Movies: Hobart Cavanaugh

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim bu...

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication....

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot....

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana....

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair....

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses....

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert ...

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes....

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family r...

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-fr...

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show....

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout....

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch....

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter....

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius....

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four job...

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father....

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal....

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