Gov. Alfred E. 'Al' Smith
Recreación cinematográfica de la vida de James J. Walker (Bob Hope), que a finales de los años 20 se convierte en el controvertido alcalde de Nueva York, conocido por sus chistes y bromas y por la imparable corrupción durante su mandato. Además provocó un gran escándalo por su relación con Betty Compton (Vera Miles).
Professor Quigley
Jess Birdwell es el patriarca de una familia de cuáqueros, una secta cristiana que se niega a participar en las guerras. Su hijo Josh desea adherirse al pacifismo familiar pero, temiendo ser tomado por un cobarde, se alista en el ejército, lo que provoca el disgusto de su madre.
Col. Plug
Davy Crockett y su compinche Georgie compiten contra el jactancioso Mike Fink ("King of the River") en una carrera en barco a Nueva Orleans. Más tarde, Davy y Georgie, aliados de Fink, luchan contra un grupo de piratas fluviales que intentan hacerse pasar por nativos americanos.
(archive footage)
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
The Dauphin / The King
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brothers right before Huck takes off down the Mississippi River to try and get away from his abusive father. Along his journey Huck comes across a wide range of characters including The Duke.
Al Moore
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
McGonigle
Pete Garvey, un corresponsal estadounidense en Francia, se ve en el brete de tener que casarse en el plazo de una semana para poder quedarse con dos huérfanos de guerra con los que se ha encariñado durante su estancia en París.
Mayor Colton
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
Mayor Colton
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
Mayor Colton
In the third movie in Monogram's "Father" series, patriarch Henry Latham buys a cow in order to bypass the town's milk tax.
Colonel Castine
Siendo Napoleón emperador de Francia, a un estafador de poca monta lo confunden con el temible Inspector General, un enviado oficial de Bonaparte para controlar y acabar con la corrupción generalizada en los vastos territorios del imperio.
Joe Brooks
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Walter Catlett
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star
Mayor Colton
Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the trial of his father, Henry, who is accused of burning down the McCluskey bridge.
Mayor Colton
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
The King
En un pequeño pueblo inglés, la policía recoge a Peter (Dean Stockwell), un chaval con la cabeza afeitada que rehúsa hablar ante las preguntas de los agentes. El Dr. Evans, el psiquiatra que colabora con la policía, será con quién el chico cogerá confianza y será el elegido para escuchar su increíble historia: Peter vivía con sus abuelos, unos antiguos feriantes de circo. Un día, mientras ayudaba en el colmado donde trabajaba, se entera que una nueva guerra está a punto de estallar. Ahí es cuando se entera que sus padres murieron en un raid aéreo durante uno de los bombardeos sobre Londres. A la mañana siguiente, Peter se despertó con el cabello completamente verde. Todos los chavales se reían de él, por lo que Peter huye al bosque, lugar donde tendrá una visión: Él ha sido el elegido. Y él, el muchacho de los cabellos verdes, será el encargado de comunicar al resto del pueblo los horrores y los peligros de la guerra...
Joel Hawkins
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Jason (Pop) Carter
Un ejecutivo de una compañía de seguros y genio de las matemáticas es incapaz de divertirse. Un día asiste al espectáculo de una feria ambulante y se enamora de una de las chicas. El hombre se une a la feria y acaba salvándola de la ruina.
Mr. Buckingham
Una chica de pueblo miente a un hombre de negocios para conquistarle derivando esto en una serie de divertidos enredos.
Mr. Wright
Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in this musical comedy.
Col. Jeffrey Witherspoon
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
B. Templeton James
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Wiggins
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.
Carlton Webb
On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
Gerald Bisbee
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
Dr. Bilbo
A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.
Barney Meeker
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Colonel Breckinridge Marshall
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
Hotel Clerk
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
O'Bannion
A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.
Timber Applegate
Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story begins as she travels to a California resort where she has been hired as a replacement for a dance team. The resort is run by a handsome fellow. As a result of the gig, the skater becomes a national star while the resort manager gets fired and becomes a drifter until he ends up in the Army. The Oscar nominated score includes the following songs: "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams", "Dream of Dreams", "Rio", "In the Days of Beau Brummel", "Lady, Let's Dance", "Happy Hearts", "Ten Million Men and a Girl", and the rhumba standard "Esperanza".
Tim Martel
When a hat-check girl writes a story based on the life of a famous comedian, she helps to reunite a father and son who haven't spoken to each other for years.
Major Brock
Comedia musical sobre un hipocondríaco que tiene que trabajar como ascensorista en un hospital.
Garry Goff
A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.
Mortimer Kalb
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Judge Allen
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Ramsey Fensel
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.
Horace Doblem
Judy King (Grace McDonald), newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton (Robert Paige), an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
Ace Robbins
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
J. MacClellan Davis
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Whipple
A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
Colonel Silas Popen
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
Desk Sergeant
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
Gribble
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
Jasper
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Theatre Manager
La biografía del bailarín de vodevil George M. Cohan, creador del himno norteamericano ”Over There”, sirvió de base para este musical donde Cagney pudo demostrar sus grandes dotes para el baile. La obra, aunque se trata de una comedia, tiene un importante trasfondo de propaganda bélica ya que está realizada en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Spelvin (scenes deleted)
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Col. Truckee
Película biográfica que relata los primeros años de vida del compositor gay de la era de los noventa Paul Dresser mientras deja atrás su trabajo como animador de carnaval y asciende a la sociedad de Nueva York, escribiendo una canción de éxito tras otra. A pesar de su comportamiento egoísta, logra cortejar y conquistar a Sally Elliott, una de las cantantes más populares del momento.
Walter Catlett
Pop, un guardia de seguridad de Paramount le dijo a su hijo que él es el jefe del estudio. Las cosas se vuelven más complicadas cuando Pop acepta organizar un espectáculo para la Marina protagonizado por las principales estrellas de la Paramount.
Sylvester W. Twigg
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Rupert Sampson
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Dr. Harvey
Un joven le pide a una encargada del guardarropa que finja ser su prometida para hacer a su padre feliz en su lecho de muerte. Sin embargo, la salud del anciano mejora y ahora su hijo no sabe cómo decirle que está comprometido con alguien más, en especial porque su padre se ha encariñado con la impostora.
Billy Ross
With Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, and Eugene Pallette. This sublime film exemplifies La Cava’s gift for creating comedies that contain a profound depth of feeling. Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between Irene Dunne, a small-town girl in the big city, and Robert Montgomery, the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her. Their love affair is all the more affecting for taking place against a backdrop of heartbreak and alcoholism, all conveyed under the guise of comedy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is truly one of the most remarkable Hollywood films of the 1940s.
Sidney Whipple
Hank y Johnny trabajan como técnicos de una compañía de electricidad. Una noche, se encuentran en una reunión a la atractiva Fay, y la tensión aumenta porque ambos se disputan el favor de la chica.
Mr. Pettibone
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
G. Remington 'Max' Conway
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
Simpson
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Sergeant McGoon
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
'Doc' Skelby
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Waiter
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Walter
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
Clem
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Barber
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Tom
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
Headwaiter
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Tommy Lane
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
Slocum
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
Station Attendant
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
Fred
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
'Honest John' Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited)
Un anciano llamado Geppetto fabrica una marioneta de madera a la que llama Pinocho, con la esperanza de que se convierta en un niño de verdad. El Hada Azul hace realidad su deseo y da vida a Pinocho, pero conserva su cuerpo de madera. Pepito Grillo, la conciencia de Pinocho, tendrá que aconsejarlo para que se aleje de las situaciones difíciles o peligrosas hasta conseguir que el muñeco se convierta en un niño de carne y hueso.
Skip Davis
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Walter
Walter gets a ham radio for his birthday.
Gus
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Franklin Dexter
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Marladot
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Constable Slocum
David Huxley (Cary Grant) es un paleontólogo tímido y despistado que está a punto de acabar la laboriosa reconstrucción del esqueleto de un brontosaurio, al que sólo le falta una clavícula intercostal. También está a punto de casarse con su anodina secretaria. En un partido de golf con el abogado de una solterona millonaria, potencial mecenas del museo para el que trabaja, Huxley conoce a Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), una joven adinerada y caprichosa que hará lo posible para que no culmine ninguno de sus dos proyectos: se dedicará a manipular a Huxley para seducirlo con un estilo muy peculiar: le abolla el coche, le desgarra el smoking, esconde su ropa, le rompe las gafas y por si fuera poco, lo embauca para que cuide a un joven leopardo llamado "Baby".
Nifty Bailey
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Uncle Alan
Un abogado de Nueva York establece una relación de negocios con una estrafalaria familia de Carolina del Sur y acaba enamorándose de la única hija "normal" dentro de la familia.
Professor Sylvester Biddle
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Gus Avery
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Tip Conway
Una mujer huye hacia España a comienzos de 1936, acusada de robar un valioso collar. Un detective de Scotland Yard la sigue la pista, la encuentra y se enamora de ella en un clima de conflicto social.
Eddie Johnson
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.
Jake Dibble
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Mr. Sprague (uncredited)
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Warfield Scott
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
Duffy
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.
Walter
Walter pretends to have been in a car accident in order to avoid two conflicting engagements.
Jake Sherman
Los mánagers de un campeón de boxeo y de una estrella del musical de Broadway deciden montar un romance entre ellos para promocionarlos.
Joe Sheldon
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
Senator Budger
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
Morrow
Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
Barsad
Londres y París. Cuando Lucía viaja con su padre a Inglaterra, conoce a varios hombres que se enamoran de ella, entre ellos Sidney, un abogado inglés. Pero ella se casa con Carlos y ambos viven felices en Londres. Mientras tanto, en París, el caos y la agitación previos a la Revolución (1789) se adueñan de las calles. A pesar de ello, Carlos debe ir a París, pues van a condenar a alguien por su culpa y ha de impedirlo. Una vez allí, es encarcelado y condenado a morir en la guillotina.
Gilbert
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Master of Ceremonies
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.
Gus
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Joe Silvers
El periodista alcóhólico Steve Bramley se marcha en un crucero de placer para descansar, con la esperanza de dejar de beber y escribir un libro. A bordo también viajan Schulte, un amigo de Steve, detective privado que espera atrapar a un criminal que lleva una fortuna en bonos robados. Steve empieza a beber y a observar a los viajeros, algunos de los cuales no son lo que aparentan...
Two drunks cheat on their wives.
Elmer Tuttle
When a man's wife inherits $50,000, he quits his job and assumes that he can now take life easy. However, his newly rich wife has her own ideas of how he is going to spend his time.
Publicity Man
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Elmer
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
Barnes (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.
Smitty
A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
Walter Catlett
The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.
Ned Flynn
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir...
Tom Walker
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Walter Knox
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.
Cousin Walter
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF?
Spivey
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
Walter
A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.
Jimmy Dunn
Melodrama dirigido por el especialista George Cukor, sobre una mujer que tras perder a su hijo adoptivo, huye a Europa donde se enamora de un hombre casado.
'Shifty' Morrison
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Quartermaster Bates
Debido a una extraña epidemia, los pasajeros de un barco son obligados a desembarcar en una isla. Entre ellos se encuentran una prostituta y un misionero que la acosa.
Gibboney
Tragicomedia que parte del convencional argumento del paleto de Indiana que hereda una gran fortuna y parte hacia la ciudad de Nueva York. Allí, y con los malos consejos de su primo, descubrirá la buena vida, las mujeres, las juergas con alcohol y, cómo no, los problemas cuando tras una descontrolada borrachera una muchacha aparece asesinada. Versión cinematográfica sobre la obra teatral de Ward Morehouse.
City Editor aka 'Lucille'
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Bakeless
Ray Smith es una joven extrovertida y liberal que rechaza continuamente el matrimonio. Sin embargo, cuando conoce al apuesto Walter se enamora al instante de él a pesar de que está comprometido con otra mujer.
Joseph Craig 'Joe' Chapin
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates. Although he and his long time girlfriend Janet love each other, they are pressured to marry before they are ready. The strain takes its toll on both of them.
Al Diamond
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Colonel Wallace
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Bingy Baker
Stew Smith (Robert Williams) es un singular periodista que se caracteriza por su notable lucidez y sarcasmo. Absolutamente abstraído en su trabajo, es enviado por su jefe a la mansión de los Schuyler para ratificar cierta historia relacionada con Michael (Don Dillaway), el hijo de la familia, que ha tenido que pagar para desembarazarse de una desaprensiva amante, aunque ésta pretende chantajearlo con unas cartas de amor.
One Quiet Night is a 1931 Comedy short.
The Nuisance
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best.
McNeil
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.
Murphy
Hildy es un periodista que está a punto de dejar su empleo para irse a Nueva York. Para impedir que se vaya su mejor reportero, el director del periódico le encarga el reportaje de su vida: el caso de un condenado a muerte que ha huido de prisión. Primera adaptación cinematográfica de la obra de teatro de Ben Hecht y Charles MacArthur "The Front Page". La segunda adaptación ("Luna Nueva", 1940) la dirigió Howard Hawks. La tercera ("Primera Plana", 1974) fue obra de Billy Wilder. A Ted Kotcheff corresponde la cuarta versión ("Interferencias", 1988).
De Boer
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Master of Ceremonies
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."
Elmer
Fox musical.
Joe Glitner
Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe. When he makes known his intention to renounce his heritage and marry Mary Lou, his mother has him locked up and orders Mary Lou back to the United States.
End Man - Minstrel Show
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
Bachelor No. 1
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
