Self (archive footage)
Un documental que recorre la historia de los premios de la Academia.
Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)
Documental que aborda la creatividad y libertad de expresión del cine realizado en la época Pre-Code. Recoge multitud de documentos gráficos y sonoros de la época, así como entrevistas con críticos, directores, historiadores y otros personajes.
Self (archive footage)
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Self (archive footage)
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
Self (voice)
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographers and actors he has shot.
Grace Guthrie
Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also deal with a mole.
Amanda Kingsley
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
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.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Self - 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Lucy Masters
When the Young Show was cancelled, Miss Young decided to produce a pilot for a new series. "The Spark" is the result. Its pilot never sold; it was released to the public for the first time on Youtube in 2018.
Jane MacAvoy
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
Christine Carroll Kimberly
El protagonismo de la cinta recae en la ya veterana (aunque solo tenía 39 años) Loretta Young, que encarna a Christine, la mujer de un mafioso que va a parar a prisión por proteger a su marido. En la cárcel encuentra la ayuda de un médico psiquiatra y consigue aprender el oficio de enfermera. Así que cuando sale en libertad logra trabajo en un hospital y, además, se enamora de un joven médico. Pero su pasado le perseguirá inexorablemente.
Paula Rogers
Mientras Paula conduce su coche, sufre un accidente en el que resulta herido un muchacho y, asustada, huye del lugar, dejándolo abandonado a su suerte. Cuando el sentimiento de culpa la lleva a interesarse por el estado de salud del chico, averigua que ha perdido la facultad de hablar. A partir de ese momento, pondrá todo su empeño en ayudarle a recuperar el don de la palabra.
Nora Gilpin
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
Ellen Jones
George Jones es un hombre que se encuentra inválido en una silla de ruedas y que padece también trastornos psicológicos. Además, está obsesionado con la idea de que su mujer Ellen está teniendo una relación adúltera con el médico que le atiende y que ambos planean matarle.
Self (archive footage)
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct for the film historically and geographically, and must be appropriate for the mood of the individual scene. We see famed costume designer Edith Head at work on a production. The Costume Designer was part of The Industry Film Project, a twelve-part series produced by the film studios and the Academy. Each series episode was produced to inform the public on a specific facet of the motion picture industry.
Self
Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, who speaks to them about doing a film for a group called the Christophers. The Christophers are an organization that wants to use different mediums such radio, TV, and film to inspire young people to change the world for the better by pursuing careers in public service like teaching and government work. The priest gives the celebrities a history lesson about the founding of the U.S. and God's role in it, and he asks for their help.
Clarissa Standish
Durante una convención de alcaldes de ciudades norteamericanas celebrada en San Francisco, dos de estos mandatarios acaban enamorados, con un pequeño problema: mientras que Clarissa gobierna en una pequeña localidad de Maine, Steve es el alcalde de otra comunidad al norte de California. Así que, cuando acaba el congreso, ambos parten para sus respectivos lugares...
Abigail Fortitude Abbott
Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
Dr. Wilma Tuttle
Una profesora de psicología en una Universidad de California se defiende del ataque sexual de uno de sus alumnos matándolo de forma accidental. Sin embargo, el acoso de un detective que investiga el caso hará que la mujer acabe reconociendo ser culpable de esa muerte. En el juicio, dicho policía, enamorado de ella, hará todo lo posible porque sea declarada inocente.
Sister Margaret
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Rachel Harvey
David Harvey (William Holden) es un granjero viudo que vive con su hijo Davey en una aislada granja de Ohio. Quiere proporcionarle a su hijo la educación que su madre hubiera deseado para él, es decir, una educación que lo convierta en un caballero. Además David decide casarse con Rachel (Loretta Young), una sirvienta, para que se ocupe de las tareas domésticas y cuide de la educación del chico. Sin embargo, Davey no siente un verdadero afecto por ella, ya que es consciente de que se trata de un matrimonio de conveniencia. Todo cambiará con la presencia de un amigo (Robert Mitchum) que pasa unos días con ellos...
Julia Brougham
El espítiru navideño parece dominarlo todo, pero no tiene cabida en el hogar del obispo Henry Brougham. En su lucha por recaudar fondos para construir una nueva catedral, el joven clérigo ha desatendido de tal manera a su afectuosa esposa Julia, que ahora lo único que puede salvar su matrimonio es un milagro. Pero el poderoso ángel envíado desde el cielo no se conformará con darle a Henry una lección inmortal de romanticismo
Katrin Holstrom
Una mujer de origen sueco, abandona la granja de su padre rumbo a la gran ciudad. Allí se emplea como sirvienta en la casa del congresista Glen Morley, y a fuerza de tesón pronto llega a triunfar en política, logrando un puesto en Washington dentro del Congreso. (FILMAFFINITY)
Maggie Williams
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
Mary Longstreet
Wilson, un agente de la comisión de crímenes de guerra, está buscando a Franz Kindler, uno de los cerebros de los campos de exterminio nazis, que ha conseguido huir sin dejar huellas. Siguiendo la pista de un antiguo camarada de Kindler llega hasta Harper (Connecticut), donde es asesinado antes de poder identificar al fugitivo. La única pista que le queda es la fascinación del criminal nazi por los relojes antiguos.
Cherry de Longpre
Un despreocupado vaquero es confundido por la gente del pueblo con un famoso pistolero. El vaquero decide que lo mejor sería salir de la ciudad... hasta que conoce a la novia del pistolero.
Emily Blair
Emily Blair es una acaudalada joven que sufre sordera. El doctor Vance, un hombrede origen muy humilde, está desarrollando un suero para curarla, pero no funciona.
Roberta Harper
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Carolyn Grant
Poco antes de Pearl Harbour, el oportunista americano David Jones y su socio Johnny Sparrow están en China para vender petróleo al ejército japonés invasor, sin importarle el sufrimiento de los chinos. Durante un viaje a Shanghai, Jones conoce a la compasiva maestra Carolyn Grant y las chispas no tardan en saltar entre estos personajes de fuerte voluntad. Pero cuando Jones es testigo de una atrocidad japonesa, sus sentimientos hacia sus clientes (y Carolyn) comienzan a cambiar...
Nancy Troy
Jeff Troy escribe novelas de poco éxito y Nancy, su mujer, piensa que ello es debido a que viven en un apartamento poco conveniente para un escritor como él, por lo que decide acabar con la mediocridad de su existencia y alquilar un piso bajo con un jardín en una discreta casa de un barrio más tranquilo. En ella vivirán una experiencia tan extraordinaria como irrepetible. La casa entera tiene un aire siniestro, y los vecinos parecen hostiles y asustados. Jeff deberá entonces poner en práctica sus conocimientos detectivescos para resolver un asesinato cometido en su propia casa.
Jane Drake
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Lina Varasvina / Polly Varley
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
Annie Morgan
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Marianna Duval
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
June Cameron
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
Anita Halstead
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.
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Biopic sobre el inventor del teléfono -o considerado durante mucho tiempo como tal, pues parece ser que sólo fue el primero en patentarlo-. "El gran milagro" era una superproducción muy al gusto de Darryl F. Zanuck que comenzaba en el Boston de 1873 y culminaba con la invención del "artilugio de las palabras" tres años después. Entre medias había romance, superación personal y el juicio que se estableció entre la poderosa Western Union y Bell por los derechos de patente del invento.
Doris Borland
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Sally Goodwin
Peter Goodwin es el patriarca de una familia que odia a los Dillon desde que ambos clanes se enfrentaron en la Guerra Civil; pero surge un pequeño problema cuando su sobrina Sally (Loretta Young) se enamora de Jack, el hijo de los Dillon (Richard Greene). Además, para echar más leña al fuego en este romance imposible, Jack ayuda a Sally a formarse como jinete y participar en el derby de Kentucky.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo
Ferdinand de Lesseps fue un joven aristócrata e ingeniero francés que proyectó la construcción del Canal de Suez (inaugurado en 1869), pero tuvo que afrontar numerosos problemas para llevar a cabo su proyecto.
Pamela Charters
Tres hermanas algo descocadas reciben una pequeña herencia, abandonan Kansas y se marchan a un apartamento de lujo en Manhattan, con la intención de cazar un marido rico y seguir con ese nivel de vida antes que se les acabe el dinero.
Lynn Cherrington
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
Vicky
Una mujer recién casada en segundas nupcias y que encuentra a su marido, un hombre de negocios, aburrido, se topa por casualidad con su adinerado y playboy primer marido.
Ina Heath Lewis
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Myra Cooper
Una mujer huye hacia España a comienzos de 1936, acusada de robar un valioso collar. Un detective de Scotland Yard la sigue la pista, la encuentra y se enamora de ella en un clima de conflicto social.
Laura Ridgeway
En París vive el norteamericano Alexis, todo un galán que se dedica a la buena vida utilizando cualquier truco con tal de no dar un palo al agua. Lo malo es que no puede hacer frente a la deuda contraída con Monseuir Lobard, dueño de un café. Así que, para poder pagarle, éste propone a Alexis que saque el dinero cortejando a una rica heredera que acaba de llegar a la ciudad. Haciéndose pasar por un aristócrata ruso, Alexis se dispone a enamorarla y sacarle el dinero, dejándola rendida a sus pies. Pero nada sale como estaba previsto.
Tony Gateson
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Susie Schmidt
Tres jovencitas –Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor y Constance Bennett– deciden arreglar sus vidas para siempre buscando maridos ricos.
El enredo está servido cuando la primera de ellas seduce a un aristócrata (Tyrone Power), con la mala fortuna de que ya está comprometido. Así que, desesperada, decide suicidarse con veneno, pero la dosis – ciertamente menor– es bebida por error por su amiga Gaynor, que es atendida por un atractivo doctor (Don Ameche), del que se enamora. Al tiempo que Bennett hace caer en sus redes amorosas a un hombre de negocios de mediana edad (Wilfrid Lawson).
Señora Moreno
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Ellen Neal
Una historia romántica sobre diferencia de clases que tiene lugar cuando un rico aristócrata llamado Richard Winfield se enamora de una sirvienta. La familia queda horrorizada de que la chica pueda entrar a formar parte de ella, así que hará todo lo posible por impedirlo.
Lady Helen Dearden
Una mujer ha sido testigo de un asesinato, pero no puede implicar al criminal sin revelar el pasado tormentoso de su propio marido.
Crusades Actor
Semi-documentary of a typical "extra girl" on a C.B.DeMille film.
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre
Ricardo Corazón de León marcha a las Cruzadas para eludir su boda con la princesa Alicia de Francia, y por el camino contrae matrimonio con Berengaria para proporcionar comida a sus hombres. Todo se complica cuando Berengaria es raptada por Saladino.
Claire Blake
Jack Thornton, un buscador de oro, compra un magnífico San Bernardo al que llama Buck. Los problemas surgen cuando Buck muerde a Smith, otro buscador de oro, que quiere matarlo para vengarse. Jack y Smith llegan a un acuerdo que consiste en hacer una carrera de trineos, cuyo vencedor se quedará con Buck.
Barbara Howard
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Margaret Maskelyne
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Countess Wilma
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
June Arden
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
Lola Field
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Letty Strong
Convencida de que su hijo Mickey (Jackie Kelk) tendrá menos oportunidades que los demás, Letty (Loretta Young), una madre soltera, ha educado al chico como un pillo callejero. Un día, Mickey sufre un accidente en el que se ve involucrado Malcolm Trevor (Cary Grant), un hombre de buena posición económica, casado y sin hijos. Cuando éste se encariñe con el chico, Letty verá en Malcolm la posibilidad de hacer el gran negocio de su vida.
Julie Rothschild
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
Trina
Melodrama ambientado en Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión.
Margot Lesesne
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Florence 'Flo' Denny
Una secretaria es informada de que deberá "entretener" a los clientes de la firma, de lo contrario perderá el trabajo.
Mary Martin
Una joven está siendo juzgada por asesinato. Durante la adolescencia, su lucha por salir de la miseria le costó una pena de prisión por robo. La falta de medios y las dificultades para encontrar empleo la llevan a involucrarse en los asuntos de la mafia. En un prostíbulo, conoce a un joven abogado, hijo de una prestigiosa y rica familia, que se enamora de ella.
Ruth Loring
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Peggy
El boxeador Jimmy Dolan mata accidentalmente a un hombre en una fiesta y huye. Se esconde en un centro para chicos inválidos, donde empezará a perder su cinismo, bajo la influencia de los niños y de Peggy y Mrs Moore, quienes dirigen el centro. Cuando un detective lo reconoce, deberá decidir si escapar o reconocer su culpabilidad delante de los niños.
Eve
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
Marcia Stanislavsky
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Madeleine
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."
Marion Cullen
An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
Grace Sutton
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Lola Davis Hayes
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
Buster 'Bus' Green Dennis
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Sun Toya San
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Sue Riley Nolan
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Gallagher
Stew Smith (Robert Williams) es un singular periodista que se caracteriza por su notable lucidez y sarcasmo. Absolutamente abstraído en su trabajo, es enviado por su jefe a la mansión de los Schuyler para ratificar cierta historia relacionada con Michael (Don Dillaway), el hijo de la familia, que ha tenido que pagar para desembarazarse de una desaprensiva amante, aunque ésta pretende chantajearlo con unas cartas de amor.
Diane Forsythe
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
Gloria Bannister
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.
Claire 'Mac' McIntyre
Una universitaria utiliza su cerebro y sus piernas para conquistar el mundo de los negocios.
Elaine Bumpstead
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
Norene McMann
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
Loretta Young
Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Isobel Brandon
Un estadounidense se alista en la Legión Extranjera Francesa, con el fin de rescatar a un amigo de la infancia.
Dorothy Hope
Ronald Colman interpreta a un apuesto galán que lleva una vida alborotada. Ahora tiene puestas sus armas de seducción en dos atractivas señoritas, interpretadas por Loretta Young y Myrna Loy. Colman regresa de un ocioso viaje por Sudamérica y se encuentra con su padre enfurecido, que le echa en cara el despilfarro que hace del dinero, además de su ligera forma de vida. Pero a Colman sólo le interesan sus amoríos, y ahora está envuelto en una complicada relación a dos bandas. No sabe por qué señorita decidirse. Por un lado siente una gran atracción hacia la temperamental actriz interpretada por Myrna Loy, pero a la vez no puede negar sus sentimientos hacia una amiga de su hermana, Loretta Young. La honestidad de Colman se pone a prueba cuando se ve obligado a decidir, y logra demostrar que no es un simple y vanidoso seductor.
Rosalie Evantural
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Nurse (uncredited)
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.
Phyllis Ericson
Una cantante de cabaret que vive por todo lo alto no se da cuenta que su último novio es pobre.
Marsinah
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Herself
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Mary Brennan / Margaret Waring
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Marion Ferguson
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
Loretta Young
La cantante (Alice White) de un club nocturno de Nueva York es descubierta por un productor de cine y es llevada a Hollywood para convertirla en la siguiente gran estrella cinematográfica.
Margery Seaton
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Ann
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives and without scandal. Otherwise the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.
Muriel
Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
Patricia Mason Stratton
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Gladys Cosgrove
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
Irma
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.
One of Satan's Victims (uncredited)
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Patricia Carlyle
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.
Carol Watts
Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Denise Laverne
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems. Finally Count D'Estrange marries Mme. Florence Laverne. Both couples leave for a honeymoon in Venice
Simonetta
El Payaso Tito (Lon Chaney), adopta a una niña que bautiza como "Simonetta" (Loretta Young). Al crecer, la opulenta chica es objeto del deseo del noble Luigi (Nils Ashter). La víspera de su boda, Simonetta se entera que Tito la ama. ¿Cómo se resolverá este complejo pero simple (y enteramente humano y natural) dilema de vida y amor entre los protagonistas? Es la versión de la obra homónima de 1923, de David Belasco y Tom Cushing. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Girl
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
Margaret Barbour
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
Woman by Ping Pong Table (uncredited)
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
(uncredited)
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
Arab Child (uncredited)
Un jeque árabe se enamora de una dama británica y decide secuestrarla.
Child (uncredited)
When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable businessman. But on a trip to Paris, he encounters a few not-so-honest types who think he is ripe for picking.
Child on Operating Table
Child (as Gretchen Young)
During a raging storm, a baby is washed up on shore on an island in Greece and is adopted by the wealthy Stanhopes, who name her Lorelei. Eighteen years later, Lorelei, now a woman, invites her school friends to spend their vacation at her villa. One of her guests, Julie, is insanely jealous of Lorelei. One day Gerald Waldron, a disenchanted society fop, sails by on his yacht, accompanied by his social-climbing friend, Hartley Royce. Seeing Lorelei and her friends swimming, they decide to go ashore. Both Gerald and Hartley fall in love with Lorelei, and Julie rages, finding herself relegated to Hartley. Together Hartley and Julie plot to separate the lovers.
Fairy (uncredited)
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to devote her life to caring for crippled children. She becomes a nurse in the children's ward of Dr. MacLean's hospital, but after the beloved doctor's death, his son Bob returns home from abroad and decrees that he is closing the ward and that Margaret's little charges must leave the hospital. Furious, Margaret quits her job and storms out, with Bob in pursuit. As he rushes across the street, Bob is struck by a car and must be hospitalized. During his convalescence, he realizes that he is in love with Margaret and decides to have a home built for her and her patients. Unable to locate Margaret, Bob hires detectives, who find her and bring her to the home. There Margaret finds that all her dreams have come true as she sees her little charges happily living in their new home and gladly accepts Bob's proposal of marriage
