The best Marjorie Rambeau’s drama movies

Marjorie Rambeau

Marjorie Rambeau

15/07/1889- 06/07/1970
Today we present the best Marjorie Rambeau’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 Marjorie Rambeau’s movies.
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Salome, Where She Danced

Salome, Where She Danced
5.4/10
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1941
  • Character: Sister Bessie Rice
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1957
  • Character: Gert
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.

The Rains Came

The Rains Came
6.8/10
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/07/1949
  • Character: Sarah Calbern
When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.

Slander

Slander
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/1957
  • Character: Mrs. Manley
A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

Primrose Path

Primrose Path
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/03/1940
  • Character: Mamie Adams
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.

The Secret Six

The Secret Six
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/04/1931
  • Character: Peaches
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

Her Man

Her Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1930
  • Character: Annie
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.

Laughing Sinners

Laughing Sinners
5.6/10
Ivy Stevens (Joan Crawford) is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman (Neil Hamilton) who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl (Clark Gable), a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.

Man's Castle

Man's Castle
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/11/1933
  • Character: Flossie
An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.

Inspiration

Inspiration
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/01/1931
  • Character: Lulu
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/02/1935
  • Character: Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.

Woman Against Woman

Woman Against Woman
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/06/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Kingsley
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1953
  • Character: Mrs. Roger Nelson
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

Sudden Money

Sudden Money
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1939
  • Character: Elsie Patterson
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

Torch Song

Torch Song
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/10/1953
  • Character: Jenny's mother
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.

A Man Called Peter

A Man Called Peter
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 31/03/1955
  • Character: Miss Laura Fowler
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

Abandoned

Abandoned
6.7/10
Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.

East of the River

East of the River
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Mama Teresa Lorenzo
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

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