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Dorothy Tree (May 21, 1906 – February 13, 1992) was an American actress, voice teacher and writer. She appeared in a wide range of character roles in at least 49 motion pictures between 1927 and 1951.
Her best-known roles were probably as Martha, mother of Knute Rockne, in Knute Rockne, All American and as May Emmerich, invalid wife of Louis Calhern, in The Asphalt Jungle.
After being blacklisted as a communist because of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, she began a second career as a voice teacher in New York. Emphasizing good diction and clarity, and the subtleties of intonation, she published four books on the subject.
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22 February 1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
21 March 1941
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
03 November 1934
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette.
27 September 1940
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway).
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
02 June 1936
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends.
10 September 1932
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
28 December 1938
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
14 February 1936
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler.
01 March 1942
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil.
11 April 1935
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.
20 October 1939
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
12 November 1942
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
10 January 1939
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
12 February 1931
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle.
09 April 1943
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers.
14 August 1934
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
01 September 1950
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
17 May 1941
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
06 March 1936
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert.
27 April 1950
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly.
13 October 1934
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
19 June 1942
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine.
12 May 1950
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
16 February 1935
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives.
05 February 1927
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it.
25 August 1950
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility.
21 October 1951
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
28 July 1934
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again.
01 March 1931
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle.
23 August 1944
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel has just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted.
11 March 1940
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
06 May 1939
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
25 August 1934
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk.
08 March 1939
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America.
01 July 1938
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
15 November 1939
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status.
03 March 1939
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
14 January 1939
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
30 October 1937
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
22 June 1943
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
19 December 1931
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
21 July 1934
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
22 September 1934
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog.
09 March 1935
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
14 November 1938
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley.
28 November 1933
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold.
