Story
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
Novel
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Screenplay
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
Theatre Play
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Workman (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Writer
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Novel
1908년, 파리를 방문한 상류층 귀족 로드 번스태드는 포커 게임 도중 그의 집사를 잃게 된다. 에거버트와 에피 플라우드는 집사 러글스를 워싱턴의 레드갭으로 보낸다. 에피는 러글스의 배경을 이용해 에그버트의 촌스러운 생활에 영향력을 미치려 한다. 하지만 에그버트는 파티에만 관심을 가지고 러글스를 맥주파티에 데려간다. 그의 요리실력에 반한 주드선 부인과 친구가 된 후, 러글스는 독립해 레스토랑을 열기로 결심한다. (2013년 제13회 광주국제영화제)
Novel
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.
Theatre Play
Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song.
Story
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.
Novel
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Novel
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
Novel
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
Theatre Play
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Writer
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Novel
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
