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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Gertie - Switchboard Operator
Un grupo de automovilistas viaja por un agreste paisaje del sur de California. De pronto, un coche les adelanta a gran velocidad pero, al tomar una curva, se precipita por un barranco. Los automovilistas se detienen e intentan ayudar a los ocupantes del vehículo siniestrado, pero llegan tarde, y el conductor moribundo confiesa que tiene escondido un botín de trescientos mil dólares en el parque de Santa Rosita.
Olivia
La esposa de un conocido ginecólogo toma una importante decisión: convertirse en actriz, lo que le permitirá lograr fama y unos ingresos extras. Pero, a partir de entonces, los conflictos son constantes y desaparece la armonía conyugal.
Aunt Theodora
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
Self
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Mrs. Shea
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Valerie Humpert
Peter Stirling (con su vieja amiga la mula parlante) se incorpora al activo en las ... WACs (Women's Army Corps, cuerpo femenido del ejército)!
Jane Dwyer
La historia de la difícil construcción de la línea de ferrocarril que unía la ciudad de Denver con el Río Grande, atravesando las escarpadas montañas de Colorado. Un hombre deberá luchar contra un grupo de codiciosos trabajadores que pretenden sabotear el tendido en su propio beneficio.
Valerie Humpert
El sincero soldado Stirling no podía mentir sobre su fuente de información, la mula parlante del ejército, Francis, por lo que le trataron como un loco y dio lugar a continuas situaciones hilarantes, donde la mula era la única que parecia estar en su sano juicio. Durante de todo esto, la mula ayuda a descubrir un espía, Mareen, que pretendía que se pierderan en la selva, pero en realidad era ...
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn’t happen. In this failed pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose and says he’ll meet him and Opie Cates to go fishing. Lum comes into the store with a letter from the IRS. He goes to burn it in the stove and sees Abner’s fishing tackle.
Cousin Cora Cartwright
La acción se desarrolla hacia 1880, en el domicilio neoyorquino del señor Clarence Day, un hombre que ha hecho fortuna en los negocios y gobierna su casa y a su familia con la mentalidad y los escrúpulos de un contable. La llegada de la tía Cora, acompañada de una jovencita encantadora, y la declaración del señor Day de que no ha sido bautizado produce una conmoción en la familia.
Rosa
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
Elvira Spriggens
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Guest star
A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice columnist to the lovelorn.
Cornelia Pigeon
Un soldado estacionado en una base del ejército quiere casarse con su novia, pero no tienen dinero. Tres compañeras del trabajo de ella quieren volver con sus maridos, y contratan al soldado y a dos de sus amigos para "acompañarlas durante el fin de semana. Los maridos se presentan de repente.
Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Aunt Emma Bates
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Geraldine
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
Miss Pepper
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Anna, Craig's Maid
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Emily Pepper
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Pandora Polly
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Julia Jordan
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Emmy Sawyer
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Myra Pottle
Un director de cine quiere que estrella se lleve un bebé en un viaje en tren, con el fin de conseguir publicidad. Ya en el tren, la actriz se encuentra con un joven médico al que conoció en el colegio, y del que sigue enamorada. Pero la presencia del bebé causará todo tipo de problemas y malentendidos...
Pauline Hastings
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Miss Flint
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Cary Bingham
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Mme. Moulin
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Lilly Handy
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Aunt Penelope Hardwick
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Dulcey Lee
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
Letitia Rondell
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Hildegarde Withers
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Winnie Oatfield
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Gwen Logan
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Hildegarde Withers
La maestra Hildegarde Withers y el policía Oscar Piper, tratarán de averiguar la verdad sobre la aparición del cadáver de un millonario asesinado en su mansión. Las sospechas recaen en una joven pareja de enamorados, antiguos alumnos de la profesora Withers.
Mrs. Fay Kinney
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Miss Harkins
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.
Susan Todd
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Cora Upshaw
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Belle McGill
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Esmeralda
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
Maggie Conklin
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Mrs. Judson
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.
Mirabelle
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Miss Hazy
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Matilda Hemingway
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Tillie Whim
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Araminta Tootle
Un hombre y una mujer se encuentran en un rancho abandonado de California. Sus solitarias vidas cambian cuando un vagabundo descubre oro en la propiedad...
Annie Snodgrass
Un gángster se enamora de una cantante del tres al cuarto y trata de obligar a un productor a montarle un espectáculo.
Herself
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
Alice Mudge
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
Esthey Roberts
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Tillie Prescott
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Maddie Skitch
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Zasu
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Sybby 'Sib'
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men es una película inteligente y perceptiva sobre las relaciones de clase que deja suficientes preguntas para que el final sea absolutamente perfecto o absolutamente devastador, dependiendo de tu punto de vista.
Mary Horner
Comedia dirigida por William Wyler, donde una mujer, Mary Horner, echa mano de sus ahorros para comprarle un barco a su marido John, con el que podrá montar su propio negocio.
Elmerada de Leon
Glory es una cantante que ofrece su voz en la radio en la radio a la chica limpia y pura que promociona una compañía de toallas, y no sabe qué hacer para librarse de su imagen ñoña. Encima, como parte de la promoción, la obligan a casarse con un palurdo de Tennessee...
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Millie
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Bonny
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
Zasu
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Aunt Sylvia
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
Miss Pitts
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Zasu
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Molly Hull
Una criada y un mayordomo reciben una herencia de un millón de dólares, y no saben cómo manejarse mientras intentan convertirse en miembros del club de los ricos.
Beula
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Florrie
Eddie Burke ( Jack Oakie) is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams (William Collier Sr.) is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
Zasu
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
Miss Leyton
La historia de un estudio de Hollywood durante la transición del silente al sonoro.
Nora Rafferty
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Zasu
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
Gertie
Blondie es una neoyorkina y Lurlene es su mejor amiga. Cuando Lurlene consigue un papel en un gran espectáculo de Broadway, también hace que Blondie forme parte del elenco. Pero esta amistad empieza a ir mal cuando Larry Belmont, el novio rico de Lurlene, empieza a fijarse en Blondie.
Zasu
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Mrs. Dole
Ray Smith es una joven extrovertida y liberal que rechaza continuamente el matrimonio. Sin embargo, cuando conoce al apuesto Walter se enamora al instante de él a pesar de que está comprometido con otra mujer.
Gabby Woman
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Mrs. Scudder
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.
Morning Gazette Telephone Operator
Poster escribe una columna de chismes para el Morning Gazette. Él escribirá sobre cualquiera y todos, siempre y cuando obtenga el rédito. Obtiene la mayor parte de su información de su chica, Peggy, que es una corista.
Zasu
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
Mrs. Truesdale
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Sybil Smith
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Gladys Fairweather
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Pitts
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Temperance Worker
The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
Aunt Dot
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Miss Pitts
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Dot
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Zasu Pitts
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
Anna, Holderlin's Maid
Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Paul Renard, un joven francés, vive obsesionado por el recuerdo de Walter Holderlin, un soldado alemán al que mató. Después de leer y firmar la última carta de Walter, va a Alemania para hablar con su familia y pedirle perdón. Sin embargo, cuando la localiza y va a hablar con ellos, algo inesperado sucede.
Polly Perkins
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Zasu
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Bella
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Zasu
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
Liesl
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Zasu
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Mrs. Bassett
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Nora Dugan
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
ZaSu
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Miss Dibbs
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers (Lawrence Grant), but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera (Warner Baxter). Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother (Nance O'Neil) and former girlfriend,Stancia (Mary Doran), and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Katie
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Zasu Pitts
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Jennie
Bart (John Boles) no tiene más remedio que olvidar su pasión literaria y empezar a trabajar en una editorial para mantener a su mujer y a sus cinco hijos. Allí conoce a Mildred (Genevieve Tobin), una antigua novia que convence al jefe para que le permita a Bart terminar su novela. Como, debido al alboroto familiar, no puede hacerlo en su casa,va a escribir al apartamento de Mildred. El amor resurge y deciden irse a vivir fuera del país. Diez años después, Bart regresa convertido en un gran escritor y se propone recuperar el cariño de sus hijos dándoles dinero para que vayan a la universidad.
Fritzi Mobley
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Minnie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Mrs. Hattie Haddock
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.
Mrs. Harney
Una mujer de la alta sociedad genera un escándalo cuando se enamora de su chofer.
Ada, the Maid
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Cushie
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
Annie
Sylvia acepta la propuesta de matrimonio de su jefe, aunque él sólo lo ha hecho para evitar casarse con otra. Casada y rica, pasa de ser el patito feo a una seductora mujer que, incluso, considera la posibilidad de mantener una relación con un hombre al que conoce durante un viaje a París. (Filmaffinit)
Louise
John Keith está siendo buscado por el asesinato de George Kirkstone en las cataratas del Príncipe Albert en 1918. Después de buscarlo, durante largos y penosos días, por las heladas montañas del Ártico, el sargento Conniston y su asistente Pat O’Toole le dan captura, pero Keith escapa, regresando luego cuando presiente que sus captores están en dificultades para sobrevivir. Las circunstancias hacen que Conni muera y O´Toole motiva a Keith para que se haga pasar por Conni en el pueblo, donde tendrá que sortear su reencuentro con Miriam, la novia de éste, y con sus viejos amigos.
Hilda
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Bertha
La condesa Vera está a punto de contraer matrimonio con el estirado príncipe Otto, pero decide dejarle y se va a Montecarlo. Acude al casino, donde el conde Rudolph, hombre muy adinerado, se fija en ella. Le dice que, si le deja tocar su cabello, tendrá buena suerte en el juego. Ella se lo permite y empieza a ganar como por arte de magia. Tan impresionada queda por su cambio de suerte que, sin saber quién es, contrata a Rudolph en calidad de peluquero.
Bella
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
Monica
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Ethel
Un buscador de fortunas se casa con una joven por su dinero, pero descubre que ella realmente lo ama y quiere mantenerlo a pesar de la desaprobación de su familia.
Mayme
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Pauline Hastings
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
Caecilia
The marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place.
Clara Bertrand
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
Telephone Girl
En su primer aniversario, Ann Reagan descubre que su cuñada está involucrada con un personaje turbio con el que ella solía intimar y decide intervenir.
Harriet
Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talking-picture debut as Guy Pennell, the leading man in Vivienne's revue. No film elements of Paris are known to exist, although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks. The sound tape reels for this film survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The Elk
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
Timmins
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
Lena
En Hungría, una próspera y feliz familia de granjeros acoge a una muchacha gitana, Nubi, cuando huye de su cruel patrón. Su naturaleza seductora pronto causa problemas entre los hombres de la casa.
Rose Gleason
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
Mother Spengler
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
Cecelia Schweisser
En 1914 en Viena, durante los últimos años de la dinastía de los Ausburgo, el príncipe Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg se enamora de una joven humilde llamada Mitzi, a la que también pretende un grosero y vulgar carnicero llamado Schani, que es arrestado tras amenazar a Nicki. Durante una orgía en un prostíbulo, el príncipe Otokar, padre de Nicki, un hombre arruinado, acuerda con un hombre rico pero necesitado de un título nobiliario llamado Fortunat Schweisser, que su poco agraciada hija, una joven coja llamada Cecilia, se case con Nicky a cambio de un millón de coronas. Al principio Nicki se niega a esta boda acordada haciendo ver a sus padres que él está enamorado de Mitzi, pero su madre la princesa María le hace ver que necesitan el dinero que solo esa boda les puede proporcionar.
Hulda
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
The Maid
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Germaine
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
Camille
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Hope Durant
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".
Agnes Wheaton
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
Evelyn
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
Nancy
Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on, but Norma, who has become quite attached to the young doctor, keeps coming back, trampling everything in her way.
Hilda (as Zazu Pitts)
La noche antes de su boda, Tom Jones es convencido por un grupo de amigos para unirse a una partida de póker, pero una redada de la policía les obliga a huir. Como única escapatoria posible, Jones se esconde en una clínica de adelgazamiento para mujeres.
Annie Pogani
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.
Ruth Fanning
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Mandy Coulter
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
Maggie Keenan
Maggie es la primera actriz cómica del Follies, que anhela el tipo de relaciones románticas de sus más agraciadas compañeras de trabajo. Maggie, a resultas de caer en el tambor del batería de la orquesta, Al Cassidy, se enamora de éste. Se casan y tienen un hijo. Pero Selma Larson, una de las más guapas estrellas del Follies, se entrometerá en el matrimonio con el único fin de perjudicar a Maggie, ya que está celosa de ella por el éxito cómico de sus números...
Self
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Polly Jordan
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
Trina
Un supuesto dentista se casa con una mujer a la que le ha tocado la lotería. El frustrado novio de ésta le acusa de no tener licencia para ejercer como tal. A causa de ello, el matrimonio vive pobremente, pero la mujer ahorra compulsivamente. La avaricia y los celos conducirán a una tragedia. Existen dos versiones: la censurada, de dos horas y media, y la completa, de cuatro horas.
Celia Stebbins
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Delia
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.
Amelia Pugsley
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
'Brainy' Jones
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
Mickey
Tres ancianos solteros adoptan a una niña que es hija de la mujer de la que se enamoraron en su juventud.
Zasu Pitts (uncredited)
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Herself - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Apple Annie
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
Jennie Dunn
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
Mary Cosgrove
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
Patsy
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid
Donald Trent, el hijo del dueño de una planta de metalurgia, no cree en la lucha de clases y paga su deuda para con el prójimo luchando en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial. A su regreso a casa, dice a su padre que quiere empezar desde abajo y se convierte en un operario. Trabaja con su colega del ejército, el cabo Jimmy, asimismo maquinista. Mientras que Donald y su novia Katherine Boone ayudan a Jimmy para tratar la enfermedad de su novia Jennie Jones, Donald se entera de que su padre ha muerto y debe asumir el control de la empresa...
Nancy Scroggs
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
Emily
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
Mary
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
Oscar's Sweetheart
A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
A Kansas Belle (uncredited)
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
Becky
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Party Guest (uncredited)
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Con su familia en dificultades financieras, Rebecca es enviada a vivir con sus dos tías estrictas e insensibles, que no aprecian el encanto y la energía de la niña. Rebecca debe hacer nuevos amigos y adaptarse a los entornos que a veces son difíciles. Pero con todo, aún encuentra tiempo para pensar en numerosas formas de ayudar a otros en su nueva ciudad natal.
