Movies: Florence Roberts

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him....

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy....

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France....

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is gran...

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. H...

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar....

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon....

Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets M...

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set....

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit....

Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a st...

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up....

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States....

A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life....

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who inst...

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager....

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes....

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies"....

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses....