The best Jean Parker’s drama movies

Jean Parker

Jean Parker

11/08/1915- 30/11/2005
Today we present the best Jean Parker’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jean Parker’s movies.
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Beyond Tomorrow

Beyond Tomorrow
6.5/10
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.

Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 24/11/1933
  • Character: Beth
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1933
  • Character: Louise
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.

Lazy River

Lazy River
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1934
  • Character: Sarah Lescalle
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1943
  • Character: Ann Coswell
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.

Two Alone

Two Alone
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/01/1934
  • Character: Mazie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.

Torpedo Boat

Torpedo Boat
7.3/10
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.

Rasputin and the Empress

Rasputin and the Empress
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 23/12/1932
  • Character: Princess Maria (uncredited)
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Minesweeper

Minesweeper
5.1/10
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Flying Blind

Flying Blind
4.6/10
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Limehouse Blues

Limehouse Blues
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1934
  • Character: Toni
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.

Lady in the Death House

Lady in the Death House
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/03/1944
  • Character: Mary Kirk Logan
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

A Wicked Woman

A Wicked Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1934
  • Character: Rosanne Stroud, aka Rosanne Trice
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

Tomorrow We Live

Tomorrow We Live
4.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/09/1942
  • Character: Julie Bronson
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a desert night club several miles away.

Storm at Daybreak

Storm at Daybreak
5.7/10
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.

Have a Heart

Have a Heart
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/09/1934
  • Character: Sally Moore
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.

You Can't Buy Everything

You Can't Buy Everything
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/01/1934
  • Character: Elizabeth 'Beth' Burton Bell
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Operator 13

Operator 13
5.9/10
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.

Gabriel Over the White House

Gabriel Over the White House
6.4/10
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1942
  • Character: Peggy Starr
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.

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