Gray haired and sweet-faced May Robson may not have been the oldest actress in movies, but the Australian-born (and Oscar-nominated) actress was one of very few faces in Hollywood's Golden Era born before the Civil War. Here, the queen of a rough-and-tumble Nevada mining town comes to the defense of her granddaughter (Margot Stevenson) when she's sued for divorce on wrongful charges, only to get herself tangled up in a murder case. This comedy-western was, astoundingly, how Warner Brothers burned off their rights to the last Perry Mason novel in their possession, by re-writing the sleuth as a part for the diminutive (5'2") actress who, at the age of 82, was still spry enough to do her own car chases.

By Violet LeVoit