Acting

Rex Bell

Born October 16, 1903 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died July 4, 1962 · aged 58

Rex Bell (born George Francis Beldam; October 16, 1903 – July 4, 1962) was an American actor and politician. Bell primarily appeared in Western films during his career. He also appeared in the 1930 movie True to the Navy, starring Clara Bow; Bell and Bow married the following year. Bell later became involved in politics with the Nevada Republican Party and was the 21st lieutenant governor of Neva…

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The Misfits

The Misfits · 1961

MovieDramaRomance

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Salute

MovieDramaRomance

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die · 1942

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Happy Days

Happy Days · 1929

In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.

Battling with Buffalo Bill

Battling with Buffalo Bill · 1931

Battling with Buffalo Bill

MovieWesternAction

A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 · 1933

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8

MovieHorrorComedy

In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."

The Cowboy Kid

The Cowboy Kid · 1928

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed · 1929

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.

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The Misfits

The Misfits · 1961

MovieDramaRomance

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Old Cowboy (uncredited)

Salute

MovieDramaRomance

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

Cadet (uncredited)

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die · 1942

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

Virgil Earp

Happy Days

Happy Days · 1929

In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.

Rex Bell

Battling with Buffalo Bill

Battling with Buffalo Bill · 1931

Battling with Buffalo Bill

MovieWesternAction

A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.

Dave Archer

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 · 1933

Hollywood on Parade No. A-8

MovieHorrorComedy

In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."

The Cowboy Kid

The Cowboy Kid · 1928

Our hero catches a gang of bank robbers while taking time out to romance the banker's pretty daughter.

Jim Barrett

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed · 1929

Pleasure Crazed

Pleasure Crazed is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Donald Gallaher.

Peters

Broadway to Cheyenne

Broadway to Cheyenne · 1932

Broadway to Cheyenne

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.

'Breezy' Kildare

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess · 2012

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

MovieDocumentary

A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.

They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris · 1929

They Had to See Paris

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?

Clark McCurdy

Lightnin'

Lightnin' · 1930

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.

Larry - Betty's Husband

Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women · 1931

Forgotten Women

Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.

Jimmy Burke

Diamond Trail

Diamond Trail · 1933

Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang head west guning for Bill Miller who failed to send some diamonds on to Flash. Speed hopes to bring Flash to justice but is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.

'Speed' Morgan, posing as Frisco Eddie

The Arm of the Law

The Arm of the Law · 1932

The Arm of the Law

MovieActionAdventure

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.

Robin Dale, a Reporter

West of Nevada

West of Nevada · 1936

MovieActionComedy

When a gang tries to rob Haldain, Jim and Walla Walla break it up. Haldain is carrying stuffed animals and Jim's suspicion that they are stuffed with gold is soon confirmed. The gang's boss is banker Cutting and he is after Haldain's gold. He also receives Jim's mail at his bank and changes one of Jim's letters to make it look like Jim is after the gold. His sends Haldain's daughter after her father thereby leading the gang to the secret gold field.

Jim Carden, posing as Jim Lloyd

Men of the Plains

Men of the Plains · 1936

Men of the Plains

The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail. When things get hot, Travis has a plan of double-crossing his own men that will enable him to keep not only his gold but also the money it is insured for.

Jim Dean - aka Tom Porter

Dawn on the Great Divide

Dawn on the Great Divide · 1942

Dawn on the Great Divide

Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.

Jack Carson

Fighting Texans

Fighting Texans · 1933

Fighting Texans

Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.

Randy Graves

Stormy Trails

Stormy Trails · 1936

A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.

Tom Storm

Lucky Larrigan

Lucky Larrigan · 1932

Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.

Craig Larrigan

Saddle Aces

Saddle Aces · 1935

Two prisoners, Steve Brandt and Nick Montana, chained to each other, escape by jumping from the train that brought them to the penitentiary. Persued, they hide in the carriage with Jane Langton. Arriving at her ranch, they discover that she is fighting against a Pete Sutton, who wants to take her pasture. Not wanting to confront, Sutton offers the two escapees help by assisting them move to Mexico.

Steve Brandt

True to the Navy

True to the Navy · 1930

True to the Navy

MovieActionRomance

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.

Eddie

The Man from Arizona

The Man from Arizona · 1932

The Man from Arizona

A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.

Kent Rogers