Actress in 'The Dentist' (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Pansey, Hardwick Maid (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Third Woman on Autograph Line (uncredited)
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Agatha
Julie e Ives Tower se conocen en la universidad y se enamoran. Proyectan casarse cuando terminen sus estudios. Sin embargo, debido a la oposición de los padres de ella, la relación se rompe y Julie acaba casándose con un escritor alcohólico, con el que se traslada a París.
Darcy's Secretary (uncredited)
Una aspirante a cantante y un joven compositor se enamoran y se casan: pero, mientras que ella alcanza el éxito, él sigue siendo un desconocido. Así las cosas, ella decide renunciar a su prometedora carrera por amor a su marido.
Mrs. O'Hare
Un barbero inepto mantiene su optimismo y buen humor en su pequeña tienda de la ciudad a pesar de tener a una bruja por esposa y a su total falta de habilidad en el vestir.
Mrs. Grace Dilweg
Un farmacéutico calzonazos, acosado por su regañona esposa, una familia disfuncional y la exigente clientela, mantiene su paciencia y estoico optimismo bebiendo martinis con frecuencia. Su esposa y sus ensimismadas hijas muestran poco aprecio por sus esfuerzos por mantener su precario negocio con la venta de licor de contrabando por debajo del mostrador, a pesar de las sospechas del sheriff local.
Patient (Miss Mason)
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
Near-sighted Woman
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
Miss Gimple
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
