Jean Muir (actress)
Filmography -- Film
Table:
Year

Title

Role

Notes

1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

Louise Kane

Uncredited

1933

Female

Miss Joyce

Uncredited

1933

The World Changes

Selma Peterson, her granddaughter Selma

1933

Son of a Sailor

Helen Farnsworth

1934

Bedside

Caroline Grant

1934

As the Earth Turns

Jen Shaw

1934

A Modern Hero

Joanna Ryan Croy

1934

Dr. Monica

Mary Hathaway

1934

Desirable

Lois Johnson

1934

Gentlemen are Born

Trudy Talbot

1935

The White Cockatoo

Sue Talley

1935

Oil for the Lamps of China

Alice

1935

Orchids to You

Camillia Rand

1935

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helena

1935

Stars Over Broadway

Nora Wyman

1936

Faithful

Marilyn Koster

Warner Bros.-First National Teddington; lost film

1936

White Fang

Sylvia Burgess

1936

Fugitive in the Sky

Rita Moore

1937

Once a Doctor

Paula Nordland

1937

Her Husband's Secretary

Carol Blane Kingdon

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Bureau of Missing Persons is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film with comic overtones directed by Roy Del Ruth . The screenplay by Robert Presnell is based on the book Missing Men by former New York City Police Captain John H. Ayers and Carol Bird .
Female is a 1933 Warner Bros. pre-Code film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent . It is based on the novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke .
The World Changes is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as an ambitious farm boy who becomes rich , but does not handle success well . Aline MacMahon and Mary Astor play his mother and wife respectively .
Son of a Sailor is a 1933 American comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Alfred A. Cohn , Paul Gerard Smith , Ernest Pagano , and H. M. Walker . The film stars Joe E. Brown , Jean Muir , Frank McHugh , Thelma Todd , Johnny Mack Brown , and Sheila Terry . The film was released by Warner Bros. on December 23 , 1933 .
Bedside is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring Warren William , Jean Muir and Allen Jenkins . A man passes himself off as a doctor .
As the Earth Turns is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jean Muir and Donald Woods .
A Modern Hero is a 1934 American pre-Code romance drama film starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst . It is based on the novel with the same title by Louis Bromfield . It was Pabst 's only American talking film .
Dr. Monica is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic melodrama film produced by Warner Bros. starring Kay Francis , Warren William and Jean Muir . An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband .
Desirable is a 1934 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Jean Muir and George Brent . It was released by Warner Bros . The film follows the story of Lois ( Jean Muir ) , the 19-year-old daughter of a famous actress ( Verree Teasdale ) , who has been hidden away at boarding school to protect her mother 's image . A scarlet-fever quarantine sends her home to New York City , full of innocent enthusiasm , only to be betrayed by her mother , by the arrogant egotists of her mother 's theatrical world and by the haughty social snobs in the upper-crust family whose son her mother persuades her to marry . Mac ( George Brent ) , a friend of her mother 's , initially plays an avuncular role , but by the end of the movie they realize that they are in love . One brief , sweet , completely natural scene is remarkable for its time - or indeed for a long time to come . At a ball , Lois , tired of dancing with the same partner ( no one will cut in ) pretends her shoe is broken and seeks refuge in the hotel Ladies Lounge . One of the maids brings her a glass of water , tells her she is welcome to stay , then picks up her knitting . Lois admires the shade of pink , and they chat . It is for the maid 's sister 's baby , a boy , 18 months old , too big to handle now . She has a picture of him , would Lois like to see it ? Oh yes , Lois exclaims , and then Isnt he cute ?
Gentlemen Are Born is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Franchot Tone . The film 's pre-release title was Just Out of College . A news item in Daily Variety notes that Warner Bros. was sued for $ 250,000 by Ronald Wagoner and James F. Wickizer who contended that the film was based on their story Yesterday 's Heroes .
The White Cockatoo is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Jean Muir , Ricardo Cortez and Ruth Donnelly . It was based on the 1933 novel of the same name by Mignon G. Eberhart . A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection .
Oil for the Lamps of China is a 1935 drama film starring Pat O'Brien and Josephine Hutchinson . It is based on the novel of the same name by Alice Tisdale Hobart . A man blindly puts his faith in his employer . The film was loosely remade in 1941 as Law of the Tropics .
Orchids to You is a 1935 American drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring John Boles , Jean Muir and Charles Butterworth . The screenplay concerns a flower shop owner and a married attorney who begin a romance after meeting in court .
A Midsummer Night 's Dream is a 1935 American romance and fantasy film of William Shakespeare 's play , directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle , and starring James Cagney , Mickey Rooney , Olivia de Havilland , Jean Muir , Joe E. Brown , Dick Powell , Ross Alexander , Anita Louise , Victor Jory and Ian Hunter . Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis for Warner Brothers , and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt 's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year , the film is about the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens , Theseus , and the Queen of the Amazons , Hippolyta . These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors , who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the story is set . The play , which is categorized as a comedy , is one of Shakespeare 's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world . Felix Mendelssohn 's music was extensively used , as re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold . The ballet sequences featuring the fairies were choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska .
Stars Over Broadway is a 1935 American musical film directed by William Keighley , written by Jerry Wald , Julius J. Epstein , & Pat C. Flick , and starring Pat O'Brien , Jane Froman , James Melton , Jean Muir , Frank McHugh , and Eddie Conrad . It was released by Warner Bros. on November 23 , 1935 .
Faithful is a 1936 British musical drama film , directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Jean Muir and Hans Söhnker . The film was made by Warner Brothers at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie production , with an original screenplay by Brock Williams and music by Pierre Neuville . Faithful is now classed as a lost film . The plot deals with two pupils from a provincial music conservatory who elope , marry , and come to London to try their luck . The husband becomes a singer in a nightclub , and is soon targeted by a predatory socialite . They start an affair , the wife finds out about it and decides to leave her husband , until matters are smoothed over by a third-party who wishes the couple well .
White Fang is a 1936 American action film directed by David Butler and written by Sam Duncan , Gene Fowler and Hal Long . The film stars Michael Whalen , Jean Muir , Slim Summerville , Charles Winninger , John Carradine and Jane Darwell . It is based on the novel White Fang by Jack London . The film was released on July 17 , 1936 , by 20th Century Fox .
Fugitive in the Sky ( aka Heroes of the Air ) is a 1936 American aviation drama film directed by Nick Grinde and written by George Bricker . The stars are Jean Muir , Warren Hull , Gordon Oliver , Carlyle Moore Jr. , Howard Phillips , Winifred Shaw and Mary Treen . Fugitive in the Sky was released by Warner Bros. on November 28 , 1936 , a mere six months after the Paramount Pictures feature , 13 Hours by Air , considered by aviation film historian Michael Paris in From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun : Aviation , Nationalism , and Popular Cinema
Once a Doctor is a 1937 American drama film directed by William Clemens and written by Robertson White and Ben Grauman Kohn . The film stars Jean Muir , Donald Woods , Gordon Oliver , Joe King , Henry Kolker and Gordon Hart . The film was released by Warner Bros. on January 23 , 1937 .
Her Husband 's Secretary is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Lillie Hayward . The film stars Jean Muir , Beverly Roberts , Warren Hull , Joseph Crehan , Clara Blandick and Addison Richards . The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 26 , 1937 .