Rod La Rocque
2 credits on HibingeTV
American film actor, born in 1898. A leading man of the silent and early sound eras, he rose to fame at DeMille's studio and starred opposite Joan Crawford in Our Modern Maidens (1929). He retired from the screen in the early 1940s. He died in 1969.
Acted In
Drama, Fantasy
Three lonely millionaire engineers — Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, and Charles Winninger — throw their wallets out the window on Christmas Eve to see who returns them, and end up adopting the two strangers who do: a young singer and a cowboy who fall in love. When the three men die in a plane crash, they return as ghosts to shepherd the couple through the consequences of the money they left behind. Also released as Beyond Christmas, it is a gentle holiday fantasy directed by A. Edward Sutherland for RKO, and its dark second half — one ghost tempted away from the light — surprises anyone expecting pure sentiment. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal of copyright.
Drama · Fantasy · Romance
Beyond Tomorrow
1940 - as Phil Hubert
Comedy, Drama
A late-silent MGM comedy-drama released with a synchronized musical score but no spoken dialogue, and Joan Crawford's final film without talking. She plays Billie Brown, a flapper who believes herself in love with one man while another pines for her, with Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Anita Page rounding out the quartet. Fairbanks and Crawford married during production, and the film's party sequence features his impersonations of contemporary stars. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Comedy · Drama · Romance
Our Modern Maidens
1929 - as Glenn Abbott