Joan Wentworth Wood Movies

In this melodrama, an actress willingly sacrifices her career to marry a scientist and have a daughter. But try as she might, she cannot resist the call of the footlights and she goes back to the boards. Her husband then divorces her. Two decades pass and the daughter becomes a lovely young woman. Trouble ensues when she and her mother fall in love with the same radio producer. When her mother sees this, she gives the fellow up. The actress is then shot by a disgruntled old lover. This leads her to her ex-husband who has loved her all along. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

No relation to the 1968 John Cassavetes film of the same name, the 1934 Faces is a compact British romantic melodrama. Anna Lee plays a beautician who harbors dreams of wealth and luxury. She becomes the mistress of a millionaire, leaving her poor-but-true boyfriend Harold French in the lurch. Lee quickly changes her ways when she befriends the amiable wife of her wealthy "protector". Faces was adapted from a play by Patrick Ludlow and Walter Soames; the latter appears in the film as the philandering millionaire. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Fans of Doctor Who should know that a callbox is the British term for a police telephone booth. It stands to reason, then, that a detective should figure prominently in the 1932 The Callbox Mystery. That detective is Inspector Layton (Harold French, who later became a prolific director), who at present is investigating a suicide. Layton falls in love with the victim's daughter (Wendy Barrie), who doesn't believe that her father killed himself. The inspector and the girl join forces to prove that this suicide, and several other similar cases, were actually cold-blooded murders. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi