The best Helen Twelvetrees’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Helen Twelvetrees’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 Helen Twelvetrees.
Complicated Women
7.7/10
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
Millie
6.2/10
Millie Blake is very careful about picking her husband, but that is no guarantee that a marriage will turn out well, nor that she will.
The Painted Desert
5.2/10
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Disgraced!
6.9/10
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
Her Man
6.6/10
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Hollywood Round-Up
6/10
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
Now I'll Tell
6.2/10
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Panama Flo
6.4/10
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Boo
5/10
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
State's Attorney
6.6/10
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Unmarried
6.4/10
Helen Twelvetrees stars in this romantic drama.
King for a Night
6.8/10
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Thoroughbred
5.5/10
Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
Unashamed
6.2/10
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
A Woman of Experience
6/10
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
All Men Are Enemies
6.3/10
A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.
Bad Company
6.3/10
A young woman showered with gifts has no idea her lawyer boyfriend works for a gangster.
Is My Face Red?
6/10
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from showgirl pal his gal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Frisco Waterfront
5/10
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
My Woman
6.3/10
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
