Charles Williams

Nacimiento : 1898-09-27, Albany, New York, USA

Muerte : 1958-01-03

Historia

Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.

Películas

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
El gran desfile de la comedia
(archive footage)
Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
La ciudad sin ley
Mr. Willis (uncredited)
El alguacil Coleen Wave (Randolph Scott) es un abogado que recorre el territorio de Colorado para acabar con los criminales. Su dedicación al trabajo es tan excesiva que su esposa (Angela Lansbury) lo abandona y le asegura que no volverá con él mientras no deje definitivamente las armas. Pero él está decidido a imponer la ley y el orden en una última ciudad, que está dominada por una banda de pistoleros, dispuestos a todo con tal de que el territorio no se convierta en un estado de la Unión.
Circus of Love
Story
Apasionadamente
Story
Willy (Anne Baxter) trabaja de camarera en un circo, pero sueña con ser acróbata y lo conseguirá con la ayuda de un compañero de trabajo. Lo malo es que se ve envuelta en un triángulo amoroso del cual no saldrá indemne.
Main Street to Broadway
Bartender (uncredited)
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
El monstruo magnético
Cabbie
Narra la historia de un sabio que crea, a partir de un experimento fallido, un isótopo radioactivo que comienza a magnetizar todo lo que le circunda, creciendo de tamaño, emitiendo energía y absorbiendo hidrógeno. Un pequeño planeta que implosiona cada once horas para ver aumentada su masa.
According to Mrs. Hoyle
Charlie
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Nana de Broadway
Reporter (uncredited)
Una estrella del musical americano regresa a su ciudad natal de Londres para visitar a su madre. La joven no sólo tiene tiempo para cambiar el modo de vida descuidado de su progenitora, sino que también se enamora de un empresario de Broadway durante una recepción.
Gasoline Alley
Mortie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
The Missourians
Postmaster Walt
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
The Judge
Reporter
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
La acusada
Dorgan's Assistant (uncredited)
Una profesora de psicología en una Universidad de California se defiende del ataque sexual de uno de sus alumnos matándolo de forma accidental. Sin embargo, el acoso de un detective que investiga el caso hará que la mujer acabe reconociendo ser culpable de esa muerte. En el juicio, dicho policía, enamorado de ella, hará todo lo posible porque sea declarada inocente.
Parole, Inc.
Titus Jones
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Juror
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Marshal of Amarillo
Hiram Short
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
Hazard
Little Motorist (uncredited)
Como parte de una apuesta, un jugador compulsivo acepta casarse con el ganador, un jugador profesional. Antes de que él pueda "cobrar", ella se escapa de la ciudad. El jugador contrata a un detective privado para localizarla y poder cobrar sus "ganancias".
Wedlock Deadlock
Chester
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
Heading For Heaven
Eddie Williams
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
The Trespasser
Joe, the stage manager
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Saddle Pals
Leslie
Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal (Sterling Holloway) and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
¡Qué bello es vivir!
Cousin Eustace
Es la vigilia de Navidad en Bedford falls, NY, y George Bailey está planeando suicidarse. Pero un ángel es enviado para detenerle en su intento. Él le enseñará a George las cosas maravillosas de su juventud, cómo salvó la vida de su hermano y la de otros que, gracias a haber conocido a George, son felices. Así, nuestro amigo descubrirá que... ¡La vida es realmente un tesoro maravilloso que debemos disfrutar!
Lady Chaser
Apartment House Manager
A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.
Queen of Burlesque
Carr, manager of Regent Hotel
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
Mr. Stone
During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog's cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign
Sucedió en el tren
Louis Burt (uncredited)
Kit Madden es una novelista que viaja en tren a Hollywood para colaborar en una película que se basa en su nuevo libro 'Aquí está el mañana'. Durante el trayecto conoce al marine Rusty Thomas, un caballero que discutirá con ella diversos aspectos del libro, mostrando su desacuerdo en algunos puntos, sin saber que está hablando con la autora.
Passkey to Danger
Mr. Williams
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
El cartero siempre llama dos veces
Doctor (uncredited)
Durante la Gran Depresión, Frank Chambers, un hombre sin rumbo, comienza a trabajar en un bar de carretera, regentado por un hombre mayor y por Cora, su joven, bella e infeliz esposa.
Hitchhike to Happiness
In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Scared Stiff
Reporter (Uncredited)
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Hollywood and Vine
Chick Jones
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Hollywood and Vine
Story
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Hollywood and Vine
Screenplay
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Identity Unknown
Auctioneer
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
The Man Who Walked Alone
Reporter
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
End of the Road
Jordan
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Atlantic City
Chalmers
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Call of the Rockies
Burton Witherspoon
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Mr. Pike
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Career Girl
Louis Horton
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
The Girl from Monterrey
Harry Hollis
Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
The West Side Kid
Reporter
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Secretary
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Redhead from Manhattan
Box Office Attendant
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Time to Kill
Dentist
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Night in New Orleans
Citizen (Uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Mi espía favorita
3rd Speaker in Park
Justo antes de embarcarse en su luna de miel, el soldado Kay Kyser recibe la orden de presentarse en el cuartel general para una peligrosa misión: actuar como espía en un club nocturno donde parece ser se ha localizado a un grupo de nazis. Su esposa Terry no parece conformarse con la soledad, así que parte en busca de su nuevo marido. Esto, unido a la torpeza de Kyser y la intervención de una rubia agente secreta dará lugar a todo tipo de situaciones cómicas.
Una gran señora
Assayer
Hannah Hoyt, una anciana centenaria, asiste a la inauguración de una estatua en homenaje a su marido, un pionero con el que, en 1848, vivió en las montañas, donde buscando oro corrieron toda clase de peligros.
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
The Pitchman
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Girls' Town
Coffer
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Rivales por un beso
Photographer
El tímido marinero Casey Kirby se convierte de repente en un lobo de mar cuando es fotografiado al lado de una actriz famosa. Sus compañeros entonces hacen una apuesta, para ver si es capaz de conquistar a una fría cantante de night-club conocida como la Condesa.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Theodore H. Sherman Jr.- Printer
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Flying Cadets
Mr. Prim / Primmie, Bookkeeper
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
The Lady from Cheyenne
Clerk
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Mr. District Attorney
Detective in Café (uncredited)
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Marked Men
Charlie Sloane
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Grand Ole Opry
Politician (uncredited)
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Girl in 313
Henry, Husband
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Johnny Apollo
Photographer (uncredited)
Un corredor de bolsa de Wall Street es encarcelado por desfalco. Su hijo, recién licenciado en la universidad, intenta conseguir trabajo para pagar la fianza. Sin embargo, debido a la reputación de su padre, es rechazado en todas partes. Dadas las circunstancias, acaba entrando en una banda mafiosa y llega a ser la mano derecha de un poderoso gángster.
Una nueva primavera
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Midnight Limited
Screenplay
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
Women Without Names
Hugh Gilman
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Peters (uncredited)
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Days of Jesse James
Northern Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Heroes in Blue
Story
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
Heroes in Blue
Screenplay
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
Sabotage
(uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Undercover Doctor
Pinky Valkus
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
The Flying Irishman
Car Repo Man
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
The Ice Follies of 1939
Max Morton (Uncredited)
Una patinadora sobre hielo pone en peligro su matrimonio cuando se convierte en una estrella de cine. Primera aparición en color de Joan Crawford.
Wife, Husband and Friend
Jaffee
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Trade Winds
Reporter Jones (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Gateway
Reporter
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.
Little Miss Broadway
Mike Brody
Un huérfano es adoptado provisionalmente por el gerente de un hotel poblado por gente de negocios. Al dueño del hotel no le gustan los artistas y quiere que la niña regrese al orfanato.
Men with Wings
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Esta película se desarrolla en los primeros tiempos de la aviación civil, cuando los pilotos se jugaban la vida como auténticos héroes debido a la precariedad de los primeros aviones.
La banda de Alexander
Agent
Roger Grant, un reputado violinista, forma una banda denominada Alexander's Ragtime Band, con la cantante Stella Kirby. El compositor Charli Dwyer se enamora de Stella y la recomienda a un productor de Broadway. Éste ofrece un contrato a Stella, que se convierte en una estrella.
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Gabby Marden
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Jake
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Born to Be Wild
Company Spotter
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Love and Hisses
Irving Skolsky
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Amateur Crook
Drunk Witness
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Merry Go Round of 1938
Dave Clark
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Siempre Eva
Mr. Mack
Un tímido contable (Leslie Howard) trata de salvar de la bancarrota a un estudio de Hollywood con la ayuda de una sexy mujer (Joan Blondell) y un cínico productor de buen corazón (Humphrey Bogart).
Sky Racket
Nightclub Entertainer
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Meeker, Burke's Lawyer
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.
It Happened in Hollywood
Hymie - Photographer
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Wake Up and Live
Charlie Alberts, Agent
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Vogues of 1938
Customs Man in Fall Show
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Flying Fists
Meggs, the Reporter
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Big Business
Florist Shop Customer
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Cena de medianoche
Un maître de hotel conoce a una joven multimillonaria norteamericana y vive con ella una extraña aventura a bordo de un trasatlántico que va de París a Nueva York.
Fair Warning
Hotel Clerk
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Amor y periodismo
Joe Brady
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Espionage
Simmons (uncredited)
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Sinner Take All
Minor Role (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Four Days Wonder
Kasky
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Hollywood Boulevard
Reporter (uncredited)
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.
Rhythm on the Range
Gopher Mazda
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Sleepless Hollow
Doctor (uncredited)
Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Moon Over Manhattan
Story
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
Woman in the Shadows
Hotel Desk Clerk
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
La cena de los acusados
Fighter Manager (uncredited)
Un conocido inventor neoyorquino es acusado de varios asesinatos. Cuando llegan a la ciudad un famoso detective y su mujer y se enteran del asunto, ella, movida por el espíritu de aventura, trata de convencer a su marido para que acepte el caso.
A Very Honorable Guy
Druggist
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Casino del mar
Baby Face (Charles T. Pearson Jr.)
Ace Corbin, cansado de una vida disoluta y repleta de malas compañías comienza una nueva vida con otro nombre y se aleja de su pasado en tren. Allí conoce a una joven llamada Eleanor que también arrastra un oscuro pasado...
The Gay Nighties
Timid Man
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
The Nuisance
Skating Rink Official (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Aeropuerto Central
Hotel Desk Clerk
El aviador Jim Blaine y su hermano Neil no sólo son rivales en sus temerarios vuelos, sino que además luchan por el amor de la paracaidista Jill Collins.
La rubia del Follies
Lottie's Friend Mr. Kinskey (uncredited)
Blondie es una neoyorkina y Lurlene es su mejor amiga. Cuando Lurlene consigue un papel en un gran espectáculo de Broadway, también hace que Blondie forme parte del elenco. Pero esta amistad empieza a ir mal cuando Larry Belmont, el novio rico de Lurlene, empieza a fijarse en Blondie.
Strangers of the Evening
1st Passerby
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Strictly Unreliable
Billy Freeman - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Dance Team
Benny Weber
From Wikipedia.com A 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Edwin J. Burke.
Forgotten Women
Stagehand
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
El ídolo
Stagehand (uncredited)
Prolongación de "Svengali" (1931), continúa el drama de una figura siniestra que adopta a un adolescente como discípulo. En este caso, se trata de un titiritero lisiado (John Barrymore), que rescata a un abusado niño y lo convierte en un gran bailarín de ballet.
The Old Homestead
Gabe Waters
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.