The best Betty Furness’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Betty Furness’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 Betty Furness.
Flying Down to Rio
6.6/10
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
Swing Time
7.5/10
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.
The Arena
6.8/10
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
Headline Shooter
6.1/10
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
The Life of Vergie Winters
6.6/10
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Cross Fire
5.9/10
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Scarlet River
6.1/10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
Magnificent Obsession
6.8/10
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Mama Steps Out
5.6/10
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Lucky Devils
6.3/10
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Gridiron Flash
4.9/10
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
A Wicked Woman
6.5/10
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Here Comes Cookie
6.1/10
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Calm Yourself
5.6/10
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Midshipman Jack
5.7/10
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Fair Warning
6.3/10
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Twelve Angry Men
7.5/10
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
6.5/10
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
It Can't Last Forever
5.5/10
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
The Bands Plays On
6.7/10
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
