Peggy Shannon
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Blackwell's Island
Jan 24, 1939
Turn Back the Clock
Aug 25, 1933While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Comedy
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Oct 05, 1935A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
Comedy
Hotel Continental
Feb 21, 1932Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
Crime
Fixer Dugan
Apr 21, 1939Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Drama
Night Life of the Gods
Mar 01, 1935A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
Comedy
Girl Missing
Mar 04, 1933Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Comedy
Back Page
Nov 07, 1933A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
Drama
Ellis Island
Nov 04, 1936It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
Drama
Dad for a Day
Oct 20, 1939The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
Comedy
Youth on Parole
Oct 04, 1937Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Crime
The Painted Woman
Aug 20, 1932After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.
Drama
Society Girl
May 29, 1932Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.
Drama
Fury of the Jungle
Oct 23, 1933Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Drama
False Faces
Oct 12, 1932The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
Drama
Déluge
Aug 17, 1933Une série de catastrophes naturelles frappe le monde. Les éléments se déchaînent, les grandes métropoles comme New-York se retrouvent détruites sous le coup d’énormes séismes, ou englouties sous les raz-de-marées. Au lendemain du désastre, une poignée de survivants tente tant bien que mal de survivre. Martin, séparé de sa famille qu’il croit disparue, tombe éperdument amoureux de Claire, une jeune femme en proie à une bande de malfrats qui tente de la kidnapper…
Science Fiction
Le Chemin du Divorce
Sep 25, 1931Jeff et Lee Millet sont mécontents que leur mère Jackie, qui a déjà plusieurs fois divorcé, soit en instance de divorce de leur beau-père, Robert. Jackie est considérée comme une femme moderne, dont l'apparence jeune amène les gens à croire qu'elle est la soeur de sa fille. Lee accompagne Jackie à Reno, où elle a l'intention d'obtenir le divorce et célébrer cela avec d'autres femmes divorcées. Dans le train elle fait connaissance de Tom Wood, un jeune ingénieur de la classe ouvrière, sérieux qui va à San Francisco pour son premier emploi.
Drama
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Nov 22, 1939Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Comedy
This Reckless Age
Jan 09, 1932Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
Comedy
Girls on Probation
Oct 22, 1938
Triple Justice
Sep 22, 1940Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
Western
Femmes
Sep 01, 1939Mary Haines est l’épouse exemplaire d’un homme d’affaires Stephen Haines et mère d’une petite fille. Elle est entourée d’amies plutôt cancanières, spécialement Sylvia Fowler qui sait quelque chose que Mary ignore. Stephen a une liaison avec Crystal Allen, une vendeuse arriviste. Grâce « aux bons soins » de Sylvia, Mary découvre la vérité. Après une forte confrontation avec Crystal, et poussée par Sylvia, Mary part à Reno pour y obtenir rapidement le divorce.
Comedy
Silence
Aug 29, 1931A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Drama
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Mar 18, 1939Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Crime
The Devil's Mate
Aug 20, 1933A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Drama
Cafe Hostess
Jan 11, 1940A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Crime
The Secret Call
Jul 24, 1931The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Touchdown!
Nov 15, 1931
All About Hash
Mar 30, 1940Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get them to stop fighting.
Comedy
