Genevieve Tobin

Genevieve Tobin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Genevieve Tobin (November 29, 1899 – July 21, 1995) was an American actress. The daughter of a vaudeville performer, Tobin made her film debut in 1910 in Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eva. She appeared in a few films as a child, and formed a double act with her sister Vivian. Their brother, George, also had a brief acting career. Following her education in Paris and New York, Tobin concentrated on a stage career in New York. Although she was seen most often in comedies, Tobin also played the role of Cordelia in a Broadway production of King Lear in 1923. Popular with audiences, she was often praised by critics for her appearance and style rather than for her talent, however in 1929 she achieved a significant success in the play Fifty Million Frenchmen. She introduced and popularized the Cole Porter song "You Do Something to Me" and the success of the role led her back to Hollywood, where she performed regularly in comedy films from the early 1930s. She played prominent supporting roles opposite such performers as Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Joan Blondell and Kay Francis, but occasionally played starring roles, in films such as Golden Harvest (1933) and Easy to Love (1934). She played secretary Della Street to Warren William's Perry Mason in The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935). One of her most successful performances was as a bored housewife in the drama The Petrified Forest (1936) opposite Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. She married the director William Keighley in 1938 and made only a couple more films; her final film before her retirement was No Time for Comedy (1940) with James Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Genevieve Tobin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Genevieve Tobin
  • Popularity: 0.1752
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1899-11-27
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Genevieve Tobin Movies

  • 1932
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    One Hour with You

    One Hour with You

    6.494 1932 HD

    Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.

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  • 1936
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    The Petrified Forest

    The Petrified Forest

    7.1 1936 HD

    Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

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  • 1934
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    Kiss and Make-Up

    Kiss and Make-Up

    5.05 1934 HD

    Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.

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  • 1935
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    The Woman in Red

    The Woman in Red

    6 1935 HD

    A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.

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  • 1933
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    I Loved a Woman

    I Loved a Woman

    4.538 1933 HD

    The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.

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  • 1934
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    Dark Hazard

    Dark Hazard

    5.4 1934 HD

    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 buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.

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  • 1940
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    No Time for Comedy

    No Time for Comedy

    5 1940 HD

    An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

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  • 1935
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    The Case of the Lucky Legs

    The Case of the Lucky Legs

    5.6 1935 HD

    A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

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  • 1935
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    The Goose and the Gander

    The Goose and the Gander

    4.125 1935 HD

    When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

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  • 1934
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    Easy to Love

    Easy to Love

    4.625 1934 HD

    Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

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  • 1937
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    The Duke Comes Back

    The Duke Comes Back

    5 1937 HD

    After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.

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  • 1935
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    Broadway Hostess

    Broadway Hostess

    5.3 1935 HD

    Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

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  • 1938
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    Dramatic School

    Dramatic School

    6.2 1938 HD

    Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.

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  • 1933
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    Perfect Understanding

    Perfect Understanding

    6.1 1933 HD

    A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

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  • 1934
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    The 9th Guest

    The 9th Guest

    5.881 1934 HD

    Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.

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  • 1931
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    Seed

    Seed

    6 1931 HD

    Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan

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  • 1936
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    Snowed Under

    Snowed Under

    7 1936 HD

    Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!

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  • 1934
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    By Your Leave

    By Your Leave

    2.333 1934 HD

    A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

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  • 1934
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    Success at Any Price

    Success at Any Price

    3.778 1934 HD

    A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

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  • 1933
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    Goodbye Again

    Goodbye Again

    4.556 1933 HD

    Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?

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  • 1939
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    Yes, My Darling Daughter

    Yes, My Darling Daughter

    3.333 1939 HD

    Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.

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  • 1931
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    The Gay Diplomat

    The Gay Diplomat

    4 1931 HD

    Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.

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  • 1938
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    Zaza

    Zaza

    4.8 1938 HD

    A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

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  • 1930
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    A Lady Surrenders

    A Lady Surrenders

    2.7 1930 HD

    A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.

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  • 1931
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    Up for Murder

    Up for Murder

    3.5 1931 HD

    Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

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  • 1933
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    Pleasure Cruise

    Pleasure Cruise

    5.7 1933 HD

    Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

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  • 1938
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    Kate Plus Ten

    Kate Plus Ten

    8 1938 HD

    Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

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  • 1933
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    The Wrecker

    The Wrecker

    1 1933 HD

    The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.

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  • 1936
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    The Man in the Mirror

    The Man in the Mirror

    7 1936 HD

    A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.

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  • 1937
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    The Great Gambini

    The Great Gambini

    6 1937 HD

    A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.

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  • 1936
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    Breakdowns of 1936

    Breakdowns of 1936

    1 1936 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

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  • 1935
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    Here's to Romance

    Here's to Romance

    1 1935 HD

    Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

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  • 1930
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    The Voice of Hollywood

    The Voice of Hollywood

    1 1930 HD

    The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary Pickford as "Queen of the Arts." It is not currently clear which number in the series this is because it isn't on IMDB or any listing).

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  • 1933
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    Infernal Machine

    Infernal Machine

    1 1933 HD

    This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.

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  • 1933
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    Golden Harvest

    Golden Harvest

    5 1933 HD

    A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.

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  • 1932
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    The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

    The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

    1 1932 HD

    The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

    6 1934 HD

    Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

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  • 1930
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    Free Love

    Free Love

    8 1930 HD

    A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.

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  • 1932
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    Hollywood Speaks

    Hollywood Speaks

    1 1932 HD

    The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.

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  • 1934
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    Screen Snapshots No. 11

    Screen Snapshots No. 11

    1 1934 HD

    Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of chess. The scene is from an early 1934 episode of Columbia Pictures' Screen Snapshots, a series of short films featuring the off-screen lives of Hollywood stars.

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  • 1919
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    The Country Cousin

    The Country Cousin

    1 1919 HD

    The Country Cousin

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  • 1939
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    Our Neighbors - The Carters

    Our Neighbors - The Carters

    1 1939 HD

    A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.

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