Nora Cecil Movies

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a...

When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley...

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Perpetua is a rich little orphan with a kind but absent-minded dreamer of a guardian, Thaddeus, who is very much older than herself. Perpetua wants...

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...

A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B....

Just as he is about to experiment with an elixir of youth, Prof. Henry Baldwin is kidnapped by Courtney Lawson with his secretary, Egbert Swift, and...

Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is...

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

Maida Brown, a rich widow, is being visited by wealthy aircraft manufacturer Louis Letchworth at the Brown family estate in Bayport. The family maid...