The best Gwen Kenyon’s movies

Gwen Kenyon

Gwen Kenyon

22/01/1916- 18/10/1999
We present our ranking of the best Gwen Kenyon’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gwen Kenyon.
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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

The Corpse Vanishes

The Corpse Vanishes
4.6/10
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides. He's aided by an old hag, her two sons - a brutish moron, and a malicious dwarf - in his twisted crimes. A woman reporter, investigating the mystery of the vanishing brides' bodies, accesses his home and discovers the horrid secrets held by the cavernous basement of his house.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Hat-Check Girl (uncredited)
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Turnabout

Turnabout
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/05/1940
  • Character: Model (uncredited)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Cafe Society

Cafe Society
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/03/1939
  • Character: Checkroom Girl
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

Cocoanut Grove

Cocoanut Grove
6.3/10
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

All Women Have Secrets

All Women Have Secrets
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: Helen
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

Tropic Holiday

Tropic Holiday
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1938
  • Character: Girl (uncredited)
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
6.2/10
Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

Piano Mooner

Piano Mooner
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/12/1942
  • Character: Harrry's Wife
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.

Tornado

Tornado
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/08/1943
  • Character: Sally Vlochek
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.

Sing, You Sinners

Sing, You Sinners
6.6/10
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.

So's Your Aunt Emma!

So's Your Aunt Emma!
5.8/10
  • Release: 17/04/1942
  • Character: Maris
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

Lawless Plainsmen

Lawless Plainsmen
4.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/03/1942
  • Character: Madge Mason
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.

Hold 'Em Navy

Hold 'Em Navy
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/11/1937
  • Character: Caroline
Two football players fight over the same girl.

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
4.9/10
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

Dancing Co-Ed

Dancing Co-Ed
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1939
  • Character: Jean Royce (uncredited)
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman (Thurston Hall) and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star. To ensure they get a good winner, the men plant a real dancer, Patty Marlow (Lana Turner), at the college, having secretary Eve (Ann Rutherford) take the entrance exams for her. On campus, Patty gets involved with newspaper editor Pug Braddock (Richard Carlson) to investigate the contest's legitimacy.

Free, Blonde and 21

Free, Blonde and 21
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/03/1940
  • Character: New Girl
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory
6.4/10
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.

In Old New Mexico

In Old New Mexico
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/05/1945
  • Character: Ellen Roth
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.

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