Edna May Oliver

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet’s five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his ...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to ...

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing ...

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea ...

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year ...

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James ...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human ...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls ...

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls’ school.

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married ...

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin ...

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

To impress his fiancee’s aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has ...

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves ...

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel’s owner doesn’t like the ...

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.