
Acting
Patricia Ellis
Born — Died
1918-05-20 — 1970-03-26
Place of birth
Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
46 titles
Known for
NRThe case of a millionaire’s daughter who goes missing over a stolen necklace belonging to a foreign woman.
Koi o sutta onna
1958
7.0Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
42nd Street
1933
7.0It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Block-Heads
1938
6.3Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Three on a Match
1932
5.9A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
6.9An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Picture Snatcher
1933
Film credits
1950s · 1 titles
1930s · 45 titles
7.0Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
42nd Street
1933
7.0It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Block-Heads
1938
6.3Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Three on a Match
1932
5.9A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
6.9An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Picture Snatcher
1933
4.8Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
The World Changes
1933
6.3Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
The St. Louis Kid
1934
6.7A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
The Circus Clown
1934
5.5After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Big Hearted Herbert
1934
7.0A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Hollywood Newsreel
1934
4.8The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Back Door to Heaven
1939
9.0A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Sing Me a Love Song
1936
7.0A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
The Lady in the Morgue
1938
7.5Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
5.7The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
The King's Vacation
1933
7.0A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.
Romance on the Run
1938
4.2Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Convention City
1933
5.1Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
Elmer, the Great
1933
6.0A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
Down the Stretch
1936
6.7A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Talent Scout
1937
6.7A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
While the Patient Slept
1935
5.1Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Bright Lights
1935
4.0When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934
10.0Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Let’s Be Ritzy
1934
6.0Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
6.5A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
A Night at the Ritz
1935
7.0A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Freshman Love
1936
6.5A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Harold Teen
1934
6.5Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Here Comes the Groom
1934
6.3A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Love Begins at Twenty
1936
7.0Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Postal Inspector
1936
5.7Fate 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
6.0A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Stranded
1935
5.5An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
The Payoff
1935
6.0A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937
5.8Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Central Park
1932
5.8An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
The Narrow Corner
1933
6.1Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes prominent New York City political party boss John Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his firm. But Adam's rising career nosedives when he's framed by corrupt Dr. Gresham and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary, Olga.
Lawyer Man
1932
5.1Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Easy to Love
1934
7.0Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant conductor or singer who works in a top-notch club. Prompted by a helpful janitor named Exodus Johnson, Tod's band pivots to a fresh swing style featuring singer Lorna Wray. Tod's new sound skyrockets him to fame while Gale's career hits a rough patch, causing personal and romantic complications before a final reconciliation.
Melody for Two
1937
7.4Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first ex-wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second ex-wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two ex-wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
Snowed Under
1936
7.0George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
Fugitive at Large
1939
7.0A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
Paradise for Two
1937
7.0A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Hold 'Em Yale
1935
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Venus Makes Trouble
1937
