Preston Foster Trailers
Lucy and Desi TrailerBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line TrailerBrother, Can You Spare a Dime? Trailer
Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943).
He starred on the television drama, Waterfront (1954–1955), playing the role of Captain John Herrick. Foster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was sometimes credited in movies as Preston S. Foster. His first wife was stage actress Gertrude Warren (1926–1945; divorced). He had one daughter, Stephanie. He was married to his second wife, actress Sheila Darcy, from 1946 until his death.
During World War II while serving with the United States Coast Guard, he rose to the rank of Captain, Temporary Reserve. He eventually held the honorary rank of Commodore in the U.S. Coast Guard.
After the war and before his productive movie career, Foster became a singer of some note. In 1948 Foster created a trio with himself, Gene Leis and Foster’s wife, actress Sheila Darcy. Gene arranged the songs, and they played on radio and in clubs, appearing with Orrin Tucker, Peggy Ann Garner and Rita Hayworth.
Most Popular Preston Foster Trailers
Total trailers found: 107
17 August 1932
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising.
05 May 1939
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
15 December 1939
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US.
01 April 1935
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
21 June 1935
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
18 June 1933
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for.
20 April 1929
A young man bets $10,000 that he can go for 24 hours without lying.
28 January 1938
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S.
31 May 1945
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier.
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.
30 August 1933
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
06 December 1930
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show.
20 July 1939
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
15 March 1934
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him.
07 April 1948
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
08 January 1937
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed.
20 August 1933
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart.
03 June 1944
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story).
28 May 1932
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
26 November 1939
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
27 June 1935
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens.
18 December 1963
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past.
02 May 1947
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry.
01 May 1944
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
22 April 1938
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
11 December 1942
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
14 April 1968
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
15 November 1935
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
09 December 1938
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s.
26 October 1939
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
30 October 1937
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
25 July 1946
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as citizens were now that they were returning to civilian life.
11 November 1952
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
01 March 1934
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra.
03 April 1942
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
16 November 1950
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp.
03 April 1941
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble.
06 June 1946
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
08 December 1932
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
30 June 1933
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D.
01 July 1942
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
13 May 1953
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
31 May 1952
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son.
25 June 1953
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality.
14 August 1953
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat.
10 June 1964
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col.
18 January 1946
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
25 June 1937
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet.
09 November 1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities.
25 November 1938
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
29 April 1935
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul.
30 November 1933
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
27 October 1943
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
29 April 1933
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
21 December 1934
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
05 February 1951
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux.
08 July 1942
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities.
04 December 1937
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
