6 Best Grace Hayle Movies

By Vlad Zakh · April 6, 2026

Grace Hayle brought a large, commanding comic presence to Hollywood and frequently played overbearing society matrons and formidable wives. Topper has ghostly friends loosening up a banker, Theodora Goes Wild threatens a small-town writer’s reputation as a scandalous novelist, Roberta inherits a Parisian fashion house, and Design for Living tangles a woman with two friends in love with her. Gold Diggers of 1933 and Baby Face round out the list.

Topper (1937)

TMDB ★ 7.0

Alan Mowbray features in this comedy about a stuffy banker whose life is upended when he is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving young couple.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod · 1h 37m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, Cineverse · Rent or buy: Amazon Video

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Elizabeth Risdon features in this Irene Dunne screwball comedy about a small-town author whose secret career writing a scandalous novel threatens to expose her respectable double life.

Directed by Richard Boleslawski · 1h 34m · Rated NR

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Roberta (1935)

TMDB ★ 7.0

An American football player inherits his aunt's Parisian fashion house and falls for its lead designer.

Directed by William A. Seiter · 1h 46m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: TCM · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Design for Living (1933)

TMDB ★ 6.9

A woman refuses to choose between two close friends and proposes they all three live together.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 1h 31m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

TMDB ★ 7.2

Struggling Broadway performers scheme to fund a new show during the Great Depression.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 1h 37m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Baby Face (1933)

TMDB ★ 7.1

A woman ruthlessly uses seduction to climb the corporate ladder out of poverty.

Directed by Alfred E. Green · 1h 16m

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Grace Hayle Movies

Topper (1937)

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Roberta (1935)

Design for Living (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Baby Face (1933)

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