Polly Moran Movies

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charlotte Henry

A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

Cactus Nell

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

Charley impersonates his stunt double, a man named Bud Gordon, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Foy

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lon Chaney

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Hines

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Haines

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hale Hamilton

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elliott Nugent

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mary Boland

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Allan Forrest

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Reid

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Dressler

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Gilbert

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ernest Torrence

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bessie Love

Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Benny Rubin

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Davidson

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that he won a million dollars on Longchamp with the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Victor McLaglen

Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Swain

Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Haines

A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lon Chaney

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lon Chaney

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Karl Dane

A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Polly Moran

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

Genre:

Cast: Sidney Smith

Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Slim Summerville

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dolores del Río

The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Skipworth

In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fifi D'Orsay

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harriet Parsons

A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.

Genre: Western

Cast: Tim McCoy

Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Moe Howard

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks she is a real duchess.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roscoe Karns

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Swain

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lou Marcelle

The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raymond McKee

The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Coogan

Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises clothing made by her company. The hotel clerk...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bebe Daniels

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Swarthout

Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flash the Dog

“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Turpin

The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran), who keeps Triggerville in line with an iron fist. But her heart is set on Jack,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Polly Moran

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clyde Cook

This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's The Passionate Plumber (1932). This film is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

A short review hosted by Cliff Edward. Clarence Muse sings a song about the Congo, we see various Hollywood stars at a horse race in Mexico, and then...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cliff Edwards

Silent Keystone Comedy dealing with a girl's college dorm.

Genre:

Cast: Charles Murray