Bryan Foy

Birth : 1896-12-08, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 1977-04-20

Movies

PT 109
Producer
Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
House of Women
Producer
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Producer
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
Battle Stations
Producer
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Women's Prison
Producer
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
The Bamboo Prison
Producer
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
The Mad Magician
Producer
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
Crime Wave
Producer
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
House of Wax
Producer
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Producer
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand by their story, and the message of peace and hope the Lady brings. In the last vision, attended by thousands of people, the Lady proves her reality with a spectacular miracle that is seen by everyone present. Based on actual events at Fatima in the summer of 1917.
The Winning Team
Producer
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
I Was a Communist for the FBI
Producer
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
Highway 301
Producer
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
The Great Jewel Robber
Producer
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
Trapped
Producer
U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
He Walked by Night
Producer
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
The Scar
Executive Producer
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Canon City
Producer
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
Mickey
Production Manager
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
Man from Texas
Producer
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
Adventures of Casanova
Executive Producer
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
Out of the Blue
Executive In Charge Of Production
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Lost Honeymoon
Executive Producer
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
Doll Face
Producer
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
The Bullfighters
Executive Producer
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
Take It or Leave It
Producer
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Guadalcanal Diary
Producer
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
The Undying Monster
Producer
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Producer
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
I Was Framed
Associate Producer
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Steel Against the Sky
Producer
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
The Body Disappears
Producer
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Law of the Tropics
Producer
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Producer
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Underground
Producer
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
The Nurse's Secret
Producer
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
Thieves Fall Out
Producer
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
A Shot in the Dark
Producer
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Shadows on the Stairs
Producer
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Flight from Destiny
Executive Producer
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
South of Suez
Executive Producer
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. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
Always a Bride
Executive Producer
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.
Money and the Woman
Executive Producer
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
River's End
Executive Producer
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
Ladies Must Live
Executive Producer
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
Gambling on the High Seas
Associate Producer
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
A Fugitive from Justice
Associate Producer
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Murder in the Air
Associate Producer
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
Tear Gas Squad
Producer
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Private Detective
Producer
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
The Return of Doctor X
Producer
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
On Dress Parade
Associate Producer
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Smashing the Money Ring
Associate Producer
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
No Place to Go
Producer
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Associate Producer
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Producer
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Waterfront
Producer
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Producer
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. She and Ted find themselves in many dangerous positions such as trying to fly an airplane after the pilot parachuted out and being face-to-face with the murderer.
Code of the Secret Service
Associate Producer
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Sweepstakes Winner
Associate Producer
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Associate Producer
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
On Trial
Associate Producer
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Producer
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Associate Producer
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Associate Producer
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
King of the Underworld
Associate Producer
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Devil's Island
Associate Producer
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Nancy Drew: Detective
Producer
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy becomes a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.
Torchy Gets Her Man
Associate Producer
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Broadway Musketeers
Producer
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Mr. Chump
Producer
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Penrod's Double Trouble
Producer
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
When Were You Born
Associate Producer
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Over the Wall
Associate Producer
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
He Couldn't Say No
Producer
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Penrod and His Twin Brother
Producer
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
Blondes at Work
Producer
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Hollywood Hotel
Associate Producer
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Missing Witnesses
Producer
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
The Adventurous Blonde
Associate Producer
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Alcatraz Island
Associate Producer
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Love Is on the Air
Associate Producer
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
White Bondage
Producer
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Talent Scout
Producer
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Fly Away Baby
Producer
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
The Cherokee Strip
Producer
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Draegerman Courage
Producer
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Melody for Two
Producer
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Midnight Court
Producer
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Penrod and Sam
Associate Producer
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Once a Doctor
Associate Producer
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
California Mail
Producer
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
Isle of Fury
Producer
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
Down the Stretch
Producer
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
Love Begins at Twenty
Producer
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Jailbreak
Producer
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Bengal Tiger
Associate Producer
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
Hot Money
Producer
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Murder by an Aristocrat
Producer
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
The Law in Her Hands
Producer
A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Treachery Rides the Range
Producer
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
Road Gang
Producer
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Man Hunt
Producer
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Freshman Love
Producer
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Producer
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Tomorrow's Children
Producer
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.
Elysia, Valley of the Nude
Producer
James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist colonies.
Elysia, Valley of the Nude
International News Bureau Editor
James Mack, a reporter for the International News Bureau, is assigned by his editor to do a story on the phenomenon of nudist colonies.
What Price Innocence?
Producer
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
Night of Terror
Producer
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
The Curse of a Broken Heart
Producer
Columbia Pictures short.
Deception
Producer
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
The Tenderfoot
Producer
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Director
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
The Gorilla
Director
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
Railroad Follies
Director
A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.
Harmonizing Songs
Producer
Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.
The Music Racket
Director
An office with two stuffy guys of the music business, one of them Mac who says to "keep that dame away," when Trixie Brown has come by to sing for them, and he thinks she's awful. But when Trixie barges in on her own, Mac turns on his friendly face and tells her to wait in room number three, where he'll be in to listen to her. He then passes through the tin pan alley offices, quickly side-tracked when he sees Lee Morse with a piano man practicing a number.
The Music Racket
Producer
An office with two stuffy guys of the music business, one of them Mac who says to "keep that dame away," when Trixie Brown has come by to sing for them, and he thinks she's awful. But when Trixie barges in on her own, Mac turns on his friendly face and tells her to wait in room number three, where he'll be in to listen to her. He then passes through the tin pan alley offices, quickly side-tracked when he sees Lee Morse with a piano man practicing a number.
The Happy Hottentots
Director
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
Reno or Bust
Director
A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty against the husband for divorce grounds but, in the process, find out they don't really want a divorce.
Surprise
Director
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Trifles
Director
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives are able to solve the mystery, which they decide to keep to themselves.
Poor Aubrey
Director
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Finders Keepers
Producer
This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
Finders Keepers
Director
This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
Die Königsloge
Director
For Sale
Director
A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.
Songology
Director
Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman singing a few of their songs in 'Songology'.
Sympathy
Director
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
Don't Get Nervous
himself
Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.
Don't Get Nervous
Director
Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.
Rarin' to Go
Director
A cowboy, Jack just came to the golden west in a comedy skit. He fiddles around with a lariat. He meets a cowgirl named Elsie and asks her to dance for him.
The Music Makers
Director
A man hides inside a giant phonograph machine and imitates various recording artists for a pair of flappers.
Moving Day
Director
A bunch of niwits make a mishmash of a moving job.
Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder
Director
Rose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers, "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho", "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You", and "Don't Be Like That". She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing.
At the Party
Director
Buddy Harris and Frank Radcliffe crack some jokes, play craps, and sing a song.
Jack White with the Montrealers
Director
Jack White & The Montrealers playing a few tunes.....
A Bird in the Hand
Director
Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.
Gossip
Director
A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.
The California Mail
Producer
During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent Bob Scott is therefore instructed to clean out the bandit gangs that have been stopping the vital California gold shipments.
Frank Whitman: That Surprising Fiddler
Director
Frank Whitman demonstrates that he can replace a standard violin bow with a variety of objects.
The Home Towners
Director
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
Sharp Tools
Director
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
Hollywood Bound
Director
A hotel clerk from Iowa believes he's destined to collect first prize in a contest: a movie contract at a Hollywood studio.
Thanksgiving Day
Director
Business is bad for doctors and undertakers, but it's Thanksgiving Day and luck might change.
Lights of New York
Director
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
Lights of New York
Producer
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
The Swell Head
Director
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Chips of the Old Block
Director
The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
The Morrissey & Miller Night Club Revue
Director
Will Morrissey and Midgie Miller get top-billing here but we also have Sammy Cantor, Charlotte DeLovelace, Harry Downing and Vina and Arthur on the bill. This here is pretty much a condensed version of what one would see at the Morrissey and Miller club.
The Book Worm
Director
Wilbur is sent by his boss at the bookstore on an errand to deliver a book to a customer. However, instead of just delivering the book, he just awkwardly stands there talking to the customer. Eventually, however the lady tries to get him to stick around--and it looks like she has romance on her mind.
The Night Court
Director
A police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for the judge.
Hazel Green & Company
Director
Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.
College
Writer
Brilliant in his studies and dismissive of athletics, Ronald finishes high school at the top of his class. But in college his uptight attitude doesn't win him any points with his sports-loving classmates, and pretty coed Mary ignores him in favor of brutish jock Jeff. Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald makes a buffoon of himself at every sport imaginable.
Somebody Lied
Director
A Favorite Fool
One of the Widow's Children (as Seven Little Foys)
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted.