Acting

Eleanor Wesselhoeft

Born 1882-12-27 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Acting credits

The Prisoner of Zenda poster
7.5

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

The Baroness and the Butler poster
5.3

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

The Baroness and the Butler

1938

The Wedding Night poster
5.9

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.

The Wedding Night

1935

Intermezzo: A Love Story poster
6.7

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.

Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939

Street Scene poster
6.8

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

Street Scene

1931

The Woman from Monte Carlo poster
6.3

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.

The Woman from Monte Carlo

1932

Thirty Day Princess poster
6.8

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.

Thirty Day Princess

1934

Stranded poster
6.0

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Stranded

1935

The Woman in Red poster
6.0

A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.

The Woman in Red

1935

Me and My Gal poster
6.4

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Me and My Gal

1932

Black Moon poster
5.5

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

Black Moon

1934

Boulder Dam poster
5.7

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Boulder Dam

1936

Everything Happens at Night poster
5.3

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

Everything Happens at Night

1939

The Man I Married poster
6.3

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

The Man I Married

1940

Cradle Song poster
10.0

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?

Cradle Song

1933

The Story of Alfred Nobel poster
7.0

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

The Story of Alfred Nobel

1939

A Son Comes Home poster
4.0

A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

A Son Comes Home

1936

Madame Racketeer poster
5.3

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

Madame Racketeer

1932