Esther Howard

Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a wanted bank-robber, and tells Joe she needs $2500 herself and can not help him. Between them they capture the bank robber and split the $5,000 reward.

Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. The film is portrayed as a courtroom drama first painting "Dr. Charlie" as incompetent and easily swindled, then telling his side of events and putting them into context. In the courtroom, and by use of flashback, we hear of Dr. Charlies' move away from impersonal contribution on an institutional level, and preferring to express Christian stewardship directly to people who need it, and by helping spread the word of God by donating to Mission fronts who fight fear, anxiety and destitution around the world. We even find the scam artists having turned a new leaf, and creating new lives for themselves. Message being that all that we are we owe to God, and the profits gained from our God-given abilities require care and thought before sharing.

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

권투를 소재로 한 영화 중 제대로 만들어진 작품이다. 커크 더글라스의 아주 젊은 시절 모습을 볼 수 있다. 한 가난하고 야망있는 소년이 우연히 권투를 배우게 된다. 그는 타고난 재질로 경기에 쉽게 이기다가 나중에는 세계 챔피온이 된다. 그러나 그는 점점 세속에 물들어가는 인간이 되어 사랑하는 사람도 버리고, 친한 친구도 버려 육체적 정신적으로 병든 사람이 되어 버린다. 그리고는 결국 챔피온 벨트마져 빼앗기게 된다. 결국 자신이 좋아하던 사람들을 위해 열심히 혹독한 훈련을 겪어내고 챔피언을 재 탈환하는데 성공한다.

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

탐정 필립(딕 파웰)은 경찰서 취조실에서 살인사건 용의자로 조사를 받으며 이야기를 들려주기 시작한다. 벨마를 찾아달라는 무스의 의뢰에 이어 매리엇의 의뢰에 응했던 필립은 약속 장소에서 뒤통수를 맞고 쓰러진다. 매리엇은 살해 당한다. 백만장자의 딸 앤(앤 셜리)이 접근하고 그녀의 새엄마 헬렌(클레어 트레버)마저 그를 유혹하기 시작하는데...

작은 마을 모건 크리크에 사는 트루디는 흥이 넘치는 아가씨로, 특히 군인에게 쉽게 반한다. 출정을 앞두고 밤새 환송회가 열리는데, 트루디는 엄격한 경찰관 아버지 때문에 파티에 가지 못한다. 그러나 몰래 빠져나가 광란의 밤을 보낸 트루디는 술에 취해 간밤의 일을 제대로 떠올리지도 못하는데, 자신이 이름도 기억나지 않는 군인과 결혼했다는 사실 하나를 기억해낸다. 더구나 트루디는 곧 자신이 임신했다는 걸 알게 된다. 줄곧 트루디를 짝사랑한 노발이 곤경에 빠진 트루디를 도우려 한다. 유쾌한 로맨스와 흥겨운 속도감이 빛나는 스터지스의 스크루볼 코미디.

The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.

독창적이고 흥미로운 코미디 영화로 명성을 날린 프레스턴 스터지스의 1942년도 작품. 코믹한 오프닝 타이틀에서 톰과 제리의 결혼 장면이 보이고, ‘그리하여 두 사람은 영원히 행복하게 살았습니다’라는 자막이 뜬다. 그리고 뒤이어 ‘정말 그랬을까요?’라는 자막이 또다시 등장하는데 당연히 대답은 ‘아니오!’다. 결혼한 지 5년 된 톰(조엘 맥크레)과 제리(클로데트 콜버트) 부부. 그러나 발명가인 톰은 돈을 한 푼도 벌어오지 못한다. 아파트 월세조차 못 낼 형편이 되자 제리는 돈 많은 남자와 재혼해 톰이 발명에 전념할 수 있도록 재원을 마련해주기로 한다. 부자들이 모인다는 플로리다의 팜비치로 가는 기차를 탄 제리는 우연히 서반구에서 가장 부유한 남자 중 하나라는 존 하켄색커 3세를 알게 된다. 하켄색커는 제리에게 관심을 보이면서 선물공세를 퍼붓고, 한편 제리를 단념하지 못한 톰은 아내를 찾아 팜비치로 온다. 얼떨결에 하켄색커에게 톰을 오빠라고 소개한 뒤 제리는 진퇴양난에 빠지는데…

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

영화감독인 존 설리반은 가난한 서민들의 삶을 다룬 "오 형제여 어디에 있는가?"라는 제목의 영화를 만들려고 계획 중이다. 영화소재를 찾기 위해 가난한 떠돌이처럼 차려 입고 길을 나섰던 그는 예상치 못했던 소동에 말려들고 급기야 감방에까지 갇히게 된다. 코미디 영화의 천재 프레스턴 스터지스의 40년대 클래식 중에서도 최고로 꼽히는 작품이며, 현기증 나는 유머의 코미디와 진지한 드라마가 이상적으로 결합된 작품이다. 코엔 형제의 는 바로 이 작품에 경의를 표한 영화.

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.

Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs the bank.

The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.

An east coast efficiency expert who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.

A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.

In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.

A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Two sailors get romantically involved with a mother and daughter.