Marjorie Gateson Movies

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and...

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme...

In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.

Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep....

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and...

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.

A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes...

An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy...