
Acting
Dorothy Burgess
Born 1907-03-04 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Acting credits
6.3A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Headline Shooter
1933
10.0Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
I Want a Divorce
1940
6.1A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Ladies They Talk About
1933
5.6Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Night Flight
1933
NRBrazilian documentary film directed by Salvyano Cavalcanti de Paiva that showcases the evolution of Brazilian artists in the American film industry between the late 1920s and 1950s. Using archive footage, it highlights the contributions of figures like Carmen Miranda.
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.
Malay Nights
1932
7.0Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.
Pleasure Crazed
1929
6.7When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
The Lady in Question
1940
10.0During the height of Prohibition courageous reporter Chick Slater and determined "sob sister" journalist Myrtle Hines uncover a dangerous bootlegging and extortion ring operating in their city. As they dig into the corruption, they get swept into a web of racketeers, mob violence, and romantic complications. The film explores the power of the press as the journalists risk everything to expose the criminal underworld.
Protection
1929
7.2Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.8Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Taxi!
1932
9.0Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Orient Express
1934
4.7A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Girls in Chains
1943
7.3The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Village Tale
1935
6.6When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Fashions of 1934
1934
6.8Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
7.5Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Strictly Personal
1933
6.3Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
Hold Your Man
1933
5.5Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
Lady for a Night
1942
5.5A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Black Moon
1934
6.7A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
The Circus Clown
1934
6.7An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
On Your Guard
1933
7.0A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
A Modern Hero
1934
8.0A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
Cadet Girl
1941