George S. Kaufman | Marx Bros. Writer
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1. The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Greta Nissen, Sam Hardy, William Demarest
Votes: 12
2. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,194 | Gross: $3.92M
3. Not So Dumb (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Elliott Nugent, Raymond Hackett, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 1,148
Dulcy
4. Animal Crackers (1930)
G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers
Votes: 15,268 | Gross: $0.91M
5. The Still Alarm (1930)
10 min | Comedy, Short
Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned; one of the firemen even plays the violin.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Fred Allen, Clifton Webb, Harold Moffitt, Allen Vincent
Votes: 15
6. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 439
7. June Moon (1931)
79 min | Comedy
Aspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New York City, with hopes of making it big in the songwriting business.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, Wynne Gibson, Harry Akst
Votes: 48
8. The Expert (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An old yet spry man comes to Chicago to live with his son and daughter-in-law. Despite the old fellow's good intentions, he becomes a useless irritation to the couple. However, Grandpa ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Charles 'Chic' Sale, Dickie Moore, Lois Wilson, Ralf Harolde
Votes: 146
9. The Tenderfoot (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Western
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Ruth Weston, a secretary, learns that her boss, Joe Lehman, is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody, Vivien Oakland
Votes: 448
10. Make Me a Star (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Ben Turpin
Votes: 646
11. Once in a Lifetime (1932)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton
Votes: 214
12. Dinner at Eight (1933)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Votes: 9,017 | Gross: $4.58M
13. Roman Scandals (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold
Votes: 804 | Gross: $5.33M
14. Elmer and Elsie (1934)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Drama
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: George Bancroft, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns, George Barbier
Votes: 12
15. The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke
Votes: 756
16. Hello, Sweetheart (1935)
70 min | Comedy
A young poultry farmer is flattered and inveigled into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Claude Hulbert, Gregory Ratoff, Jane Carr, Nancy O'Neil
butter and egg man
17. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,758 | Gross: $2.54M
18. Riffraff (1935)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie and quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 1,109
19. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,583
20. Dance Charlie Dance (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked into backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise when he is sued for plagiarism.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Jean Muir, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 145
butter and egg man
21. Blonde Trouble (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Fred Stevens, on his way to New York City with hopes of succeeding as a songwriter, meets and falls in love with Edna Baker, an employee in a dentist's office. In New York, Fred meets Paul ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Lynne Overman, Terry Walker
Votes: 22
June Moon
22. Stage Door (1937)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick
Votes: 9,019
23. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,256
24. First Lady (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
As presidential election time approaches in Washington it is the women behind the scenes who seem to be making the decisions.
Director: Stanley Logan | Stars: Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Walter Connolly
Votes: 515
25. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,904 | Gross: $4.66M
26. No Place to Go (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Romance
Andrew Plummer is content living in an old soldiers home, but he agrees to move in with his son and his wife thinking that his son needs help with his business. Andrew later finds out that ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Fred Stone, Sonny Bupp
Votes: 131
27. An Angel from Texas (1940)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Romance
Stage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Left behind is her steady beau Peter. Lydia sends letters and news clippings back home telling everyone she's now a big ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman
Votes: 293
28. Dulcy (1940)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ann Sothern, Ian Hunter, Roland Young, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 364
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