Acting
Nan Grey
Born July 25, 1918 · Houston, Texas, USA
Died July 25, 1993 · aged 75
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Grey was born Eschal Loleet Grey Miller in Houston, Texas. In 1934, she went to Hollywood with her mother for a holiday. She was persuaded by a friend to take a screen test and ended up in pictures. She attended the school that Universal Studios operated for children who had film contracts. Grey's screen debut was in 1934 in Warner Brothers' Firebird. Sh…
Known For
Girls' School · 1938Girls' School
★ 6.51938
MovieComedy
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.
Three Smart Girls · 1936Three Smart Girls
★ 6.51936
MovieComedyRomance
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother.
Mary Jane's Pa · 1935Mary Jane's Pa
★ 6.81935
MovieDrama
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Dracula's Daughter · 1936Dracula's Daughter
★ 6.01936
MovieHorror
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Some Blondes Are Dangerous · 1937Some Blondes Are Dangerous
★ 4.01937
MovieDrama
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
The Invisible Man Returns · 1940The Invisible Man Returns
★ 6.31940
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Let Them Live · 1937Let Them Live
★ 8.01937
MovieDrama
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Love Before Breakfast · 1936Love Before Breakfast
★ 6.11936
MovieComedyRomance
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Movies
Girls' School · 1938Girls' School
★ 6.51938
MovieComedy
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.
Three Smart Girls · 1936Three Smart Girls
★ 6.51936
MovieComedyRomance
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother.
Mary Jane's Pa · 1935Mary Jane's Pa
★ 6.81935
MovieDrama
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Dracula's Daughter · 1936Dracula's Daughter
★ 6.01936
MovieHorror
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Some Blondes Are Dangerous · 1937Some Blondes Are Dangerous
★ 4.01937
MovieDrama
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
The Invisible Man Returns · 1940The Invisible Man Returns
★ 6.31940
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Let Them Live · 1937Let Them Live
★ 8.01937
MovieDrama
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Love Before Breakfast · 1936Love Before Breakfast
★ 6.11936
MovieComedyRomance
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Danger on the Air · 1938Danger on the Air
★ 6.41938
MovieMysteryComedy
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
The Great Impersonation · 1935The Great Impersonation
★ 7.51935
MovieDramaRomance
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
The Firebird · 1934The Firebird
★ 6.41934
MovieMysteryDrama
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
Tower of London · 1939Tower of London
★ 6.11939
MovieDramaHistory
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Ex-Champ · 1939Ex-Champ
★ 7.31939
MovieDrama
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Sea Spoilers · 1936Sea Spoilers
★ 5.01936
MovieRomanceDrama
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
Under Age · 1941Under Age
★ 7.51941
MovieCrimeDrama
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
A Little Bit of Heaven · 1940A Little Bit of Heaven
★ 4.51940
MovieMusic
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
The Affair of Susan · 1935The Affair of Susan
★ 10.01935
MovieRomanceComedy
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
The House of the Seven Gables · 1940The House of the Seven Gables
★ 7.01940
MovieThrillerDrama
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
The Under-Pup · 1939The Under-Pup
★ 7.01939
MovieComedyDrama
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Sutter's Gold · 1936Sutter's Gold
★ 7.01936
MovieWestern
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Sandy Is a Lady · 1940Sandy Is a Lady
★ 9.01940
MovieComedy
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Margie · 1940Margie
★ 9.01940
MovieComedy
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Three Smart Girls Grow Up · 1939Three Smart Girls Grow Up
★ 7.31939
MovieComedyDrama
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
The Storm · 1938The Storm
★ 7.01938
MovieActionAdventure
“Sparks” Roberts and Captain Cogswell are brothers whose relationship is fractured by a long-standing feud involving rivalries over boats and women. The tension between them reaches a breaking point when a passenger ship they are on unexpectedly encounters a violent typhoon. The life-threatening danger of the storm acts as a catalyst for the brothers, forcing them to reconcile and work together to survive the maritime disaster.
