Ottola Nesmith Movies

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph...

Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent...

A canal boat captain disowns his daughter when she marries a circus performer. Years later he is reunited with the granddaughter he never knew.

Sally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's wife, to be famous, and to have a child.

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to...

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his...

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers)...

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin,...

A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns...

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.