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Remake de las películas de 1933 y 1945 del mismo nombre. Mientras que la obra musical de 1933 y la película de 1945 se fijaron en la Feria Estatal de Iowa, se filmó esta versión de 1962 en Dallas, Texas, donde la Feria Estatal de Texas tiene lugar cada año en el Parque de la Feria.
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Pepe, el mozo de cuadras de un rancho mexicano, está muy encariñado con uno de los caballos, pero su jefe se lo vende a un director de cine americano que piensa utilizarlo en su próxima película. Entonces Pepe decide buscar trabajo en Hollywood para estar cerca del caballo. Film con numerosos cameos de grandes estrellas como Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis y Dean Martin, entre otros.
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Biopic sobre la estrella de Broadway de los años 20 Jeanne Eagels (1894-1929). Aunque Eagels aspira a ser una gran actriz, acepta un trabajo como bailarina en un pequeño local neoyorquino. Cuando llega a "La Gran Manzana", recibe clases de la estricta Madame Neilson, logrando así debutar en Broadway en 1922.
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La India, en los días anteriores a su declaración de la independencia del imperio británico. Los movimientos de resistencia, que tan importante papel habían jugado en la consecución de la independencia, amenazan con promover una revolución sangrienta que los británicos se ven incapaces de detener. En estas circunstancias, el coronel Rodney Savage (Stewart Granger) recibe la orden de mantener a toda costa el importante nudo ferroviario de Bhowani. El oficial de enlace es la bella subteniente Victoria Jones (Ava Gardner), hija de un inglés y una india.
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Curly, un apuesto vaquero, está enamorado de Laurey, una tímida granjera, pero ambos son demasiado orgullosos y les cuesta admitir sus sentimientos. La llegada de un forastero desencadenará entre los dos hombres una guerra sin cuartel para conquistar a la chica.
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Biografía de Marjorie Lawrence, cantante de ópera de origen australiano, desde que abandonó la granja de sus padres para estudiar canto y triunfó en los escenarios de todo el mundo hasta que su carrera se vio truncada por la poliomielitis. A pesar de ello, su tenacidad le permitió superar la enfermedad e incluso volver a los escenarios.
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Tres marinos, T. Martin , V. Damone y R. Tamblyn tienen 48 horas de permiso en San Francisco que utilizan, entre muchos enredos y peripecias, para cortejar a sus chicas, A. Miller, J. Powell, y D. Reynolds y salvar de las garras de un mundano empresario a J. Powell que quiere ser artista. La escena final, en la cubierta de un buque de guerra, es el famoso "Hallelujah!" de V. Youmans, cantado por las damiselas y bailado por la maravillosa Ann Miller.
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A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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El reino de Marshovia está asfixiado por las deudas. La única solución sería que una viuda millonaria destinara su fortuna a sacar al estado de una situación tan apurada. Con tal propósito, el rey le pide a un conde que vaya a verla y la corteje.
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Cuando regresa a Roma, después de tres años en el campo de batalla, el general Marco Vinicio se enamora de Lygia. Pero ella es cristiana y sus creencias le impiden enamorarse de un guerrero. Aunque fue adoptada por un general retirado, jurídicamente es una esclava de Roma. Pero Marco consigue que el emperador Nerón se la ceda en pago por sus servicios.
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Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Adaptation
El juez Timberlane se casa con la chica equivocada. Ella se dedica cada vez más al amigo del juez Brad Criley. Durante una pelea, el juez le dice a Virginia que se quede con Brad, pero cuando enferma se la lleva a casa.
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An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
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Los Frake, una familia de granjeros, acuden a la feria del estado de Iowa. En el primer día de la feria la hija de los Frake, la siempre descontenta Margy, conoce al apuesto Pat Gilbert...
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George Geshwin nació en Brooklyn en 1898. Sus padres compraron un piano para que recibiera lecciones a su hijo Ira, pero la llegada del instrumento a casa cambia totalmente los pensamientos de George, el más pequeño, que se siente atraído por el instrumento y por la música. A los dieciocho años es admitido por el célebre profesor Frank y tiene su primera oportunidad en un teatro de variedades de barrio, pero allí sus composiciones no son apreciadas...
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Pittsburgh, siglo XIX. Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), una bella joven que proviene de una familia proletaria, entra a trabajar en casa de la rica familia Scott, que es la propietaria de la fábrica siderúrgica donde trabajan los hombres de su familia. Allí, Mary enseguida atrae la atención del apuesto Paul Scott (Gregory Peck).
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Ruth (Deanna Durbin), misionera idealista, crea el personaje de Mrs. Holliday para así traerse a niños huérfanos chinos a los EEUU con la ayuda del camarero del barco Timothy (Barry Fitzgerarld). Ruth se hace pasar por la esposa de un famoso y rico magnate dueño de una flota de barcos a la cual se le diÓ por desaparecido en altamar. Toda esta trama le hace posible traerse a los huérfanos con la mayor de las cautelas e instalarlos en la mansión que su familia posee, para poder así elaborar su siguiente plan...
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Tres mujeres sueñan con actuar en los musicales de Broadway de Florence Ziegfeld. Susan teme que su éxito apene a su padre, actor de vodevil en declive. Sheila se debate entre el amor a su novio y las atenciones de un millonario. Sandra está casada con un virtuoso del violín que no soporta que su mujer consiga el éxito en el mundo de las lentejuelas.
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París, Francia, 1482. El juez Frollo, al servicio del benévolo rey Luis XI, se enamora de Esmeralda, una joven gitana. El jorobado Quasimodo, protegido de Frollo y campanero de Notre Dame, vive en paz entre las campanas, en las alturas de la inmensa catedral, hasta que el retorcido magistrado lo involucra en sus maliciosos planes, desesperado por liberarse del supuesto hechizo de Esmeralda, que él cree que es obra del diablo.
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Albany, Nueva York, 1776. Después de casarse, Gil y Lana viajan al norte para instalarse en una pequeña granja en el valle del río Mohawk; pero pronto su creciente prosperidad y felicidad se ven amenazadas por el siniestro sonido de los tambores que anuncian oscuros tiempos de revolución y guerra.
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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.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Tres jóvenes hombres buscan al asesino que mató a su padre, un hombre al que admiraban mucho. Su viaje les lleva desde la India hasta América del Sur, Londres, Egipto, y EE.UU. Mientras avanzan en sus investigaciones, empiezan a descubrir la verdad oculta y perturbadora sobre la muerte de su padre
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Los O'Leary son una familia de pioneros cuyos hijos mayores alcanzan poder y notoriedad en la bulliciosa ciudad de Chicago. Jack (Don Ameche) es elegido alcalde con la ayuda de su popular hermano Dion (Tyrone Power), pero ambos hermanos se enfrentan después a causa de sus diferencias de opinión sobre el destino que deben dar a los barrios bajos de Chicago. Usando a su esposa (Alice Faye), una cantante de cabaret, como peón en la disputa, Dion echa leña al fuego de la rivalidad con su hermano hasta que la ciudad entera comienza a tomar partido por el uno o por el otro
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Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
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A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Una inmigrante consigue triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo, tras haber llegado huérfana a Estados Unidos.
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Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard .
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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.
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A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
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Abel Frake y su familia aguardan ansiosos la Feria Estatal de Iowa. Abel confía en ganar el lazo azul con su cerdo campeón, Blue Boy. Su esposa Melissa quiere presentar su relleno al concurso de alimentos, su hijo Wayne quiere ajustar cuentas con un fullero que se burló de él en la última feria y su hija Margy sólo quiere divertirse un rato.
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La historia de Gran Bretaña durante el primer tercio del siglo XX es reflejada a través de las desventuras de una familia que sufre toda clase de penurias y calamidades. Un drama épico, basado en la obra del famoso dramaturgo Noël Coward, que resultó la gran vencedora de la edición de los Oscar de 1933.
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When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
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A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
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In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
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A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
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Con la intención de estudiar el comportamiento humano, un escritor de la alta sociedad acoge en su casa a una joven huérfana a la que ha encontrado compareciendo en un juzgado nocturno por no haber pagado la cuenta del restaurante. Su familia no será comprensiva, sobre todo cuando empiecen a surgir complicaciones afectivas inesperadas con el escritor y su hermano.
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Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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Lightnin' y Mary son propietarios de un hotel en la frontera entre Nevada y California, muy utilizado para parejas que quieren divorciarse. Cuando unos gangsters quieren apoderarse del establecimiento, obligan a su mujer a divorciarse de él...
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A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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"La canción de mi alma" tiene como protagonista a un tenor, interpretado por el entonces famoso cantante John McCormack, que sale de su retiro para ayudar a la familia de su antiguo amor. También es la historia de un hombre enamorado de una mujer a quien no pudo desposar años atrás porque ella fue obligada a casarse con otro por dinero.
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Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly distastes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
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A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
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Drama set in Alaska
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Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Mary Tucker, una desaliñada campesina que vive en la miseria, conoce a Martin y a Tim, dos jóvenes que trabajan en un equipo de instalación de líneas eléctricas. Cuando, en 1917, los Estados Unidos entran en la Primera Guerra Mundial, Martin y Tim son enviados al frente. En las trincheras reciben una carta de Mary, ante la que reaccionan de manera muy distinta: Tim se siente conmovido por la generosidad de la chica, en cambio, Martin se burla de ella. Cuando Tim regresa, Mary empieza a frecuentar su casa.
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Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk. John and Lois fly to San Francisco. Eric shows up and tries to kill John, but Scotland Yard's Lt. Charlie Chan intervenes. Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective only appears in a few scenes. The film is more noteworthy for its introduction of Boris Karloff to sound features, in a small role as a servant from Sudan who mutters inscrutable nonsense about the whims of the desert.
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Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.
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Julius Golfish (Jim Hersholt), un humilde comerciante judío, ha conseguido sacar adelante a su esposa y a sus dos hijos gracias a su pequeño negocio Cuando el hijo mayor (Ricardo Cortez) se hace adulto, se obsesiona tanto con la idea de ocupar un lugar destacado dentro de la alta sociedad neoyorquina que acabará avergonzándose de su familia.
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El reportero Clem Rogers está ansiando como nunca una primicia que lo saque del anonimato... y ésta le llega cuando se entera de que su novia, Jane Atwill, hija del sonado candidato a la alcaldía de la ciudad, está implicada en un crimen que acaba de cometerse, y que tiene que cubrir al ser el único periodista que estaba en ese momento de guardia.
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Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
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A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
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To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
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When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
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Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chorus girl.
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A young East Side Jewish reporter gets into a sticky situation when she finds that her new beau is indicting a banker she owes money to.
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Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
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The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any woman will "sell her soul" for diamonds, he deals harshly with any employee caught stealing and has Lady Margot Cork watched while she is visiting Lorraine Temple. John and Margot fall in love, but she cancels their engagement when she learns of the "brutal" punishment of Jim Wingate for swallowing a diamond.
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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.
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The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of naiveté. Kathleen works in a factory and its owner, Donald Holiday (Warner Baxter), has taken a shine to her. But instead she falls for slick cab driver Harry Stanton (George Webb), who insists, "Honest, kid, you're the only girl I ever loved." Kathleen falls for this, and when her perceptive father makes clear he doesn't approve of Stanton, she moves out on her own.
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Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
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Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.