
Acting
Polly Ann Young
Born 1908-10-25 · Denver, Colorado, USA
Polly Ann Young was born on October 25, 1908 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Man from Utah (1934), Invisible Ghost (1941) and The Last Alarm (1940). She was married to Carter Hermann. She died on January 21, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Sister of Sally Blane and Loretta Young, half-sister of Georgiana Young.
Acting credits
6.1In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932
6.0Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
Turnabout
1940
6.3Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
5.3The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Invisible Ghost
1941
NREdited version of The Man from Utah. In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to lose. When he doesn't go along they add some insurance: a poisoned needle just under his saddle.
Rodeo Rocketeers
1934
4.8The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
The Man from Utah
1934
5.9Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
The Sheik
1921
5.6Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
Our Blushing Brides
1930
8.0A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
The Crimson Trail
1935
6.3A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Lady with a Past
1932
5.9A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
This Modern Age
1931
4.4A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Wolf Call
1939
5.7When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Love in the Rough
1930
7.0A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
His Fighting Blood
1935
6.5A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Elinor Norton
1934
4.5A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
The Last Alarm
1940
4.4Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Tanned Legs
1929
7.0Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
Going Wild
1930
7.5A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
Happiness C.O.D.
1935
5.6Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Road Show
1941
4.2Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Stolen Sweets
1934
10.0A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
Hitch Hike To Heaven
1936
7.0Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
Sons of Steel
1934
7.2An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
Mystery Plane
1939