The best Elisabeth Risdon’s romance movies

Elisabeth Risdon

Elisabeth Risdon

26/04/1887- 20/12/1958
We present our ranking of the best Elisabeth Risdon’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Elisabeth Risdon.
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Scaramouche

Scaramouche
7.5/10
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Random Harvest

Random Harvest
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/12/1942
  • Character: Mrs. Lloyd
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.

Every Girl Should Be Married

Every Girl Should Be Married
6.2/10
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
6.6/10
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

The Egg and I

The Egg and I
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1947
  • Character: Betty's Mother
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.

Theodora Goes Wild

Theodora Goes Wild
7.1/10
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.

Mountain Justice

Mountain Justice
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/04/1937
  • Character: Mrs. Harkins
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Sorority House

Sorority House
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Scott
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.

My True Story

My True Story
6.3/10
Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is serving time as a jewel thief. She is paroled and determined to stay clean. She quickly finds out that she was paroled by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job. It is dangerous for her to say yes or no.

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
6.4/10
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.

Are Husbands Necessary?

Are Husbands Necessary?
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/06/1942
  • Character: Mrs. Westwood
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
6.4/10
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.

Paris Calling

Paris Calling
6.1/10
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
7/10
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

The Bride Goes Wild

The Bride Goes Wild
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/03/1948
  • Character: rs. Carruthers
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1942
  • Character: Aunt Della Lindsay
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.

The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing
6.3/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 12/02/1942
  • Character: Mrs. Cummings
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1940
  • Character: Mrs. Myrtle Halevy (as Elizabeth Risdon)
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
6/10
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."

The King Steps Out

The King Steps Out
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 27/05/1936
  • Character: Grand Duchess Sofia
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

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