The best Renee Whitney’s drama movies

Renee Whitney

Renee Whitney

09/02/1912- 16/09/1972
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Baby Face

Baby Face
7.5/10
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Connie Rowland (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Ex-Lady

Ex-Lady
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/05/1933
  • Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

The Big Shakedown

The Big Shakedown
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/01/1934
  • Character: Mae LaRue
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

Private Detective 62

Private Detective 62
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/06/1933
  • Character: Alice (Uncredited)
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar
6.5/10
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1934
  • Character: Ethel Smith
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.

Side Streets

Side Streets
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/08/1934
  • Character: Mabel Vernon
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/01/1931
  • Character: Model (uncredited)
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

The Keyhole

The Keyhole
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 25/03/1933
  • Character: Mrs. Smith - Cheating Wife (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Hi, Nellie!

Hi, Nellie!
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/01/1934
  • Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

The Merry Frinks

The Merry Frinks
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1934
  • Character: Babe (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Bedside

Bedside
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/01/1934
  • Character: Mme. Varsova
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

The Wild Party

The Wild Party
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/04/1929
  • Character: Janice Allen
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.

She Had to Say Yes

She Had to Say Yes
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1933
  • Character: Customer Girl with Tommy and Birdie (uncredited)
Florence Denny is Daniel Drew's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Daniel convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Daniel prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Daniel considers Florence a loose woman.

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