Helen Twelvetrees Movies

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

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...

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

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...

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of...

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

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...

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...

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

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

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...

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

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 newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.

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

A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I.

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make...

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...

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