The best Janet Shaw’s romance 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.

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.

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.

Gold Diggers in Paris

Gold Diggers in Paris
5.8/10
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.

King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld
6.4/10
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

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.

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.

Going Places

Going Places
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 31/12/1938
  • Character: Young Lady at Party
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Keep 'em Slugging

Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

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?

Lucky Devils

Lucky Devils
4.9/10
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.

Comet Over Broadway

Comet Over Broadway
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/12/1938
  • Character: Janet's Dining Companion (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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