Robert E. Hopkins
Nacimiento : 1886-09-21, Ottawa, Kansas, USA
Muerte : 1966-12-21
Writer
Una joven le promete a su padre que va a dejar el juego y las carreras de caballos, pero no puede mantener su promesa, ya que ha hipotecado su herencia por culpa de un conocido jugador por el que se siente fuertemente atraída.
Story
La cantante de ópera Mary Blake huye de la miseria y busca cobijo en Blackie Norton, un empresario de San Francisco que le proporciona trabajo. Inevitablemente, surge una estrecha relación entre ambos que es desaprobada por el sacerdote Mullin. Mientras tanto, nos aproximamos a la fatídica fecha del 18 de abril de 1906, cuando un terremoto arrasó la ciudad y provocó más de 3.000 muertos.
Writer
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Story
A pesar de no conocerla Elmer Butts (Buster Keaton) ama a Hortensia (Phyllis Barry), y sueña con ganar un millón de dólares para comprarla un Rolls Royce y casarse con ella. Con la ley seca a punto de terminar, el amigo de Elmer tiene una idea que los hará ricos, abriendo una fábrica justo antes del fin de la prohibición. Su ineptitud les lleva a crear una cerveza sin alcohol, lo cual les deja fuera del negocio, pero resulta que es una cerveza muy barata de fabricar, por lo que un contrabandista comprende que puede aumentar sus beneficios asociándose con Elmer y su amigo. Pero no cuentan con la presencia de otro competidor, otro contrabandista cuya novia es el amor secreto de Elmer, Hortensia.
Dialogue
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Writer
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Additional Dialogue
Un marine estadounidense atormentado por la culpa regresa a Cuba para localizar a su hijo ilegítimo.
Dialogue
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
Writer
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Dialogue
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Additional Dialogue
Reginald Irving, tímido entre los tímidos, es atropellado por Jeffrey Haywood, quien para ayudarle le lleva a casa de su prometida, Virginia Embrey, que vive con su hermana mayor, Angélica, y su madre.
Dialogue
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Additional Dialogue
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Screenplay
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Dialogue
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Dialogue
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Additional Dialogue
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Dialogue
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.
Dialogue
Child entertainers perform several song and dance numbers in this musical short.
Story
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Dialogue
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Writer
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
Title Designer
Georgette y Maurice, una joven pareja dedicada al baile, flirtean constantemente. Un día acude a su apartamento el doctor Paul Giraud, que está enfadado con Maurice, pues cree que intenta atraer a su esposa Suzanne. Reconoce en Georgette a una antigua novia y se inventa una historia estrafalaria para ocultarle a Suzanne su flirteo con Georgette... A su vez, Maurice inicia otro flirteo con Suzanne y le cuenta a ésta la relación de su marido con Georgette.