Movies: Evelyn Brent

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery....

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary....

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring....

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders....

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man....

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors...

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed....

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers....

Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school....

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be....

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubb...

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful pr...

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend....

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime....

A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang....

People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb....

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher....

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it....