Cast: Leila Hyams

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Leila Hyams. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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