Una Merkel

Algumas das estrelas musicais da MGM revisam a história dos musicais dos estúdios. De 'The Hollywood Revue' de 1929 a ' A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos' de 1954. Dos primeiros talkies musicais a Gene Kelly em 'Cantando na Chuva' de 1952.

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.

Três belas mulheres que só pensam em casar. Um solteirão cantor e corredor de carros com um único pensamento: manter seus olhos na estrada - longe das mulheres. Aperte os cintos, camarada: curvas perigosas à frente! Elvis Presley está no volante e inclinado para o romance. Shelley Fabares (sua co-estrela em Girl Happy) interpreta a garota rica que sempre consegue o que quer. Deborah Walley é a baterista de rock ansiosa para um dueto no amor, Diane McBain é a autora de bestsellers pesquisando "o Macho Americano Perfeito" - e quem sabe ela talvez o tenha achado. E interpretando o pai milionário de Fabares está Carl Betz, que também interpretou seu pai na TV em The Donna Reed Show. Elvis canta Never Say Yes, Adam and Evil, All That I Am, Spinout e a enfática Stop, Look Listen.

Um tigre escapa de um caminhão de circo enquanto passa por uma cidadezinha, e esconde-se na floresta que a cerca. Isso causa pânico na cidade e todos querem que o animal seja morto imediatamente, exceto pela filha do xerife. Ela quer capturar o tigre e colocá-lo num zoológico, salvando sua vida. Sua determinação inicia uma campanha nacional entre crianças para juntar dinheiro e comprar o tigre do circo, mas antes, ela, seu pai e um domador de tigres indiano precisam achar o animal antes que Guarda Nacional siga a ordem de matá-lo.

Família norte-americana passa por dificuldades após o falecimento do pai, acabam sendo obrigadas a deixar a cidade grande e morar numa pequena casa de campo. É quando surge o antigo proprietário da casa, trazendo grandes mudanças.

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

Hayley Mills interpreta gêmeas que, desconhecendo que seus pais se divorciaram, se encontram em um acampamento de verão. Como ambas moram com pai/mãe "solteiros", elas trocam de lugar (surpresa!) de modo a satisfazer a curiosidade de conhecer o pai/mãe que nunca conheceu. Claro que depois resolvem providenciar a re-união dos pais.

Lorenzo Charlton, um fiscal do governo, é enviado à fazenda da família Larkins para averiguar o porquê eles têm sonegado impostos. Ao perceber que a família mantém um confuso sistema econômico, ele decide ajudá-los a pôr a casa em ordem.

Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television.

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.

When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.

Um viúvo de Kentucky que se mudou para o Texas em 1820, com seu filho mais novo, é frustrado em seus esforços por um policial corrupto, uma antiga briga de família e uma bela empregada. Uma deliciosa história de amor centrada em torno de um pai solteiro tentando criar seu filho, apesar das tentações de bebidas e mulheres. Lancaster brilha como o homem da fronteira estável e real, defendendo as seduções de Walter Matthau e desejos lascivos.

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Depois de conseguir um emprego cantando no rádio, Jane Froman se casa com o acompanhante musical Don Ross. Sob a administração de Don, Jane sobe ao estrelato e é convidada a se apresentar para as tropas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No caminho, seu avião cai, deixando Jane com ferimentos graves nas pernas. Em recuperação, Jane começa um romance com John Burn, um piloto militar ferido. Ela pretende voltar a cantar, mas com dois homens em seu coração, a vida é cada vez mais complicada. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.

A Cegonha Demora-se é um divertido musical em Technicolor® com uma história maravilhosa, onde não faltam as gargalhadas e romance! Kitty (Betty Grable) e Jack (Dan Dailey) são uma popular dupla de marido e esposa artistas que trabalham no rádio e estão passando para a TV. No entanto, por mais inebriante que seja o sucesso e seu progresso profissional, eles têm sentido que suas vidas seriam mais completas se tivessem filhos. Mas, quando decidem pela adoção [um processo complicado e cheio de desapontamentos], eles acabam tendo mais bebês do que esperavam! Temperado com canções e números de dança, este maravilhoso filme também conta com um elenco espetacular que incluiu Mitzi Gaynor em seu primeiro papel no cinema.

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.

James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.

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.

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.

Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor.

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...

Encalhados na África, Chuck e seu amigo Fearless (Sem Medo) vivem versões cômicas de aventuras na selva, com duas atraentes vigaristas. Chuck e seu amigo Fearless fogem de um carnaval sul-africano quando seu show causa um incêndio. Depois de várias escapadas semelhantes, eles finalmente economizaram o suficiente para voltar aos EUA, quando Chuck gasta tudo em uma mina de diamantes 'perdida'. Mas isso é apenas o começo; Em pouco tempo, uma dupla de mulheres atraentes enganam nossos heróis para financiar um safári cômico, com inúmeras aventuras burlescas na selva. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

Um homem trapalhão e beberrão, zombado pela própria filha de sete anos e atormentado pela esposa, vive aventuras e confusões sendo substituto de diretor de cinema e confundido com herói de assalto a banco.

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.

A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

Homem que controla pequena cidade mata xerife e elege um vagabundo para substituí-lo. O que ele não sabe é que o rapaz não irá se dobrar.

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.

Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.

Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy's pet dog during a public relations campaign on his submarine, Lucy falls for him. Ted is ordered to meet Lucy for a date at a night club, who later sees their picture in the newspaper and no longer wants anything to do with him.

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.

Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.

Dotada de uma voz surpreendente e admirada por seu carisma, Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell), sonha em brilhar nas noites da Broadway. Seguindo seu instinto e seu coração, Irene se muda para a Broadway na esperança de que seu amor de infância, agora produtor, Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor), a reconheça. Robert, por outro lado, está muito ocupado com um jornalista fofoqueiro, o colunista Bert Keeler (Jack Benny), e acaba não a notando. Kitty (Una Merkel), secretária de Robert, no entanto, percebe o talento da moça e planeja, junto com Irene, uma situação onde Robert note não só sua voz, mas também todo o seu charme e encanto. Melodia da Broadway, além de indicado a dois Oscars, Melhor Fotografia e Melhor Roteiro Original, foi vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Direção. Este filme ainda foi o principal responsável pela grande ascenção da atriz Eleanor Powell em Hollywood, e fez das músicas You Are My Lucky Star e Brodway Rhythm os maiores sucessos da época.

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.

A criminal lawyer's wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed.

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Peggy Sawyer é uma jovem dançarina iniciante que acaba de chegar a Nova York e consegue uma participação no coro de um espetáculo musical chamado Pretty Baby. Ela seria apenas mais uma, só que a estrela principal, a temperamental Dorothy Brock machuca o tornozelo pouco antes da estreia do musical. O acidente faz com que Peggy tenha que assumir o lugar da outra dançarina, e também coloca todo o destino da companhia nas suas costas.

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.

An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.

Lil trabalha para a Legendre Company e faz com que Bill, seu chefe, divorcie-se de sua mulher Irene e case-se com ela, forçando a sociedade a prestar atenção nela.

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.

Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.

O Detetive Sam Spade e seu parceiro Miles Archer são procurados por uma mulher misteriosa que os contrata para seguir um homem a quem ela acusa de ter fugido com sua irmã. Miles Archer e o homem são assassinados, e a partir daí, Sam Spade, suspeito pelo assassinato de Archer, se vê envolvido com uma série de figuras misteriosas.

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...

Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.

The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.

Um marco no cinema, este filme do legendário diretor Griffith, é a primeira obra biográfica da era dos filmes "falados" e a primeira na tentativa de narrar a vida do Presidente Lincoln desde sua infância até a sua morte, incluindo o martírio na Guerra Civil.