Movies: Edward Brophy

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon...

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges....

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical....

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder....

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the...

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway....

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

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are ...

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Micha...

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity....

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclu...

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

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella....

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge....

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career....

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star....

A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game....

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nea...

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own ...

A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends....