Donald Ogden Stewart

Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.

Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.

Um homem e uma mulher vivem um romance enquanto estão em um cruzeiro que parte da Europa com destino à cidade de Nova York. Apesar de serem noivos de outras pessoas, ambos concordam em se reunir no topo do Empire State Building em seis meses. No entanto, um acidente infeliz a impede de ir ao encontro, e ele teme que ela tenha se casado ou que tenha deixado de amá-lo.

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.

O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.

Steven (Spencer Tracy) está escrevendo uma biografia sobre um herói nacional que morreu quando seu carro caiu da ponte. A viúva (Katharine Hepburn) do homem coopera com o escritor, mas ele acaba descobrindo que ela poderia ter evitado o acidente, mas escolheu não fazê-lo. Agora ele precisa descobrir os motivos da viúva.

Breves histórias ligadas por um casaco azarado, uma boa oportunidade para ver algumas grandes estrelas no seu auge. A primeira história é um triângulo amoroso com Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, e Thomas Mitchell. O casaco vai para outro proprietário, um conto fantasioso com Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, e Cesar Romero. Em seguida é comprado por Elsa Lanchester para seu marido (da vida real), Charles Laughton, dando má sorte ao músico e compositor. Depois ele vai para as mãos de um advogado expulso, Edward G. Robinson, que encontra um colega de classe, George Sanders, em uma muito elegante reunião da faculdade. O casaco é levado por dois bandidos que o perdem e então é encontrado pelos mais pobres dos pobres da comunidade negra na depressão de 1930, interpretados pelo famoso cantor Paul Robeson e a grande Ethel Waters, que vão ao seu pastor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, para quem o casaco finalmente traz algo de bom.

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.

Esta adaptação para a tela, roteirizada por Anita Loos e Jane Murfin e dirigida por George Cukor, foi um tremendo sucesso no seu lançamento. Estrelada por Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford e Rosalind Russell. O filme deu continuidade à tradição das peças só com personagens de mulheres tagarelas. Dos glamorosos apartamentos da alta sociedade de Manhattan, até Reno onde todos se divorciam, o filme mostra um enfoque ácido de suas vidas e dos esforços dos maridos para fazerem suas esposas ricas e poderosas. Durante toda o filme não aparece um único homem se quer, embora sejam muito citados, e o tema central seja os relacionamentos das mulheres com eles.

Um playboy francês e uma antiga cantora de discoteca apaixonam-se a bordo de um navio.

Maria Antonieta (Norma Shearer) é uma linda princesa austríaca com casamento marcado com o herdeiro do trono francês Luís Augusto (Robert Morley), casamento este arranjado por motivos políticos. Já no palácio francês, Maria encontra-se caída entre as intrigas da família real, principalmente entre o Rei Luís XV e seu maléfico primo, o Conde de Orleans (Joseph Schidkraut). Para alívio de Maria, Luís só poderia casar-se com ela caso ele se tornasse Rei. Certo dia, em um cassino, Maria conhece o Conde Axel de Fersen (Tyrone Power), e ambos se sentem atraídos imediatamente um pelo outro. Sentindo-se realizada com seu amante, Maria recebe uma notícia que não esperava tão logo, o Rei Luís XV havia morrido. Sabendo então que o Conde poderia manter um caso com a noiva do príncipe, mas não com a Rainha da França, Maria teria então que decidir entre seu coração e a realeza.

Johnny Case (Cary Grant), um financista liberal, finalmente encontrou a garota dos seus sonhos: Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), a mimada filha de um milionário, e ela aceitou casar com ele! Mas quando Johnny planeja umas férias, para os dois curtirem a vida enquanto ainda são jovens, sua noiva tem outros planos. Ela quer que Johnny trabalhe no banco do pai dela! Tentando decidir se segue a cabeça ou o coração, Johnny pode contar com pelo menos alguém da família Seton para apoiá-lo. Ela é Linda Seton (Katherine Hepburn), a realista irmã caçula da futura esposa dele, e que gosta de Johnny do jeito que ele é.

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

Jim Wade (William Powell) e Edward "Blackie" Gallagher (Clark Gable) são amigos de infância que seguem caminhos distintos. Gallagher se torna um jogador e gângster, enquanto Wade é eleito promotor, devido à sua integridade, e se candidata a governador. Eleanor Packer (Myrna Loy), que tivera uma forte relação com Blackie, se casa com Wade. Neste período Wade se vê obrigado a pedir a pena de morte ao amigo, que foi acusado de assassinato, sem imaginar que Blackie cometeu o crime para ajudá-lo a se eleger governador.

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

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.

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.

O amor entre um soldado e uma herdeira está ameaçado pelo crime que o pai dele cometeu contra a família dela décadas antes.

A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.

A speaker on a stage presents a report on the traffic conditions in the theater district of New York City, which he says have improved considerably. After giving some examples of how bad the traffic in the area has been in the past, he displays a large map of the district. He then uses the map to point out landmarks and recommended routes.

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.