remedy this problem, they decide to help their old uptight boss, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young), live a little. While Topper begins to take their ghostly advice and enjoy life for a change, his controlling wife finds her husband's laid-back behavior infuriating.
Every Girl Should Be Married
(1948)Sales clerk Anabel Sims believes Every Girl Should be Married. And she has the target, er, groom picked out: pediatrician Madison Brown. Unfortunately, Dr. Brown is not interested in marriage or in Anabel. But not to worry – Anabel's sure she can outmaneuver any mere male. And she'll employ every ruse, stratagem and ploy in a marriage-minded maiden's bag of tricks to land the elusive American bachelor. Romantic-comedy icon Cary Grant and film-debuting Betsy Drake team in this frothy, funny paean to postwar domesticity. The sparkle between the two is delightful – and genuine: Soon after the film premiered they became real-life husband and wife. Hmm. Sounds like Anabel just may have been right!
God's Gift to Women
(1931)"If you want to live, you must follow the tranquil existence of an oyster," the eminent cardiologist warns his terrified patient. "No excitement and no women. One kiss and you die!" Mon Dieu! No kissing? That's the kiss of death for ladies' man Toto Duryea. And especially now, when he's found the woman who has won his heart forever. Too bad that heart is one sick ticker. Vaudeville and stage star Frank Fay portrays Toto in this jaunty pre-Code bedroom farce set in Paris and directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Life With Father). Vivacious kewpie doll Joan Blondell and flapper femme fatale Louise Brooks are among former lovers who rush to Toto's bedside eager to provide comfort. But he rejects them all for a hard-to-get American beauty (Laura LaPlante) whose lips have touched his only once. And oh how he longs to repeat the experience. Will Toto give his life for one more heavenly smooch?

Crosswinds
(1951)Smugglers frame a schooner captain in New Guinea so they can use his ship to rob gold.

Wagon Master
(1950)Western. A group of Mormons head west in search of the promised land, encountering fugitive gunfighters and Native Americans on the way. With Ben Johnson and Ward Bond.

Rose Marie
(1936)Resounding with such songs as “Rose-Marie, I Love You,” “Song of the Mounties” and the beloved “Indian Love Call,” Rose-Marie immortalized Hollywood’s greatest singing team.

Lured
(1947)British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
Desire
(1936)A French jewel thief (Marlene Dietrich) speeds to Spain with pearls, which she drops in the pocket of a U.S. engineer (Gary Cooper).

My Man Godfrey
(1936)Una señorita de la crema y nata de la sociedad contrata al vagabundo que se encontró en el basurero municipal como mayordomo de su excéntrica familia.

Roman Scandals
(1933)A kindhearted delivery boy from rural Oklahoma awakens in Ancient Rome, where he finds himself embroiled in a plot to kill the corrupt emperor.