Story
"Remake" en color del film "Nobleza obliga", que Leo McCarey rodó con Charles Laughton quince años antes. Fue el segundo de los cuatro films que Bob Hope interpretó junto a Lucille Ball, y el tercero de los seis en los que fue dirigido por George Marshall (sin contar sus cameos en dos películas más).
Novel
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Screenplay
Un granjero de Vermont va a Nueva York para convertirse en cantante, tiene éxito y se casa con la novia de su vecino.
Theatre Play
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Workman (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Writer
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Novel
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Novel
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Theatre Play
Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song.
Story
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Novel
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Novel
Nadie creía que Rufus Billop sobreviviría como recién nacido. Luego vivió su infancia y adolescencia rodeado de médicos y medicinas, preocupado por su frágil salud y convirtiéndose en un hipocondríaco consumado. Cuando tres comerciantes consideran que su caso es una buena inversión a cambio de una futura fortuna, un médico sabio le prescribe una vista encantadora para contemplar desde su cama de enfermo y todo empieza a cambiar. (filmaffinit)
Novel
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
Theatre Play
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Writer
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Novel
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
