Renee Whitney

Acting

Renee Whitney

Born — Died

1912-02-09 — 1972-09-16

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 35 titles

Gold Diggers of 1933 poster
7.2

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933

Baby Face poster
7.3

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Baby Face

1933

42nd Street poster
6.9

Broadway 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

Footlight Parade poster
6.8

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Footlight Parade

1933

Jimmy the Gent poster
6.4

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Jimmy the Gent

1934

Wonder Bar poster
6.0

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Wonder Bar

1934

Fashions of 1934 poster
6.6

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

Fashions of 1934

1934

The Kennel Murder Case poster
6.1

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

Fog Over Frisco poster
6.4

Valkyr Bradford takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite involved in criminal activities.

Fog Over Frisco

1934

The House on 56th Street poster
5.2

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.

The House on 56th Street

1933

The Circus Clown poster
6.7

A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

The Circus Clown

1934

Hi, Nellie! poster
6.7

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Hi, Nellie!

1934

Private Detective 62 poster
6.2

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

Private Detective 62

1933

Picture Snatcher poster
6.9

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Picture Snatcher

1933

Return of the Terror poster
6.5

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

Return of the Terror

1934

She Had to Say Yes poster
5.7

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.

She Had to Say Yes

1933

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

Journal of a Crime poster
5.9

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

Journal of a Crime

1934

Show Boat poster
6.7

Sheltered beauty Magnolia Hawkes takes over as the leading lady on a Mississippi riverboat show when mixed-race Julie and her white husband are forced out of town by a prejudiced sheriff. Charismatic opportunist Gaylord Ravenal wins Magnolia's heart, but his gambling losses threaten to ruin their chances for a happy marriage.

Show Boat

1936

I've Got Your Number poster
6.8

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

I've Got Your Number

1934

The Big Shakedown poster
5.9

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

The Big Shakedown

1934

Counsel on De Fence poster
3.0

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

Counsel on De Fence

1934

The Personality Kid poster
4.4

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

The Personality Kid

1934

The Merry Frinks poster
4.8

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

The Merry Frinks

1934

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

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

Side Streets poster
5.2

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Side Streets

1934

Registered Nurse poster
4.8

In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.

Registered Nurse

1934

Under Eighteen poster
6.3

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

Under Eighteen

1932

Havana Widows poster
6.6

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Havana Widows

1933

Lawyer Man poster
6.1

Idealistic 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

Goodbye Again poster
4.9

Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?

Goodbye Again

1933

Western Courage poster
8.0

Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.

Western Courage

1935

Bedside poster
5.6

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

Bedside

1934

Kansas City Princess poster
4.9

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

Kansas City Princess

1934