Sort by Year - Earliest Feature Films With Lynne Roberts

1. Bulldog Edition (1936)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Cy Kendall

Votes: 99

2. Stella Dallas (1937)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 6,276 | Gross: $2.00M

3. Circus Girl (1937)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trapeze artist Kay Rogers marries aerial-act member Charles Jerome, who immediately become jealous of fellow-trapeze artist Bob McAvoy, and sets out to kill him through a series of staged ... See full summary »

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: June Travis, Robert Livingston, Donald Cook, Betty Compson

Votes: 58

4. Dangerous Holiday (1937)

58 min | Drama

Ronnie is a child prodigy who enjoys playing the violin, and his relatives and agent want to exploit his talents so as to make more money off of him. Fed up with their intentions, Ronnie decides to take off on his own for a bit.

Director: Nicholas T. Barrows | Stars: Ronald Sinclair, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Hedda Hopper, Jack La Rue

Votes: 61

5. Heart of the Rockies (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 95

6. Mama Runs Wild (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Mary Boland, Ernest Truex, William Henry, Lynne Roberts

7. The Lone Ranger (1938)

Approved | 264 min | Western

Heroic's of Lone Ranger & Tonto, matter!

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Silver Chief, Chief Thundercloud, Lynne Roberts, Stanley Andrews

Votes: 247

8. Dick Tracy Returns (1938)

Approved | 260 min | Drama

Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles Middleton, Jerry Tucker

Votes: 440

9. Billy the Kid Returns (1938)

Passed | 53 min | Western

Rogers plays a lookalike to the dead Billy The Kid and restores the tranquility of Lincoln County after subduing the criminal element.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Lynne Roberts, Morgan Wallace

Votes: 311

10. Shine on Harvest Moon (1938)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western

The one-time partnership between two men has turned into a full-fledged range war. Roy is the son of one of the former partners, the heroine is daughter to the other. The film featured and ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Myrtle Wiseman, Scotty Wiseman

Votes: 125

11. Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)

Approved | 66 min | Mystery, Romance, Sport

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.

Director: David Howard | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington, Barbara Pepper

Votes: 175

12. Come on, Rangers! (1938)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western

Disbanded Texas Rangers are gathered together to help the U.S. Cavalry put an end to marauding outlaws.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald

Votes: 136

13. The Higgins Family (1938)

54 min | Comedy

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 21

14. Call the Mesquiteers (1938)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western

Smugglers hijack the Mesquiteers truck, but the police catch up, kill the smugglers, and then try to arrest the Mesquiteers as part of the gang. They escape but now have to prove their innocence while being hunted as wanted men.

Director: John English | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 126

15. Frontier Pony Express (1939)

Approved | 58 min | Western

As Yankee and Rebel forces contend for the allegiance of California, Pony Express rider Roy and his sidekick must round up a pack of villains before Roy can turn his attentions to the girl.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane

Votes: 124

16. In Old Caliente (1939)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western

Americans come West to California in the hope of peaceful settlement.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Jack La Rue

Votes: 261

17. Southward Ho! (1939)

Passed | 58 min | Western

In post-Civil War Texas a former Union officer is the government's chief law enforcement official and tax collector. Roy discovers that the man is also the head of an outlaw gang.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Wade Boteler

Votes: 167

18. Should Husbands Work? (1939)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport

Votes: 15

19. The Mysterious Miss X (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a ... See full summary »

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Michael Whalen, Lynne Roberts, Chick Chandler, Mabel Todd

Votes: 66

20. Everything's on Ice (1939)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music

A rascal turns his little niece into a skating star, but spends more money than she makes.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Irene Dare, Edgar Kennedy, Roscoe Karns, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 73

21. Rough Riders' Round-up (1939)

Passed | 58 min | Western

Now that the Spanish-American war is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stagecoaches and express offices.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Acuff

Votes: 294

22. My Wife's Relatives (1939)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy

The second of the nine-film series based on "The Higgins Family" from Republic, with James and Lucile Gleason in the first seven, replaced by Roscoe Karns and Ruth Donnelly in the last two ... See full summary »

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport

23. Star Dust (1940)

Approved | 90 min | Drama

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 385

24. The Bride Wore Crutches (1940)

Approved | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Reporter (North) witnesses a bank robbery, finds the robbers, joins them and .... This impresses his girlfriend (Roberts).

Director: Shepard Traube | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Ted North, Edgar Kennedy, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 23

25. High School (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Texas ranch teenager (Withers) is sent to school in San Antonio where she learns to get along with others.

Directors: George Nicholls Jr., Norman Foster | Stars: Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr., Paul Harvey, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 89

26. Romance of the Rio Grande (1940)

Passed | 72 min | Western

When an old rancher's (Cordoba) grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Cesar Romero, Patricia Morison, Lynne Roberts, Ricardo Cortez

Votes: 77

27. Street of Memories (1940)

Approved | 71 min | Drama

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a fight remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.

Director: Shepard Traube | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Guy Kibbee, John McGuire, Edward Gargan

28. Ball of Fire (1941)

Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers

Votes: 14,059

29. Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

After Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle

Votes: 1,950

30. Moon Over Miami (1941)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis

Votes: 1,390

31. Blues in the Night (1941)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 1,306

32. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

Passed | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 1,570

33. Riders of the Purple Sage (1941)

Approved | 54 min | Drama, Western

Lassiter discovers the judge (Barrat) who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of badguys posing as vigilantes.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: George Montgomery, Mary Howard, Robert Barrat, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 176

34. Ride on Vaquero (1941)

64 min | Western

Honest robber Cisco despises kidnapping and aids the law in unearthing a kidnapping gang. He also flirts with a dance hall girl.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Lynne Roberts, Chris-Pin Martin

Votes: 58

35. Last of the Duanes (1941)

Approved | 57 min | Action, Drama, Western

In 1870 Texas, a man comes home to find his father murdered. He trails an outlaw until he discovers he's part of a gang. He calls in the Texas Rangers.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: George Montgomery, Lynne Roberts, Eve Arden, Francis Ford

Votes: 38

36. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)

Passed | 58 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco

Votes: 547

37. Quiet Please: Murder (1942)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.

Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 420

38. The Man in the Trunk (1942)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Lynne Roberts, George Holmes, Raymond Walburn, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 14

39. Young America (1942)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama

Spoiled city girl Jane Campbell is furious when her widower father sends her to the rural town of Button Willow Valley to live with her grandmother, Nora Campbell. Jane and her Black ... See full synopsis »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell

Votes: 24

40. The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Eddie Grant is a radio station sound-effects man whose honeymoon takes a turn for the worse when they discovers the corpse of a program producer in in their honeymoon suite.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Arthur Lake, Janis Carter, Lynne Roberts, Frank Sully

Votes: 98

41. The Big Bonanza (1944)

Passed | 70 min | Western

Captain Jed Kelton (Richard Arlen), Union Army officer, unfairly tried for cowardice in battle during the Civil War, escapes from custody while being transported to Fort Leavenport in ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Arlen, Robert Livingston, Jane Frazee, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 91

42. My Buddy (1944)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Ruth Terry, Lynne Roberts, Alexander Granach

Votes: 50

43. Port of 40 Thieves (1944)

Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Muriel is the scheming widow of the fabulously-wealthy Hartford Chaney III. Muriel's husband has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, freeing her to marry her playboy paramour ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Stephanie Bachelor, Tom Keene, Lynne Roberts, Olive Blakeney

Votes: 71

44. The Phantom Speaks (1945)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Crime, Horror

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

Director: John English | Stars: Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers

Votes: 216

45. Girls of the Big House (1945)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A college professor's well-bred daughter assumes the name of Jeanne Crail to date Earl Williams, a slick con artist who frames her for robbery. Rather than have her father find out about ... See full synopsis »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine, Marion Martin, Adele Mara

Votes: 29

46. The Chicago Kid (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Joe Ferrill is trying to get enough money so that when his father gets out of prison, he can live comfortably, but before that happens his father dies in prison. Angry at the world, Joe ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Otto Kruger, Tom Powers, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 19

47. Behind City Lights (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Jean Lowell, an unsophisticated girl who has spent all of her life on a farm, is about to marry Ben Coleman, a neighboring young farmer, but an automobile crash interrupts the wedding. ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Peter Cookson, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale

48. Winter Wonderland (1946)

Approved | 71 min | Drama

A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Charles Drake, Roman Bohnen, Eric Blore

Votes: 67

49. The Pilgrim Lady (1946)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The head of a failing magazine gets an MS written under a pseudonym that he tries to unravel.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Alan Mowbray, Veda Ann Borg

Votes: 42

50. The Magnificent Rogue (1946)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance

A wife, under her maiden name, runs her husband's ad agency while he is away serving the forces. After his return, he wants her to be a housewife, but she wants to sign up a big account. A bet is made and whomever wins gets their way.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Gerald Mohr, Stephanie Bachelor

Votes: 88