J.P. Blackstone
Veintitrés años después de anotar el tanto ganador del equipo de fútbol americano de su colegio, Harold Diddlebock, que ha estado trabajando de contable sin futuro durante años, es despedido por su estirado jefe, el magnate Wagglebury, con nada más que una pequeña pensión.
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
La tranquilidad de un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos se ve alterada después de un baile al que asistieron algunos soldados. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), una hermosa chica, aparece al día siguiente borracha, con un anillo de casada en el dedo y embarazada de un hombre del que sólo conoce el apellido. Había seis soldados, pero no recuerda quién es el afortunado.
Mr. Quink
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Smith, Faculty Member
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Meredith - Stage Passenger (uncredited)
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Pullman Conductor
Inexplicablemente, un novio y una novia no pueden asistir a su propia boda porque se lo impiden sus dobles, que son los que se casan. Seis años más tarde, el administrador del piso de Park Avenue de Tom y Gerry Jeffers enseña la casa, aunque todavía viven en ella, a otros posibles inquilinos, ya que ellos se han retrasado en el pago del alquiler. Gerry se siente frustrada porque su marido, un arquitecto que intenta sacar adelante sus proyectos, no permite que ella utilice su belleza para conseguir que alguien se los financie. Entonces, Gerry conoce accidentalmente a John D. Hackensacker III, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo.
Redmond, Governor's Secretary
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
Lawyer at Phone in Pike's Office (uncredited)
Durante un viaje en un trasatlántico, Charles Pike, un soltero millonario experto en serpientes que vuelve de la jungla, se enamora de Jean Harrington, una jugadora profesional que, junto con su padre, hace trampas con las cartas. Jean, que también se ha enamora de Charlie, decide abandonar el juego pero, cuando Charlie se entera de cuál es su medio de vida, rompe su compromiso con ella. Jean, dolida, intenta vengarse. La oportunidad se presenta cuando Los Harrington se encuentran con un estafador amigo suyo. Entonces Jean decide hacerse pasar por su sobrina: Lady Eve Sidwich. Charlie conoce en una fiesta a Lady Eve y queda anonadado por su parecido con Jean.
Audition Official
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Mild Juror (uncredited)
Jimmy McDonald, empleado de la Compañía Cafetera Baxter, se niega a casarse con su novia, Betty Casey, hasta que no haya prosperado. Para ver cumplido su sueño, Jimmy, al que le encanta participar en concursos, envía un lema al concurso de la Compañía Cafetera Maxford. Tres de sus amigos deciden gastarle una broma y le mandan un telegrama diciéndole que ha ganado los 25.000 dólares del primer premio. Jimmy, Betty y toda la oficina empiezan a celebrarlo. El señor Baxter piensa que las ideas de Jimmy deben ser buenas y le asciende al departamento de publicidad. Pero aparece el señor Maxford y denuncia a Jimmy... (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Hines - Floorwalker (uncredited)
Larry Wilson, un hombre de negocios, se recupera de un episodio de amnesia y descubre que en realidad es un estafador; pero, además, vuelve a enamorarse de su esposa de la que estaba a punto de divorciarse.
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Estados Unidos, años 30. Durante la Gran Depresión, un vagabundo es reclutado por un partido político de su ciudad para colaborar en un fraude electoral.
Little Man
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Loftus (uncredited)
Por extrañas circunstancias, un hombre se ve convertido en padre de un niño de diez meses y se involucra en la vida turbulenta de su familia.
Police Prompter
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Jury Foreman
Johnny Mason, un joven abogado recién casado, trabaja para el estricto juez Doolittle, del que es imposible conseguir una subida de sueldo. Para colmo, Johnny tiene que interrumpir su luna de miel por orden de su jefe, que está furioso con él porque deseaba casarlo con su hija Eunice.
Valet (uncredited)
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Mr. Petewyler (uncredited)
Cuando la mimada y rica heredera Maggie Richards intenta poner gasolina en un camping dirigido por Bill Davis, éste la obliga a pagar la deuda haciendo las camas. Con ánimo vengativo, ella finge perdonarle y le envía a su padre para que financie un plan de Bill. Lo que ocurre a continuación no formaba parte de su plan original...
Mr. Engstrom
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Tom Selig
Tres hijas de un modesto farmaceutico tienen que pasar por juicios y tribulaciones, debido a sus problemáticos matrimonios entre 1904 y 1908.
Assistant Manager (uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
McBride (uncredited)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Webster
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Fred - Chief Councilman
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Librarian
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Coroner
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Grey
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
Dr. Shuttle
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Beamish
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Dabney
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
Mr. Douglas
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
Jeweler (uncredited)
J. B. Wall (Arnold) es un rico banquero de Wall Street que está harto de los dispendios económicos tanto de su ocioso hijo John (Milland) como de su esposa Jennie (Nash). Indignado, tira por la azotea la última adquisición de su mujer, un costoso abrigo de marta. El abrigo cae encima de Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), una mecanógrafa que trabaja en una revista infantil.
Hotel Manager
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Phineas K. Trotter
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Capt. James
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Furniture Salesman (Uncredited)
Johnny Cave es nombrado inspector de pesos y medidas después de que el antiguo inspector fuese hospitalizado debido a un presunto intento de asesinato. Pronto descubre que hay muchas irregularidades y que están engañando a los compradores. Las medidas agresivas que toma al respecto le hacen objetivo de la mafia.
Wedding Minister
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Worried Citizen (uncredited)
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Judge Bass - Head of Parole Board
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
J. Baldwin Hemingway
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
Mr. Thompson (uncredited)
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Mr. Vissinger
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
James Morpher
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Percival Gooch
La hija de un acaudalado hombre de negocios se pierde en la estación y es acogida por una pareja de artistas de variedades fracasados, que ven en ella la solución a su mala racha.
Smithers
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Grouch (uncredited)
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Budington (uncredited)
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.
Mr. Pinkley
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Perry
El filántrópico doctor Hudson muere ahogado, pues la bombona de oxígeno que podría haberle salvado la vida se utilizó en beneficio del joven Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor), un frívolo heredero. Éste inmediatamente se da cuenta del rechazo que inpira a los demás, sobre todo, a Helen (Irene Dunne), la viuda del doctor, de la que se ha enamorado. Para conquistarla, decide convertirse en un filántropo anónimo como Hudson. Sin embargo, cuando Helen se queda ciega en un accidente, todos lo culpan a él. Robert decide entonces, oculto bajo una identidad falsa, llegar a ser un gran médico para poder devolverle la vista.
Jewel clerk
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Titwillow
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Mr. Evans
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)
La joven Jean sufre un terrible accidente automovilístico, que la tiene al borde de la muerte. Para salvarla, se propone avisar al doctor Vollin, el mejor neurólogo del momento, pese a haberse retirado hace años para dedicarse a la investigación. En un principio se niega, pero la insistencia del padre de la joven surte efecto. El doctor salva a la joven, pero a medida que toma contacto con ella durante su recuperación, se enamora de ella. Pero ella ya está prometida, como su padre se encarga de recordar al doctor. Pero él no se dará por vencido, y está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa por conseguir a Jean.
William Ward
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Delegate (uncredited)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Mr. Hassler
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Dr. O'Rourke
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Barlow
Cuando el romance entre un cantante radiofónico y una empleada de la emisora se va al garete, ella se va de fin de semana con su jefe, mientras el cantante seduce a otra. Reunidos todos en un ascensor, el cable se rompe y el ascensor queda colgado entre dos pisos...
Willis Ivans
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Mr. Smith
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Franj Entwistle (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Grant
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
Assistant to Dean
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
George Spelvin
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Mr. Greenway
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Justice of the Peace (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Alfred Ordway
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the secretary.
Perkins (Uncredited)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
James Gardner (uncredited)
Un abogado acepta defender al amante de su esposa, acusado de asesinato, con la condición de que ella no testifique y vuelva a su lado al acabar el juicio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Phillips
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
Mr. Vail
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Zeke
Peter Warren, es un periodista desempleado que se topa con Ellie, la hija de un millonario que huyó del barco de Alexander Andrews, su padre, porque no acepta al hombre con el que ella se quiere casar. Peter ve la oportunidad de conseguir una buena historia, pero varios hechos acaban por crear un vínculo entre ellos.
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
Osgood's Secretary (Uncredited)
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
Professor Higginbottom
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
Man at Alderman Meeting
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.
Burton (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.
Watkins, theater watchman
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Mr. Penny (uncredited)
Una trabajadora social que lucha por las reformas se ve comprometida al enamorarse de un juez corrupto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Van Emery
Un aventurero es contratado para pilotar una cañonera por el río. Deja a Wildeth en una misión por su seguridad, pero cuando regresa le atacan los comunistas. Si repele la agresión, es posible que la Marina le readmita y reciba permiso para casarse con Wildeth.
Wilfred
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.
Businessman
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Roger (uncredited)
Ace Corbin, cansado de una vida disoluta y repleta de malas compañías comienza una nueva vida con otro nombre y se aleja de su pasado en tren. Allí conoce a una joven llamada Eleanor que también arrastra un oscuro pasado...
Little
Dick Wallace quiere casarse con la nieta de un párroco. El padre de Dick se opone, porque quiere que trabaje en los negocios de la empresa de la familia, pero ella acepta un trabajo en la compañía para demostrar sus cualidades.
John Harper, Realtor (uncredited)
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
Rollins
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Charlie Moore
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
Hubbard
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Dr. Ryder
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
Mayor Silas C. Simms
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Bridge Player
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Dr. Meeker (uncredited)
Tom Connors, un preso a quien se concede un permiso para visitar a su novia herida, se ve involucrado en una pelea con un mafioso, a quien su novia mata de un disparo. Connors huye del lugar del crimen por una ventana y, cuando regresa a prisión, es culpado del asesinato y condenado a la silla electrica.
Mr. Russell, Attorney (Uncredited)
Nasa (Clara Bow) es una mestiza con sangre blanca e india. Rebelde e indomable, no respetará las tradiciones de su padre y huirá con un hombre que no la conviene, quedando embarazada. Como si de una maldición se tratase, la vida de Nasa irá degradándose irremediablemente hacia el vicio, el alcohol y la prostitución.
Waiter at Peacock Inn
Una joven recién llegada a la gran ciudad consigue un trabajo como acompañante de un hombre. Lo que ella no sabe es que el hombre es un gángster notorio.
Willis
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Albert Kerr
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Oscar Shane
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
Smythe
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Ives
Tom Dickson ha sido durante 25 años el leal y honrado presidente de un banco. Ante la caída de la bolsa, la junta directiva le arrebata el poder y exige la devolución de los préstamos. Un empleado del banco sin escrúpulos y un presunto robo de cinco millones de dólares ponen su carrera y su matrimonio al borde del desastre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Planet
Debido a sus enfermizos celos, el comandante de la armada Charles Storm, ha condenado a su mujer a una vida tan desgraciada que acaba echándose en brazos de un apuesto teniente. Cuando Charles se entera, se despierta en él el deseo de venganza.
Shiffem
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Smithers
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
Hardy Powell
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.
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.
Thaddeus Heath
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
Mr. Thomas
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Secretary
En la fiesta celebrada para conmemorar sus bodas de plata, el matrimonio Bruno se pelea y se separan. Cada uno por su cuenta decide partir a la ciudad de los divorcios –Reno- y allí contratan los servicios de una pareja experta de abogados, que no son otros que Wheeler y Woolsey...
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
Dr. Martin
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Minister Tate
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
The Husband
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
Leonard Nettleford
Bob Graham (Holmes), un joven de apenas veinte años, es encarcelado por matar a un hombre en defensa propia el día de su cumpleaños. Años después, Brady, el fiscal del caso (Walter Huston), llegará a ser el alcaide de la cárcel en la Bob cumple condena y lo hará su chófer.
Robert Story
Un tonto enamorado pretende ser un as de la aviación.
Adkins
Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be.
Secretary
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
Victor
On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.
George Twining
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
Siegfried Strong
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
The Minister
Un joven ambicioso consigue empleo en un banco y trata de seducir a la secretaria de su jefe, pero la muerte de su padre logra que reconsidere sus prioridades.
Mr. Willings
Sarah Ann Dowey es una anciana londinense solitaria que elige al joven soldado Kenneth como hijo ficticio, el cual está luchando en el frente. De este modo, presumirá ante sus amistades de los logros del muchacho, como si fuera su propio hijo. Cuando Kenneth cae herido en batalla es llevado a Londres con un permiso de una semana, y allí conocerá a Sarah Ann, que se hacer pasar por su madre.
Crosby
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
Michael Sturm
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
Mr. Jones
Joe Lane, un condictor de radio y compositor, descubre que el dueño del estudio, Arthur Phillips, tiene conductas inapropiadas con su esposa Katherine. Completamente enfurecido, Lane lo enfrenta en una pelea, lo que resulta en la muerte involuntaria de Phillips. Joe va a prisión por algunos años, al salir, visita a si hijo en la escuela, el cual le reuga escapar juntos.
George Faraker
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.
Hoyt
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Thorne
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
William Waller (floorwalker)
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
Steward
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Knott Innitt
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
Algy
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
George Disbrow
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
Mr. Smythe
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
King's Secretary
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
The Inventor
Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.
Bancroft
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
Simpson
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Henry
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
Yessky - Kusmin's Secretary
Fritz
Romantic drama directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
Amos Potts
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
Jones
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner.
Detective
Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
Winthrop Van Felt
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
Prof. Summerlee
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), además de Sherlock Holmes, creó otro héroe de ficción, el profesor George Edward Challenger, cuya aventura más conocida es la de "El mundo perdido", obra publicada en 1912. Harry O. Hoyt y Willis O'Brien efectuaron una temprana adaptación al cine con gran éxito de taquilla apoyado por un temprano merchandising: rompecabezas, muñecos, libros e incluso una canción compuesta por Rudolf Friml.
Henry Crawley
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Tom Baker
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Winston Howell
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
Jimmy Leland (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Gregory Bolton
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
Morel
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
Mr. Wilding
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
Mr. Brady
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss lusts after her. But happiness comes into her life when she meets artist Emery Gray. Gray's wife deserted him long ago, leaving him with their daughter Susan (Mary Jane Irving) to raise. While Susan and Micky become playmates, Hilda restores Gray's faith in womanhood.
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her. On the occasion of a masquerade ball, Torrey is unable to escort her; and while she is alone on the balcony, someone suddenly seizes and kisses her, then disappears. She attempts to discover her assailant's identity.
Lester Hicks
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
Nathan Hitch
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
Count de Varville
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Ben Travers
The wife of a prominent San Francisco doctor, feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself attracted to a young newspaper reporter. ...
Lieutenant Schnitz
En vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), las dos ramas de una acomodada familia argentina se dividen en dos bandos: los Desnoyers, oriundos de Francia, y los von Hartrott, de origen alemán. Julio Desnoyers, un joven irresponsable y bohemio, tiene un romance con Marguerite, una mujer casada. Cuando estalla la guerra, el esposo de Margueritte se va al frente. Poco despues, una serie de circunstancias hacen que Julio cambie radicalmente y decida trabajar para la Resistencia.
Henry Caron
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
Whitty
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
Anthony, Duke of Donegal
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
Dr. Harvey Tyson
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
Albert Walker
In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.
Director
A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him.
Mr. D. Webster Opp
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.
The Alchemist
After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners. When Mason falls in love with Beverly Hope, however, he rejects Doria, who, out of revenge, tells John that Mason tried to seduce her and then begs her husband to ruin him.
Daniel Darling
A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
Monsieur Jarnier
Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
