Joan Marsh

La Metro Goldwyn Mayer celebró su 50º aniversario haciendo una recopilación de sus mejores clásicos musicales y entrevistando a sus protagonistas.

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.

Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.

An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a photographic memory to memorize his books, then destroys them all so the police won't have any evidence to link him to the racket.

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

Crosby es un promotor de barraca de feria algo golferas que engaña a los espectadores haciéndoles creer que Bob Hope es un prodigio de la naturaleza. Ambos marchan hasta Zanzíbar, donde encontrarán a una guapa nativa y buscarán una mina de diamantes. Entre sus momentos más surrealistas destaca el de Bob Hope luchando contra un gorila en plena jungla.

A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.

Un excéntrico millonario contrata al matrimonio Sloane (Montgomery y Russell) para resolver el misterio del robo de las primeras ediciones de unos antiguos libros.

En los Alpes, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), dos estafadores profesionales se conocen durante un espectáculo burlesco. Tras el estallido de la guerra, vuelven a encontrarse en Francia, pero ella va acompañada por un odioso barón, que se dedica al tráfico de armas y que cree que ella es una exiliada rusa.

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.

Cuando un estudiante indio adinerado dota a la universidad para que puedan mantener al entrenador de fútbol, se rumorea que el indio ha jugado profesionalmente y no puede estar en el equipo.

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

A 1936 exploitation film directed by Walter Shumway. This film presents the viewer some strong information about what can happen to children when they are ignored by their parents.

When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.

El conde Vronsky, joven y apuesto oficial, se enamora perdidamente de Anna Karenina, esposa de un alto funcionario de San Petersburgo. Cuando se conocieron en una estación de tren, un guardavías murió arrollado por un tren, y Anna interpretó este hecho como un mal augurio. Como el marido de Anna se niega concederle el divorcio, deciden vivir juntos, pero, a partir de ese momento, se verán marginados por la sociedad a la que pertenecen.

La boda de su hija aporta muchas sorpresas, incluidos un cobrador de recibos muy decidido, un negocio fallido, una novia en fuga y dinero caído del cielo

El propietario de unos grandes almacenes paga a un pretendiente de su entrometida hija para que se la lleve.

Sam Bisbee es un inventor cuyos trabajos (por ejemplo, un buscador de cerraduras para borrachos) solo le han traído pobreza. Su hija está enamorada del hijo del snob del pueblo. Los acontecimientos conspiran para arruinar su neumático a prueba de balas justo cuando el éxito parece estar cerca. Otro de sus inventos le prohíbe suicidarse, por lo que Sam decide seguir viviendo.

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.

An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.

A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.

When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.

A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.

Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.

Bob juega muy mal al fútbol americano, de manera que su padre, su novia y el insituto le rechazan. Ficha por un equipo rival y se apresta a derrotar al equipo de su padre.

A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.

Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England. Gertrude is also laying plans to marry Doris Bellamy, her ward and the sister of her first husband, to Victor Staunton.

John Paul Bart plancha pantalones en una tintorería, pero sueña con llegar muy alto. Una noche toma prestada ropa de caballero y se cuela en una fiesta de la alta sociedad. Conoce a un millonario, y pronto asciende hasta la cumbre de la empresa...

A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

Cuando la desgracia golpea duramente a la familia Jordan, de la clase alta de Chicago, Bonnie Jordan, una chica deslumbrante e ingeniosa, encuentra trabajo como aspirante a reportera; sin embargo, Rodney, su ingenuo hermano menor, toma un otro camino y se relaciona con gente poco recomendable.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.

Una revista que gira en torno al director de orquesta Paul Whiteman, además de demostrar en su número de clausura que la música popular europea se halla en las raíces de la música popular norteamericana, es decir, el jazz.

l joven Cedric Errol vive con su madre viuda en la ciudad de Nueva York. El difunto padre de Cedric era un hijo del conde de Dorincourt, pero el conde se había opuesto firmemente a la boda de su hijo, y por lo tanto se ha distanciado de Cedric y su madre. Pero cuando el hijo único superviviente del conde muere en un accidente de equitación, Cedric repente se convierte en Lord Fauntleroy, heredero del conde. Cedric y su madre viajan a Inglaterra, donde se tienen que superar duros sentimientos del conde sobre el pasado, así como algunos obstáculos inesperados. (filmaffinit)

Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.

Cuando Pollyanna se queda huérfana, es enviada a vivir con su excéntrica tía Polly. Pollyanna descubre que muchas de las personas en la ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra en la casa de su tía están de mal humor como ella. Pero el optimismo incurable de Pollyanna - ejemplificada por su "juego alegre", en la que busca el lado bueno de cada situación - trae un cambio a la antigua comunidad.

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.

An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and her boyfriend an aspiring author, meet the desperate grandson and agree to share the treasure.

A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.

A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.