Cast: Leila Hyams
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Leila Hyams. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 39
Freaks
1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Wallace Ford · Leila Hyams · Olga Baclanova · Roscoe Ates
Synopsis The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other sideshow attractions, resist allowing her into their clan, until Hans maintains her love is genuine.
8.2
22K votes
8.2
22K votes
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts
Synopsis While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle....
6.9
294 votes
6.9
294 votes
Island of Lost Souls
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Erle C. Kenton
Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams
Synopsis An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
6.8
990 votes
6.8
990 votes
Spite Marriage
1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton · Dorothy Sebastian · Edward Earle · Leila Hyams
Synopsis Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances, he dons someone else's tuxedo and races to the theatre. When Trilby's co-star boyfriend gets engaged to a socialite,...
6.6
225 votes
6.6
225 votes
Red-Headed Woman
1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Jean Harlow · Chester Morris · Lewis Stone · Leila Hyams
Synopsis Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur...
6.6
110 votes
6.6
110 votes
The Big House
1930 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction George W. Hill
Cast Chester Morris · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Robert Montgomery
Synopsis Young Kent Marlowe, sent to prison for manslaughter, never learns the prison 'code of honor', planting a knife on his cellmate John Morgan, causing Morgan's parole, due to start the next day, to be revoked. Morgan escapes, meets and falls...
6.5
112 votes
6.5
112 votes
A Girl in Every Port
1928 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Victor McLaglen · Robert Armstrong · Louise Brooks · Natalie Joyce
6.1
130 votes
6.1
130 votes
The Thirteenth Chair
1929 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Conrad Nagel · Leila Hyams · Margaret Wycherly · Helene Millard
Synopsis Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a...
5.8
81 votes
5.8
81 votes
Stepping Out
1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Charlotte Greenwood · Reginald Denny · Leila Hyams · Lilian Bond
Synopsis When Sally (Charlotte Greenwood) and Eve (Leila Hyams) take a vacation together to make their rich husbands miss them, the boys (Reginald Denny and Harry Stubbs) promptly invite over two gold digging actresses (Lilian Bonds and Merna Kennedy) for an...
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Men Call It Love
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Edgar Selwyn
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Leila Hyams · Norman Foster · Mary Duncan
Synopsis A well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife.
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The Christmas Party (S)
1931 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Charles Reisner
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jackie Cooper · Marion Davies
Synopsis Jackie wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team, but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM decide to help him out.
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The Bishop Murder Case
1930 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction David Burton · Nick Grinde
Cast Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · Roland Young · Alec B. Francis
Synopsis The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was...
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The Flirting Widow
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Basil Rathbone · Leila Hyams · William Austin
Synopsis Phyllis wants to marry Bobby, but Father won't permit it until older sister Celia weds. So Celia invents a military fiancée in Arabia, unimaginatively christens him John Smith, writes him a love letter, and then kills him off. Only there...
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Sing Sinner Sing
1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Howard Christie
Cast Paul Lukas · Leila Hyams · Don Dillaway · Ruth Donnelly
Synopsis A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
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Way for a Sailor
1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast John Gilbert · Wallace Beery · Jim Tully · Leila Hyams
Synopsis Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one girl he tries to impress the most is in London...
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People Will Talk
1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Leila Hyams · Dean Jagger
Synopsis Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter,Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the...
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Way Out West
1930 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast William Haines · Leila Hyams · Polly Moran · Cliff Edwards
Synopsis Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs...
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The Phantom of Paris
1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction John S. Robertson
Cast John Gilbert · Leila Hyams · Lewis Stone · Jean Hersholt
Synopsis Cheri-Bibi is the most celebrated magician and escape artist in France. Young and debonair, he enjoys the attentions of society and the love of one young woman in particular. But when her wealthy father is found murdered and all evidence...
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The Wizard
1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Richard Rosson
Cast Edmund Lowe · Leila Hyams · Gustav von Seyffertitz · E.H. CalvertBetty Caldwell
Synopsis It is the story of Professor Paul Coriolos (Gustav von Seyffertitz), a mad genius seeking revenge on the four people who sent his son to the gallows. To this end, he develops a horrific ape-man named Balaoo (George Kotsonaros) who...
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Surrender
1931 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Warner Baxter · Leila Hyams · Alexander Kirkland · William Pawley
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