Acting
Joseph Cawthorn
Born March 27, 1868 · New York City, New York, USA
Died January 21, 1949 · aged 80
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German d…
Known For
Love Me Tonight · 1932Love Me Tonight
★ 6.61932
MovieComedyRomance
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Housewife · 1934Housewife
★ 7.31934
MovieDrama
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Blondie Johnson · 1933Blondie Johnson
★ 5.91933
MovieCrimeDrama
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Naughty Marietta · 1935Naughty Marietta
★ 5.51935
MovieMusicRomance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Scatterbrain · 1940Scatterbrain
★ 7.51940
MovieComedyMusic
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Kiki · 1931Kiki
★ 5.21931
MovieMusic
A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.
Peach-o-Reno · 1931Peach-o-Reno
★ 6.51931
MovieComedyRomance
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
The Runaround · 1931The Runaround
★ 8.01931
MovieComedyRomance
Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines
Movies
Love Me Tonight · 1932Love Me Tonight
★ 6.61932
MovieComedyRomance
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Housewife · 1934Housewife
★ 7.31934
MovieDrama
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Blondie Johnson · 1933Blondie Johnson
★ 5.91933
MovieCrimeDrama
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Naughty Marietta · 1935Naughty Marietta
★ 5.51935
MovieMusicRomance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Scatterbrain · 1940Scatterbrain
★ 7.51940
MovieComedyMusic
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Kiki · 1931Kiki
★ 5.21931
MovieMusic
A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.
Peach-o-Reno · 1931Peach-o-Reno
★ 6.51931
MovieComedyRomance
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
The Runaround · 1931The Runaround
★ 8.01931
MovieComedyRomance
Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines
The Great Ziegfeld · 1936The Great Ziegfeld
★ 6.31936
MovieMusicDrama
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
So Ends Our Night · 1941So Ends Our Night
★ 6.31941
MovieWarDrama
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
White Zombie · 1932White Zombie
★ 6.01932
MovieHorror
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.
Lazy River · 1934Lazy River
★ 7.01934
MovieDramaRomance
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Best of Enemies · 1933Best of Enemies
★ 9.01933
MovieRomanceComedy
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
Men Are Such Fools · 1932Men Are Such Fools
★ 7.01932
MovieDrama
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
They Call It Sin · 1932They Call It Sin
★ 6.01932
MovieDrama
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.
Gold Diggers of 1935 · 1935Gold Diggers of 1935
★ 6.51935
MovieComedy
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Freshman Love · 1936Freshman Love
★ 7.01936
MovieComedy
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Lillian Russell · 1940Lillian Russell
★ 6.71940
MovieDramaMusic
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Page Miss Glory · 1935Page Miss Glory
★ 6.71935
MovieComedyMusic
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Two Girls Wanted · 1927Two Girls Wanted
★ 9.01927
MovieComedyDrama
Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
Bright Lights · 1935Bright Lights
★ 5.11935
MovieComedyMusic
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Hot Money · 1936Hot Money
★ 7.01936
MovieComedy
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Grand Slam · 1933Grand Slam
★ 4.61933
MovieComedy
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Young and Beautiful · 1934Young and Beautiful
★ 4.81934
MovieComedyRomance
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.