Polly Ann Young

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

Murders in the Rue Morgue poster
6.1

In 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

Turnabout poster
6.0

Bickering 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

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell poster
6.3

Alexander 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

Invisible Ghost poster
5.3

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Invisible Ghost

1941

Rodeo Rocketeers poster
NR

Edited 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

The Man from Utah poster
4.8

The 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

The Sheik poster
5.9

Sheik 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

Our Blushing Brides poster
5.6

Gerry, 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

The Crimson Trail poster
8.0

A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.

The Crimson Trail

1935

Lady with a Past poster
6.3

A 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

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

Wolf Call poster
4.4

A 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

Love in the Rough poster
5.7

When 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

His Fighting Blood poster
7.0

A 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

Elinor Norton poster
6.5

A 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

The Last Alarm poster
4.5

A 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

Tanned Legs poster
4.4

Peggy 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

Going Wild poster
7.0

Rollo 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

Happiness C.O.D. poster
7.5

A 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

Road Show poster
5.6

Rich 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

Stolen Sweets poster
4.2

Wealthy 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

Hitch Hike To Heaven poster
10.0

A 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

Sons of Steel poster
7.0

Chadburne 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

Mystery Plane poster
7.2

An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

Mystery Plane

1939