Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With Barnett Parker

1. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander

Votes: 23,198

2. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,902

3. Marie Antoinette (1938)

Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley

Votes: 3,280

4. Double Wedding (1937)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Two sisters of differing temperaments, the younger's milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal

Votes: 2,523

5. At the Circus (1939)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker

Votes: 6,462

6. Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

82 min | Comedy, Musical

Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Verree Teasdale

Votes: 163

7. Born to Dance (1936)

Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel

Votes: 1,931

8. The Reluctant Dragon (I) (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Humorist Robert Benchley learns about the animation process at Walt Disney Studios while trying to find the great man himself to pitch him the idea of making a cartoon about a shy dragon.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting, Ub Iwerks, Jack Kinney | Stars: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant

Votes: 3,811 | Gross: $0.87M

9. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

Passed | 110 min | Musical, Romance

Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a... See full summary »

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 1,358

10. Hotel for Women (1939)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance

A girl from Syracuse goes to New York to see her boyfriend, successful architect who no longer cares for her. Fellow residents at a women's hotel encourage her to become a top model. When boyfriend tries to come back to her he has rivals.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers

Votes: 127

11. The Reluctant Dragon (II) (1941)

20 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Based upon Kenneth Grahame's book of the same name, a dragon who would much rather recite poetry and play is taught how to be ferocious by a young boy and a knight.

Director: Hamilton Luske | Stars: Barnett Parker, Claud Allister, Billy Lee

Votes: 179

12. Wake Up and Live (1937)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 159

13. La Conga Nights (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music

Henry I. Dibble, Jr. (Hugh Herbert)is a dizzy millionaire playboy who loves rhumba music. Thorns in his side are his four maiden sisters Faith (Hugh Herbert), Hope (Hugh Herbert), Charity (... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Ferike Boros

Votes: 17

14. Navy Blue and Gold (1937)

Passed | 94 min | Drama, Sport

Three young men, with a common fondness for football, become roommates the at United States Naval Academy where they experience its rules and traditions.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke

Votes: 694

15. Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, Milton Berle, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 266

16. We Who Are About to Die (1936)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An innocent man sits on death row in colorful company, as friends race to save his life.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal, Ray Mayer

Votes: 220

17. Listen, Darling (1938)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Young Pinkie Wingate and her friend, Buzz, will do anything to stop her widowed mother from entering into a loveless marriage with the town banker - including kidnapping.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon

Votes: 877

18. The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, History, Romance

A male Polish secret agent and a female Russian secret-police spy smuggle messages to St. Petersburg in candlesticks. While chasing after stolen candlesticks they discover each other's identity and fall in love.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 830

19. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 840

20. The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

Amid the anarchy of China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges

Votes: 1,347

21. Personal Property (1937)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor

Votes: 1,099

22. New Wine (1941)

Passed | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. Fleeing Austria, he arouses passion strongly akin to mother love in a beautiful bucolic girl, who loves him to much to sacrifice genius on the altar of marriage.

Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Alan Curtis, Ilona Massey, Billy Gilbert, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 42

23. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.

Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Frank Morgan

Votes: 1,639

24. A Woman Rebels (1936)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance

Pamela, a woman in late-1800s England, wishes to be her own person and has no intention to ever marry. After she has a great deal of difficulty finding a job, she finally lands a position ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Crisp

Votes: 927

25. Babes in Arms (1939)

Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical

A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 2,848

26. One Night in the Tropics (1940)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if ... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott

Votes: 1,856

27. When You're in Love (1937)

Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Artist Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is stuck in Mexico unable to pay his hotel bill. Meanwhile, opera singer Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is stuck in the same town, unable to return to the U.S.... See full summary »

Directors: Robert Riskin, Harry Lachman | Stars: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 466

28. The Girl Downstairs (1938)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 284

29. The King Steps Out (1936)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Musical, Romance

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 238

30. Hold That Kiss (1938)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Romance

June Evans, clothing model, and Tommy Bradford, travel agent, both dream of being rich. When they meet at millionaire, J. Westley Piermont's daughter's wedding, they both assume each other ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mickey Rooney, George Barbier

Votes: 259

31. Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Manicurists Sally, Irene, and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 132

32. He Married His Wife (1940)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young, Mary Boland

Votes: 270 | Gross: $0.05M

33. Espionage (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Musical

Rival reporters pose as honeymooners on a European train to track a munitions magnate.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Madge Evans, Paul Lukas, Ketti Gallian

Votes: 172

34. Married Before Breakfast (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth, Barnett Parker

Votes: 251

35. Roaming Lady (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Romance

Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey (Ralph Bellamy) and and her ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Thurston Hall, Edward Gargan

Votes: 67

36. If I Had My Way (1940)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel

Votes: 209

37. Love Is a Headache (1938)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 267

38. A Man Betrayed (1941)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford

Votes: 625

39. Live, Love and Learn (1937)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson

Votes: 457

40. Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A small radio station is saved of getting bankrupt by a backer, who invests money for a TV equipment, if the owner allows, that his dancing daughter Annabelle can dance and sing on the ... See full summary »

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert, Mary Boland

Votes: 96

41. Hullabaloo (1940)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather's attempt to restore his career - all while reuniting with his three children (from his three alimony-seeking ex-wives!).

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke

Votes: 259

42. Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Two songwriters want to cast a British star in their new show.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Louise Fazenda

Votes: 322

43. Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyatt, Shirley Ross, Lee Patrick

Votes: 253

44. The President's Mystery (1936)

Approved | 80 min | Drama

A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent

Votes: 207

45. A Girl's Best Years (1936)

Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Mary Doran, John Warburton, Barnett Parker, Sheila Terry

Votes: 117

46. She Married a Cop (1939)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Musical

At the New York branch of Mammoth Studios, motion picture animator Linda Fay and her boss, Bob Adams, search for a singing voice for their star cartoon, "Paddy the Pig." Linda holds ... See full synopsis »

Directors: Sidney Salkow, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: Phil Regan, Jean Parker, Jerome Cowan, Dorothea Kent

Votes: 79

47. Dangerous Number (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance

Artificial-silk manufacturer Hank Medhill has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave her ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon

Votes: 289

48. The Flight of the Duchess (1916)

Comedy, Drama

Based on Browning's poem, a widowed Duchess raises a son that decides to abandon modern ways and act like it's the medieval days. When he wishes to marry, a young woman is found and plays along believing it's all a joke.

Director: Eugene Nowland | Stars: Gladys Hulette, Robert Gray, Barnett Parker, Nellie Parker Spaulding

49. Dicky's Demon Dachshund (1915)

Comedy, Short

Dicky is a "Summer boy," doted upon by all the girls at Seacrest Villa. "A society man from New York," they call him, though the rumor also floats abroad that Dicky sells stockings at ... See full summary »

Stars: Barnett Parker, Frances Keyes, William A. Carroll

50. The Traffic Cop (1916)

Drama

During his daily duties, Casey the Cop rescues a woman who's soon his sweetheart. Later, she learns from her banker uncle that her inheritance has been stolen, and he's accusing Casey's own cashier brother. Casey is on the case.

Director: Howard M. Mitchell | Stars: Howard M. Mitchell, Gladys Hulette, Ernest Howard, Theodore von Eltz