TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of George Brent.
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Birthdate: March 15, 1899
Death date: May 26, 1979
George Brent
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.8320
50
1940s
2.4371
30
1950s
1.0120
5
1960s
No Reviews
0
1970s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6981
2.6981
George Brent Movie Rankings
1
3.1822Broadway director Julian Marsh insists on one last huge production before his death. We follow the process from casting, rehearsals and last-minute understudies. ...more about 42nd Street
DVD from $12.71
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2
3.1759Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. ...more about Baby Face
DVD from $25.55
(11 sellers)
3
2.9809Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. ...more about Spiral Staircase
DVD from $4.99
(12 sellers)
4
2.9742
Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. ...more about Jezebel
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
5
2.9481
Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. ...more about Dark Victory
DVD from $8.68
(12 sellers)
7
2.6757
Ginger Rogers, a movie star who has had a nervous breakdown and is suffering from agoraphobia, runs away and meets George Brent and they both retreat to the mountains. ...more about In Person
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.5387
In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister's marriage and she agrees to marry her father's research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Fane takes her to China but constantly ignors her in favour of his medical research. ...more about Painted Veil
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.5341
Michael Curtiz directs a Western that is almost of epic proportions, and screenwriters Warren Duff and Robert Buckner greatly assist in bringing about a snazzy script that is based on Clements Ripley's story. ...more about Gold Is Where You Find It
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.5022
Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to North Dakota and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. ...more about Purchase Price
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.4839
In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. ...more about Stamboul Quest
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.4261
A young woman (Stanley Timberlake) dumps her fiancée (Craig Fleming) and runs off with her sister's (Roy Timberlake) husband (Peter Kingsmill). They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. ...more about In This Our Life
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.4017
Selina lived well until her father Simeon died. Her aunts sold the estate and put her in a boarding school. As an adult she wants to be a teacher in farming country. She falls in love with and marries Pervus, a Dutch farmer she has been tutoring. ...more about So Big!
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.3195
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. ...more about Special Agent
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.2520
"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. ...more about Fighting 69th
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
19
2.2023
In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. ...more about Experiment Perilous
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.1917
Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother. ...more about Old Maid
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.1734
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children. ...more about My Reputation
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.0821
Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. ...more about Female
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.0273
Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South America where his plane crashes. ...more about Great Lie
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.9634
Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that her husband has been killed in action. She finds comfort in Harry and they marry. ...more about Tomorrow Is Forever
- Not Available on DVD
25
1.9542
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. ...more about Miss Pinkerton
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.8173
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred to the Bewildered Heart Column of Prudence Maddox. ...more about You Can't Escape Forever
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29
1.7154
In a fictionalized biography, Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. ...more about Montana Belle
- Not Available on DVD
31
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancee summons three former beaus. ...more about Affairs of Susan
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33
Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. ...more about Born Again
- Not Available on DVD
36
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. ...more about Charlie Chan Carries On
- Not Available on DVD
37
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. ...more about Christmas Eve
- Not Available on DVD
38
When a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop. ...more about Corpse Came C.O.D.
- Not Available on DVD
40
Famous actress Helen Walbridge gives her lover, Stuart McAllister, the key to her apartment intending to meet him there after a party celebrating her latest success. Stuart finds Helen's daughter, Lois Johnson, when he gets there, waiting for her mother. ...more about Desirable
- Not Available on DVD
41
The dream of the title is director 'Max Reinhardt' (qv)'s production of Shakespeare's comedy _Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)_ (qv). This short shows how Reinhardt's vision was translated to the screen. ...more about Dream Comes True
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44
A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he's a convicted murderer, and that will come to light if the FBI does an investigative check on him. ...more about FBI Girl
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46
Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. ...more about Front Page Woman
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47
Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. ...more about Gay Sisters
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49
Billy Austin served on the crew of the USN airship Macon until it crashed at sea during a storm. In the hospital, the captain has given him a watch with the motto of the crew 'It Shall Be Done' inscribed on it. ...more about Go Getter
- Not Available on DVD
50
A cafeteria cashier is hired by a cosmetic firm's publicity agent to live the life of Daisy Appleby, heiress to a fortune. Gossip about her will keep the Appleby name in the forefront. ...more about Golden Arrow
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53
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to penny-pinching Harvey Wilson. ...more about Honeymoon for Three
- Not Available on DVD
54
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. ...more about Housewife
- Not Available on DVD
56
London, at the beginning of the Second World War. ...more about International Lady
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57
Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. ...more about Keyhole
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58
Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series; claiming to be an orphan, he befriends team members & broadcaster Mike Jackson. ...more about Kid from Cleveland
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59
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot. ...more about Lightning Warrior
- Not Available on DVD
61
Kay Williams, an executive with Styles, Inc., is true to her absent husband Bill despite much harassment for dates from co-workers. ...more about Lover Come Back
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64
Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes (George Brent), an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns when an innocent boy is convicted and the real murderer confesses too late. ...more about Man Who Talked Too Much
- Not Available on DVD
68
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh (George Brent), a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae (Carole Landis); a Bohemian artist, David Galleo (Turhan Bey) and his always-there model, Deborah ...more about Out of the Blue
- Not Available on DVD
70
Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for his pregnant wife Nora, Martin forces Jordan to join him. ...more about Racket Busters
- Not Available on DVD
71
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. ...more about Rains Came
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73
The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. His latest love Allison plots to become his second wife. Caroline's friend, newspaper correspondent Julian, confesses he loves her. ...more about Rich Are Always with Us
- Not Available on DVD
74
Maurice and Stella Trent are happily married. When Maurice is crippled in an airplane crash, he and his mother send for his brother Colin to come help keep Stella busy. ...more about Right to Live
- Not Available on DVD
76
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. ...more about Snowed Under
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77
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. ...more about South of Suez
- Not Available on DVD
80
In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. ...more about Temptation
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81
With time on his hands during a business trip, Jimmy Decker (who's engaged to his boss's daughter) romances small-town church organist Marion Cullen, who follows him to New York only to learn Jimmy's true colors after she's burned her bridges. ...more about They Call It Sin
- Not Available on DVD
86
Jerry and Cass have always been competitive. Now that Cass is a well respected Naval aviator like his father, Jerry leaves the submarine service to become a flying cadet with Class 61 at Pensacola. ...more about Wings of the Navy
- Not Available on DVD
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