The best Frances Mercer’s movies

Frances Mercer

Frances Mercer

21/10/1915- 12/11/2000
Today we present the best Frances Mercer’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Frances Mercer’s movies.
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Society Lawyer

Society Lawyer
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/03/1939
  • Character: Sue Leonard
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence

Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady
7.1/10
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
6.9/10
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 24/08/1946
  • Character: Joan Draper
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

Crime Ring

Crime Ring
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/07/1938
  • Character: Judy Allen
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

Blind Alibi

Blind Alibi
5.5/10
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeHistory
  • Release: 03/02/1960
  • Character: Flo - Brothel Madam (uncredited)
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: Susan 'Pat' Lane
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

Beauty for the Asking

Beauty for the Asking
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/02/1939
  • Character: Patricia Wharton
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.

Annabel Takes a Tour

Annabel Takes a Tour
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/11/1938
  • Character: Natalie Preston
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.

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