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...

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc...

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 prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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...

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

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

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

A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have...

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

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

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...

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

A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she...

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

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...

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

A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.