Helen Twelvetrees Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The...

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery...

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier...

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and...

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally...

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of...

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.

Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.