Herself (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.
Mrs. Williams
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
Liz Eckhart
Milly (Joan Crawford) es una mujer que dejó pasar la juventud entregada al cuidado de su padre. Un día, asiste a un concierto y se enamora de Burt (Cliff Robertson), un hombre bastante más joven que ella. Pocos meses después de casarse, Milly recibe la visita de Virginia (Vera Miles), la antigua mujer de Burt.
Duchess
A finales del siglo XIX, en plena fiebre del oro, un delegado del gobierno está expropiando, de forma irregular, varias minas cercanas a una pequeña población de Alaska. Entre ellas, se encuentra la de Roy Glennister, un apuesto galán, amante de Cherry Malotte, la hermosa dueña del saloon "El Norteño".
Molly Higgins
El alguacil Coleen Wave (Randolph Scott) es un abogado que recorre el territorio de Colorado para acabar con los criminales. Su dedicación al trabajo es tan excesiva que su esposa (Angela Lansbury) lo abandona y le asegura que no volverá con él mientras no deje definitivamente las armas. Pero él está decidido a imponer la ley y el orden en una última ciudad, que está dominada por una banda de pistoleros, dispuestos a todo con tal de que el territorio no se convierta en un estado de la Unión.
Maj. Ida Winton
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
Mary Fancher
Un preso, condenado por un crimen que no ha cometido, se escapa de una cárcel de Nevada acompañado de varios criminales peligrosos. Su propósito es encontrar al verdadero culpable. Sin embargo, al detenerse en un pueblo, debido a una intensa tormenta de nieve, encuentran sólo a un grupo de aguerridas mujeres, que aguardan el regreso de sus hombres. Entonces se le plantea un dilema: seguir buscando a su enemigo o proteger a las mujeres de sus depravados compañeros.
Glory White
William Thompson, un predicador ambulante, y su esposa Mary Elizabeth se instalan en un pueblecito de Georgia. Todo va bien hasta que se detecta una epidemia que amenaza a toda la población.
Martha
Marx Dixon (Dana Andrews) es un conflictivo policía marcado por el fuerte carácter de su padre. En el transcurso de una investigación, hiere de muerte a un sospechoso y oculta el crimen. Un taxista (Tom Tully) es acusado como presunto autor del asesinato. Y, mientras tanto, Mark se enamora de su bella hija (Gene Tierney).
Ruth
Una escritora recién casada acaba internada en un psiquiátrico debido a un recuerdo que le atormenta. El trato recibido en el hospital no hace sino empeorar su estado mental.
Kate Mulvey
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Utopia Mills
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Aunt Susan Beecher
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Minerva Van Dorn
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
Helen Reilly
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
Eve Harper
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Zebby Booker
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
Cora Elliot
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Sister Michael
El padre O'Malley acaba de llegar a su nuevo destino como sacerdote del colegio de monjas y la parroquia de Santa María, en un barrio humilde de Nueva York. Pronto se verá enredado en los problemas del barrio y de los alumnos, lo que le lleva a formar un coro para sacar a los chicos de la calle. La vida del colegio le lleva a estrechar la relación con la hermana Benedicta, superiora del convento y directora del colegio, y a participar de las ilusiones de la congregación: que un millonario done un moderno edificio cercano como nueva sede del vetusto colegio.
Mrs. Grace Wingate
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Self
The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1944.
Nurse Hamilton
Musical en el que las estrellas de la Warner cantan una serie de canciones para animar a los soldados americanos que estaban combatiendo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945).
Sarah Rogers
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Mrs. O'Brien
Durante la I Guerra Mundial, el bailarín de Broadway Jerry Jones (George Murphy) es convocado para ingresar en el ejército. Otros amigos se enlistan también, y pronto, en el Campo Upton de New York, Jerry organiza a un grupo que montará el espectáculo “Yip! Yip! Yaphank!”. Varias décadas después, algunos de los sobrevivientes del grupo, con Jerry a la cabeza, aunarán esfuerzos para montar, durante la II Guerra Mundial, otra revista que se llamará esta vez “This is the Army”.
Biggy Biggsworth
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Mame Bacon
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Emma
Peter Kirk es un atractivo playboy que se ha casado con una atractiva doctora, Helen Hunt. Al poco tiempo los celos van a hacer que Peter sospeche de todos los pacientes masculinos de su mujer, para desesperación de ella.
Aunt Navy
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Kate Dixon
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Mrs. Milo Everett
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Polly Hope
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Lil Higgins
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Lil Higgins
Gran Higgins cae bajo el hechizo de una viuda ansiosa de amor.
Miss Stevens
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Aunt Lou
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Effie Perkins
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Emma Hopper
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Mrs. Rose Pierce
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Josephine
Anabel está a punto de hacer una gira para promocionar su última película, pero le cuesta conseguir la publicidad que desea. Para ello contrata a Morgan, un agente excesivamente entusiasta, al que sólo se le ocurren planes rocambolescos para hacer que Ananbel ocupe las portadas de los periódicos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Daisy Watson
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
Grumpy
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Josephine
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Leila Kennett
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Nora Marko
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Jane Wilkins
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
Aunt Mary
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Helen Davis
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Aunt Mimi
Los mánagers de un campeón de boxeo y de una estrella del musical de Broadway deciden montar un romance entre ellos para promocionarlos.
Melba York
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Vi Johnson
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Mabel Dawson
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.
Patsy O'Madigan
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
Lizzie
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Laura
Regi Allen trabaja como manicurista en un hotel de lujo y su sueño es casarse con un millonario para dejar de trabajar. Uno de sus clientes es un adinerado paralítico que podría responder a sus expectativas. Sin embargo, en su camino se cruza Theodore Drew III, un playboy arruinado que igualmente trata de casarse con una mujer rica que solucione sus problemas económicos.
Mrs. Edith Rooney
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
Bess
Un jugador de beisbol que siempre pone excusas se enamora de la cuñada del entrenador. Poco después, unos gangsters le secuestran para que haga perder al equipo en la final.
Mrs. Twitchell
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.
Mrs. Byng
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Florrie Sands
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Anna
Una millonaria se enamora de un limpia ventanas cantante.
Miss Sparks
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Dora Wilson
Hasta la fecha Bill se ha dedicado a redactar textos de anuncios, pero su esposa Nan, que confía mucho en su valía, le anima a que ponga en marcha su propia agencia de publicidad. Las cosas no son tan sencillas, pero conseguirá un cliente para el que hace un anuncio de gran éxito; lo malo es que quien le ha ayudado es una antigua novia, Patricia, que disputará con Nan por el amor de Bill.
Lois
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Emma Simpson
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Mrs. Ashton-Ashley
Melodrama que entronca con el estilo de cine negro que su director, Mervyn LeRoy, había adoptado en otras cintas como "Soy un fugitivo" (1932). Su argumento proviene de una obra teatral escrita por Leon Abrams y George Abbott, que se estrenó en Broadway en 1933. Considerada un antecedente de otra producción Warner, "El bosque petrificado" (1936), su acción transcurre en una perdida estación de servicio en California. Allí, durante 24 horas, una serie de personajes van a cruzar sus caminos con el nexo en común de Olga, la dueña del local. Ella se va a relacionar con una pareja de criminales, uno de ellos un antiguo amante.
Mrs. George Peters
Tras ser abandonada por su amante, una mujer se convierte en la figura principal de un club nocturno en decadencia; después tratará de olvidar su pasado embarcándose con destino a Mandalay.
Mrs. Ellerbe
Durante una convención de una empresa de neumáticos, se suceden toda clase de desmanes sexuales y alcohólicos.
Mrs. Emily Jones
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Miss Frothingham
Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) administra una empresa de automóviles y mantiene una buena relación con sus empleados, en especial con los hombres, con los que suele tener fugaces relaciones sexuales. Un día, llega a su empresa el ingeniero Jim Thorne, un hombre independiente por el que se siente atraída.
Lizzie
Nueva Inglaterra, 1909. La norteamericana Mary Archer se enamora perdidamente de un alemán llamado Hugo. A pesar de la oposición de la familia de la joven, ambos se casan. Sus vidas cambiarán cuando el buque Lusitania sea hundido y Estados Unidos participe en la I Guerra Mundial. Hugo participa activamente a favor de su país, convirtiéndose en un espía perseguido por los Servicios Secretos anglosajones.
Mrs. Harriet Gould
Chester Kent está agotado y acorralado, se le han acabado las ideas y tiene solo unos días para preparar tres musicales para un productor de Hollywood. Para empeorar la situación tiene un espía que le entrega sus nuevas ideas a sus rivales. Su secretaria, Nan Prescott, está enamorada de él y junto con el resto de su leal equipo le ayudarán a salir adelante.
Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Richview Hotel Maid
Las confusiones de coqueteo abundan cuando una célebre novelista se enreda con un viejo amor y su desconcertado marido en Cleveland. ¿Su inteligente secretaria le salvará el cuello si ella también está secretamente enamorada de él?
Margaret 'Maggie' Flannigan
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Amy Moran
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.
Edna Yokum
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Miss Hall
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Noonan
La atractiva Nan Taylor integrante de una banda que roba un banco, va a la cárcel gracias al evangelista David Slade... que la ama.
Lil Waters
James Cagney interpreta a un agente de prensa que se convierte en promotor de un maratón de baile.
Mrs. Sears
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
Miss Stevens
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Berta, Teri's Maid (uncredited)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
The Countess
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.
Widow Abigail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Fanny
La perdición –y maldad de su título– de Margot Rande no es otra que su díscolo hijo. Cuando el muchacho atraca un banco, la madre le protege disparando accidentalmente a un policía. Condenada a veinte años de prisión, la mujer es sometida a todo tipo de vejaciones por culpa de guardianas sin escrúpulos. Un abogado intentará reducir su condena, pero las cosas se complican cuando ella tiene un niño mientras está entre rejas.
Mrs. Wimbledon
Un mago dotado de grandes poderes actúa en un teatro, cuando las luces se apagan, suena un disparo, y encuentran a un espectador muerto en el suelo. La policía impide que nadie abandone el teatro, y el mago utilizará sus facultades para descubrir al culpable.
Fanny Pratt
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
