The best Barbara Leonard’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Barbara Leonard’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Barbara Leonard.
Folies Bergère de Paris
6.5/10
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
The Merry Widow
7.2/10
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Second Fiddle
6.4/10
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
City in Darkness
6.5/10
Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy. At the end Charlie preaches to us about the dangers of peace conferences.
City Streets
7/10
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
One Hour with You
7.1/10
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Espionage
6.1/10
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
The Crash
5.9/10
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Women Without Names
6.5/10
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin (John Miljan), Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Desirable
6.4/10
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
A Successful Calamity
6.9/10
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
The White Angel
6.6/10
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Beauty and the Boss
6.9/10
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
One Romantic Night
5.6/10
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Bought!
6.1/10
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
The Man from Yesterday
5.9/10
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
Love Affair
5.7/10
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Leaping Love
6.8/10
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Son of the Gods
5.7/10
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
Scotland Yard
5.4/10
A soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
