Ruth Donnelly

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.

Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.

A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.

모든 범죄에 극심한 혐오심을 느끼는 형사 마크 딕슨. 이러한 극심한 범죄에 대한 증오는 범죄자들에 대한 극도의 편견으로 공권력 남용에 까지 이르게 된다. 또한 그의 아버지가 범법자이기에 그는 경찰로서의 경력에 누가 될까 정신적으로 괴로워한다. 어느 날 경찰들이 토미 스켈리의 아파트에서 벌어지는 불법도박 게임의 현장을 덮쳤을 때 시신 한 구를 발견하게 되고 그들은 사기 도박꾼 켄 패니를 살인용의자로 지목한다. 딕슨은 패니를 추적하고 스켈리에게 죄를 뒤집어쓰게 하려고 그를 설득하는 중 급기야 그를 죽이게 되고 그 시신을 처리하는 과정에서 택시운전자 지그 테일러에게 잡히는 것을 간신히 모면하게 되는데...

버지니아의 부모는 딸을 예의바르게 키우기 위해서 투정부리는 딸의 인형을 빼앗아 벌하기도 하고 삐친 딸이 밥을 먹지 않을 때는 큰 소리로 꾸짖는다. 그 이유에서인지 버지니아는 매우 내성적이다. 소녀는 투정을 받아주지 않는 부모에 대한 섭섭한 마음을 혼잣말로 이야기하고 인형에게 화풀이를 한다. 억압적인 태도의 부모는 버지니아에게는 상처가 되고 성인이 되어서도 큰 트라우마로 자리잡는데...

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.

Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.

An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

관습에 얽매이지 않는 젊은 신부 오말리가 변두리 교구 성 메리에 부임한다. 부임 첫날, 오말리 신부는 교구 학교의 아이들에게 잊지 못할 첫 인사를 남겨 완고하고 헌신적인 원장 수녀 베네딕트를 당황하게 만든다. 한편, 낡은 학교는 철거될 위기에 처하고, 서로 다른 관점으로 이견이 많던 오말리 신부와 베네딕트 수녀는 마음을 모아 학교를 구하기 위해 노력한다. 할리우드 코미디의 거장 레오 맥커리의 작품으로, (1944)에 이어 오말리 신부를 중심으로 전쟁으로 지친 사람들의 마음을 위로한다. 잉그리드 버그만은 엄격하지만 한없이 따스한 베네딕트 수녀 역을 맡아 잔잔하게 가슴을 울리는 연기로 찬사를 받았다. (영화의 전당 - 오래된 극장 2016)

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.

The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1944.

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.

Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible

Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

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?

잭슨시를 대표하는 상원의원이 임기 중에 급사한다. 잭슨시의 다른 상원의원인 조세프 페인은 잭슨시 주지사에게 전화를 걸어 새로운 상원의원을 선출하라고 지시한다. 새로운 의원의 조건은 페인과 그의 재정적 후원자인 짐 테일러의 댐건설 계획을 방해하지 않을 인물이어야 한다는 단서가 붙는다. 주지사는 고민 끝에 보이스카웃 단장인 제퍼슨 스미스를 임명한다. 아이들과 다람쥐나 잡으러 쫓아다니는 순박한 촌뜨기야말로 정치판의 꼭두각시 역할로 적격이라는데 의견을 같이했기 때문이다. 스미스는 죽은 아버지의 친구이자 존경하는 정치가인 페인 의원과 함께 워싱턴으로 향한다. 상원의원으로 임명된 제퍼슨은 잭슨시의 월워크 계곡에 소년 야영장을 만들려는 계획을 입안하여 상정하려 하지만 월워크 계곡에 댐을 건설하려는 페인과 테일러의 계획과 맞부딪친다. 이에 페인은 스미스를 등원시키지 않으려고 음모를 꾸미는데...

Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.

Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!

Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...

Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.

버몬트 주의 작은 마을에서 축하 카드에 시를 쓰는 일을 하는 롱펠로우 디즈(Longfellow Deeds: 게리 쿠퍼 분)가 얼굴 한 번 본 적 없는 삼촌에게서 막대한 유산 을 물려받고 하룻밤 사이에 벼락부자가 된다. 마을 사람들의 환송을 받으며 뉴욕으로 향하는 디즈, 작은 마을의 시인이자 마을 악단의 튜바 연주가였던 그는 이제 뉴욕에 있는 으리으리한 맨션에서 삼촌의 사업을 돌보게 됐다. 하지만 정작 그가 할 일은 변호사들에게 사업을 맡기고 얼굴 마담만 하면 되는 것. 한편, 냉소적인 신문사 편집장인 맥 웨이드(Editor Mac Wade: 죠지 밴그로프트 분)는 디즈의 순진하고 정직한 이미지에 의심을 품고 베이브 베넷(Babe Bennett: 진 아서 분)이라는 현실적인 여기자를 보내 디즈에 대해 몰래 취재하도록 한다. 한 달간의 유급 휴가를 걸고 디즈에게 접근하는 베이브. 디즈의 집 앞에서 기절한 척한 후 자신을 실업자라고 속여 디즈의 동정과 관심을 산다. 마음 여린 디즈는 아무 것도 모른 채 그녀를 극진히 돌봐주고 다음 날 아침 베이브가 일하는 신문의 1면에 '신데렐라 맨'이라는 제목 아래 디즈를 장난거리로 만든 기사가 실린다. 낯선 환경에, 이런 사건까지 생기자 디즈는 더더욱 베이브에게 의존하고 디즈와 베이브는 뉴욕의 구석구석을 돌아다니며 함께 시간을 보내며 점점 가까워진다. 그러다 디즈는 베이브에게 청혼을 하게 되고 양심의 가책을 느끼는 베이브는 디즈를 떠나려 한다. 그런 와중에 디즈는 베이브의 실체를 알게 되면서 실망한 그는 상속받은 돈을 가난한 이들에게 나눠주려고 한다. 하지만 디즈의 변호사들과 삼촌의 유산을 노리는 친척이 디즈의 유산을 가로채려고 서로 협심해 디즈를 정신병자로 취급하는 사건이 생긴다. 디즈의 정신 상태에 대한 재판이 있는 날. 사람들에게 실망한 디즈는 모든 권리 행사를 포기하고 침묵을 지키고 베이브는 디즈에게 정당하게 싸울 것을 호소하는데....

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."

A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

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.

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

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)

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

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?

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.

The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.

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."

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

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.

The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.

A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.