Monroe Owsley

Acting

Monroe Owsley

Born 1900-08-11 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Monroe Owsley was an American stage and screen actor, his film career beginning in 1928.

Acting credits

Rumba poster
6.5

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

Rumba

1935

Brief Moment poster
3.8

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.

Brief Moment

1933

Call Her Savage poster
5.8

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

Call Her Savage

1932

The First Kiss poster
9.0

The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."

The First Kiss

1928

Ten Cents a Dance poster
6.7

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Ten Cents a Dance

1931

Shock poster
7.3

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.

Shock

1934

Hat Check Girl poster
7.5

Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.

Hat Check Girl

1932

Ex-Lady poster
6.3

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Ex-Lady

1933

Hideaway Girl poster
7.0

An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

Hideaway Girl

1936

This Modern Age poster
5.9

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

This Modern Age

1931

She Was a Lady poster
8.0

Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.

She Was a Lady

1934

Twin Husbands poster
4.7

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth.

Twin Husbands

1933

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) poster
NR

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Goin' to Town poster
5.6

When her fiancé is killed, dancehall queen Cleo Borden inherits his wealth. Included are oil wells overseen by British engineer Carrington, whom Cleo sets out to win by becoming a 'lady'. She horseraces in Buenos Aires, gains social position by loveless marriage to bankrupt Colton, and even performs in an opera. But when she encounters Carrington again, he's become the Earl of Stratton!

Goin' to Town

1935

Private Number poster
6.7

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.

Private Number

1936

Wild Gold poster
6.5

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.

Wild Gold

1934

Behold My Wife! poster
8.0

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.

Behold My Wife!

1934

Honor Among Lovers poster
5.9

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

Honor Among Lovers

1931

Mister Cinderella poster
7.0

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.

Mister Cinderella

1936

Yellowstone poster
5.3

Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone

1936

The Keyhole poster
5.0

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

The Keyhole

1933

Remember Last Night? poster
5.5

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

Remember Last Night?

1935

Holiday poster
6.2

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Holiday

1930

The Woman Who Dared poster
8.0

A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.

The Woman Who Dared

1933