The best Patricia Ellis’s movies

Patricia Ellis

Patricia Ellis

20/05/1918- 26/03/1970
We present our ranking of the best Patricia Ellis’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 Patricia Ellis.
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Block-Heads

Block-Heads
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 19/08/1938
  • Character: Mrs. 'Toots' Gilbert
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

Three on a Match

Three on a Match
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1932
  • Character: Linda (uncredited)
Mary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.

Elmer, the Great

Elmer, the Great
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1933
  • Character: Nellie Poole
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.

Central Park

Central Park
6.2/10
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Boulder Dam

Boulder Dam
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1936
  • Character: Ann Vangarick
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1939
  • Character: Carol Evans
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

Lawyer Man

Lawyer Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/12/1932
  • Character: Law Secretary (uncredited)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Patricia Mary 'Pat' Nolan
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Snowed Under

Snowed Under
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1936
  • Character: Pat Quinn
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!

Stranded

Stranded
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/06/1935
  • Character: Velma Tuthill
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Payoff

The Payoff
5.6/10
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs
6.5/10
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Talent Scout

Talent Scout
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 24/07/1937
  • Character: Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Freshman Love

Freshman Love
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/01/1936
  • Character: Joan Simpkins
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Convention City

Convention City
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/12/1933
  • Character: Claire Honeywell
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Bright Lights

Bright Lights
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/07/1935
  • Character: Claire Whitmore
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
9/10
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.

Love Begins at Twenty

Love Begins at Twenty
6.2/10
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

Down the Stretch

Down the Stretch
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/09/1936
  • Character: Patricia Barrington

Easy to Love

Easy to Love
6.6/10
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

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