Joan Valerie Movies

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed...

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to...

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier...

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be...

Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston...

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go...

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.