Guy Kibbee
27 titles
Filmography
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Captain January
(1936)A little girl named Star lives with Captain January, a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. When the authorities insist that Star must leave her only guardian, Captain January fears he may lose his lovable companion for good.

Dixie Jamboree
(1944)A medicine man on the last showboat on the Mississippi River is mistaken for a bootlegger by two gangsters, who he now has to evade.
Lady for a Day
(1933)May Robson plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra’s wonderful and enduring comedy/drama, based on a short story by Damon Runyon, with a hilarious and heartwarming script by Robert Riskin. When Louise (Jean Parker) announces that she plans to visit her mother to introduce her aristocratic fiancé, Apple Annie’s friends, including gangster Dave the Dude (Warren William), Judge Henry D. Blake (Guy Kibbee) and Missouri Martin (Glenda Farrell), rally around to transform her from a poor street peddler into the society matron her daughter is expecting to see.

It's a Wonderful World
(1939)Private eye Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is charged with tracking every move of boozing tycoon Willie Heyward (Ernest Truex) -- and ensuring that the mogul comes to no harm. But Guy runs into trouble when, after a bender, Heyward is accused of murder and Guy gets roped in as an accessory. Desperate to prove his innocence, Guy makes a daring escape from a prison train and, while on the run, kidnaps poet Edwina Corday (Claudette Colbert), who gradually warms to his cause.

Miss Annie Rooney
(1942)Shirley Temple stars in this story of an optimistic high schooler from a smart, yet poverty-stricken, home who is courted by a millionaire classmate.

Earthworm Tractors
(1936)Despite knowing nothing about tractors, a self-described natural born salesman is on a mission to sell one to an old-fashioned lumberman.
Side Show
(1931)
Rain
(1932)When the passengers of a ship get stranded on a Samoan island, a self-righteous missionary resolves to save the soul of a spirited sex worker.

Little Lord Fauntleroy
(1936)An American boy learns he’s the long-lost heir of a British fortune and is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Taxi!
(1932)A hardened New York City cab driver, Matt Nolan, struggles as a crooked syndicate attempts to eliminate all independent cabbies in the city. With Matt's livelihood threatened, he recruits a gang to stand up to them - violently.
Scarlet Dawn
(1932)Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Nancy Carroll star as Russian aristocrats who flee to Constantinople and pose as commoners to escape the Bolshevik Revolution. But the Baron Nikita Krasnoff (Fairbanks--The Prisoner of Zenda) cannot adjust to his new life of poverty and obscurity and soon begins an affair with a devious woman and a life of crime as a con artist. Nearly losing everything, and being exposed as frauds, the married couple eventually must again rely on each other escape with their very lives in this towering romantic epic.
The Silk Express
(1933)
Three Loves Has Nancy
(1938)Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone and Grady Sutton play the four sides of a romantic quadrangle in this screwball comedy co-scripted by Bella and Samuel Spewack (Broadway's Kiss Me, Kate). Gaynor portrays small-town girl Nancy Briggs, whose nebbish fiancé George (Sutton) doesn't return from his Manhattan job in time to say, "I do." So Nancy heads to the big city to hunt for her hubby-to-be and, after a series of dizzy complications, lands in the apartment of a debonair author (Montgomery), in the romantic sights of his equally debonair pal (Tone), and in the middle of a three-man boxing match when George suddenly reappears. Will Nancy ever get to the altar? And if so, with whom? Gaynor was fresh off her triumph in A Star Is Born when she made this fast-paced comedy and met its costume designer, Adrian. She soon became his bride and, at the height of her popularity, bid the movie world goodbye for almost 20 years.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)A naive former youth leader fights false accusations and corruption from the political machine that engineered his appointment to the U.S. Senate.

Dames
(1934)A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show in this amusing and entertaining musical starring Joan Blondell and Dick.
Three Comrades
(1938)
Of Human Hearts
(1938)Academy Award® winners* Walter Huston and James Stewart star in this stirring drama about the hardships of pioneer times.

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 Crowd Roars
(1932)James Cagney kicks serious asphalt in director Howard hawk’s high-speed thrill ride costarring Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak.

Laughing Sinners
(1931)A cabaret performer, Ivy Stevens, has an affair with a low-rent travelling salesman and is dumped. Later, she finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.