Mary Brian

  • Jack Conway – Brown of Harvard (1926)

    Jack Conway1921-1930DramaQueer Cinema(s)SilentUSA

    Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor’s daughter.Read More »

  • Victor Fleming – The Virginian (1929)

    Victor Fleming1921-1930ClassicsUSAWestern

    The classic 1929 Western that put a young guy named Gary Cooper on the map. Also starring Walter Huston in a memorable turn as a baddie. Based loosely on Owen Wister’s oft-filmed novel.

    Plot summary:
    Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, and Steve, his best fiend, soon become rivals for her affection. Steve falls in with bad guys led by Trampas, and the Virginian catches him cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away, but returns in time for the obligatory climactic shootout in the streets.Read More »

  • Clyde Bruckman & W.C. Fields – Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

    1931-1940ClassicsClyde BruckmanComedyUSAW.C. Fields

    Ambrose Wolfinger wants the afternoon off (his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling match. He tells his boss that he must attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. The afternoon is no joy. He tries to please a policeman, assist a chauffeur, chase a tire, and ends up getting hit by the body of a wrestler thrown from the ring. A series of mishaps leads his boss to send floral tributes to the house and notify the papers of the death (due to poisoned liquor). His shrewish wife, judgmental mother-in-law, and good-for-nothing brother-in-law add to his burdens. In the end he enjoys their fawning loyalty, a raise in pay, and his first vacation.Read More »

  • Karl Freund – Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)

    1931-1940ClassicsKarl FreundMusicalUSA

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    A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.Read More »

  • Cyril Gardner & Edwin H. Knopf – Only Saps Work (1930)

    1921-1930ClassicsComedyCyril Gardner and Edwin H. KnopfUSA


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    Only Saps Work (a double entendre) is an early sound Paramount light romantic comedy with Leon Errol playing what seems at first an inept crook who tries to rob Richard Arlen. Arlen takes pity on Errol, which causes him major grief in being seen with Errol, but Errol also helps him in his romance with Mary Brian. Charley Grapewin is Brian’s father, and Anderson Lawler is her rather unpleasant sweetheart. Stu Erwin plays an ambitious, boneheaded bellboy. With Fred Kelsey and George Pat Collins playing…well, if you know them, you know what they play.Read More »

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