The best Gloria Holden’s drama movies

Gloria Holden

Gloria Holden

05/09/1903- 22/03/1991
Today we present the best Gloria Holden’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 Gloria Holden’s movies.
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Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter
6.3/10
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 02/10/1937
  • Character: Alexandrine Zola
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Test Pilot

Test Pilot
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/04/1938
  • Character: Mrs. May Benson
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary
7/10
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.

The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story
6.8/10
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

The Hucksters

The Hucksters
6.7/10
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/10/1946
  • Character: Mrs. McDonnell
True story of the Australian nurse who fought to gain acceptance for her polio-treatment methods.

Killer McCoy

Killer McCoy
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1947
  • Character: Mrs. Laura McCoy
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.

The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers
6.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 28/11/1941
  • Character: Countess Franchi
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.

Miss Annie Rooney

Miss Annie Rooney
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1942
  • Character: Mrs. White
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.

A Child Is Born

A Child Is Born
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Kempner
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Sara Braden
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Don't Talk

Don't Talk
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/02/1942
  • Character: Beulah Anderson aka Beulah Binvicko
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.

Hawaii Calls

Hawaii Calls
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/03/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Milburn
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks

The Girl of the Limberlost

The Girl of the Limberlost
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1945
  • Character: Miss Nelson
Based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel and a remake of Columbia's 1934 "The Girl of the Limberlost" and 1939's "Romance of the Limberlost," this one has altered the kinship who-hates-the-girl relationship from an aunt to her mother. This time out, Elnora Comstock (Dorinda Clifton) lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock (Ruth Nelson), hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.

The Man Without a Country

The Man Without a Country
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1937
  • Character: Marian Morgan
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.

A Gentleman After Dark

A Gentleman After Dark
6.4/10
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.

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