Uncle William Morrison
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.
J.L. Wentworth
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
Commander 'Pops' Bradley
A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (Noah Beery Jr.), while dodging sheriffs, policemen and others who are searching for her.
Col. Weatherby
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Col. Cyrus P. 'Gramps' Saunders
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
James Roger Barker
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Erlanger
루스벨트 대통령의 초대를 받아 백악관에 간 코핸은 지난날을 회상한다. 그는 유년시절에 가족의 보드빌에서 잘난 체하는 아이 역할을 맡아 연기한다. 그 후 그는 단독으로 나설 결심을 하고 작가이자 제작자인 샘 해리스와 손을 잡는다. 'Little Johnny Jones'로 브로드웨이에서 성공리에 첫 공연을 마친 코핸은 연기지망생인 매력적인 여인, 메리와 행복한 결혼을 한다. 제1차 세계대전 중에 그는 전쟁의 비공식적인 성가 'Over There'를 쓰면서 절정에 달한다.그러나 부모님과 누이의 죽음을 겪고 은퇴를 시도하나 결국'I'd Rather Be Right'로 성공적으로 브로드웨이에 컴백한다.
Jefferson Harper Sr.
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
Dr. Bradley
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
J.W. Barrett
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
Walter McCracken
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation NOW, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana and set her up in the best hotel and keep her entertained. She visits a night club where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas, and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
Mr. Peyton
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
Marlin
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Robert Cornelius Baldwin
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
Judge
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Uncle Si
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
Mr. McIntyre
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
C.P. Franklin
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Clanahan
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Uncle Dan Carter
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
Major Blair
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.
Benjamin Silver
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.
Mr. Drake
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Maj. Hubert Breckenridge
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
George Cabot Sr
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Fiske
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Mr. Piermont
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Kublai Khan
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
Roger Reed
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
John Morton
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
William West
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
I. Ketts
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advised by a zany astrologer to frame Mrs. P. in a compromising situation at the Hotel Haywire, enlisting amateur detectives Bert and Genevieve Sterns in his scheme.
J.P. Todhunter
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
Commodore Caraway
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Mr. Cary
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
Uncle Morton Middleton
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
Horace B. Stanton
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Captain Nicholls
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Jerome Hewitt
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
J.D. Underwood
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
Wilbur Austin
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Harrison Allen
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Crusades Actor
Semi-documentary of a typical "extra girl" on a C.B.DeMille film.
Sancho, King of Navarre
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
John Roberts Sr.
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Music Critic Hayward
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Mr. Van Cleve
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Col. Joseph Abercrombie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Mr. Hall
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
John P. Stacey
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
King Achmet
유럽의 작고 가난한 왕국 마코브니아의 국왕 아치메드는 국가의 재정을 보호하기 위해 고군분투한다. 왕국에서 제일가는 부자인 과부 소냐가 파리로 떠나자 국왕은 매력적인 대위 다닐로를 보내 그녀가 외국인과 재혼하는 것을 막으려 한다. 소냐와의 결혼에 실패하면 다닐로는 감옥에 가게 되는 것이다. 우여곡절 끝에 다닐로는 소냐와 결혼을 약속하지만 그가 명령에 의해 자신에게 접근했음을 알게 된 소냐는 다닐로의 청혼을 거절하고, 결국 다닐로는 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 프란츠 레하르의 유명한 동명 오페라타를 각색한 영화. 경쾌한 음악과 활기 넘치는 대사를 루비치 만의 세련된 유머와 스타일로 증류해 낸 작품으로, 시대를 통틀어 가장 뛰어난 뮤지컬 영화라는 평가를 받으며 이후 할리우드 뮤지컬에 많은 영향을 미쳤다.
J. Thorval Jones
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Joseph Flamberg
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Jake Mayo
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.
John Kincaid
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
Horatio Allen
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Chautard
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
MacCready
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Captain Fogg
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Judge Maguire
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
Pete Evans
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Mr. Kirkwood
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Judge
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
Weston
Western comedy.
James Garfield
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Mr. Blair
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
Mr. Randall
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Henrich Fischer
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
Clapsaddle
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Boss Jim Ronkton
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Warden George Waddell
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Norton
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
Mr. Baldwin
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Richard Ware
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
Luther Farley
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...
Police Commissioner
앙드레는 사랑스러운 부인 콜레트와 행복한 결혼생활을 하고 있다. 그러나 콜레트가 친구 미치를 소개하면서부터 두 사람의 믿음은 흔들리기 시작한다. 바람둥이 미치의 집요한 유혹에 완강히 저항하던 앙드레는 결국 그녀의 귀여운 매력에 굴복하고 만다. 한편 미치와 이혼하고 싶어하는 그녀의 남편은 증거를 잡으려고 미치의 뒤를 밟는다. 루비치 자신의 무성영화 (1924)을 리메이크한 작품. 그러나 당시 이혼을 겪은 루비치는 결혼에 대해 한층 더 냉소적인 시선을 보여준다. 최상의 플롯과 활기찬 대사, 아름다운 노래, 탁월한 연기가 어우러진 가장 매혹적인 로맨틱 코미디 뮤지컬. 특히 이중의미와 오해와 억측이 낳은 마지막 장면은 루비치 영화 중 가장 즐겁고 유쾌한 장면이라고 할 수 있다.
Mr. Merrow
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
Alfred Newbold
When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
Jerome Gehring
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
Mr. Webfield
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
Hector Champion
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
King Adolf XV
오스트리아의 왕실 근위병 니키는 방문 중인 플라우젠섬 왕족을 수행한다. 가벼운 성격의 니키는 섹시한 바이올리니스트 프란치에게 반해 근무 도중에도 그녀에게 미소와 윙크를 보내느라 여념이 없다. 플라우젠섬의 공주 안나는 니키가 자신에게 윙크를 보내는 것으로 착각하여 사랑에 빠지고 결국 두 사람은 결혼하기에 이른다. 그러나 무뚝뚝한 공주에게 매력을 느끼지 못한 니키는 프란치와 밀회를 가지고, 공주는 그런 두 사람을 발견하고 슬픔에 빠진다. 그런 공주를 딱하게 여긴 프란치는 공주에게 남자의 마음을 사로잡는 법을 가르쳐준다.
Senator Powell
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
Mr. Billings
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
