Edgar Selwyn Trailers
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Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944) was a prominent figure in American theater and film in the first half of the 20th Century. He co-founded Goldwyn Pictures in 1916.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Selwyn flourished in the Broadway theater as an actor, playwright, director, and producer from 1899 to 1942. With his brother Archibald Selwyn (November 3, 1877 - June 21, 1959) he founded the theatrical production company The Selwyns which produced plays on Broadway from 1919 to 1932 (see, e.g., Wedding Bells). The Selwyns owned several theatres in the United States including the Park Square Theatre in Boston; the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Selwyn in Chicago; and the Selwyn, Apollo, and Times Square theatres in New York City.
Selwyn also worked in Hollywood, producing and directing eight films between 1929 and 1942. Among these was The Sin of Madelon Claudet which Selwyn directed for MGM in 1931. The film starred Helen Hayes, who won an Academy Award for her performance. In addition, Selwyn wrote two screenplays and many more films were adapted from his original plays. He died in Los Angeles, California.
Most Popular Edgar Selwyn Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
21 November 1931
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
16 August 1940
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
31 August 1934
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him.
01 December 1939
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
23 October 1931
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
04 October 1940
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law.
23 February 1934
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
16 July 1932
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan.
26 April 1919
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children.
14 March 1931
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
22 November 1930
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
26 May 1939
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
29 September 1939
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
02 August 1925
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take up residence in Manhattan.
14 April 1939
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
17 February 1933
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
17 April 1941
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away.
29 July 1942
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.
30 April 1922
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
25 August 1933
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
30 August 1929
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves.
13 July 1924
Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.
18 November 1917
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
20 April 1925
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents.
01 September 1918
In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians.
12 April 1935
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No.
11 April 1914
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures...
27 January 1918
Mabel plays Arabella Flynn, a shop girl who mistakenly thinks she is an heiress. She gets in a jam on a spending spree only to discover that she actually is an heiress and can marry the heir of a corset manufacturer.
18 February 1915
Tom, a young man in a small town, wants to marry his sweetheart Jane, but Jane's father won't allow it until Tom proves he can support her.
28 December 1924
Irene Martin, hoping to find fame as an opera singer, leaves her hometown for New York but ends up a chorus girl.
