The best Martha O'Driscoll’s movies

Martha O'Driscoll

Martha O'Driscoll

04/03/1922- 03/11/1998
We present our ranking of the best Martha O'Driscoll’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Martha O'Driscoll.
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House of Dracula

House of Dracula
5.7/10
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Daisy Mae Scraggs
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

Wagon Train

Wagon Train
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/10/1940
  • Character: Helen Lee
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner (Cliff Clark) wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master (Wade Crosby) to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe (Malcolm McTaggart), who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee (Martha O'Driscoll). It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
6.6/10
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

The Fallen Sparrow

The Fallen Sparrow
6.6/10
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.

Criminal Court

Criminal Court
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1946
  • Character: Georgia Gale
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.

Girls' School

Girls' School
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1938
  • Character: Grace
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.

Judge Hardy and Son

Judge Hardy and Son
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Leonora Horton
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/11/1939
  • Character: Mrs. Roberts
Intern Kildare (Lew Ayres) heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) into taking a vacation.

Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys
5.8/10
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

Crazy House

Crazy House
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1943
  • Character: Marjorie Nelson / Marjorie Wyndingham
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.

Ghost Catchers

Ghost Catchers
5.5/10
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.

Pacific Blackout

Pacific Blackout
7.2/10
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Hollywood Without Make-Up
7.2/10
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 28/02/1947
  • Character: Ruth Haines
A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning lady at Carnegie Hall. She becomes attached to the place as the people she meets there gradually shape her life. The film also includes a variety of performances from some of the foremost musical artists of the times: conductors Bruno Walter & Leopold Stokowski, solists Arthur Rubinstein & Jascha Haifetz, singers Lily Pons & Jan Peerce and bandleader Vaughn Monroe among many others.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1941
  • Character: Julie Harris
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Blonde Alibi

Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

My Heart Belongs to Daddy
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/11/1942
  • Character: Joyce Whitman
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.

Laddie

Laddie
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/1940
  • Character: Sally Stanton
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

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