Jobyna Ralston

Hollywood on Parade was a series of short subjects produced by Paramount Pictures between 1932 and 1934. They showcased the studio's stars both in newsreel-type footage (glimpses of Hollywood figures at premieres, parties, the races, etc.) and in new material such as sketches or musical numbers.

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.

Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

El reportero Clem Rogers está ansiando como nunca una primicia que lo saque del anonimato... y ésta le llega cuando se entera de que su novia, Jane Atwill, hija del sonado candidato a la alcaldía de la ciudad, está implicada en un crimen que acaba de cometerse, y que tiene que cubrir al ser el único periodista que estaba en ese momento de guardia.

The Toilers (1928)

Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.

Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.

The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.

Jack Powell (Charles Rogers), un joven que vive en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos en 1917, está enamorado de la sofisticada Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston) y se siente irritado por las constantes atenciones de la chica de la casa de al lado, Mary Preston (Clara Bown), Sylvia está a su vez enamorada del rico heredero David Armstrong (Richard Arlen), aunque su relación se ve interrumpida cuando los dos jóvenes se alistan en el Ejército. Tras un periodo de enfrentamiento, entran en las Fuerzas Aéreas y Jack y David conocen al cadete White (Gary Cooper), quien les sirve de inspiración para sus futuros combates aéreos. Drama bélico que ha pasado a la historia por ser el primer film que ganó el Oscar a la mejor película, el año de la creación de los premios de la Academia americana (años 1927-1928).

A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.

Harold es un muchacho algo tímido y simplón a quien su padre, el sheriff Hickory, considera y trata como a un niño. Pero cuando Hickory es acusado de haberse adueñado del dinero que la comunidad le había confiado, Harold se lanzará a la busca y captura de los ladrones.

The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....

Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events.

Harold Lloyd es un caprichoso millonario que puede permitirse el lujo de destrozar dos coches y tirar de chequera para adquirir uno nuevo. Su estilo de vida contrasta con el de un predicador y su hija, que dan de comer en una barriada pobre. Una serie de equívocos conducen a que Harold se convierta en involuntario benefactor de los desheredados.

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Harold Lamb es un estudiante novato dispuesto a todo para hacerse popular en la universidad.

Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!

En un pueblo de California vive un joven que es aprendiz de sastre. El pánico que le inspiran las mujeres lo lleva a convertir sus deseos en fantasías surrealistas.

Un joven millonario hipocondríaco viaja con su guapa enfermera y su servicial mayordomo a la imaginaria isla sudamericana de Paradiso. Pero, a pesar de su nombre, la isla no es lo que cabría esperar.

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.

The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.

A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.

A James Parrott comedy short.

Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off and dressing his wounds. He then gets back on his 'saddle' and fires his gun again, this time in the direction of another man who has just entered the room. Paul leaves abruptly and rides into town on a horse, and straight through a crowded saloon. A town marshal sees this as act act of bravery and rewards Paul with a sheriff's badge immediately. A fearful rival makes his mark when he lights his cigarette by tossing it into the air and shooting at it to ignite it!

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.

The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.

A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside the window--and our frightened hero immediately breaks out the shotgun to fend off the phantom menace.

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

Francia, siglo XVII. Un joven y valeroso gascón va a París con la esperanza de ingresar en el cuerpo de los mosqueteros del Rey. La voluntad y la destreza del aspirante, asociadas a las casualidades del destino, le harán asumir la defensa del honor de la Reina Ana de Austria, esposa del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643). Al mismo tiempo, el joven espadachín se enamora locamente de Constance, la dama de compañía de la Reina. Si el motor narrativo de la celebérrima historia de Alexandre Dumas se respeta, Max Linder se divirtió añadiendo muchos detalles inesperados y graciosos que hacen de esta película una joya del género burlesco.

In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.

Lla primera, aunque nunca estrenada, película de los Hermanos Marx. La impresión original pudo estropearse al ser abandonada en la sala de montaje, aunque también se dice que Groucho quemó el negativo tras la desafortunada premiere ante los productores