Ernest Truex Movies

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

In this short film from Educational Pictures, Ernest Truex stars as a man who doesn't like kids and prefers dogs. This gets him in good with the...

A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough...