Ottola Nesmith Movies

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the...

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.

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as...

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

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

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

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