Lillian Roth

Menina é assassinada dentro de uma igreja. As suspeitas recaem sobre sua irmã, que possui um comportamento estranho.

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

A movie producer announces that Lillian Roth has been signed to do a movie and he calls a story conference with a director and writers to come up with an idea for the film. As they work through some ideas, performers act out those possibilities via song and dance numbers.

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios’ delightful “Screen Songs” added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics.

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Bob is an unfaithful husband. Angela has a plan to win back his affections.

Os Irmãos Marx levam anarquia à festa da alta sociedade em honra do explorador Jeffrey T. Spaulding, que volta da África e onde será exibido quadro caríssimo.

Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequences.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

This one is set at a college picnic by the lake, with three musical numbers. "We've Got It Bad but It Don't Do Us No Good" is by a quartet of college men, with ukulele, pennywhistle, and ocarinas. "Sort of Lonesome" is a romantic song, sung straight by Roth. "Me and the Boyfriend" is sung more uptempo by Roth, made comic by her actions as she manhandles her geeky boyfriend.

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.

A história da Rainha Louise da Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) e o seu novo marido, Conde Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Embora o Conde Alfred tenha prometido, na cerimónia de casamento, ser um marido dócil, ele depressa se arrepende da sua decisão a partir do momento em que as suas ordens não são obedecidas e se vai tornando enfastiado com a vida que leva. Ameaçando partir para Paris, ele só é detido pela Rainha Louise quando ela lhe oferece o equivalente aos poderes de um rei...

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.