Frederick Lonsdale

Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale

Londres, a principios de siglo. Jane Hoskins (Garson) ha trabajado la mayor parte de su vida como ama de llaves y actualmente es empleada por lord Minden y su altiva esposa lady Sybil Minden. El hermano gemelo de lord Minden, Nigel (Michael Wilding) recibió solo diez mil libras de herencia, frente a los cinco millones de su hermano gemelo, solo porque su hermano nació cinco minutos antes que él y, en consecuencia, es el hermano mayor a los ojos de la ley. Después de malgastar su dinero, Nigel se cuela en la casa de su hermano y roba los pendientes de lady Minden. Lady Minden acusa a su criada Jane del robo hasta que Nigel da un paso adelante y se responsabiliza. Jane, enojada porque lady Minden la acusó injustamente de robo, decide renunciar a su trabajo.

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.

A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.

Con el paso de los años, Don Juan, el mayor seductor de todos los tiempos, vive más de su leyenda que de sus encantos. Prueba de ello es que, cuando se difunde la noticia de su muerte, desaparecen sus dotes de seducción. Finalmente, empujado por un sentimiento de fracaso, decide pasar por la vicaría.

A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...

Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.

A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane

In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

Ronald Colman interpreta a un apuesto galán que lleva una vida alborotada. Ahora tiene puestas sus armas de seducción en dos atractivas señoritas, interpretadas por Loretta Young y Myrna Loy. Colman regresa de un ocioso viaje por Sudamérica y se encuentra con su padre enfurecido, que le echa en cara el despilfarro que hace del dinero, además de su ligera forma de vida. Pero a Colman sólo le interesan sus amoríos, y ahora está envuelto en una complicada relación a dos bandas. No sabe por qué señorita decidirse. Por un lado siente una gran atracción hacia la temperamental actriz interpretada por Myrna Loy, pero a la vez no puede negar sus sentimientos hacia una amiga de su hermana, Loretta Young. La honestidad de Colman se pone a prueba cuando se ve obligado a decidir, y logra demostrar que no es un simple y vanidoso seductor.

Ronald Colman interpreta a un apuesto galán que lleva una vida alborotada. Ahora tiene puestas sus armas de seducción en dos atractivas señoritas, interpretadas por Loretta Young y Myrna Loy. Colman regresa de un ocioso viaje por Sudamérica y se encuentra con su padre enfurecido, que le echa en cara el despilfarro que hace del dinero, además de su ligera forma de vida. Pero a Colman sólo le interesan sus amoríos, y ahora está envuelto en una complicada relación a dos bandas. No sabe por qué señorita decidirse. Por un lado siente una gran atracción hacia la temperamental actriz interpretada por Myrna Loy, pero a la vez no puede negar sus sentimientos hacia una amiga de su hermana, Loretta Young. La honestidad de Colman se pone a prueba cuando se ve obligado a decidir, y logra demostrar que no es un simple y vanidoso seductor.

Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, social-climbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife "does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her".

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.

Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.