The best Jed Prouty’s movies

Jed Prouty

Jed Prouty

06/04/1879- 10/05/1956
Today we present the best Jed Prouty’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 Jed Prouty’s movies.
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A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1937
  • Character: Artie Carver (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Dickson (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody
5.6/10
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

Pot o' Gold

Pot o' Gold
6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1941
  • Character: J.K. Louderman
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.

Hot Water

Hot Water
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1937
  • Character: John Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Exile Express

Exile Express
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1939
  • Character: Hanley
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Elks Crossing Jeweler (uncredited)
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/08/1936
  • Character: District Attorney Dave Twitchell
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Music in the Air

Music in the Air
6/10
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything
6.3/10
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1937
  • Character: John Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Navy Wife

Navy Wife
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1935
  • Character: Dr. Barratt
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Mug Town

Mug Town
6.5/10
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.

Special Investigator

Special Investigator
6/10
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Unexpected Uncle

Unexpected Uncle
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1941
  • Character: Sanderson
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

Obliging Young Lady

Obliging Young Lady
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Judge Rufus
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 02/06/1939
  • Character: Uncle Ambrose
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

70,000 Witnesses

70,000 Witnesses
5.8/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 09/09/1932
  • Character: Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

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