Movies: Ruth Donnelly

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent....

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces....

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer....

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game...

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position....

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German....

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy....

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself....

Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a ro...

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting....

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

Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around....

The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion....

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed....

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime....

The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon....

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves be...

An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle....

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune....