Self (archive footage)
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
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A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."
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Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.
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Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Maj. Clarance Tuttle
미이일 통신 센터의 직원들이 몰살당하는 사고가 발생하자 슬레이터 소장은 원인 규명을 위해 현장에 출동했다가 곤충학자인 크레인 박사(마이클 케인 분)와 의사인 헬레나 대위(캐서린 로스 분)를 만난다. 몰살 원인이 살인 벌떼의 습격으로 밝혀지자 크레인은 사태 수습의 총 책임자로 임명되고, 면역학자 크림 박사(헨리 폰다 분)를 모셔와 해독제 제작에 몰두하게 된다.
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Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies thrown in Hope's pool!). Hope and the rapidly shrinking cast try to discover who is the mysterious killer known only as "Joys."
Harry Ballinger
A retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Florida coast, and he starts to investigate.
Ned Chadwick
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
Charley Appleby
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
1916년 필라델피아. 백만장자인 비들(Anthony J. Drexel Biddle: 프레드 맥머레이 분)은 쾌활하고 낙천적이며 외동딸 코디(Miss Cordelia (Cordy) Biddle: 레슬리 앤 워렌 분)를 가장 사랑한다. 코디는 파티장에서 우연히 만난 청년 앤지(Angie Duke: 존 데이비슨 분)와 서로 사랑하는 사이가 된다. 두 사람은 양가 부모의 허락도 없이 약혼하기로 결정한다. 뉴욕 출신인 앤지는 코디보다 몇 배나 부자집 아이지만 앤지는 사사건건 어머니 뜻대로만 하는 마마보이다. 성대한 약혼식을 끝내고 결혼식을 준비하는 과정에서 양가부모들의 의견이 엇갈리고, 엄아 말이면 꼼짝 못하는 나약한 앤지의 모습에 코디는 실망을 느끼고 결혼식을 취소해 버린다. 충격을 받은 앤지는 비들씨 집안의 영리한 시종 존(John Lawless: 토미 스틸 분)의 조언으로 자신의 인생은 자신이 결정해야 된다는 사실을 깨닫고 과감하게 코디를 데리고 평소 자신이 꿈꾸던 자동차 도시 디트로이트로 떠난다.
Lemuel Siddons
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
Thad McCloud
When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job as The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
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A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Ned Brainard
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Harry Willard
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his three children will prove to be more troublesome
Prof. Ned Brainard
메드필드 대학은 재정적으로 어려움을 겪고있는 시골마을의 작은 대학이다. 그곳의 물리화학과 교수인 네드 브래이너드는 늘 연구에 골똘해 있어서 중요한 일을 잊거나 실수를 잘 하는 사람이다. 하도 건망증이 심해서 가정부가 일일이 챙겨주는 데도 불구하고 자기 결혼식에도 세 번이나 참석하지 못했다. 그 때문에 메드필드 대학의 총장비서이며 결혼 상대자인 벳시는 더 이상 참을 수 없어서 화를 내고, 그런 벳시에게 러틀렌드 대학의 교수인 쉘비가 끈질기게 구애한다. 네드는 결혼식까지 잊어가며 연구에 몰두하다가 우연한 폭발사고로 스스로 에너지를 만들어내며 멈추지 않고 튀어오를 수 있는 고무같은 물질을 발견한다. 그리고 그 이름을 '플러버'라고 짓는다. 플러버는 지구 중력에 영향을 받지 않는 물질로 과학사에 빛날 획기적인 발견이다. 네드는 플러버를 벳시에게 보여주고 오해를 풀고 인정받고 싶었으나 뜻대로 안되고 쉘비가 방해하자 플러버를 이용해서 하늘을 나는 차로 그를 골려준다. 우연히 그의 차를 목격한, 사업가이며 고리대금업자인 호크가 네드 교수에게 동업을 제의한다. 그러나 네드가 그의 제의를 거절하자 앙심을 품은 호크와 그의 아들 비프는 음모를 꾸민다. 그들의 계략 때문에 육해공 사령관들과 많은 사람들 앞에서 네드는 망신을 당하는데, 계속 네드의 말을 믿지않던 벳시가 그의 말을 믿어주고, 힘이 되어 준다. 두 사람은 플러버의 힘을 이용해서 호크가 바꿔치기한 자기 차를 되찾고 워싱턴으로 날아간다. 그리고 우여곡절 끝에 네드의 연구 결과는 뛰어난 업적으로 인정받고, 마침내 네드와 벳시는 결혼식을 올린다.
Jeff D. Sheldrake
버드는 소심하지만 성실하고 착한 뉴욕의 종합보험회사 직원이다. 독신인 그는 시내에 조용한 아파트를 얻어서 살고 있는데, 본의 아니게 회사 임원들을 상대로 그 아파트를 빌려주게 된다. 그로 인해 생활에 피해가 많지만, 원래 소심한 성격에다가 상대가 모두 상당한 영향력을 가지고 있는 사람들이라, 회유와 협박에 번번히 집을 내줄 수 밖에 없다. 한편, 그는 엘리베이터 걸인 프랜에게 은근히 마음을 두고 있고, 프랜도 그에게 상당히 호의적이다. 아파트를 빌리는 임원들의 도움으로 그는 승진 후보에 오르고, 인사권자인 쉘드레이크 전무를 만나는데, 뜻밖에도 쉘드레이크 전무는 그의 비밀을 다 알고 있었고, 전무는 그것을 약점으로 잡아서 자기도 버드의 방을 빌린다. 버드는 방을 빌려주는 대가로 받은 뮤지컬 티켓으로 프랜에게 데이트 신청을 하지만 바람만 맞고 만다. 회사의 크리스마스 파티에서 프랜과 화해할 기회가 생겼지만, 우연히 쉘드레이크가 자기 아파트로 데려오는 여자가 프랜이라는 사실을 알고는 다시 그녀로부터 멀어진다.
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The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail—include a parade down Main Street with appearances by Walt and Roy Disney and members of their families, along with Vice President Richard Nixon and family, and numerous film stars. The celebrations end at night with a fireworks display.
Neal Harris
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in soldiers disguised as settlers in order to strengthen American claims to the Territory.
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Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.
Wilson Daniels
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....
Marshal Ben Cutler
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen. Now, many years later, the gang returns to again rob the bank. On their flight they shoot the Marshal. Eddie is the only one to identify the murderer - but is in doubt if he shall be loyal to his new or his old friends.
Judge Jim Scott
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Gentry
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
Will Keough
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
Clifford Groves
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Jack Wright
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Thomas "Tom" Ransome
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Sid Burns
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
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Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Paul Sheridan
해리 휠러를 두목으로 한 갱단이 은행을 습격해 21만달러를 훔쳐달아나다 경비원을 쏜채 다시 도망간다. 형사 폴 셰리던은 휠러의 정부 리오나와 좋은 사이가 되는데 성공해 동료 형사인 릭, 퍼디와 함께 그녀의 아파트 앞에서 숨어 기다린다. 그날밤 아파트를 나선 리오나를 미행한 폴은 그녀가 자신의 아파트로 들어가는 것을 보고 놀란다. 리오나는 폴이 형사임을 알았으며, 휠러를 죽이고 돈을 빼앗은 뒤 함께 떠나자고 하지만 폴은 거절한다. 한편 잠복중인 릭은 리오나의 이웃 앤에게 마음을 빼앗긴다.
Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
젊고 총명한 엔자인 윌리 키스(로버트 프란시스 분)는 제2차 세계대전 미국 해군함, 케인호에 배정을 받고 입대한다. 케인호에는 새로운 선장으로 필립 프란시스 퀵 선장(험프리 보가트 분)이 임명되고 케인호는 임무를 수행하기 위해 출항한다. 퀵선장은 예전의 선장과는 달리 케인호의 질서와 명령 체계를 새로 잡겠다는 굳은 의지를 보이며 강력한 통솔력으로 부대를 지휘한다. 그러나, 퀵 선장은 신속한 결단을 내려야 할 때나 위기에 처했을 때, 심한 정신 불안 증세를 보이고 심지어 별로 중요하지도 않은 일을 들추어 부하들을 추궁하는 등 정상인과는 다른 정신 이상증세를 보이기 시작한다. 이를 눈치 챈 부하들은 지휘권 문제를 놓고 의견 차이를 보인다. 그러던 어느날 폭풍우가 몰아치던 날 밤, 케인호를 지휘하던 퀵 선장은 심한 스트레스 증세와 함께 통솔력을 잃고 만다. 이를 보고 있던 스티브 매릭 중위(본 존슨 분)는 퀵 선장의 지휘권을 박탈하고 자신이 케인호를 지휘한다. 그날 밤의 사건을 계기로 '반란' 여부를 둘러싼 재판이 벌어진다. 키스를 비롯해서 스티브 매릭과 톤 키퍼 중위(프레드 맥머레이 분)는 퀵선장의 명령 불복종과 반란을 도모했다는 혐의로 군사 재판에 회부되고 군의관들의 진단 결과나 모든 사항이 그들에게 불리한 쪽으로 기우는 듯하다. 그러나 마지막으로 법정 증인으로 채택된 퀵 선장이 자신의 의견을 옹호하는 증언을 하는 과정에서 또다시 정신 이상 증세를 보임으로써 재판은 결국 스티브 매릭 중위를 비롯한 부하들의 승리로 끝나고 만다.
Wes Anderson
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!
Captain Boll
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Mike Frye
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.
Peter Ulysses Lockwood
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.
Chris Hayward
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, thee find them selves falling in love with each other. Neither is aware of the other's identity As they decide to make a run for the border.
George Cooper
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
Grant Jordan
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
Vincent Doane
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
William 'Bill' Dunnigan
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Al
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Matt Gordon
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Bob MacDonald
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
Peter Morely
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Clint Barkley
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
Producer
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Pete Marshall
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Eddie Rickenbacker
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Bill Morgan
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
Daniel Bellamy
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Walter Neff
보험사 직원인 월터는 고객 관리를 위해 디트리히슨의 집을 방문한다. 디트리히슨의 아내 필리스를 만나게 된 월터는 그녀의 매력에 곧 빠져들고, 남편을 살해할 음모를 품고 있는 필리스의 유혹에 쉽게 넘어간다. 결국 월터와 필리스는 사고를 가장해 남편을 살해하는데, 머지 않아 그녀의 어두운 과거가 드러난다.
Happy Morgan
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
Lee Stevens
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
Richard Myles
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Randy Britton
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Jim Ryan
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Don Stuart
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Tom Verney
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Frank
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Corey McBain
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.
Victor Ballard
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Himself
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
Joe Blake
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Dwight Houston
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
Stonewall Elliott
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Gil Farra
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
Bill Cardew
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Charles Brownne
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Jack Sargent
크리스마스를 앞두고 리는 보석점에서 팔찌를 훔치다 체포된다. 담당 검사 존은 체포 이력이 있는 리를 기소하기로 한다. 그러나 크리스마스 분위기에 휩쓸려 배심원들이 관대한 판결을 내릴 게 분명하므로 존은 재판을 미루기로 한다. 리는 크리스마스를 감옥에서 보내야 한다는 사실에 불만을 제기하는데, 안쓰럽게 여긴 존은 일단 리를 보석으로 풀어 준다. 하지만 리는 갈 곳이 없었고, 가족을 만나러 가던 존은 리를 데려간다. 화목한 존의 가족들 사이에서 리는 따뜻함을 느끼고, 그러는 사이 존과 리는 서로에게 이끌린다. 스터지스의 각본을 라이슨이 연출한 로맨틱 코미디. 같은 해 스터지스가 데뷔작을 내놓으면서 스터지스의 각본을 다른 감독이 연출한 마지막 작품이 되었다.
Bill Burnett
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Albert 'King' Cole
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Crick O'Bannon
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
David Beebe
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
Pat Falconer
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Johnny Prentice
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Kenneth Bartlett
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Ralph Houston
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Skid Johnson
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship Maggie and his career.
Roger Coverman
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Buzzy Bellew
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Self
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Jim Hawkins
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
King Mantell
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.
Jack Gordon
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.
Jack Hale
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Cyrus Anderson
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Theodore Drew III
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Arthur Russell
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Richard Hood
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Trooper Ross Martin
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Peter Dawes
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
Sandy
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Rancher
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
