Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Barbara Read

1. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 9,533

2. Three Smart Girls (1936)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland

Votes: 1,531 | Gross: $3.00M

3. Coroner Creek (1948)

Passed | 90 min | Western

A man is bent on taking revenge on those he believes are responsible for his fiance's death.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers

Votes: 1,121

4. The Shadow Returns (1946)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Super-sleuth Lamont Cranston, (aka "The Shadow") investigates the theft of jewels from a grave.

Directors: Phil Rosen, William Beaudine | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, Tom Dugan, Joseph Crehan

Votes: 311

5. The Road Back (1937)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War

After World War I, a group of former German soldiers try to adjust to civilian life.

Director: James Whale | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Summerville, Andy Devine

Votes: 297

6. Key Witness (1947)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd, Helen Mowery

Votes: 239

7. Curtain Call (1940)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Romance

A naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star.

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray, Helen Vinson, Donald MacBride

Votes: 237

8. Behind the Mask (1946)

Passed | 68 min | Mystery

Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him. Not only does the real murderer seem one step ahead of him as Lamont ... See full summary »

Directors: Phil Karlson, William Beaudine | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler, Dorothea Kent

Votes: 229

9. Sorority House (1939)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance

Anne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. She learns that joining a sorority is an essential thing at the ... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read, Pamela Blake

Votes: 227

10. The Missing Lady (1946)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A jade statue, "The Missing Lady", is stolen and its owner killed. Lamont Cranston, alias the Shadow, sets out to catch the killer but is blamed for the murders himself as each time he ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler, James Flavin

Votes: 218

11. Midnight Intruder (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is a suspect.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Louis Hayward, Eric Linden, J.C. Nugent, Barbara Read

Votes: 151

12. Married and in Love (1940)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance

Doris Wilding (Helen Vinson), a selfish, pleasure-seeking woman, decides to elope with her former college sweetheart, Leslie Yates (Alan Marshal), but there are two problems...she is ... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Marshal, Helen Vinson, Patric Knowles, Barbara Read

Votes: 122

13. Rubber Racketeers (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

Gilin, is just released from prison and now that the government has clamped down on the sale of tires, decides to enter the tire-stealing-for-resell racket. Driving home, he has a car wreck... See full summary »

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Rochelle Hudson, William Henry, Barbara Read

Votes: 106

14. The Spellbinder (1939)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Allan Lane

Votes: 99

15. Too Many Women (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy

Richard Sutton and Linda Pearson are secretly engaged but unable to marry because of financial problems. Crooked promoter Gibbons offers Richard a deal but, in order to get rid of him, ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Neil Hamilton, June Lang, Joyce Compton, Barbara Read

Votes: 97

16. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama

An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey

Votes: 70

17. The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Drama

Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Barbara Read

Votes: 58

18. Death Valley (1946)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Western

A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Nat Pendleton, Helen Gilbert, Robert Lowery, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 46

19. Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady

Votes: 30

20. The Mighty Treve (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Barbara Read, Samuel S. Hinds, Hobart Cavanaugh

Votes: 17

21. Screen Snapshots: Laguna U.S.A. (1947)

Approved | 10 min | Short

The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Art Baker, Brian Aherne, Eddie Bracken, Marian Carr

Votes: 12

22. Ginger (1946)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

Barney O'Hara, a boxer retired from the ring because of bad eyes, settles in a small town with his nephew Chip. Chip adopts a stray dog he names Ginger (played by "Napoleon"), but pompous ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver Drake | Stars: Frank Albertson, Barbara Read, Johnny Calkins, Janet Burston