Movies: Gloria Stuart

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude....

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player....

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket....

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War....

A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office....

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover....

This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart....

Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned....

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed....

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room....

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary....

A journey to places, where the overlooked Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac "Buzz" Bezzerides lived and worked, revealing the operation of Hollywood's production system in the 1940s, '50s, '60s and more ......

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An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love....

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer....

While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golf...

Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man....

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss....

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder....