3 Godfathers 1948  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Three Godfathers
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Jane Darwell, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick, Guy Kibbee, Dorothy Ford, Charles Halton, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Fred Libby, Michael Dugan
Three outlaws, Robert Marmaduke Hightower, Pedro "Pete" Roca Fuente, and William Kearney "the Abilene Kid" (John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, and Harry Carey Jr.), become godfathers to an orphaned baby. When two of them die, the remaining guardian, Hightower, undergoes a spiritual change and cares for the baby.
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 42nd Street 1933 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, George E. Stone, Allen Jenkins, Ned Sparks, Edward J. Nugent, Robert McWade, Louise Beavers, George Irving
Busby Berkeley's musical numbers highlight this entertaining film about what goes on behind the scenes of the Broadway musical show, "Pretty Lady." The show's director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) is in poor health but wants to enjoy one more hit before he retires. When the show's temperamental star, Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) breaks her ankle on the night of the show's opening, chorus girl Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler) fills in and takes over the lead. Featured numbers include" "You're getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Shuffle off to Buffalo," and "42nd Street." The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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Babes in Arms 1939  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winningham, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Rand Brooks, Henry Hull, Margaret Hamilton, Lon McCallister, Joseph Crehan, Douglas McPhail, Johnny Sheffield, Barnett Parker, Ann Shoemaker
This is the original Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney musical extravaganza featuring Busby Berkeley production numbers. Mickey Moran (Rooney) does not want to be sent to a work farm when his vaudeville parents go on tour. So, at his girlfriend Patsy Barton's (Garland) urging, he writes his own show, and he and Patsy hit the road on their musical tour. Nineteen-year-old Rooney was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award.
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Big City Blues 1932  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Inez Courtney, Evalyn Knapp, Humphrey Bogart, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Walter Catlett, Grant Mitchell, J. Carrol Naish
When a young boy from the country experiences a three-day visit to NYC, he finds both love and murder on his itinerary.
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Blonde Crazy 1931 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Ray Milland, Charles(1) Lane, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hopton
Bert and Ann (James Cagney and Joan Blondell) are a couple of con artists who go from town to town cheating people out of their money. After being tricked out of their own money, they plot to get it back. This is sort of an early version of "The Sting."
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 Captain Blood 1935  N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Donald Meek, J. Carrol Naish, Hobart Cavanaugh
This film represents the first teaming of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland and made them both stars. Surgeon Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) rebels against England's James II who deports him as a slave to the West Indies where he is purchased by Colonel Bishop (Lionel Atwill). Set free, Blood falls in love with Bishop's niece, Arabella (Olivia de Havilland), and he turns to piracy as part of his fight against slavery. This Hal Wallis film was nominated for an Oscar.
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Captain January 1936 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, June Lang, Buddy Ebsen, Sara Haden, Jane Darwell, Nella Walker, Si Jenks, George Irving
After surviving a shipwreck, Star (Shirley Temple) is rescued by lighthouse-keeper Captain January (Guy Kibbee) and takes up a new life among the seafarers.
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Chad Hanna 1940  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Roscoe Ates, Olin Howland, Si Jenks, Frank Conlan
The circus in the 19th century is the world of Chad Hanna (Henry Fonda); the story follows his adventures, which aren't all that great.
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Dames 1934 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Hugh Herbert, Guy Kibbee, Arthur Vinton, Sammy Fain, Phil Regan, Arthur Aylesworth, Johnny Arthur, Leila Bennett, Berton Churchill
Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert) leads his friends and family in a campagne for "the preservation of America's Morals." Meanwhile, his distant cousin, Jimmy (Dick Powell), is producing a show in what Ezra believes to be "the demon world of the theater" starring Ezra's niece Barbara (Ruby Keeler). Ezra's solution: hire thugs to wreck the show, and mayhem ensues.
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The Dark Horse 1932 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Vivienne Osborne, Sam Hardy, Robert Warwick, Harry Holman, Charles Sellon, Robert Emmett O'Connor
This political satire features a less-than-competent gubernatorial candidate (Guy Kibbee) who is promoted by a devious campaign manager (Warren William) and his cohort (Bette Davis).
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Design for Scandal 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes, Guy Kibbee, Thurston Hall, Donald Meek, Barbara Jo Allen
Newsman Judson M. Blair (Edward Arnold) plots to set up and frame Judge Cornelia Porter (Rosalind Russell) in a scandal, but he falls in love with her in the process.
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Earthworm Tractors 1936 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Natural Born Salesman
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Gene Lockhart, Olin Howland, Joseph Crehan, Irving Bacon, Sarah Edwards, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson
This Depression Era film provides plenty of laughs when natural born salesman Alexander Botts (Joe E. Brown) plies his trade selling Earthworm tractors. Botts works on Sam Johnson (Guy Kibbee) to sell him tractors, and after a series of near disasters Botts makes a deal with Johnson that includes not only tractors but the affections of Johnson's daughter, Mabel (June Travis), as well.
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Footlight Parade 1933 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Renee Whitney, Ruth Donnelly
This is one of those grand scale musicals that, in this instance, contains some of Busby Berkeley's best work. Chester Kent (James Cagney) is a brash, hustling stage director who faces economic and romantic problems.
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Fort Apache 1948 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Irene Rich, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh
Lt. Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) is annoyed because he has been sent out West to command Fort Apache in Arizona after serving valiantly during the Civil War. After his daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) discover the bodies of mutilated soldiers murdered by the Apaches, Thursday decides to stir up the Indians for his own fame and fortune. One of his officers, Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), tries to teach him the realities of co-existing with the Indians and tells him that the real problem is not the Apaches, but, instead, it is the corrupt Indian agents promoting the problems. York's words go unheeded, and Thursday leads his men into a disastrous situation after which he is labeled a hero by the press.
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Girl Crazy 1943 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee, Henry O'Neill, Irving Bacon
Gershwin tunes "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," and "But Not for Me" highlight this film about college students who work to stave off bankruptcy for their school. One of the best Rooney/Garland musicals
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 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Billy Barty, Hobart Cavanaugh, Busby Berkeley, Charles(1) Lane, Tammany Young
This musical proved so popular that two sequels were made: one in 1935 and another in 1937. Unemployed showgirls Carol (Joan Blondell), Polly (Ruby Keeler), and Trixie (Aline MacMahon) want to perform in a musical, and IF Polly will play the lead, singer-composer Brad Roberts (Dick Powell) will foot the bill. Brad and Polly are in love, but Brad's wealthy family disapproves and will stop at nothing to break them up–but they fail, and the show goes on. Ginger Rogers sings "We're in the Money" while wearing only silver dollars in one of the great Busby Berkeley production numbers.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight 1945 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont, Robert Blake, Paul Harvey
A musician (Jack Benny) dreams he is the angel Athanael whose trumpet, when blown at midnight, will result in the Earth's destruction.
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It Started with Eve 1941 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet, Catherine Doucet, Walter Catlett, Charles Coleman, Leonard Elliott, Irving Bacon, Gus Schilling, Wade Boteler
Rich playboy Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) asks hatcheck girl Anne Terry (Deanna Durbin) to stand in for his fiancee to please his dying father (Charles Laughton) who wants to meet his daughter-in-law-to-be But Dad gets well and, having taken a liking to Anne, the pretense puts Junior in quite a spot. A fun-filled comedy/musical with Laughton at his best.
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It's a Wonderful World 1939 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake, Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex, Sidney Blackmer, Hans Conried, Richard Carle
A writer (Claudette Colbert) joins up with a fugitive (James Stewart), and together they outwit the police (Nat Pendleton and Edgar Kennedy).
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Jim Hanvey, Detective 1937 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, Catherine Doucet, Edward Brophy, Edward Gargan, Helen Jerome Eddy, Theodore von Eltz, Kenneth Thomson, Howard C. Hickman, Oscar Apfel, Wade Boteler
Detective Jim Hanvey (Guy Kibbee) takes on a contract with an insurance company to locate a valuable jeweled necklace, and, although the theft was just a prank, ensuing events involve a murder.
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Lady for a Day 1933 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Jean Parker, Nat Pendleton, Barry Norton, Halliwell Hobbes
Apple Annie (May Robson) is a 75-year-old seller of apples in Times Square in this Damon Runyon tale, and she knows how to extract money from the other peddlers. She sends money to her daughter (Jean Parker) in Spain, implying she is wealthy in her letters to the daughter. Now the daughter is visiting, and Apple Annie needs help, so she goes to gambler Dave the Dude (Warren William) to set her up for the visit. Now the fun begins. Good flick. Sequel: "Lady By Choice." Capra remade the story in 1961 as "Pocketful of Miracles."
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Laughing Sinners 1931 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee, Cliff Edwards, Roscoe Karns, Johnny Mack Brown
Nightclub performer Ivy (Joan Crawford) is saved from a near suicide by Salvation Army worker Carl (Clark Gable), who convinces her to start life anew–until her past lover, Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton), appears back on the scene.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan 1933 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Guy Kibbee, Fifi D'Orsay, Aline MacMahon, Lyle Talbot, Mickey Rooney, George Meeker, Harold Huber, John Wayne
After he thinks he has accidentally killed a man, a prizefighter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) retreats to the children's home where he was raised. Look quickly for John Wayne as a boxer. Remade as "They Made Me a Criminal."
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Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier, E.E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Jessie Ralph
This is a well-done version of the classic where a boy from New York becomes a British lord.
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Man of the World 1931 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Goodman, Richard Wallace
Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray, Andre Cheron, George Chandler, Tom Ricketts, Tom Costello, Maude Truax
Young American debutante Mary Kendall (Carole Lombard) visits Paris, runs into smooth extortionist Michael Trevor (William Powell), and becomes his potential victim. Events take a turn when Michael falls in love with Mary, and his mistress, Irene (Wynne Gibson), threatens to expose him unless he agrees to extort $10,000 from Mary's Uncle Harry (Guy Kibbee).
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Miss Annie Rooney 1942 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Peggy Ryan, Gloria Holden, June Lockhart, Selmer Jackson, Virginia Sale, Roland Dupree, Jonathan Hale
Annie Rooney (Shirley Temple) is a poor girl who falls in love with a wealthy youth, Marty (Dickie Moore). Shirley receives her first screen kiss.
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The Mouthpiece 1932 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Flood
Cast: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, William Janney, John Wray, Mae Madison, Paulette Goddard, Guy Kibbee, J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Ince
Vincent Day (Warren William) is a prosecutor who becomes involved in corruption and takes over the defense of underworld figures. This film was later remade twice–as "The Man Who Talked Too Much" and "Illegal."
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 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Pierre Watkin, Porter Hall
Filling in for his state's deceased senator, Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) takes his seat in the United States Senate. Despite crooked politics surrounding his appointment, as well as in Washington D.C., Smith behaves as we all wish our representatives would. An Academy Award was won for Best Original Story and 10 other nominations were received, including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor (both Harry Carey and Claude Rains), and Director.
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Of Human Hearts 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Life for a 19th-century preacher (Walter Huston) and his son (James Stewart) is not always easy as they struggle to settle their differences as well as the Midwest. John Carradine is in the final scene as Abraham Lincoln giving advice on the values of family.
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Our Town 1940 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Stuart Erwin, Spencer Charters, Doro Merande
Thornton Wilder's story about Grover's Corners is brought to the screen in a heart-warming tale about the early 1900's era. It centers on Emily (Martha Scott) and George (William Holden), who fall in love in Grover's Corners. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Actress (Scott).
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Rain 1932 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore, Kendall Lee, Walter Catlett, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Set in Pago Pago, this Somerset Maugham story is about prostitute Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) who must deal with the hypocritical Reverend Davidson (Walter Huston) when she is trapped in the area by a quarantine.
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge 1947 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Selena Royle, Charles Dingle, Dean Stockwell, Guy Kibbee, Elisabeth Risdon, Russell Simpson
In Janet Leigh's film debut she plays Lissy Anne MacBean whose father Gill (Thomas Mitchell) is against her suitor, Henry Carson (Van Johnson), because of ill feelings coming out of the Civil War.
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So Big! 1932 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Alan Hale, Guy Kibbee, Mae Madison, Hardie Albright, Robert Warwick, Earle Foxe
This is the second rendition of Edna Ferber's novel about a schoolteacher who, after becoming a widow, turns to farming.
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Taxi! 1932 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee, Leila Bennett, Dorothy Burgess, David Landau, Ray Cooke, Matt McHugh, George Raft
Tough Matt Nolan (James Cagney) leads the fight for independent cabbies on the streets of New York City–to the dismay of his girlfriend (later his wife), Sue (Loretta Young). Interesting view of life in the depression era.
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There's One Born Every Minute 1942 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Guy Kibbee, Gus Schilling, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Catherine Doucet, Charles Halton
This movie contains the screen debut of 10-year-old Elizabeth Taylor who plays the young member of a very bizarre family.
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Three Comrades 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill, Henry Hull, George Zucco, Charley Grapewin, Monty Woolley
Margaret Sullavan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Pat–a woman dying of tuberculosis. The story reveals the devotion of three young men whose friendship gains strength as they care for the woman they love.
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Two Seconds 1932 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Preston Foster, Vivienne Osborne, J. Carrol Naish, Guy Kibbee, Frederick Burton, Dorothea Wolbert, Edward McWade, Berton Churchill, William Janney
John Allen (Edward G. Robinson) contends he is being executed for the wrong murder. The switch is now thrown to send an electrical change into him as he sits in the Electric Chair. In the two seconds that it takes to kill him, his life is told in flashback.
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Winner Take All 1932 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Clarence Muse, Virginia Bruce, Dickie Moore, Allan Lane, Ralf Harolde, John Roche, Alan Mowbray
Prizefighter Jim Kane (James Cagney) recuperates from tuberculosis and regains success in the ring and the love of Peggy (Marian Nixon).
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| 1. 3 Godfathers (1948)
aka: Three Godfathers
2. 42nd Street (1933)
3. Babes in Arms (1939)
4. Big City Blues (1932)
5. Blonde Crazy (1931)
6. Captain Blood (1935)
7. Captain January (1936)
8. Chad Hanna (1940)
9. City Streets (1931)
10. The Conquerors (1932)
aka: Pioneer Builders
11. The Crowd Roars (1932)
12. Dames (1934)
13. The Dark Horse (1932)
14. Design for Scandal (1941)
15. Earthworm Tractors (1936)
aka: Natural Born Salesman
16. Footlight Parade (1933)
17. Fort Apache (1948)
18. Girl Crazy (1943)
19. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
20. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
21. It Started with Eve (1941)
22. It's a Wonderful World (1939)
23. Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
24. Lady for a Day (1933)
25. Laughing Sinners (1931)
26. The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
27. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
28. Man of the World (1931)
29. Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
30. The Mouthpiece (1932)
31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
32. Of Human Hearts (1938)
33. Our Town (1940)
34. Rain (1932)
35. The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
36. So Big! (1932)
37. Taxi! (1932)
38. There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
39. Three Comrades (1938)
40. Two Seconds (1932)
41. Winner Take All (1932)
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