Personalities (1942)

Uma estrela veterana do cinema mudo se recusa a aceitar que seu reinado acabou. Então ela contrata um jovem roteirista para ajudá-la a reconquistar o sucesso. O escritor acredita que pode manipular a atriz, mas percebe que está redondamente enganado.

Hedy Lamarr ficou conhecida por ser "a mulher mais bonita do mundo". Mas, entre outras peculiaridades, a austríaca queridinha de Hollywood foi também inventora da tecnologia sem fio nos anos de 1940.

Um executivo de estúdio pressionado por série de fracassos de bilheteria consecutivos começa a receber ameaças anônimas. Obcecado com as mensagens, ele mata o roteirista que acredita ser o responsável e tenta driblar as investigações policiais.

David trabalha como assistente de Golias em um estúdio de cinema. Além de criar confusão com os outros que lá trabalham, ele também ajuda uma moça que trabalha no estúdio disfarçada de homem, mas que sonha em ser atriz.

The American Dad! short film; which precedes before the theatrical run of the 2005 feature Fever Pitch; is about Stan Smith touring his work days in the CIA and his "normal" every day life.

Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out firsthand what fuels The Sixth Sense director's seemingly supernatural creativity as filmmakers interview Shyamalan as well as the cast and crew members who have worked most closely with him over the years. Discover the early events that shaped the mind of a future master of suspense in a documentary that is as fascinating as it is revealing.

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the studio.

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its backlot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.

Dore Schary presents clips from upcoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films.

A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to oppose Edison's Motion Picture Tust, it soon grew under the leadership of 21 year old production head Irving Thalberg with classic silents from artists like John Ford, Erich Von Stroheim, and Lon Chaney and prospered further in the Sound Era under the leadership of Carl Leammle Jr. with such classics as "All Quiet on The Western Front," "Showboat," and the studio's signature monster franchises, "Frankenstein" and "Dracula."

A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.

Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

This documentary explores and celebrates Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's glorious history. MGM's eventual decline led to the sale of its back lot and props.