Conductor
Rudy Valentine es un hombre muy desdichado, no dura mucho tiempo en ningún trabajo por culpa de sus manías y es infeliz en su matrimonio. Un día el cinematógrafo Adolph Zitz realiza un casting para elegir al actor idóneo que interprete al italiano Rodolfo Valentino. El papel está muy demandado y al casting se presentan cientos de aspirantes, pero hay uno que destaca entre todos: Rudy Valentine. Esta es la oportunidad que el protagonista llevaba buscando. Rudy está seguro de poder encarnar al actor italiano mejor que ningún otro y lucha con todas sus fuerzas para conseguir el papel y demostrar a todo el mundo su valía. Su mujer lo ha abandonado recientemente para irse con el auténtico Rodolfo Valentino y Rudy necesita más que nunca creer en él mismo.
Train Conductor
El nieto del legendario doctor Frankenstein se ha convertido en un reconocido neurocirujano que debe hacerse cargo del castillo de su abuelo. Ayudado por el jorobado Igor y una escultural asistente decide recrear el experimento de su ancestro.
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!
Waiter
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
LeBon (as Rolphe Sedan)
En París, durante una tranquila noche de verano, los vecinos de la calle Morgue son despertados por los gritos de una mujer. Cuando llega la policía, tiene que forzar la puerta de la casa de donde han salido los gritos de auxilio.
French Man (uncredited)
Un hombre que ha conseguido dejar el vicio de la bebida gracias a las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos, se enamora de una actriz que se niega a admitir que se está convirtiendo en una borracha. Dadas las circunstancias, él empieza a dudar si quiere realmente romper su matrimonio por ella.
Tailor (as Rolf Sedan)
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Art Dealer (uncredited)
Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas), un agente de seguros que ama su trabajo y la vida hogareña, ignora, sin embargo, que su esposa Jill (Merle Oberon) se siente deprimida y abandonada, porque él no suele mostrarse ni cariñoso ni apasionado con ella. Cuando, para tratar el asunto, decide visitar a un psiquiatra, conoce en la sala de espera a un excéntrico pianista llamado Alexander Sebastian (Burguess Meredith).
Henchman (uncredited)
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Maitre D'
Un publicista le pide a su secretaria que se case con ella, por pura conveniencia, para poder cerrar un negocio que tiene entre manos. El pacto conlleva el divorcio inmediato, una vez cerrado el asunto. El problema viene cuando ella rehúsa cumplir con su parte, quiere seguir casada con su 'maridito'.
Pierre
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter. She had been shot just before she was to give Detective Dan Haggerty information about a blackmail gang. Since Mary Baker, Frankie's girl friend saw her last, she is suspected, and Frankie determines to clear her using his own sleuthing methods. He has hardy begun when Pierre, another member of the staff, and Florence's fiancée is found dead.
Tailor (uncredited)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Candy Shop Proprietor
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Waiter
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
Waiter
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Hotel Manager
Los camaradas Iranoff, Buljanoff y Kopalski han sido enviados a París para obtener dinero para el Gobierno ruso mediante la venta de las joyas confiscadas a la gran duquesa Swana, que vive en la capital francesa. Los tres camaradas se instalan en un hotel de lujo mientras los tribunales franceses deciden quién es el verdadero propietario de las joyas. El Gobierno ruso envía a Nina 'Ninotchka' Ivanovna Yakushova a arreglar las cosas.
Hotel Clerk
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Emile Aubel
Vernon Castle, que se gana la vida como actor cómico de segunda fila, conoce en una playa a Irene, quien ve en él grandes aptitudes como bailarín. Ambos se enamoran y poco después se casan. Irene convence a Vernon para formar juntos una pareja de baile. Un malentendido les lleva a París, donde en realidad sólo le querían a él para interpretar un grotesco número cómico de vaudeville. La suerte, sin embargo, les sonríe de inmediato: una empresaria pone sus ojos en ellos y les hace debutar en el Café de París. Vernon e Irene triunfan por todo lo alto en el mundo de la moda. Pero estalla la guerra y Vernon siente la necesidad de alistarse.
Airline Officer
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Pierre
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.
Telegraph Clerk
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Floorwalker
Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) es un millonario malcriado y mujeriego que ha tenido siete esposas, todas atraídas por su fortuna. En una tienda de la Riviera conoce a Nicole de Loiselle (Claudette Colbert), pero en un principio ella le rechaza. El caso es que Nicole, hija de una familia de nobles franceses venidos a menos, decide, a instancias de su padre, aceptar finalmente la proposición de matrimonio de Brandon, pero deja claro que lo hace sólo por su dinero. Estrenada en Marzo de 1938.
Ballet Master
La estrella del ballet Pete "Petrov" Peters se las ha arreglado para cruzar el Atlántico a bordo del mismo barco en el que viaja la bailarina de la que se ha enamorado perdidamente, Linda Keene, aunque apenas la conoce. Pero, en el momento en que el trasatlántico llega a Nueva York, una pequeña mentira se propaga como un rumor: que las dos celebridades están casadas en secreto.
Hotel Desk Clerk
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
First Waiter
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Opera Aficionado
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
French Chauffeur (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Mrs. Flaggenheim's Secretary
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Gendarme (Uncredited)
El Doctor Gogol se enamora de Yvonne Orlac, la esposa del pianista Stephen Orlac. Cuando éste sufre un accidente de tren, y sus manos son amputadas, Yvonne pide ayuda a Gorgol, que le transplanta las manos de un asesino. La operacion parece funcionar, y el organismo de Orlac no rechaza las nuevas manos. Sin embargo, Orlac descubrirá unas nuevas tendencias que nunca había tenido: la necesidad de matar. Su mujer Yvonne tambien descubre el cambio de su marido. Mientras tanto, Gogol sigue enamorado de Yvonne, con un amor cada vez más obsesivo... (FILMAFFINITY)
Modiste
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Artist (uncredited)
Un cantante rico y famoso se disfraza de camarero con el fin de estar cerca de la mujer a la que ama, una princesa europea.
3rd French Art Expert (uncredited)
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
Waiter #1 (uncredited)
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Clerk (uncredited)
El propietario de unos grandes almacenes paga a un pretendiente de su entrometida hija para que se la lleve.
Waiter
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.
Second Dodd's Salesman (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Bed Salesman (uncredited)
George Curtis, pintor, y Tom Chambers, autor teatral, que comparten un piso en París, conocen en el tren que se dirige a esta ciudad a Gilda Farrell, americana como ellos y dibujante publicitaria. Ambos se enamoran inmediatamente de ella y, como Gilda es incapaz de decidirse por uno, deciden vivir un menage à trois.
Stage Manager
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
Carnival Barker
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
Pants Presser (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Casino Man (Uncredited)
Tras ser deportado de Francia donde fue capturado con la tenencia de secretos de Estado, el detective privado Donald Free (William Powell), se encuentra sin empleo y tras buscar infructuosamente donde ubicarse, termina asociado a Dan J. Hogan quien montará una gran agencia asociado con el dueño de un casino. Todo andará bien hasta que Hogan se presta para enredar a una muchacha (Margaret Lindsay) a quien el casino adeuda una gruesa suma y no quiere pagarle. En Free surgirán los escrúpulos cuando conoce a la hermosa chica.
Man Who Will Be Late to Work (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.
French Waiter (uncredited)
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
Waiter
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
Pierre - Tailor (uncredited)
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
French Radio Operator (uncredited)
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
In-Room Waiter (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Casino Patron (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Juryman
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Lily (Miriam Hopkins), una carterista que se hace pasar por condesa, conoce en Venecia al famoso ladrón Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), quien a su vez se hace pasar por barón, y se enamoran. Gaston roba al aristócrata François Fileba y huye con Lily antes de que le descubran. Casi un año después, en París, Gaston roba un bolso con diamantes incrustados a la viuda Mariette Colet, pero se lo devuelve y la cautiva de tal forma que lo contrata como secretario.
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Encantador y romántico musical que marcó el paso de muchos de los posteriores. Un sastre de París y una princesa se enamoran en esta obra maestra con el gran Maurice Chevalier.
Art Student (uncredited)
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
Count Tobini
A young lady is wooed by two men
Boulevardier (uncredited)
Un campeón olímpico de jabalina monta en cólera cuando se entera de que su mujer está coqueteando con otro hombre. Esto llevará a una serie de situaciones comprometidas que se desarrollan en ciudades tan sofisticadas como París y Venecia.
Frenchie
John Moore, a young sea captain has a romance with Kay Wheeler, daughter of a trusted trader, "Pop" Wheeler, on a Pacific island. He also acquire the enmity of "Shanghai" Morgan, a notorious sea captain who shanghais his crew and his women.
Beauty Salon Manager
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Hotel Desk Clerk
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Paris Taxi Driver
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
Man Who Wants to Hear 'Poison Ivy'
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
Gendarme (uncredited)
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
Opera Audience Member (uncredited)
Cuando Harry se enamora de una actriz, le confiesa su intención de casarse con ella a su abuelo, el obispo Tom Armstrong, pero éste trata de disuadirlo contándole su propia experiencia: cuando era estudiante, conoció en una fiesta a Rita Cavallini, una célebre cantante de ópera, y tuvo un romance con ella, convencido de que por él abandonaría su frívola y escandalosa vida. Pero Rita era la amante de un hombre muy poderoso y no parecía dispuesta a dejarlo.
Waiter at Dinner Party
Al morir su padre, Mary Rainey hereda un modesto circo que sólo le crea angustiosos problemas económicos. A pesar de todo, la chica tratará de vencer las dificultades y salir adelante.
Waiter
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
Trouper
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Headwaiter in New York
La cantante (Alice White) de un club nocturno de Nueva York es descubierta por un productor de cine y es llevada a Hollywood para convertirla en la siguiente gran estrella cinematográfica.
Party guest
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Charity Bazaar Auctioneer (uncredited)
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
Gendarme
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
Maitre D'
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Bit Role
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Nightclub Announcer
Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Ferris Wheel Barker (uncredited)
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Drunk
Al ser despedida de su trabajo, la corista Evelyn Todd tiene que abandonar su apartamento por no poder pagar el alquiler. A partir de ahí las cosas van de mal en peor hasta que conoce a Paul Harrington, que podría ser su salvador. Pero, en una fiesta, a la que la invita una amiga, ocurre un incidente que supone para ella un nuevo mazazo.
The Crying Wife's Husband (uncredited)
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Desk clerk
Stan y Ollie causan estragos en un hotel de clase alta en sus trabajos como lacayo (Hardy) y portero (Laurel). Desvisten parcialmente a la bomba rubia Jean Harlow (en una breve aparición) y escoltan repetidamente a un noble estirado hasta el hueco de un ascensor vacío.
Louis XIII
Francia, siglo XVII. La Reina Ana de Austria espera el nacimiento del heredero de la corona, pero da a luz a gemelos, y uno de ellos es ocultado en España. La joven Constance, la amada de D'Artagnan, se entera por casualidad del secreto, y su vida corre peligro. Pasados los años, D'Artagnan y sus inseparables compañeros se unen para salvar al Rey y a su país de las intrigas del Cardenal Richelieu y el malvado Duque de Rochefort
French Restaurant Patron
Riley es el típico policía irlandés, buena gente y bonachón, más dado a la buena vida que a detener a nadie.
Portrait Photographer (uncredited)
Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sueña con ser una actriz dramática y su padre se dispone a llevarla a Hollywood para que le hagan un casting, donde piensa demostrarle a todos que su hija es una verdadera actriz. Ayudada por Billy Boone (William Haines), la chica conseguirá la dichosa prueba... pero algunas cosas van a cambiar en lo que han sido sus pretensiones, mientras entre ellos nace algo que es mucho más que una simple amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Card Playing Guest
The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.
Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind up in the guardhouse. Their girlfriends are determined to get married, however, and in order to accomplish this, they disguise themselves as soldiers and sneak onto the base, where they unwittingly get mixed up with enemy spies trying to gather information.
Henry Bird
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
Beauty Expert (uncredited)
After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler will be seen in a comprimising situation with the countess, and then photographed. The countess, who is sick of reporters, has other ideas... Written by Paul L
Fop (uncredited)
Durante el reinado de Luis XIII, un jactancioso joven llamado Bardelys se hace famoso gracias a sus conquistas amorosas.
Stage Manager (uncredited)
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Barber (uncredited)
Joe vive en un enclave perdido entre montañas y piensa que ya es hora de buscar pareja. Se va a la ciudad y conoce a Alverna, una desinhibida manicurista, con quien se casa. Al mismo tiempo, Ralph, un abogado especializado en divorcios, agobiado por la presión de las mujeres que acuden a él en busca de ayuda, decide pasar una temporada de descanso en Mantrap, donde se encuentra con Joe y Alverna...
Musician
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Nose Doctor
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Al
Silent family drama.
A Friend of the Family (uncredited)
A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
Jimmy's brother-in-law
Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
Bit Part Rolfe Sedan
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
Member of the Committee
Jane Vale es una exitosa empresaria de cuarenta años que lleva su empresa con mano de hierro. Acostumbrada a la adulación constante, un día un trabajador le propone mejoras en la producción con un sistema contrario al suyo. Ante la sorpresa de los directivos, Jane acepta la crítica y establece una relación muy cercana con el trabajador, mucho más joven que ella, que genera chismorreos.
Bertie Loomis
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
Valet
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
Minor Role (uncredited)
En la Viena de los albores de la Gran Guerra el último de los Von Hohenegg, el Conde Franz Maximilian, cae rendidamente enamorado de la humilde organillera de la feria del Prater, la cual trabaja para el brutal Huber, que también la pretende. Haciéndose pasar por un vendedor de ropa la seduce pero el Emperador ha decretado ya su inminente matrimonio con la Condesa Gisella Von Steinbruck y Franz no puede negarse, rompiéndole así el corazón a la bella Agnes. Finalmente llega la Guerra y en las trincheras el Conde se encontrará con Sylvester Urban, padre de Agnes y payaso del circo, quien lo maldecirá en su lecho de muerte, causándole una enorme impresión que a punto estará de costarle su propia vida.
Annette's Suitor (uncredited)
Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true love triumph?
