Lillian West

1917년, 캘리포니아 사리나스에서 농장을 경영하는 아담 트라스크는 두 아이들이 있다. 큰 아들 아론은 모범 청년이었지만 둘째 칼은 성격이 거칠고 언제나 불만에 찬 눈초리이다. 아담에게는 아내 케이트가 있었는데 그녀는 칼을 낳자 남편과 자식을 버리고 집을 나가 그는 아내는 죽었다고 생각하면서 살고 있고 그의 아들들 역시 어머니는 돌아가신 걸로 알고 있다. 아버지 아담은 아들 칼을 그런 부도덕한 아내의 피가 흐른다고 믿고 미워했으며 신앙심이 두텁고 공부를 잘하는 아론을 신뢰하고 사랑했다. 칼은 그런 아버지에게 반항하고 어머니가 도박장을 경영하는 바의 마담으로 있다는 얘기를 듣고 어느날 기차에 모임승차하여 근처의 어항인 몬트레이로 가 그곳에서 어머니를 만난다. 그러나 칼은 생모에게 그리움과 동시에 그녀의 부도덕한 생활에 혐오감을 느끼는데...

A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.

2차 세계대전 말기 미국에서 나치 첩자 한 명이 징역형을 언도받는다. 아버지의 활동에는 전혀 관여하지 않았던 그 첩자의 딸인 엘리샤는 방탕한 생활을 보내고 있다. 어느날 데블린이라고 자신을 밝힌 정부 기관원이 그녀에게 접근해 정부의 극비 임무를 수행해 줄 것을 부탁한다. 그녀는 그 부탁을 받아들이고 두 사람은 함께 리오로 떠난다. 그런데 두 사람은 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 데블린은 그녀가 플레이걸이었다는 사실이 마음에 걸려 그녀와 일정한 거리를 유지한다. 엘리샤의 임무는 아버지의 옛 동료인 세바스찬에게 접근하는 것이다. 세비스찬은 브라질로 피신해 있는 유명한 나치들에게 자신의 집을 은신처로 제공하고 있다. 그녀는 세바스천과 접촉하는 데 성공해 곧 그의 집을 정기적으로 드나들 수 있게 된다. 세바스천은 그녀를 사랑하게 되고 결국 청혼을 한다. 그녀는 데블린이 세바스천과의 결혼에 반대하길 원했으나 그러지 않자 그 청혼을 받아들인다. 이때 그녀는 데블린으로부터 세바스천이 항상 휴대하고 다니는 지하 포도주 저장실의 열쇠를 손에 넣으라는 지령을 받게되는데...

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

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.

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

세 번의 전과 기록을 갖고 있는 에디 테일러(Eddie Taylor: 헨리 폰다 분)는 사랑하는 여인 조앤 그레이엄(Joan Graham: 실비아 시드니 분)과 조앤을 사랑하는 변호사 스티븐 휘트니(Stephen Whitney: 바톤 맥레인 분)의 도움으로 출감하게 된다. 출감 후 에디는 휘트니가 마련해 준 운수회사에서 조앤과의 달콤한 신혼을 꿈꾸며 새로운 인생을 설계하지만 운수회사 사장은 전과자라는 낙인이 찍인 에디를 작은 꼬투리를 빌미로 몰인정하게 해고하고 만다. 에디는 사장을 찾아가 앞으로 성실하게 일할 것을 다짐하며 사정을 하지만 전과자에 대한 사회의 불신은 에디를 쉽게 받아들이지 않는다. 한편 에디가 전과자라는 것을 안 운수 회사의 동료는 은행을 턴 후 에디가 의심을 받도록 에디의 모자를 현장에 떨어뜨린다. 경찰에 쫓기게 된 에디는 조안을 찾아가 결백을 주장하며 일단 도피할 것을 말하지만 이미 잠복해 있던 경찰에게 붙잡히기 되고, 네 번째 범죄를 저지르면 사형을 당하게 되는 국가법상사형을 선고받는데...

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.

브로드웨이의 제작자 오스카 재피(Oscar Jaffe: 존 배리모어 분)는, 경력이라고는 속옷 광고가 전부인 여배우 지망생 밀드레드 플랏카(Mildred Plotka: 캐롤 롬바드)를 자신의 차기 작품 주연으로 캐스팅 한다. 주위의 만류에도 불구하고 기초부터 하나 하나 혹독하게 교육하며 릴리 갈런드(Lily Garland)라는 새 이름으로 밀드레드를 일약 스타로 만든 재피. 그로부터 3년 간 릴리와 함께 일하며 하는 작품마다 성공을 이룬다. 그러던 어느 날, 재피의 간섭으로 세상과 담쌓고 살던 릴리가 재피의 자기 중심적인 태도와 병적인 집착증, 질투에 제동을 건다. 재피는 릴리의 뜻을 존중하는 듯 릴리를 속이고 사립 탐정을 붙여 릴리의 뒤를 캐려고 하고 재피의 꿍꿍이를 알게 된 릴리는 헐리우드행 기차를 타고 재피를 떠난다. 릴리를 잃는 재피의 극단은 그녀의 뒤를 이을 새 얼굴을 찾지만 성공 하지 못하고 연이은 연극의 실패와 재피에게 남은 건 엄청난 빚뿐이다. 시카고에서 잔다르크를 상연했다 실패한 재피. 경찰들은 재피가 시카고를 떠나지 못하도록 감시하고 재피는 변장을 한 채 뉴욕행 기차, 20세기를 탄다. 그러다 재피 일행은 그 기차에 릴리가 탄 것을 알게 되고 릴리를 마지막 희망으로 생각한 재피 일행은 그녀의 마음을 되돌려 그녀와 계약을 하기 위해 줄다리기를 한다.

A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

Wealthy orphan Carol Gordon marries the executor of her estate, though she does not love him. Soon afterward, trying to help a friend who is being blackmailed, she is misunderstood by her husband to be herself compromised.

While in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt. Kincaid, attacking a girl. He stops Kincaid, thrashing him soundly in the process. However, to avoid a court-martial for striking a fellow officer, Hayden deserts and flees to the desert. He comes across Tom Doyle, who is stranded and dying of thirst, and takes Doyle back to his home. He meets and falls in love with Doyle's daughter Kitty.

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.

Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.

A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.

Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.

After leaving her sweetheart Jed Bronson, and small country town life, Minnie Wills (Olive Thomas) obtains a job as a model in a stylish Chicago shop and soon attracts the attention of Moncure Kelts, a wealthy playboy. Enchanted by her beauty and innocence, Moncure proposes, but once she has accepted, he loses interest in her and soon becomes desperate to get rid of her. With her emotions very much under control, Minnie agrees to break off the engagement in exchange for a limousine, a large wardrobe, and a large check, and then returns to Three Oaks. Overjoyed to see her, Jed proposes, and after their marriage, Minnie convinces him to establish a business in Chicago. The plan proves highly successful, and later, when the couple encounters Moncure on the street, Minnie thanks him for giving them their start in life.