Ronald R. Rondell
Know for: Acting
Born: 1903-09-21
Place of birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Also know as:
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only...
Holiday Inn (1942)
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon...
The Last Lap (1926)
Series #1, Episode #4 of The Collegians.
Making Good (1926)
A comedy short in The Collegians series starring George Lewis, where college students do what students do. Flirt around and do sports.
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a...
King of Burlesque (1936)
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...
Today We Live (1933)
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Super-Sleuth (1937)
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
The Night Court (1927)
A police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for...
Two-Fisted (1935)
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but...
The Freshman's Finish (1931)
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and...
Deadlock (1967)
A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and...
Opened by Mistake (1934)
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Run, Girl, Run (1928)
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's...
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
The Cheat (1931)
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff...
I'm No Angel (1933)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...
Man Of The People (1937)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too....
Night Spot (1938)
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality...
Next Time I Marry (1938)
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...
Living on Love (1937)
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Let's Fall in Love (1933)
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Everybody's Doing It (1938)
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Men with Wings (1938)
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....
The Public Defender (1931)
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Midnight (1939)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Five Came Back (1939)
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off...
The Spellbinder (1939)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...
Beau Geste (1939)
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in...
First Love (1939)
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's...
Sued for Libel (1939)
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
I Married a Witch (1942)
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...
The Day the Bookies Wept (1939)
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Spring Parade (1940)
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...
The Great Gambini (1937)
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler,...
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the...
Rebecca (1940)
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...
I Take This Woman (1940)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...
The Lady Eve (1941)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with...
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
Hired Wife (1940)
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...
It's in the Air (1935)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife,...
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a...
Men Against the Sky (1940)
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane...
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...
Cross-Country Romance (1940)
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Nothing But the Truth (1941)
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Rhythm on the River (1940)
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...
Wildcat Bus (1940)
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Road to Singapore (1940)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...
No Time for Love (1943)
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Pop Always Pays (1940)
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...
There Goes the Groom (1937)
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering,...
The Fleet's In (1942)
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are...
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...
Curtain Call (1940)
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Silver Queen (1942)
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a...
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but...
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
My Favorite Spy (1942)
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it...
Trial Marriage (1929)
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a...
The Accusing Finger (1936)
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...
Destroyer (1943)
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the...
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Torch Singer (1933)
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,...
The Rage of Paris (1938)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of...
Lucky Jordan (1942)
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
Road to Utopia (1946)
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...
Imitation of Life (1934)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...
Our Wife (1941)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Marked Woman (1937)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked...
Scarface (1932)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...
She Had to Eat (1937)
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...
Frenchman's Creek (1944)
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in...
Movie Crazy (1932)
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Hollywood Halfbacks (1931)
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that...
The Campus Vamp (1928)
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who...
Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Professional Soldier (1935)
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to...
The Campus Carmen (1928)
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Motorboat Mamas (1928)
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Behind the High Wall (1956)
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
Deported (1950)
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler...
Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted...
The Yellow Mountain (1954)
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by...
Dawn at Socorro (1954)
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En...
Foxfire (1955)
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
Flesh and Fury (1952)
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has...
Mister Cory (1957)
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
The Far Country (1954)
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work...
The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free...
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Hollywood Story (1951)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...