Evelyn Venable Movies

Alice Adams

70/100

The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America.

Death Takes a Holiday

72/100

The Grim Reaper takes the form of a prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.

The Little Colonel

71/100

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ... See full summary »

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

64/100

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.

The Frontiersmen

68/100

The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands... See full summary »

Streamline Express

59/100

A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a super-speed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive confidence man, a stage director masquerading as a steward in hopes of ... See full summary »

Vagabond Lady

63/100

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner...

Double Door

67/100

In a spooky New York City mansion, a wealthy but mean old woman threatens to return her sister to the home's secret torture chamber when the sister objects to the woman's trying to ruin the... See full summary »

Lucky Cisco Kid

61/100

In between romantic bouts with a widow, the Cisco Kid corrals a gang of bad guys led by a crooked judge; the gang are driving people off their land and blaming it on the Kid.

Harmony Lane

61/100

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

David Harum

67/100

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a ... See full summary »

Heritage of the Desert

71/100

John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, ... See full summary »

Happy-Go-Lucky

53/100

A singer (Venable) believes her marine pilot husband, accused of treason, has died in the Pacific. She finds a man who looks exactly like her husband dancing in a club act. Realizing it is ... See full summary »

Cradle Song

74/100

The only filmed English version of Gregorio Martinez Sierra's classic Spanish play.

Star for a Night

70/100

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

My Old Kentucky Home

56/100

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry ... See full summary »

Racketeers in Exile

Female Fugitive

62/100

Insurance investigators go after a ring of truck hijackers.

The County Chairman

65/100

Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role...

He Hired the Boss

62/100

Hubert Wilkins, a bookkeeper for Mr. Bates by day and an air raid warden by night, patrols the district where his boss' warehouse is located...

North of Nome

56/100

John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation...

The Headleys at Home

Mrs. Headley, wife of the town banker, sets out to impress her social circle with the news that her husband is a great friend of a well-known financier from New York who is coming to town. ... See full summary »