The best Janet Shaw’s movies

Janet Shaw

Janet Shaw

23/01/1919- 15/10/2001
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Janet Shaw’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Janet Shaw.
Genre:
Available on:
Year:

Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge
7.7/10
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

Jezebel

Jezebel
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1938
  • Character: Molly Allen
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 15/01/1943
  • Character: Waitress Louise Finch
A bored teen living in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte "Charlie" Newton, is frustrated because nothing seems to be happening in her life and that of her family. Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle (for whom she was named), Charlie Oakley, is arriving for a visit. But Uncle Charlie may not be the man he seems to be.

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1947
  • Character: Susan Haines (uncredited)
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Alderman's Girl (uncredited)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

The Old Maid

The Old Maid
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1939
  • Character: Dee
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Escape

Escape
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/11/1940
  • Character: Greta a Student (uncredited)
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Expensive Husbands

Expensive Husbands
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1937
  • Character: Telephone Operator
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island
5.6/10
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

The Sisters

The Sisters
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: Stella Johnson
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

Night Monster

Night Monster
6.2/10
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

Girls on Probation

Girls on Probation
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/10/1938
  • Character: Prison Inmate
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

The Scarlet Clue

The Scarlet Clue
6.3/10
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

Broadway Musketeers

Broadway Musketeers
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1938
  • Character: Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Hired Wife

Hired Wife
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/09/1940
  • Character: Lucy - the Bride (uncredited)
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1939
  • Character: Girl Entering Locker Room (uncredited)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Jungle Raiders

Jungle Raiders
6.7/10
Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.

Blondie on a Budget

Blondie on a Budget
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/02/1940
  • Character: Anniversary Cake Usherette (uncredited)
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Dark Alibi

Dark Alibi
6.5/10
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.

Arizona Trail

Arizona Trail
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/09/1943
  • Character: Martha Brooks
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.

Related actors