Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Liza, Silas' housekeeper
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
Susan Balmuss
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Aunt Pewtie
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
Miss Wiggins
1883년, 뉴욕의 아침. 안주인 비니와 네 자녀가 가장을 기다리고 있다. 증권사 간부인 클라렌스는 식탁에 앉자마자 집도 회사처럼 경영해야 한다며 훈시한다. 엄격한 클라렌스와 아름답고 현명한 비니가 애정을 바탕으로 가정을 꾸려나가는 모습을 유머 감각으로 묘사한 작품.
Stella Blendon
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Mrs. Meade
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Martha
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Mrs. Barry
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Grandma Wilson
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Belle Kincaid
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
Abigail
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
Aunt Cissy
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Mother Randall
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery.
Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
70살의 나이로 죽음을 맞은 헨리 반 클레브는 지옥 문 앞에 서게 된다. 헨리는 그가 과연 지옥에 들어올 만큼 죄많은 인간인지 의심스러워하는 마왕 앞에서 자신의 인생에 대한 이야기를 시작한다. 그는 15살 때 술에 취해 프랑스인 하녀를 유혹했고, 21살 때는 사촌인 앨버트의 약혼녀 마사를 빼앗아 달아났다. 31살이 됐을 때 그는 방탕한 연애 행각으로 인해 마사와 이혼 직전에 이르지만, 충실한 애정을 맹세하여 간신히 위기를 넘긴다. 하지만 이 맹세도 잠시일 뿐, 그는 또 다시 유혹에 지고 마는데... 헝가리 희곡을 각색한 작품으로, 한 카사노바의 일생을 유머러스하고도 신랄하게 그리고 있다. 루비치 최초의 컬러 영화로 현란한 지옥의 세트 또한 볼거리다.
Woman on Train (uncredited)
베어너클시대(맨주먹복싱시합)였던 1880년대, 미국의 전설적인 헤비급 복서 존 L. 설리반에게 복싱의 신기술을 보여주며 당당히 KO승을 한 제임스 코벳의 실화를 바탕으로 만든 영화. 1880년대 샌프란시코에서 복싱은 불법에다 저급 스포츠로 취급되었다. 유명 회원제 클럽의 회원들은 글로브를 장착하고 KO룰을 적용시킨 이른바 ‘퀸즈베리룰’이 복싱을 좀 더 신사적인 스포츠로 만들어 줄 것이라 생각하고 새로운 룰의 적용을 지지한다. 클럽의 회원들은 후원하던 젊은 복서 제임스 코벳은 퀸즈베리룰 도입이래 최고의 선수가 되었다. 그러나 아직 어린 짐에게 성공의 달콤한 맛은 독이 되었고 결국 그는 자만과 욕심으로 후원자까지 잃게 되었다. 그러나 이 같은 시련 속에서도 그는 자신만의 스텝을 갈고 닦아 승승장구했으며 결국 세계챔피언이자 자신의 어린 시절 우상이었던 존 L. 설리번과 경기를 하게 된다. 당시 최고의 미남배우였던 에롤 플린이 주인공 짐 코벳 역을 맡았으며 사실적인 권투경기의 묘사로 평론가로부터 호평을 들었던 작품이다.
Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited)
제프(빙 크로스비 분)와 터키(밥 호프 분)가 밀항을 한 상선이 항해를 하던 중 사고로 침몰하면서 두 사람의 모험이 시작된다. 극적으로 생존한 두 사람은 아프리카 해안에 도착하고, 어렵게 사막을 건너 모로코로 가게 된다. 빈털터리였지만 굶주림에 지친 두 사람은 무작정 식당에 들어가 배불리 음식을 먹는데, 그때 나타난 노예상인이 제프에게 돈을 지불하고 터키를 노예로 산다. 터키가 팔려간 후, 양심의 가책을 받고 괴로워하던 제프는 결국 터키를 찾아 나선다. 그리고 웅장한 궁전에 잠입한 제프는 노예로 팔려간 줄 알았던 터키가 모로코 공주(도로시 라무르 분)와 멋진 시간을 보내고 있는 모습을 보고 깜짝 놀란다. 사실 공주는 세력가인 카심(안소니 퀸 분)과 결혼하기로 되어 있었지만, 첫 남편이 비명횡사하게 된다는 점성술사의 예언을 들은 공주가 터키를 희생양으로 선택한 것이었다. 한편, 공주는 터키를 찾아온 제프에게 반하게 되고, 마침 점성술사로부터 예언이 틀렸다는 말을 전해 듣자마자 제프와 결혼식을 올리게 된다. 하지만 소식을 전해들은 카심이 부하들을 이끌고 쳐들어와 공주와 하녀를 납치해 가고, 제프와 터키는 사막에 버려진다. 하지만 두 사람은 사막을 헤매다 카심의 본거지를 찾아내고, 우여곡절 끝에 공주와 하녀를 구출해낸다. 그리고 두 쌍의 남녀는 함께 미국으로 떠난다.
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Sister Watkins (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Nurse
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Miss Phillips
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Mrs. Higgins
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Aunt Juliet Mitchell
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
Mrs. Williams
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Miss Bradshaw
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Mrs. Burns
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Jessica Spencer
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
Aunt Martha
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Grandmother
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Mrs. Griffin
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Mrs. Borst
젊은 농부 길버트 마틴과 부유한 집안에서 자란 아름다운 여인 라나는 결혼을 하고 부부는 뉴욕주 ‘모호크 계곡’의 새로운 농장을 마련해 산다. 라나는 거친 농장 생활에 힘들어하지만, 점차 익숙해진다. 행복도 잠시 미국독립전쟁이 터지고, 영국인들에게 매수당한 인디안 ‘모호크족’이 그들의 마을로 쳐들어온다. 길버트와 라나는 농장을 잃고, 설상가장으로 길버트는 전쟁에 참전하게 되는데...
Miss Esther Jones
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
Auntie Em
회오리 바람에 휩쓸려 오즈의 나라로 내던져진 도로시는 집으로 되돌아갈 수 있는 유일한 길이 위대한 오즈의 마법사를 만나는 것임을 알고 그를 찾아 긴 여정이 시작된다. 도로시는 애견 토토와 함께 노란 길을 따라 오즈의 마법사가 사는 에메랄드 시티로 향한다. 도중에 만난 세 명의 친구들, 지능을 얻고자 하는 허수아비와 심장을 원하는 양철 나뭇꾼, 용기를 가지고 싶어하는 겁장이 사자와 함께 오즈의 마법사에게 자신의 소원이 이루어지도록 부탁하기 위해 도로시와 함께 경쾌한 발걸음을 옮긴다. 그러나 도로시 일행을 방해하기 위해 뒤쫓아오는 서쪽 나라 마녀의 검은 그림자.
Miss Watson
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
Aunt Polly
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
Ma Sisler
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).
Mrs. Green - Landlady
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Phoebe Sawyer
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Julia 'Granny' Blair
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Mrs. Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
Townswoman
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Willy's Mother
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Evie Curtis
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
인기가 떨어져가는 남자배우가 장래가 촉망되는 신인 여배우를 도와주다가 사랑을 하게 되고 결국 결혼까지 하게되지만, 자신의 실패에 대한 강박관념으로 자꾸만 사고를 일으키게 되자 그녀의 장래를 위해서 스스로 죽음을 택하게 되는데...
Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Martha Adams
Tom and Ruth are disowned by their parents after eloping. They take up jobs as tenant farmers and and learn the true value of marriage, working and living.
Mrs. Jorham
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Louisa Abbott
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
Mary F. O'Daugherty
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Aunt Ellen
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Gaptown Landlady
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Mathilda Sherman
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Mrs. Anderson
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Eva Branham
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Aunt Maggie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Aunt Margaret
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Mrs. Peterson
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Mrs. Douglas
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Mrs. Delling
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Miss Newberry
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Mrs. 'Ma'
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again.
Cora
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Miss Murfee
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Ms. Perkins
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Anna, the Cook
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Minerva Winterslip
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
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.
Landlady
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
Auntie (uncredited)
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
Aunt Sophie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
내전이 한창인 중국, 결혼을 위해 상하이로 온 미국인 선교사 매건 데이비스는 중국 군사들에 의해 포로가 된다. 중국인 장군 옌은 그녀를 관저에서 보호하는 동안 미묘한 감정에 휩싸인다. 전쟁의 기운은 고조되고, 둘 앞에 놓인 거부할 수 없는 욕망과 배신은 이들을 이룰 수 없는 사랑으로 이끈다.
중국을 배경으로 한 섬세하고 신비로운 사랑을 그려낸 걸작. 아카데미 여우주연상에 4번이나 노미네이트 되면서 전성기를 누린 대배우 바바라 스탠윅 주연작이다. 거장 프랭크 카프라가 감독했으며, 존 웨인 주연의 로 아카데미 작곡상을 수상한 W..프랭크 하링이 음악을 맡았다.
Brida
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Mrs. West
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
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...
Mrs. Tarleton
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Mrs. Livingston
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Mrs. Martin
Marian is a factory worker determined to leave the assembly line behind and move up in the world.
Mrs. Layton
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Mrs. Sprig
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Aunt Polly
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
Ranch Wife
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
Salvation Army Woman
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
Frau Hoffman
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Mrs. Stanton
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Aunt Abbie
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Agnes Murdock
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
Madeleine's Mother
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
Mrs. Mason
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still has a thing for her. Refusing she heads to Sparta, where she informs Tommy of her affair with the older man. Tommy tells her that he doesn't want to know the man's name or any details and Diana is happy to forget the past and move on. This decision comes to bite them a year later though, when Kent returns into the picture.
Aunt Polly
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Mrs. Duane
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.
Abigail Armstrong
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Martha Wagenkampf
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Ma Fisher
A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
Mrs. Ward
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Mrs. Minnie Winkle
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Mrs. Bence
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
Mrs. Denton
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a cabaret singer. Ignorant of the fact that her beauty is a mask for a shallow mind, Randall makes her his wife.