Gladys George – MRQE

Below the Surface

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woman to seduce his son, and then blackmail the father into going along with their scheme.

Marie Antoinette

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen’s extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

Silver City

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.

The Hard Way

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Madame X

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

He Ran All the Way

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.

Lullaby of Broadway

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn’t know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother’s. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who’s also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.

Undercover Girl

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

Christmas Holiday

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Don’t be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It’s a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family’s streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.

Minstrel Man

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy’s wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad’s footsteps by billing herself as-that’s right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she’d long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia’s The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn’t surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story’s musical highlights.