The best John Halliday’s movies

John Halliday

John Halliday

14/09/1884- 17/10/1947
Today we present the best John Halliday’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 John Halliday’s movies.
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The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story
7.9/10
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Intermezzo: A Love Story
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/10/1939
  • Character: Thomas Stenborg
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.

Desire

Desire
7.1/10
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/11/1935
  • Character: The Duke of Towers
Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.

Housewife

Housewife
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1934
  • Character: Paul Duprey
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.

Finishing School

Finishing School
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1934
  • Character: Frank Radcliffe
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

Millie

Millie
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/02/1931
  • Character: Jimmy Dammier
Millie Blake is very careful about picking her husband, but that is no guarantee that a marriage will turn out well, nor that she will.

Lydia

Lydia
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1941
  • Character: Fitzpatrick
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

Smart Woman

Smart Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/09/1931
  • Character: Sir Guy Harrington
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise
6/10
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.

Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses
6.4/10
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

Hotel for Women

Hotel for Women
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1939
  • Character: John Craig
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Captain Applejack

Captain Applejack
5.9/10
  • Release: 30/01/1931
  • Character: Ambrose Applejohn
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Fatal Lady

Fatal Lady
7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 15/05/1936
  • Character: Martan Fontes
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/08/1936
  • Character: John Wellington Blakeford
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

Transatlantic

Transatlantic
6.3/10
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy (Lois Moran), the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham (John Halliday), Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline (Greta Nissen), is murdered by person or persons unknown. And that's only three of the plot strands in this marvelously complex shipboard thriller.

Recaptured Love

Recaptured Love
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1930
  • Character: Brentwood Parr
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

Arsène Lupin Returns

Arsène Lupin Returns
6.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 25/02/1938
  • Character: Count de Grissac
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?

Desirable

Desirable
6.4/10
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Scarlet Pages

Scarlet Pages
5.6/10
Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

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