The best Hobart Cavanaugh’s drama movies

Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh

22/09/1886- 27/04/1950
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Black Angel

Black Angel
6.9/10
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/09/1934
  • Character: Robert
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Housewife

Housewife
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1934
  • Character: George Wilson
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1939
  • Character: Frueheim
A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/01/1949
  • Character: Mr. Manleigh
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.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: James Peters - Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Colleen

Colleen
5.9/10
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1933
  • Character: Mr. Gorman
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy
7/10
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Guest in the House

Guest in the House
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 08/12/1944
  • Character: Mr. Blossom
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

State Fair

State Fair
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 10/02/1933
  • Character: Professor Fred Coin (Uncredited)
The Frakes attend the Iowa State Fair where Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar, Blue Boy, in a hog content while Mother Melissa enters the mincemeat competition. And their children, Margy and Wayne, find love with newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert and trapeze artist Emily Joyce. But will everyone return home safe and happy or will hearts be broken?

Four Wives

Four Wives
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

The Spider Woman Strikes Back
5.7/10
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Tourist (uncredited)
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

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.

From Headquarters

From Headquarters
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/11/1933
  • Character: Muggs Manton
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Driftwood

Driftwood
7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 15/09/1947
  • Character: Judge Beckett
A young Natalie Wood stars as an orphan who helps a doctor (Dean Jagger) fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Private Detective 62

Private Detective 62
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/06/1933
  • Character: Harcourt S. Burns
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

Fashions of 1934

Fashions of 1934
6.6/10
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.

Bordertown

Bordertown
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1935
  • Character: Harry
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife.

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