Lady at Ball (uncredited)
Versión cinematográfica del mito de Pigmalión, inspirada en la obra teatral homónima del escritor irlandés G.B. Shaw. En una lluviosa noche de 1912, el excéntrico y snob lingüista Henry Higgins conoce a Eliza Doolittle, una harapienta y ordinaria vendedora de violetas. El vulgar lenguaje de la florista despierta tanto su interés que hace una arriesgada apuesta con su amigo, el coronel Pickering: se compromete a enseñarle a hablar correctamente el inglés y a hacerla pasar por una dama de la alta sociedad en un plazo de seis meses.
Party Guest (uncredited)
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
Herself
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Polly Bradford, la hija de un capitán de crucero de lujo, viaja como polizonte en el barco de su padre. El objetivo de la chica es encontrar una nueva pareja para él, viudo desde hace tiempo, antes de que termine el trayecto.
Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Frau Kohner (uncredited)
Un célebre pianista en el ocaso de su carrera, recibe un día una carta de una joven desconocida, Lisa Berndle, que le revela el amor que ha sentido por él en secreto desde la infancia. En ella le recuerda los pocos encuentros que han tenido y le comunica que, de ellos, nació un hijo, que murió de tifus siendo muy niño. También le cuenta que se casó con un diplomático, sin esconderle que su corazón estaba en otro lugar y que esta carta la está escribiendo en su lecho de muerte. En ese momento el pianista comprende por qué, el día anterior, le ha retado a duelo un diplomático vienés.
Mrs. Brown
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
Mrs. Vacuum
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Floor Manager (uncredited)
Walter Mitty, es un escritor soñador con una madre sobreprotectora, al que le gusta imaginar que es un héroe que vive fantásticas aventuras. Su sueño se convierte en realidad cuando conoce accidentalmente a una misteriosa mujer que le entrega un pequeño libro negro. Según ella, contiene las ubicaciones de las joyas de la corona holandesa, ocultas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pronto, Mitty se encuentra en medio de una conspiración, donde tendrá dificultades para diferenciar entre la realidad y la ficción.
Society Matron (uncredited)
Mary Collins (Deanna Durban), una bella locutora de radio, mantiene una relación sentimental con el adusto Donald Read (John Dall), pero quien está realmente enamorado de ella es Charlie, el simplón del hermano de su novio.
Saleslady (uncredited)
Una mujer decide casarse con un hombre de negocios del que está totalmente enamorada. Sin embargo, tras la boda, empieza a sospechar del oscuro pasado de su esposo, un hombre perverso y lleno de maldad. La misteriosa desaparición del hermano de su marido será el punto de partida de una larga investigación...
Mrs. Stafford
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Customer (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.
Cissy Van Horn
Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
Un marino mercante que lleva una vida bastante despreocupada se enamora de una dulce y sumisa bibliotecaria, pero muy pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con ella porque su vida es el mar.
Durante la campaña del Pacífico, una heroica compañía americana lucha contra el avance de las fuerzas japonesas en Filipinas, perdiendo cada vez más terreno. Dos oficiales de lanchas torpederas, en contra de la opinión de sus superiores, intentarán frenar el avance del enemigo utilizando las viejas embarcaciones contra los barcos nipones.
Mrs. Murdock (uncredited)
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
Mrs. Darcy
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
Lavinia Sardham
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Mrs. Manning
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
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.
Mrs. Stevens
La diligencia en la que viaja Marie Stevens con su madre y su padrino de boda, es asaltada, y a Marie le roban las joyas que le diera su prometido Richard Adams. Hopalong Cassidy y su par de colaboradores les rescatan de los bandidos, pero ciertos hechos harán que se conviertan en sospechosos de estar aliados con quien cometieron este robo.
Mrs. Baker
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
Mrs. Harrington (uncredited)
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Miss Ellsworth
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
Mrs. Grey
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Dowager
Judy Garland es Lily, una chica de pueblo con grandes dotes musicales. Un productor de Broadway la descubre y a pesar de que cree que ya lo ha visto todo, cae rendido a sus pies. Lily lo acompaña a Nueva York donde tendrá la gran oportunidad con la que ha estado soñando. Sin embargo, también se dará cuenta que no todo en Broadway es tan bonito como ella imaginaba.
Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
Society Woman
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
Mrs. Martha Randall
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
Minerva Potter
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Miss Hornblower
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
Madame Gloria
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
Mrs. Lewis
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
Mrs. Wilson
Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.
Minor Role (uncredited)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Mrs. Bowser
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders.....
Mrs. Farnsworth
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Marcia
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
Effie Butler
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
Millicent Potter-Potter
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Mrs. South (uncredited)
Un grupo de mujeres pasan la mayor parte del día entre salones de belleza y tiendas de ropa, siempre murmurando, con cotilleos y rumores. De repente, una de ellas descubre que su marido se ve a escondidas con una dependienta. Esta situación provoca un escándalo entre sus amigas, produciéndose diversas situaciones de celos, envidias y rumores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mrs. Davis
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Mrs. Wharton
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Mrs. Parker
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Nace el amor entre un hombre y una mujer cuando ambos piensan que el otro es rico.
Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the living.
Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
George y Marion Kerby mueren en un accidente de tráfico, pero regresan al mundo de los vivos como fantasmas y con la intención de vivir la lujosa vida de su amigo Cosmo Topper, presidente de un banco.
Train Passenger
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Flower Buyer (uncredited)
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Mrs. Wainwright
Un senador rechaza a Peggy O'Neal, y ella, despechada, decide casarse con un teniente. Muerto éste en combate, se casa con un miembro del Gobierno, pasando así a formar parte de la alta sociedad. Pero esto no impide que se deje seducir por un joven, dando lugar a toda clase de habladurías en los círculos de Washington.
May
El operador de casino Johnny Lamb contrata a la socia social Lucille Sutton como su anfitriona del casino, para ayudarla y mejorar los ingresos del casino. Pero los amigos de Lamb temen que pueda seguir a Lucille por el camino recto y angosto, lo que no sería bueno para los negocios. Así que contratan a Gert Malloy y Dictionary McKinney, un par de estafadores, para manipular a Johnny para que salga del camino de la rectitud.
Ann Randel
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Mrs. Hanley
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
Mrs. Godfrey
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Lil Langdon Walton
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
Ursula Chesebrough
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
Mrs. Parker
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
Mrs. Agnes Walker
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Innkeeper
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Mrs. Ferris
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
Mrs. Vandergrift
Un chico de campo, guapo y rico, educado por dos carabinas que odian a las mujeres, viaja a Nueva York y se enamora al instante. Después de estar casado un tiempo, opina que a su mujer sólo le interesa el dinero y la abandona. Un accidente le abrirá los ojos...
Mavis Fry
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
Película inspirada en la novela de Stefan Zweig “Carta de una desconocida”. La protagonista es una mujer que es seducida en dos ocasiones por el mismo hombre, sin que éste la reconozca la segunda vez.
Janet Prescot
Una madre posesiva empuja a su hijo a alistarse en la Primera Guerra Mundial para evitar que se case.
Dolores Delight
Tom es un joven que tiene una imagen idealizada de su padre, al que considera un héroe de guerra; pero debido a las burlas de sus compañeros de colegio, acaba descubriendo que en realidad su padre fue un desertor.
Mathilda Nichols
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
Self
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
Modiste
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
Princess Fredericka
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Carrie
A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.
Mrs. Gordon
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."
Julia Barry
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
Ayesha
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
Lolita
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
Rita Sismondi
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Zahrat
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Helen Frazer
The Truth About Wives is a 1923 silent film.
Rosa Roma
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
Countess Margherita
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
Mille Garreth
A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
Queen of Sheba
The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
Nanette
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Mildred Wayland
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
Helen
Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute. After some time, Ned becomes successful, and he and Joan move to New York. There he meets Helen, daughter of wealthy art patron James Cartwright. Cartwright was the man who "bought" Joan in Paris, and when he learns that his daughter's happiness depends upon Ned's divorce, he threatens to expose Joan.
Mariska
Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
Hebe Norse
Beating the Odds
Madame Arnot
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.
