The best Granville Bates’s romance movies

Granville Bates

Granville Bates

07/01/1882- 08/07/1940
Today we present the best Granville Bates’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 Granville Bates’s movies.
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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/05/1940
  • Character: Judge Walter Bryson
Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.

Green Light

Green Light
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/02/1937
  • Character: Sheriff
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.

Beloved Enemy

Beloved Enemy
6.4/10
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.

Waikiki Wedding

Waikiki Wedding
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/03/1937
  • Character: Uncle Herman
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.

Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent
5.9/10
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Second Man on Plane (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Indianapolis Speedway

Indianapolis Speedway
5.7/10
This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film "The Crowd Roars", stars Pat O'Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother (John Payne) wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

The Plainsman

The Plainsman
6.8/10
Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper), Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) and Buffalo Bill (James Ellison) go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Mountain Justice

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

A Man to Remember

A Man to Remember
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: George Sykes
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

Hard to Get

Hard to Get
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/11/1938
  • Character: Judge Harkness
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Flowing Gold

Flowing Gold
6.5/10
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.

The Perfect Specimen

The Perfect Specimen
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/10/1937
  • Character: Hooker - Garage Owner
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.

Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling
6.2/10
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

The Smiling Lieutenant

The Smiling Lieutenant
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/08/1931
  • Character: Bill Collector (uncredited)
A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.

Twelve Crowded Hours

Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Pursuit

Pursuit
5.8/10
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )

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