The best Frank Morgan’s romance movies

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

01/06/1890- 18/09/1949
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Frank Morgan’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 Frank Morgan.
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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
7.1/10
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner
8/10
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Bombshell

Bombshell
7.1/10
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Balalaika

Balalaika
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: Ivan Danchenoff
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Paradise for Three

Paradise for Three
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/06/1938
  • Character: Rudolph Tobler
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

Broadway Serenade

Broadway Serenade
5.7/10
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

The White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover
7/10
Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Ashwood is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.

Boom Town

Boom Town
7/10
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
6.2/10
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy
7.5/10
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/08/1936
  • Character: James Crocker, Sr. / Count Olav Osric
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Saratoga

Saratoga
6.5/10
A horse breeder's (Lionel Barrymore) granddaughter (Jean Harlow) falls in love with a gambler (Clark Gable) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
7.3/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Bob Casey
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

Laughter

Laughter
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/09/1930
  • Character: C. Mortimer Gibson
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.

Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Frankie' Merriweather
A professional golfer who has become a businessman for his fiancee helps a vagrant get a job and ends up losing his own.

When Ladies Meet

When Ladies Meet
6.8/10
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

Yolanda and the Thief

Yolanda and the Thief
5.9/10
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.

Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street
6.8/10
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

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