The best Franklyn Farnum’s romance movies on Google Play Movies

Franklyn Farnum

Franklyn Farnum

05/06/1878- 04/07/1961
Today we present the best Franklyn Farnum’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 Franklyn Farnum’s movies.
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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Funny Face

Funny Face
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 13/02/1957
  • Character: Guest at Duval's Fashion Show (uncredited)
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Wichita

Wichita
6.9/10
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

White Christmas

White Christmas
7.6/10
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/10/1959
  • Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.

East of Eden

East of Eden
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/04/1955
  • Character: Townsman at Carnival (uncredited)
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/06/1951
  • Character: Company Executive (uncredited)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.

An Affair to Remember

An Affair to Remember
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1957
  • Character: Ballet Audience Member
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/11/1947
  • Character: Party Guest
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

High Society

High Society
6.9/10
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1952
  • Character: Assistant on Set (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth
6.5/10
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Some Came Running

Some Came Running
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1958
  • Character: Passerby Outside Bar (uncredited)
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.

Daisy Kenyon

Daisy Kenyon
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1947
  • Character: Man Leaving Courtroom
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/01/1949
  • Character: Country Club Member (uncredited)
Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night.

Deception

Deception
7/10
Davis and Rains shine in a romantic melodrama set in the world of concert music. Davis is a pianist torn between her wealthy, jealous patron and her cellist husband.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1947
  • Character: Faculty Member (uncredited)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: Tailor in Montage (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

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