Self (archive footage)
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
Self
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
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 (archive footage)
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Aunt Coll
A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970's.
Mrs. Fitzgerald
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
Dolly Kenyon
왕년의 복싱 챔피언 빌리는 술과 도박의 방탕한 생활을 하다가 아내 애니마저 떠나버리고 지금은 경마장에서 말을 돌보는 일을 하고 있다. 이제는 아들 티제이와 단둘이 사는 빌리는 지금은 술과 도박을 멀리하고 착실하게 살고 있다. 티제이는 언젠가 빌리가 다시 챔피언이 될 것이라고 믿으며 아빠를 챔프라고 부른다. 하지만 나이도 나이거니와 빌리에겐 다시 복귀할 의지가 없다. 어느날 패션 디자이너로 성공한 애니가 그들 앞에 나타나 티제이에게 접근한다. 어릴적에 떠나버린 엄마 애니를 기억 못하는 티제이는 아빠 친구로 알고, 자신에게 무척 잘해주는 애니를 따르는데 그 모습을 지켜 보는 빌리는 묘한 질투와 희망을 차차 품게 된다. 애니의 성공과 여전히 자신이 최고 인줄 아는 티제이의 응원등에 자극을 받은 빌리는 다시 복싱을 하겠다는 결심을 하고 옛 트레이너를 찾아가 훈련을 도와 달라고 청한다. 빌리는 투지를 불태우며 훈련에 돌입하고 그 옆에서 티제이는 열심으로 응원한다. 드디어 빌리의 복귀전이 열리고 복서의 나이로서는 사양길에 접어든 빌리는 죽을 힘을 다해 경기를 치르지만...
Mrs. Brumple
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Edna Thompson
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
Vi
1950년대말, 캘리포니아에 있는 한 고등학교. 대니 주코(Danny Zuko: 존 트라볼타 분)와 샌디 올슨(Sandy Olsen: 올리비아 뉴튼 존 분)은 여름 방학 때 해변에서 우연히 알게 된 사이로 바캉스 시즌이 끝나자 두 사람은 기약없이 작별하지만 대니가 다니는 고등학교에 샌디가 전학해 오면서 뜻밖의 재회가 이루어진다. 내심 기뻤던 대니지만 학교의 서클인 티버즈의 리더인 그가 어느 특정한 여자에게 가까이 하면 친구들의 빈촉을 살까봐 이러지도 저러지도 못한다. 이런 대니의 마음을 모른는 샌디는 오해를 해 스포츠에 만능인 톰과 친하게 지낸다. 이에 쇼크를 받은 대니는 샌디에게 용서를 빌어 가까스로 샌디의 마음을 되돌려 놓는다. 바야흐로 학교의 최대 행사인 댄스 파티가 열리자 대니와 샌디는 한조가 되어 출전, 결승전까지 진출하지만 티버즈의 라이벌인 스코피언스의 리더인 차차의 방해로 우승을 놓친다. 화가 난 샌디에게 야외 극장에서 대니는 자기의 반지를 빼주며 샌디의 마음을 바꾸지만 샌디의 몸을 강요한게 그녀를 더 토라지게 만들고 말았다. 드디어 티버즈와 숙적인 스콜피온스 간에 카레이스로 결판을 내는 날이다. '선더로드 경주'라는 이름의 이 시합에서 차차는 비겁한 수단으로 골탕을 먹이지만 이를 잘 피해 대니가 이기는데 이를 가슴조이며 지켜보던 샌디는 대니의 품에 안긴다. 이윽고 고등학교 졸업식이 왔다. 졸업 파티가 성대하게 벌어지고 정장을 하고 머리에다 그리이스를 발라 의젓해진 대니와 샌디는 빨간 승용차를 타고 다정하게 교문을 나선다. 축하무드가 절정을 이루며 뒤를 따르는 동창생들.
Sarah Goode
한 젊은 여성 팬이 그녀의 우상 머틀 고든를 만나려 하다 사고로 죽게 된다. 그녀의 죽음을 목격한 머틀은 책임감을 느끼게 되고 배우로서 경력에 있어 감정적인 위기를 겪게 된다.
Mama Lou
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
Marcella Geffenhart
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with her. His wife attempts to break the spell which threatens their marriage and their very lives.
Landlady
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Beverly Craig
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Levenia
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
Jenny
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Ruby
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
Kittibelle Lightfoot
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
Glenda Callahan
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.
Lavinia
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
Larouge
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
Mrs. 'Fingers' Stilletto
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Mrs. Lavender
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his wife's family, and eventually deserts her to become a buffalo hunter. 11 years later, with his self-made fortune, he sets out to return home, only to be set upon by three sadistic marauders, who steal his money and leave him for dead. Rescued by a farmer who nurses him back to health, Jonas becomes consumed by the desire for revenge. As fate would have it, all three men live close to Jonas' former home. Matters quickly get worse when Jonas reunites with his wife, only to discover that she is now engaged to Renne.
Lady Fingers
전문 도박사, 신시내티 키드(스티브 맥퀸 분)는 시시한 도박판에 염증을 느끼며 하루하루 무료한 생활을 하고 있다. 때마침 당대 최고의 도박사, 랜시 하워드(에드워드 G. 로빈슨 분)가 게임을 하기 위해 뉴올리언스에 오자 그에게 도전장을 내민다. 뉴올리언스 출신의 또 다른 전문 도박사, 슈터는 딜러를 자청하며 신시내티 키드와 랜시 하워드의 게임을 주선한다. 하지만 랜시 하워드의 오랜 숙적인 슬레이드의 계략에 휘말려 승부를 조작하기로 마음먹는다. 마침내 한 호텔방에서 도박판이 벌어지고 한창 게임을 하던 신시내티 키드는 슈터의 행동에서 뭔가 수상쩍음을 눈치 챈다. 그리고 그를 닦달해서 슬레이드가 부정한 방법으로 자신에게 유리한 게임이 되도록 만들고 있다는 사실을 알게 된다. 공정한 방법으로 당당하게 전설적인 도박사를 누르고 싶었던 신시내티 시티는 슬레이드의 제안을 뿌리치고 소신껏 행동한다. 몇 시간의 휴식 후 다시 게임이 시작되고 엄청난 판돈이 오간다. 최종 베팅의 순간... 두 도박 고수의 게임을 지켜보고 있던 사람들은 모두 신시내티가 이길 것이라고 예상한다. 하지만 사람들의 예상과는 달리 행운의 여신은 랜시 하워드의 손을 들어준다. 패배를 인정하고 허탈한 마음으로 호텔을 나온 신시내티 키드는 항상 자신을 따라다니며 동전 던지기를 조르는 구두닦이 소년을 만난다. 소년의 부탁대로 동전 던지기 게임을 하지만 스스로 최고의 도박사임을 자부하던 신시내티 키드는 이번에도 지고 만다.
Self
A promotional short for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) showcasing the card handling skills of magician and one-time gambler Jay Ose who was hired as technical adviser to instruct the actors on the techniques used by professional poker players.
Mollie Hays
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South - she to save souls and heal the sick, he to make as much money as he possibly can.
Peg Costello
버니는 TV 네트워크를 관리하는 연방 방송국의 연구부를 통솔하는 아주 유능한 직원이다. 그러던 어느날 사장은 이 부서에 컴퓨터를 할당해놓고 리차드에게 버니의 부서에서 매일매일 활동을 잘 감시하도록 지시한다. 그러자 컴퓨터가 모든 직원을 대신하게 되어 직원들이 해고당할 위기에 처하게 된다. 날이 갈수록 문제는 심각해져서 버니와 리차드 사이에 극도의 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 결국 버니와 직원들은 컴퓨터가 해결하지 못하는 어려운 문제들을 해결해 나가고 컴퓨터는 복잡한 문제를 해결하느라 덜덜덜 거리다가 마침내 고장나 버린다.
Violet
록웰 헌터는 광고 회사의 말단 직원이다. 어느 날, 회사는 가장 큰 고객인 립스틱 광고를 놓치게 될 위기에 처한다. 록웰은 새로운 립스틱 광고를 위한 완벽한 아이디어를 짜내느라 고심한다. TV 광고 업계를 패러디한 코미디.
Crystal St. Clair
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Aunt Morgan
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
Edith Potter
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Annie Rawlins
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Daphne Peters
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
Ann Nelson
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Zeena Krumbein
서커스단에서 지나의 보조역을 맡아서 일하고 있는 스탠은 지나와 그녀의 술주정뱅이 남편인 피트가 하는 비밀스러운 마술에 관심을 갖는다. 스탠은 지나에게도 관심을 표하지만, 예전부터 자신을 돌보아주던 피트를 떠날 수 없는 지나. 그러던 중 스탠이 실수로 건넨 메틸알코을 마신 피트는 죽게 되고, 스탠은 피트와 지나가 하던 마술의 비밀을 배워서 성공하게 된다. 서커스에서 공연하는 또 다른 여인 몰리와 결혼까지 하게 된 스탠은 서커스단을 떠나 성공을 하게 되지만...
Rosemary Durant
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Helen Melohn
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Marjorie Mossrock
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Aunt Sissy
브루클린의 가난한 아일랜드 이민자 가정. 책을 좋아하는 당찬 13살 소녀 프랜시는 아버지 조니를 무척 따른다. 엄마 케이티는 악착같이 살림을 꾸리려 하지만, 조니는 안정된 일자리보다 꿈을 그린다. 그러던 중 케이티는 셋째를 임신하고, 조니에게 프랜시가 학교를 그만두게 해야겠다고 한다. 딸이 얼마나 학교를 좋아하는지 아는 조니는 눈보라 속에 일자리를 구하러 간다. 베티 스미스의 동명 소설을 각색한 카잔의 데뷔작으로, 가난한 이민자 가정의 소녀 프랜시의 성장을 그렸다. (2017년 영화의 전당 - 엘리아 카잔 특별전)
Grace
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
Jenny Blake
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
Hope Banner
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Joan Keating Chambers
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Gail Richards
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Geraldine Brokaw
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Molly Mahoney
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
Herself
Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Maxine Carroll
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Jenny Swanson
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Doris Harvey
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Mary Wilson
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Jane Morgan
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Sally Reardon
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Lester Plum
An east coast efficiency expert who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
Mona Carter
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
'Timmy' Blake
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Miss Dorothy Ellis
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
Norma Perry
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Mabel
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Peggy Revere
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Lee Morgan
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Yvonne
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Minnie Hawkins
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Herself
These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.
Gloria Fay
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Self
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.
Ginger Stewart
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Alice Hughes
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Angela Twitchell
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Rosie Sturges
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Mabel Anderson
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Rose Lawrence
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Vicki
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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).
Self
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Marie Lawson
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Nancy Lorraine
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Mae Knight
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Nan Prescott
브로드웨이 프로듀서로 코미디 뮤지컬을 제작해 온 체스터 켄트는 유성 영화의 등장으로 인해 사업상의 위기를 맞이한다. 궁여지책 끝에 그는 짧은 뮤지컬식 영화 도입부를 제작해주는 사업으로 크게 성공을 거두게 된다. 하지만 곧 새로운 아이디어를 내야 한다는 압박에 시달리고, 설상가상으로 라이벌은 그의 작품들을 훔쳐내간다. 그리고 주변의 크고 작은 문제들까지 겹쳐 위기에 봉착하게 되는데... 뮤지컬 감독으로서 버스비 버클리 최고의 뮤지컬 장면들을 감상할 수 있는 영화. (2010년 4회 서울충무로국제영화제)
Anne Rogers
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Carol King
생계를 이어가기 위해 필요한 일이라면 돈 많은 얼간이들에게서 황금을 캐내는 일이라도 다 해야 하는 브로드웨이 쇼걸들의 분투를 외설적이고 거친 대사로 표현해 낸 작품.
Virginia M. "Blondie" Johnson
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Tony Landers
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Mrs. Graham
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
Olga Michaels
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Dot
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Mary Keaton
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Vida Fleet
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
'Flips' Montague
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.
Nurse Georgia Adams aka Miss Pinkerton
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Maizie Dickson
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Anne Scott
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
Schatzi Sutro
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
Ruth Collins
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Anne Roberts
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots.
Allen Crane
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
Maloney
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Pearl
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
Marian Moore
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
Mamie
금주령 시대, 탐 파워스는 술집, 당구장 등을 어슬렁대며 퍼티 노우즈 같은 불량한 친구들과 어울린다. 곧 탐과 맷은 무자비하지만 품격있는 밀주업자인 패디 라이언에 의해 고용되고 거침없는 성공에 힘입어 그들은 업계의 정상에 이르는데... 개봉 당시 선례 없는 섹스와 폭력 묘사로 악명을 떨쳤으며, 브로드웨이 댄서 출신의 마이너 배우에 불과했던 제임스 캐그니를 스타덤에 올려놨다. 윌리엄 웰먼은 이 영화의 성공을 모두 제임스 캐그니 덕분이라고 했는데, 그것은 그가 누구도 흉내 낼 수 없는 '순진한 소년의 모습을 간직한 갱스터'를 연기해냈기 때문이다.
Fifi
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Helen 'Duckie' Childers
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Angie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Marie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Myrtle
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Katharine Murdock
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
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.
A Musical Revue set in Hades.
Ruth's Pal
A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.
