George K. Arthur

El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.

Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

Short story film about a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Una mujer alegre y desenvuelta se casa con un rígido lord inglés, viéndose luego envuelta en un escándalo con otro hombre.

Un hombre joven llamado Richard Bruce (Robert Armstrong) hace su primer viaje a través del Atlántico a Londres. En la capital británica, de manera accidental y envuelto en niebla y bruma, se ve implicado con unos delincuentes. Richard Bruce encuentra la guarida de los secuestradores que se dedicaban a extorsionar a una joven y, a base de sangre fría, jugando sus tarjetas cerca de su chaleco, logra hacerles creer que lo que tiene entre manos son unos papeles secretos que ansía poseer esta banda de criminales.

Un empleado de unos grandes almacenes es despedido, perro encuentra un nuevo empleo en una panadería. La mujer del propietario no soporta la falta de dinero, de modo que se fuga con otro hombre. Al final, los grandes almacenes se salvan de la quiebra y una nueva alianza se forja entre los dos hombres.

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda

Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.

Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.

Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.

Karl Dane & George K. Arthur enter a gangster town.

Karl Dane and his pal come home for a disastrous Christmas.

A drunkard climbs a ladder into a bedroom in the wrong house and gets romantically involved with the woman who lives there.

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.

Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sueña con ser una actriz dramática y su padre se dispone a llevarla a Hollywood para que le hagan un casting, donde piensa demostrarle a todos que su hija es una verdadera actriz. Ayudada por Billy Boone (William Haines), la chica conseguirá la dichosa prueba... pero algunas cosas van a cambiar en lo que han sido sus pretensiones, mientras entre ellos nace algo que es mucho más que una simple amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.

Karl Heinrich, sobrino del rey de un pequeño país y príncipe heredero, se traslada a estudiar a Heidelberg acompañado por su tutor, el doctor Jüttner. Allí se enamora de Kathi, la sobrina del dueño de la posada en la que se alojan. Karl Heinrich es feliz, pero el rey muere y debe regresar para ocupar el trono.

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Jack Kelly trabaja en el departamento de envíos de una importante firma comercial. En sus ratos libres suele jugar al golf y un buen día logra un hoyo en una tirada. Su jefe, también aficionado a ese deporte -sin ninguna fortuna-, le pide que le enseñe los secretos del manejo de la bolita. (Eddie Constanti)

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."

Greg, an arrogant entertainer, gets drafted into the army and runs up against tough drill sergeant Sgt. Diggs. Not wanting to stay in the army, Greg sets out to annoy and aggravate Sgt. Diggs so much that Diggs will have him thrown out. To make matters more complicated, they both have their sights set on pretty Betty Wayne. Complications ensue.

Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.

Durante el reinado de Luis XIII, un jactancioso joven llamado Bardelys se hace famoso gracias a sus conquistas amorosas.

Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts. One day Mrs. Reilly, a prominent society woman and a customer of the shop, invites Marcia to a party she's throwing. Marcia winds up impersonating a famous writer in order to impress a "duke" for Mrs. Reilly, who doesn't know the "duke" isn't really a duke. Complications ensue.

Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth, then defeats her in romancing the D.A.

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...

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

Kiki se gana la vida vendiendo periódicos por las calles de París. Cuando se entera que una chica del coro ha sido despedida de la revista Folies Barbes dirigida por Víctor Renal, encuentra un camino para realizar su sueño y solicita el trabajo. Kiki se gasta todo su dinero en comprar ropa adecuada, pero es expulsada de la prueba ya que no ha sido recomendada por la Agencia de colocación. Pero no ceja en su empeño. Mientras está en la sala esperando para otra prueba, es confundida con la secretaria de Renald por una solicitante de la Agencia, quien le da a Kiki su carta de recomendación. Ésta se apropia de la carta y se la presenta a Renald, quien le procura otra audición...

Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.

A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.

Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.

When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.

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...

Helen has a twin sister, who is a famous actress named "La Perry". Helen and her sister decide to trick Helen's husband to prove his love.

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.

The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity, but worlds apart in life: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who would send Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as young women at eighteen as Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life free from reform school.

A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.

The drama of a girl who knew beauty's power.

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.

A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.

Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.

Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.