Movies: Dorothea Wolbert

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. ...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested....

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. ...

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect....

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States....

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead....

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?...

The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help....

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car....

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robi...

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago....

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt....

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge....

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mi...

When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to h...

The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low pr...

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon....

A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping....

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house"....