Female

Nov 11, 1933

1h 0m

★ 6.3

she had plenty of trouble finding a man she couldn't boss. ...AND PLENTY MORE AFTER SHE FOUND HIM!

Overview

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Female Trailers

Cast

Alison Drake

Ruth Chatterton

Jim Thorne

George Brent

Harriet Brown

Lois Wilson

George P. Cooper

Johnny Mack Brown

Miss Frothingham

Ruth Donnelly

Pettigrew

Ferdinand Gottschalk

Freddie Claybourne

Phillip Reed

Briggs

Gavin Gordon

Red

Kenneth Thomson

Puggy

Huey White

George Mumford

Douglass Dumbrille

Tom

Spencer Charters

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

6.2

The Elementary Particles

Feb 10, 2006

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.

7.0

The Secret Life of Words

Dec 15, 2005

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

4.3

Reducing

Jan 3, 1931

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

6.0

Carolina

Feb 2, 1934

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.

5.9

Picture Perfect

Aug 1, 1997

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

5.9

Travels with My Aunt

Dec 17, 1972

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

4.5

Men Call It Love

Mar 14, 1931

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

4.5

You Are My Adventure

Mar 24, 1958

Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.

0.0

Infernal Machine

Apr 8, 1933

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.

4.5

Scarlet River

Mar 10, 1933

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

6.0

Bride of the Regiment

May 21, 1930

As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.

3.5

Kismet

Oct 30, 1930

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.

4.3

Peacock Alley

Jan 4, 1930

Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.

6.3

Alice's Restaurant

Aug 20, 1969

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

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0.0

The Warrior's Husband

Apr 28, 1933

The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.

5.0

Too Much Harmony

Sep 23, 1933

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

1.0

Under a Texas Moon

Apr 1, 1930

A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.

5.9

My Daughter, the Socialist

Oct 24, 1966

Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.