George Brent
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Filmography
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Silver Queen
(1942)After her father loses everything in the stock market crash, a well-known woman from the Barbary Coast sacrifices love to try her hand at card games.

From Headquarters
(1933)Playboy and neβer-do-well Gordon Bates is dead. There are suspectsaplenty.

My Reputation
(1946)Barbara Stanwyck stars in this moody melodrama as a widow struggling to rebuild her life despite uncharitable rumors.

The Purchase Price
(1932)This offbeat melodrama was directed by the iconoclastic William A. Wellman and stars Barbara Stanwyck as Joan Gordon, a hardboiled nightclub singer on the lam who becomes a farmer's mail-order bride. After Joan gets fed up being the kept woman of her married boss, bootlegger Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot), she flees New York City and ends up in North Dakota as the mail-order bride of wheat farmer Jim Gilson (George Brent). The film features one of the weirdest wedding ceremonies ever shot, and Stanwyck's rendition of "Take Me Away" marks the first time she sang on screen.

Dark Victory
(1939)Bette Davis stars as a hedonistic socialite who learns to value the simple things in life after being diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor in this three-hanky drama.
They Call It Sin
(1932)A young Kansas girl who comes to New York to make it big in the chorus becomes involved in a love triangle and learns a lesson about show business in this "high class" film from the ribald 1930s. Loretta Young stars as Marion, a gifted songwriter who longs to hit the big time. When she falls in love with Jimmy (David Manners), she follows him to New York and luckily finds a job writing songs for Humphries, a tyrannical producer (Louis Calhern). But Jimmy is engaged to another woman (Helen Vinson) and Humphries has no intention of helping her with her career. She soon finds solace with Tony Travers (George Brent), a doctor whose ordinary life she welcomes with open arms.

Miss Pinkerton
(1932)This crackling mystery thriller stars Joan Blondell as a private duty nurse who gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation. Miss Adams has an unusual eye for detail, so when a police detective sends her undercover to solve a puzzling murder case, she unravels a complex plot, risking her life while she's at it.

The Rich Are Always with Us
(1932)The richest woman in the world (Ruth Chatterton) has everything money can buy. But with her heart torn between her faithless husband and an ardent writer (George Brent), she can't have the one thing every woman wants: happiness. Herbert Hoover was still President and the Depression was at its most depressing when this delicious wallow in uptown romance hit the Bijou, featuring an electric performance by young Bette Davis as a society girl also enamored of the writer. This wasn't the end of Davis' relationship with Brent. They would make 11 films together, including Jezebel and Dark Victory. It wasn't the end of the Chatterton-Brent relationship, either: the on-screen lovers married soon after the film opened.

Racket Busters
(1938)Crime lord John Martin strong-arms teamsters into paying him protection money to take over a trucking business. When trucker Denny Jordan stands up to the thug, he's forced to quit, but an earnest attorney convinces him to help prosecute the gangster.
The Crash
(1932)Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men, even getting investment tips from one of her lovers. Linda is devastated by the stock market crash of 1929 when her husband, Geoffrey, loses their fortune due to a bad tip. The Gaults must decide what is most important in their relationship - or if they are better off apart.

Christmas Eve
(1947)To save her fortune from her greedy nephew who is trying to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.

In This Our Life
(1942)Spoiled heiress Stanley Timerlake seduces and steals her sister's husband, driving him to alcoholism and suicide. Returning home, she kills a mother and daughter in a hit-and-run, then blames the crime on an innocent servant while feeling no remorse.

The Great Lie
(1941)Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby. Starring Bette Davis, Mary Astor and George Brent.

Jezebel
(1938)Bette Davis stars in an Academy Award-winning role as the beautiful,charming, ruthless Southern belle who scandalizes New Orleanssociety--destroying the men who love her...

42nd Street
(1933)Fate lends a young and unknown chorus girl a leg up when the lead actress in a Broadway musical breaks her ankle and she ends up stealing the show.

The Fighting 69th
(1940)A braggart soldier learns the true meaning of heroism when he joins World War I's all-Irish unit.

Red Canyon
(1949)Drifter cowhand Lin Sloane is obsessed with capturing Black Velvet, a wild stallion running rampant across the range. Sloane falls in love with Lucy Bostel, daughter of the region's most influential horse breeder. Conflicts arise when Lucy intends to race the captured stallion, much to the dismay of her father.

Tomorrow Is Forever
(1946)At the end of World War I, Elizabeth MacDonald receives word that her husband John was killed in action. Now, twenty years later, with his reconstructed face, crippled frame and a new identity, John re-enters her life, unrecognizable...at first.
The Rains Came
(1939)In the town of Ranchipur, four people find their lives become entwined by unexpected feelings and events they cannot control. Tom Ransome (George Brent), son of an English earl, is living a painter's life. He is pursed by Brenda Joyce, a flirtatious young English girl who adores him. Lady Esketh (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful bored sophisticated and Tom's former girlfriend. And Major Rama (Tyrone Power) is the dedicated Hindu surgeon who captures her heart. When a catastrophic earthquake and flood bring disaster to India, all their lives are forever transformed by the striking clash between good and evil, duty and forbidden love.

The Lightning Warrior
(1931)The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.