Maitre d'Hotel
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Travel Agency Manager
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
M. Fevrier
Ferdinand de Lesseps fue un joven aristócrata e ingeniero francés que proyectó la construcción del Canal de Suez (inaugurado en 1869), pero tuvo que afrontar numerosos problemas para llevar a cabo su proyecto.
Count
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Modiste Benoit
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Lepino
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Monet
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Hotel Manager
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Headwaiter (uncredited)
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
LeFevre
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Jeweler
La historia del legendario jugador Diamond Jim Brady y su romance con la actriz y cantante Lillian Russell.
Leopold, Duke of Austria
Ricardo Corazón de León marcha a las Cruzadas para eludir su boda con la princesa Alicia de Francia, y por el camino contrae matrimonio con Berengaria para proporcionar comida a sus hombres. Todo se complica cuando Berengaria es raptada por Saladino.
Louie - Head Waiter
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Mancini
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
Mueller (uncredited)
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
The Lieutenant
Una pareja en viaje de luna de miel, viajan en tren por las tierras de Budapest con destino a Wiesegrad, para después dirigirse a Gombos. Debido a un error de la ferroviaria, deben de aceptar hospedar en su vagón privado a un huésped, el doctor Vitus Werdegast, psiquiatra. Aunque a regañadientes, y para evitar que el intruso se quede en el pasillo toda la noche, aceptan. Una vez juntos, el doctor Vitus les dice que va a Wiesegrad a ver a un viejo amigo, pero por la expresión de su rostro no parece tener muy buenas intenciones. Durante el transcurso del viaje, la joven pareja se queda dormida, momento que aprovecha el doctor para acariciar la cabeza de la desposada. Pero el marido lo ha observado todo.
Baron Franz von Hausmann
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
Carlotti
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
Rigaud
Un aventurero es contratado para pilotar una cañonera por el río. Deja a Wildeth en una misión por su seguridad, pero cuando regresa le atacan los comunistas. Si repele la agresión, es posible que la Marina le readmita y reciba permiso para casarse con Wildeth.
Henri de Fairville
Un honesto e ingenuo maestro recibe una lección sobre cómo funciona el mundo fuera del aula, cuando un rico barón y su amante usan al maestro y su sobresaliente reputación para comercializar bajo su nombre una bebida de dudosa calidad.
French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Spinelli
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Mabel's 1st Accomplice
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Vincent Rowland
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
Lil trabaja para la empresa Legendre y hace que Bill se divorcie de Irene y se case con ella. Tiene un romance con el empresario Gaerste y lo utiliza para obligar a la sociedad a prestarle atención.
Captain
Zara es una mujer que sufre amnesia desde hace años y se reencuentra con su marido Bruno sin saber la relación que les une. Poco a poco ella vuelve a enamorarse de él.
Mario
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Captain Kessler
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
French Hotel Desk Clerk
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Andre
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
Landowner (uncredited)
En un circo lleno de seres deformes, tullidos y personas con diversas amputaciones, Hans, uno de los enanos, hereda una fortuna. A partir de ese momento, Cleopatra, una bella contorsionista, intentará seducirlo para hacerse con su dinero. Para lograr su objetivo, traza un plan contando con la complicidad de Hércules, el forzudo del circo...
André de Graignon
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
French Husband
Sus parientes han concertado para un noble inglés un matrimonio de conveniencia. Va a un centro de veraneo europeo y se hace pasar por un gigoló, con el fin de conocer a su prometida y saber cómo es.
De Bazan
Lisbeth es una mujer moderna que piensa que el matrimonio está pasado de moda. Ella tiene dos hombres en su vida, Steve, que quiere casarse con ella y Alan, que quiere que viaje con él. A pesar de todas las advertencias de sus amigos y familiares, Lisbeth va a México con Alan, donde ella es feliz hasta que descubre que él tiene una esposa en París...
Emile
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mona, wife of the war minister, who opposes a treaty the ambassador very much wants signed. However, his mission is complicated by the fact that Helene, the ambassador's wife, is extremely jealous of every woman he meets, for she was responsible for getting him his appointment as attaché. Belmar, nevertheless, is in love with Greta, who will not marry him until he is proven worthy of her trust. After many narrow escapes from exposure of the personal intrigue, he manages to sway the attentions of Mona, who persuades the war minister to sign the treaty, thus gaining Belmar an appointment as ambassador to Peru and Greta as his wife.
Captain
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Peck
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
En una ciudad marroquí donde está la Legión extranjera, Amy Jolly (Dietrich), una cantante de cabaret que por problemas económicos se ve obligada a cantar en un café de segunda fila, tiene como novio a un rico pintor (Menjou), pero se enamora del apuesto legionario Tom Brown (Cooper).
Empire Officer
Angela y Bob Brooks son una pareja de clase alta. Por desgracia, Bob es un marido infiel. Pero Angela tiene un plan para recuperar el afecto de su marido. Un baile de máscaras se llevará a cabo a bordo de un dirigible. Angela asiste y se disfraza de diablesa. Escondida detrás de su máscara y envuelta en un atrevido vestido trata de seducir a su marido para darle una lección.
Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
La condesa Vera está a punto de contraer matrimonio con el estirado príncipe Otto, pero decide dejarle y se va a Montecarlo. Acude al casino, donde el conde Rudolph, hombre muy adinerado, se fija en ella. Le dice que, si le deja tocar su cabello, tendrá buena suerte en el juego. Ella se lo permite y empieza a ganar como por arte de magia. Tan impresionada queda por su cambio de suerte que, sin saber quién es, contrata a Rudolph en calidad de peluquero.
Monsieur Pantoise
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
Count Lutzen
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Paul Strohm
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
Walter Klucke
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Mengle
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Baron Finot
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
Alex Condax
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's lifted diamonds from wealthy passenger Arthur Condrax. She needs Lash to aid in sneaking the "ice" ashore at Singapore. Cocky is Lash's concertina-playing buddy and uses it to signal Lash.
Producer
Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sueña con ser una actriz dramática y su padre se dispone a llevarla a Hollywood para que le hagan un casting, donde piensa demostrarle a todos que su hija es una verdadera actriz. Ayudada por Billy Boone (William Haines), la chica conseguirá la dichosa prueba... pero algunas cosas van a cambiar en lo que han sido sus pretensiones, mientras entre ellos nace algo que es mucho más que una simple amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Count D'Estrange
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems. Finally Count D'Estrange marries Mme. Florence Laverne. Both couples leave for a honeymoon in Venice
Von Hohendorff
Un piloto ha de atravesar las líneas enemigas alemanas para dejar en tierra a una bella espía, de la que está enamorado.
Arnold Guthrie
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Martin Thorne
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
Billie
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.
Henri
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Hon. Winchester Squirtz
Priscilla está casada con un artista llamado León. Sin embargo Leon no está mostrando mucho interés por ella. A si que trama un plan para darle celos con Stan que es un vendedor de pintura.Ollie lo viste para que cene esa noche con Priscila y engañar a Leon..pero todo se enredara...
Andreas
Playboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and puritanical--society family, a girl so prim and proper that she's known as "The Blonde Saint". One night at a dinner party, she informs Maure that she is engaged to young VIncent Pamfort and is leaving for England the next day to marry him. Maure tricks her into meeting him onboard a boat going to Palermo, and before they get there she suddenly grabs her and jumps overboard. They wind up in a fishing village on a small island and before long find themselves caught up in a cholera epidemic and a local criminal gang.
Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
El príncipe Danilo, heredero al trono, se enamora de la bailarina Sally O'Hara. Pero su tío, el Rey Nikita I de Monteblanco, prohíbe el matrimonio por ser una plebeya. Desengañada, ella se casa con un rico y anciano Barón. Obra maestra del cine mudo, un ácido retrato de la aristocracia, basado en una opereta de Franz Lehar, que se convirtió en unos de los títulos más famosos del gran Erich von Stroheim.
Dr. Chalmers
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
Kuschka
Cuando Vladimir Dubrovsky rehúsa convertirse en amante de la zarina Catalina II, ésta, herida en su orgullo, lo acusa de ser un criminal y ordena que lo capturen vivo o muerto. Las propiedades de la familia Dubrovsky son inmediatamente confiscadas y entregadas a Kyrilla Troekouroff, un hombre cruel que provoca la muerte del padre de Vladimir. Cuando éste se entera, jura vengarse y, para ello, se oculta tras un antifaz negro y actúa con el apodo de Águila Negra. Para ejecutar su venganza, se disfraza de preceptor y entra en la casa de Troekouroff como profesor de francés de Mascha, la hija de su enemigo. Pero sus planes se tambalean cuando empieza a enamorarse de la joven.
Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
En la Viena de los albores de la Gran Guerra el último de los Von Hohenegg, el Conde Franz Maximilian, cae rendidamente enamorado de la humilde organillera de la feria del Prater, la cual trabaja para el brutal Huber, que también la pretende. Haciéndose pasar por un vendedor de ropa la seduce pero el Emperador ha decretado ya su inminente matrimonio con la Condesa Gisella Von Steinbruck y Franz no puede negarse, rompiéndole así el corazón a la bella Agnes. Finalmente llega la Guerra y en las trincheras el Conde se encontrará con Sylvester Urban, padre de Agnes y payaso del circo, quien lo maldecirá en su lecho de muerte, causándole una enorme impresión que a punto estará de costarle su propia vida.