The best Nell O'Day’s movies

Nell O'Day

Nell O'Day

22/09/1909- 03/01/1989
Today we present the best Nell O'Day’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 Nell O'Day’s movies.
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King of Jazz

King of Jazz
6.7/10
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.

Buck Privates

Buck Privates
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/01/1941
  • Character: Camp Hostess (uncredited)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1941
  • Character: The Salesgirl
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.

Back Street

Back Street
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/02/1941
  • Character: Elizabeth Saxel
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.

Boss of Rawhide

Boss of Rawhide
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/11/1943
  • Character: Mary Colby
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Mystery of Marie Roget
5.9/10
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Law and Order

Law and Order
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/11/1940
  • Character: Sally Dixon
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.

Smoke Lightning

Smoke Lightning
6.1/10
  • Release: 01/01/1933
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.

Woman in the Dark

Woman in the Dark
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/11/1934
  • Character: Helen Grant
Lightweight but entertaining crime/drama about a man (Ralph Bellamy) released from prison and deciding to stay alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back into prison.

There's One Born Every Minute

There's One Born Every Minute
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/06/1942
  • Character: Antoinette
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Stagecoach Buckaroo
5.8/10
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Thundering Trails

Thundering Trails
7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 25/01/1943
  • Character: Edith Walker
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.

Arizona Stage Coach

Arizona Stage Coach
4.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 04/09/1942
  • Character: Dorrie Willard
In the midst of some friendly horseplay on their "Flying R" ranch, the Range Busters, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, are sobered by the arrival of a buckboard bearing their old friend Larry Meadows and his niece Dorrie Willard. Meadows seeks their aid against a gang of outlaws terrorizing his town. Ernie Willard, Dorrie's brother, has been taken in by Tex Laughlin who is using the Willard ranch as an undercover for his real occupation as a member of a gang of outlaws led by Tim Douglas, a supposed friend of the Willards.

Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1940
  • Character: Girl at Party (uncredited)
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Rawhide Rangers

Rawhide Rangers
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/07/1941
  • Character: Patti McDowell
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/03/1941
  • Character: Edna Fielding
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.

Fighting Bill Fargo

Fighting Bill Fargo
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/12/1941
  • Character: Julie Fargo
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of rubbing out any and all honest candidates for the sheriff's office.

Rackety Rax

Rackety Rax
5.6/10
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.

Pirates of the Prairie

Pirates of the Prairie
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 20/11/1942
  • Character: Helen Spencer
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns that the leader of the vigilantes, John Spencer (John Elliott), is an honest man who only seeks to establish law and order. The real brains behind the crimes, meanwhile, are revealed to be Spencer's brother-in-law, Lou Harmon (Roy Barcroft), and his chief henchman, Leighton (Charles King), who speculate in the coming of the railroad by forcing the townspeople to relinquish their land.

Son of Roaring Dan

Son of Roaring Dan
6.3/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 25/07/1940
  • Character: Jane Belden
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women.

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