Sue Carol Movies

A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out. Hoping to get back into the hospital lab to complete his experiments, Norris makes his peace with Driscoll -- who, as it turns out, was really on Norris' side all along. For reasons unknown, the filmmakers decided to complicate this perfectly acceptable plotline with a secondary story involving the mentally unstable mother of an ailing violin prodigy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls in love with chorus girl Sue Carol and promises to marry her -- as soon as he can get a divorce from his wife Natalie Morehead. As the months pass, Carol becomes convinced that Mulhall has been stringing her along. Out of spite, she begins a romance with fellow hoofer Nick Stewart. When it turns out that Mulhall was sincere all along, Stewart obligingly steps out of the picture to allow our heroine a happy-ever-after. No secrets, no sinners. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview a building contractor. While awaiting his interview, he eavesdrops upon as heated argument between the contractor and his ex-mistress who is about to tell the D.A. about his shady deals. This will destroy his budding political career. The dishonest contractor retaliates by killing the district attorney and having the girl kidnapped. More trouble ensues when the reporter implicates the wrong person in the shenanigans. His mistake is discovered, and he is fired. He then investigates the case on his own to find the real guilty party and free the kidnapped girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as A&A, partners in the Harlem-based Fresh Air Taxicab Company. Our heroes spend most of their time helping the white romantic leads (Sue Carol and Charles Morton) try to locate a missing deed to some property owned by Morton's family. Eventually, Amos 'N' Andy unwittingly end up in a haunted house. Virtually the only genuine African Americans in the film are the members of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club orchestra, whose appearance at a high society ball is the device that brings A&A into the plot. Though no other Amos 'N' Andy films would follow, a popular TV series later aired in the 1950s with black actors cast in the leads. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Two former Fox contractees star in RKO Radio's She's My Weakness, a flat adaptation of Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's play Tommy. Hero Tommy Mills (Arthur Lake) would like to marry his sweetie Marie Thurber (Sue Carol), but first he's got to get on his feet financially. Attempting to sell a valuable piece of land at a profit, Tommy is constantly thwarted by his crooked uncle, who has no qualms about profiting from Tommy's loss. The ad campaign for this film was peppered with misleading blurbs like "Youth Whoops It Up in the Rumble Seat": in truth, the film is a stiff, with no one whooping about anything. It was films like She's My Weakness which convinced Sue Carol to give up acting and go into the talent-agent business. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Lone Star Ranger was a superior entry in western star George O'Brien's Zane Grey series for Fox Studios. Lensed on location in Utah's Monument Valley (long before it was "adopted" by John Ford), the film was adapted for the screen by Zane Grey from a novel by Max Brand, which had previously done service as a Tom Mix vehicle (and would later be remade by Fox with John Kimbrough in the lead). At the outset of the film, Buck Duane (O'Brien) is an outlaw, but upon rescuing Mary Aldridge (Sue Carol) from a runaway stagecoach, he vows to turn over a new leaf. He takes to ranching, whereupon the governor offers him a pardon -- if he will agree to lasso a gang of cattle rustlers. What no one knows is that the leader of the outlaws is Mary's father Colonel Aldridge (Russell Simpson). There are plenty of well-rehearsed thrills in Lone Star Ranger, but the film's most charming moment is purely spontaneous: upon meeting Sue Carol for the first time, a shirtless George O'Brien instinctively sucks in his stomach! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dixie Lee, best known to latter-day viewers as the first wife of Bing Crosby, essayed a leading role in the early Fox talkie Why Leave Home?. Things get under way when suburban matrons Ethel (Ilka Chase), Susan (Dot Farley) and Maude (Laura Hamilton) discover that their husbands George (Jed Prouty), Elmer (Walter Catlett) and Roy (Gordon DeMain) have been "stepping out" with some chorus girls. To get even, the ladies hire college boys Jose (Richard Keene), Oscar (David Rollins) and Dick (Nick Stuart) as their "gigolos." Caught in the middle are the collegiates' showgirl sweethearts Billie (Dixie Lee), Jackie (Jean Barry) and Mary (Sue Carol). Inevitably, all fifteen protagonists meet at a nightclub, leading to a cascade of slapstick complications. A remake of 1928's The Cradle Snatchers, Why Leave Home? was itself remade as Let's Face It in 1943. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this musical comedy, a young man from Virginia who is heir to a wealthy estate falls in love with a girl who longs to be a Broadway star. He moves to New York to be with her but discovers that she's a lot more interested in her career than in settling down. Hoping to turn her gaze away from the Great White Way (and onto himself), he buys up controlling interest in the show in which she has just been cast -- and fires her. However, the young man first discovers unemployment makes her no more inclined to walk down the aisle with him, and besides, he now has the Actor's Equity to contend with. The cast includes John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, and Stepin Fetchit, and features the songs "The Breakaway," "Walking with Susie," and "The Varsity Drag." At this time, no prints of this film are known to exist. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In this romantic fantasy, a delightful flapper princess refuses to marry her intended, a prince she has never met. Later she meets a young man, the prince in disguise, and falls in love. The queen is also fooled by the young man's disguise. She disapproves of the match and kidnaps the lad. He is rescued by the princess and reveals his true identity. They live a long and happy life together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the two are married before their father's arrive. This romantic comedy follows what happens when the businessmen find themselves having to act as marriage counselors to the unhappy couple. The marital upheaval stems from the bride's jealousy over her artist husband's newest model. She feels that he is paying far too much attention to the lovely lass. The model's husband finds out and flies into a jealous rage in a cafe. He nearly destroys the place and the businessmen and their children are in trouble deep until their own wives show up to rescue them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Basically a silent film, Pathe's Captain Swagger was released with a synchronized music and sound-effects track, courtesy of RCA Photophone. Rod La Rocque stars as American aviator Hugh Drummong, whose fearlessness during WWI earns him the nickname of Captain Swagger. Signing up with a French flying regiment, our hero takes on the challenge of shooting down dreaded German air ace Von Stahl (Ulrich Haupt). He brings the German down in enemy territory but rescues Von Stahl before his ruined plane explodes. In gratitude, Von Stahl helps Drummong elude capture and return to his regiment. Ten years pass, whereupon we pick up the story in New York. Unable to hold down a job or any other sort of responsibility, Drummong is forced to become a common thief. As luck would have it, his first "victim" is Sue (Sue Carol), likewise living on the fringes of society, who immediately falls in love with the would-be bandit. The couple reforms and finds work as a nightclub dance team. One night, the club where Drummong and Sue are employed is held up by a slick criminal gang, headed by none other than Drummong's "friendly enemy" Von Stahl. Returning the wartime favor, Drummong sets about to convince Von Stahl to change his ways and return his ill-gotten gains. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide