Ramon Novarro
Birthday: 1899-02-05
Place of Birth: Durango City, Durango, Mexico
Biography: Mexico native Ramon Novarro (born Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego, February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968) was a Hollywood film and television actor. He was a major star and matinee idol of 1920s Silent through early 1930s "talkies" cinema.
Movies
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...
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Mata Hari
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying fo...
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Heller in Pink Tights
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe ho...
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Crisis
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South ...
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We Were Strangers
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret poli...
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The Big Steal
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic ...
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg....
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The Cat and the Fiddle
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer....
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The Hostage
The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kempe...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Across to Singapore
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapor...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s...
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The Outriders
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They ...
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Son of India
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude....
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The Pagan
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he pre...
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The Red Lily
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, t...
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Huddle
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...
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The Son-Daughter
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare....
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Devil-May-Care
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler....
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The Night Is Young
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor...
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Call of the Flesh
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent....
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Lovers
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Fel...
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The Barbarian
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself....
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In Gay Madrid
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs ...
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Where the Pavement Ends
Pastor Spener, a missionary in Wallos, learns that Captain Gregson has closed his café to prove his ...
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The Christmas Party
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his footbal...
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Mr. Barnes of New York
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man...
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The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine f...
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The Road to Romance
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtabl...
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Sevilla de mis Amores
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent. Spani...
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The Flying Fleet
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Nava...
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Scaramouche
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of...
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Daybreak
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy....
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The Sheik Steps Out
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite....
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A Desperate Adventure
In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his wel...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....
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We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...
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The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal gove...
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1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv...
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A Lover's Oath
"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Be...
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The Woman God Forgot
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza w...
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The Arab
Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his re...
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Joan the Woman
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w...
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A Small Town Idol
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and no...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Forbidden Hours
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advise...
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Thy Name Is Woman
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler....
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Man-Woman-Marriage
Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriag...
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Trifling Women
Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to di...
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The Bible According to Hollywood
Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced th...
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A Small Town Idol
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim ...
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A Certain Young Man
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conq...
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The Midshipman
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academ...
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The Goat
Chuck McCarthy, an intrepid young ironworker, longs to become an actor, despite the protests of his ...
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies....
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The Jaguar's Claws
The manager of the American oil company quits out of fear of El Jaguar, the bandit who is terrorizin...
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