Lawrence Grossmith Movies
Gaslight
1944
Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor....
Opened by Mistake
1940
This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) and tipsy sports editor Buzz Nelson (Charlie Ruggles) become joint owners of an...
No Time for Comedy
1940
S.N. Behrman's hit Broadway show about a guy who writes hit Broadway shows comes to the screen in this comedy. Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) is a reporter from...
Captain Fury
1939
This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for criminals of the British empire, and tells the story...
I'm from Missouri
1939
In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas livestock show where he impresses a representative from...
All Women Have Secrets
1939
All Women Have Secrets affords a rare film starring role for James Cagney's talented sister Jeanne Cagney. Set on a college campus, the story concerns the trials and...
Smash and Grab
1937
In this detective comedy, set in London, an intrepid detective and his wife must discover the criminals behind a series of jewel heists. The two follow the robbers' trail to a...
The Girl in the Taxi
1937
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad,...
Murder at the Baskervilles
1937
Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel to the home of their old friend Baskerville who wants Holmes to figure out who stole his prized race horse Silver Blaze and murdered the...
Song of the Forge
1937
In this musical, the village smithy and his son (who looks just like him because they are played by the same actor) have a terrible fight after the son announces that he wants to...
Make-Up
1937
In this drama, a doctor disguises himself as a circus clown and starts a new life. When a wealthy young woman is knocked out by an elephant, he reaches into his medical bag of...
Everything in Life
1936
This musical comedy is a confusion of identities as opera singer Alpar, in love with a woman, stars in a show financially backed by composer Hamilton who turns out to be the...
Men Are Not Gods
1936
Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as that play figures prominently in the film....
It Happened in Paris
1935
After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director of It Happened in Paris. Based upon a French play...
Rolling in Money
1934
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Sing As We Go
1934
In this British comedy, a plucky Lancashire millworker is out of a job when her mill is forced to close for the summer. She decides to make the best of it by taking a series of...
The Luck of a Sailor
1934
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress....
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
Producer and director (Alexander Korda) followed up The Private Life of Henry VIII (one of the first internationally successful British films) with this historical comedy....
Counsel's Opinion
1933
In this comedy a widow pretends to be Lord Grossmith's philandering wife in order to get a handsome lawyer to fall in love with her. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
Tiger Bay
1933
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