Reginald Owen — Actor (27)
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Julia Misbehaves (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Julia Misbehaves
director: Jack Conway actor: Greer Garson / Walter Pidgeon …
other title: La bella imprudente / Die unvollkommene Dame …
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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The Good Fairy (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Good Fairy
director: William Wyler actor: Margaret Sullavan / Herbert Marshall …
other title: Le vie della fortuna / Die Fee …
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Sherlock Holmes (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sherlock Holmes
director: William K. Howard actor: Clive Brook / Miriam Jordan …
other title: Una aventura de Sherlock Holmes
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
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Call of the Wild (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Call of the Wild
director: William A. Wellman actor: Clark Gable / Loretta Young …
other title: Il richiamo della foresta / Goldfieber in Alaska …
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
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Kitty (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Kitty
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Eine Lady mit Vergangenheit / La bribona
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Diary of a Chambermaid
director: Jean Renoir actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: Il diario di una cameriera / Segredos de Alcova …
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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Red Garters (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Red Garters
director: George Marshall actor: Rosemary Clooney / Jack Carson …
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
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Platinum Blonde (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Platinum Blonde
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Harlow / Robert Williams …
other title: La donna di platino / Vor Blondinen wird gewarnt …
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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Personal Property (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Personal Property
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: Jean Harlow / Robert Taylor …
other title: Proprietà riservata / Der Mann mit dem Kuckuck …
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Jack Conway actor: Ronald Colman / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: Le due città / Flucht aus Paris …
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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Adventure in Manhattan (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Adventure in Manhattan
director: Edward Ludwig actor: Jean Arthur / Joel McCrea …
other title: Antes de medianoche / Aventure à Manhattan
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
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Madame Curie (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Madame Curie
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Greer Garson / Walter Pidgeon …
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.