Herself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Rose
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.
Mrs Schmauss
Cuando Annabel, que es un poco "chicazo", se encuentra dentro del cuerpo de su madre Ellen, ¡se convierte de pronto en la encargada de todas las tareas domesticas! Y Ellen, ahora en el cuerpo de su hija, se enfrenta a los retos del colegio, incluyendo un examen de mecanografía, entrenamiento de hockey sobre hielo y mucho más. En el año 2003 la Disney hizo un conocido remake: "Ponte en mi lugar (Freaky Friday)", protagonizado por Jamie Lee Curtis y Lindsay Lohan.
Patsy Kelly
Una banda de rock es enviada a Albania con el fin de localizar a unos estadounidenses secuestrados en un alejado castillo.
Mrs. Macready
A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
Laura-Louise
Una joven pareja, Rosemary y Guy, se muda a un infame edificio de apartamentos de Nueva York, conocido por aterradoras leyendas y misteriosos sucesos, con el propósito de formar una familia.
Mrs. Fitts
Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.
Myrtle Forbush
En las profundidades de su aislada mansión, el anciano Hiram Stokley, que acaba de fallecer, recibe la visita de un encantador ángel del más allá: su mujer muerta Cecily. Esta le explica que existe una posibilidad para que vuelva a ser joven por un tiempo y entrar por la puerta grande del cielo: si realiza una buena obra en veinticuatro horas
Mac
Kelly es una prostituta que llega a la ciudad de Grantville huyendo de su pasado. Tras un primer encuentro con Griff, el capitán de la policía de la ciudad, consigue rehacer su vida trabajando como enfermera en un hospital para niños inválidos. Además, se enamora del hombre más bueno y rico de la ciudad; pero las cosas no son exactamente lo que parecen.
Mac, Head Nurse
Kelly es una prostituta que llega a la ciudad de Grantville huyendo de su pasado. Tras un primer encuentro con Griff, el capitán de la policía de la ciudad, consigue rehacer su vida trabajando como enfermera en un hospital para niños inválidos. Además, se enamora del hombre más bueno y rico de la ciudad; pero las cosas no son exactamente lo que parecen.
Gertrude Ross
Dos aviones, uno comercial y otro militar, están a punto de colisionar. Ante la inminencia del accidente los protagonistas son conscientes de que sus sueños y secretos podrían estar llegando a su fin.
Maggie
Un crítico teatral y su familia (mujer, cuatro hijos y un perro) se ven obligados a abandonar Nueva York, al vencer su contrato de alquiler, y buscar una casa en las afueras lejos del bullicio de la gran ciudad. El problema es que el cambio de ambiente afecta a las relaciones familiares.
Patsy Kelly is a baby sitter who has no end of problems dealing with the kids in her charge. When Harold and Genevieve sit down in the moonlight for some billing and cooing, Patsy comes along and explains to tehm that marriage equates to kids and kids equate to trouble.
Self
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1947
Terry Olsen
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Hazel Jones
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
Gerty Rosenthal
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
Helga
Tom Craig (John Wayne) llega a Sacramento (California) con el fin de establecer allí una farmacia. Pero la ciudad está dominada por Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker), y muy pronto estallará la guerra entre ambos.
Bebe McGuire
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.
Lulu Monahan
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
Patsy Riley
Un director de cine quiere que estrella se lleve un bebé en un viaje en tren, con el fin de conseguir publicidad. Ya en el tren, la actriz se encuentra con un joven médico al que conoció en el colegio, y del que sigue enamorada. Pero la presencia del bebé causará todo tipo de problemas y malentendidos...
Emily, the Maid
Topper vuelve a ser atormentado por un espíritu amante de la diversión... y del buen vino. Esta vez es Gail Richards, asesinada por error mientras estaba de vacaciones en casa de su rica amiga, Ann Carrington, que debía haber sido la víctima. Con la ayuda de Topper, Gail se dispone a encontrar a su asesino.
Jinx
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Judy Abbott
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Kitty - the Maid
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Katie Callahan
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Peggy O'Brien
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Etta
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Patsy Kane
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Sadie Day
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Nellie Moore
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Kitty Reilly
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
Herself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Bessie Winters
El equipo de fútbol de un pequeño pueblo de Texas deberá enfrentarse al prestigioso equipo de Yale.
Fitz
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Molly Patricia Kelly
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Gracie
Una historia romántica sobre diferencia de clases que tiene lugar cuando un rico aristócrata llamado Richard Winfield se enamora de una sirvienta. La familia queda horrorizada de que la chica pueda entrar a formar parte de ella, así que hará todo lo posible por impedirlo.
Patsy
The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
Patsy Kelly
Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
Patricia Veronica Kelly
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
Patsy Kelly
When Patsy criticises Thelma's poetry, she ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
Miss Patsy Kelly
A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.
Phoebe Mason
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
Patsy
Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
Patsy
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Betty
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.
Daphne O'Connor
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Patsy Kelly
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
Irma 'Toledo' Knight
La Leyenda de ”Broadway”, Al Jonson, y su segunda esposa Ruby Keeler, protagonizan este bello musical sobre una historia de bastidores. Recogiendo el mismo estilo que desarrolló en sus primeras películas, nuestro protagonista interpreta a un artista irresponsable, cuyas artimañas no profesionales acaban en una revuelta de sus propios compañeros de trabajo, hasta que la dirección lo despide del espectáculo.
Patsy Kelly
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
Patsy
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
Mrs. Hardy
Their Night Out - Screen Test Starring Oliver Hardy, Patsy Kelly, and George 'Spanky' McFarland
Patsy
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
Patsy
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Patsy Kelly aka Fifi aka Magnolia
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
Patsy Clarke
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Patsy
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Mabel
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
Kitty Lennihan
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Patsy
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
Patricia 'Patsy' Kelly
Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie comes calling. She does her best to sink the romance, making noise while the lovers talk and offering Limburger cheese sandwiches. In desperation, Archie calls his brother Benny, who's a sailor, and asks him to keep Patsy company. After a series of mishaps, they end up at a saloon where Patsy orders everything on the menu. Who's going to have to pay?
Miss Kelly
Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
Patsy
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Patsy Kelly
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.
Miss Patsy Kelly
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
Mimi
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Patsy Kelly
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Patsy
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
Jill
Tras alcanzar el éxito, un cantante de baladas abandona a su prometida, una joven profesora, y se marcha con una mujer fatal. A pesar de ello, la novia no se rinde e intentará recuperarlo utilizando todos los medios a su alcance.
Patsy
The girls are going on a camping trip.
Patsy
The girls win a car in a raffle.
Peggy O'Rourke
Peggy is a gangster's moll from New Jersey, living a pampered life in Manhattan with three French maids. Blue bloods from England have invited her to tea this afternoon; she's looking forward to her initiation into high society. She takes a Rolls to a club where she's greeted by a team of fakers who plan to sell her a membership in an exclusive but fictive club - for $25,000. As Peggy tries to be refined, will the grifters succeed in the con?