Herself (archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Self (archive footage)
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
Tracy Carlyle Hastings (archive footage)
Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob who now in the '90s is an obese watch seller suffering with sucrose intolerance.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
Self (archive footage)
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's most popular leading ladies
Self (archive footage)
Rarely seen movie trailers reveal Lana Turner's rise to stardom. Hosted by Robert Osborne.
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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.
Isabelle (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
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This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Self (archive footage)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Herself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Archive Footage
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
(in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest está convencida de que a morte de seu pai em um acidente de carro nas montanhas não foi um acidente. Seu pai era um proeminente cientista trabalhando em uma receita secreta de queijo. Para provar que foi assassinado, ela contrata os serviços de detetive Rigby Reardon. Ele encontra um pedaço de papel com uma lista de pessoas que são "Os Amigos e Inimigos da Carlotta". Procurando por respostas, Rigby se encontra com diversos personagens do submundo: homens e mulheres perigosos que foram as principais personagens dos clássicos filmes de detetive dos anos 40 e 50. Filmado em preto e branco para permitir o uso de cenas de filmes antigos entremeadas com as do novo. É através deste recurso que o assistente de Rigby não é outro senão o próprio Philip Marlowe.
Vivian Cross
Three women use witchcraft to help their professor husbands further their careers. When a higher position becomes available in the university, they turn on each other.
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Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
Claire
A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his father and her mother.
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É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".
Carrie Masters
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
Adriana Roman
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
Tracy Carlyle Hastings
When a bank president requests his son-in-law's resignation, chaos ensues complete with blackmail, accidents and death.
Holly Parker
Uma mulher casada numa familia rica é comprometida pela morte acidental de um homem que a perseguia romanticamente, e é forçada pela sogra a assumir uma nova identidade para salvar a reputação do marido e do filho pequeno. Ela vagueia pelo mundo, tentando esquecer seu desgosto com a ajuda de álcool e homens desagradáveis, eventualmente retornando para a cidade de sua queda, onde ela mata um chantagista que ameaça expor seu passado. Surpreendentemente, ela é acusada em seu julgamento por assassinato por seu filho agora adulto, que é um defensor público. Na esperança de continuar a proteger seu filho, ela se recusa a dar seu nome verdadeiro e é conhecida na corte como a ré "Madame X".
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
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This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
Kit Jordan
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Melanie Flood
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Rosemary Howard
A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S. for back taxes, he needs to write another book fast, to pay them. His publisher decides a book about life in the American suburbs would be a hit and settles him into Paradise Village. One bachelor plus lonely housewives equals many angry husbands.
Marjorie Penrose
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Sheila Cabot
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
Lora Meredith
O ano é 1947 e Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) é uma aspirante a atriz, viúva, que mora com sua sua única filha, Susie (Sandra Dee), e vive ignorando-a, enquanto busca construir uma carreira. Quando ela conhece Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), uma afrodescendente também viúva e mãe solteira, convida-a a trabalhar na sua casa e criar as filhas das duas juntas. No momento em que Annie e sua filha Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) se mudam para a casa de Lora, a menina passa a renegar as suas origens: por ter a pele bem mais clara que sua mãe, ela se declara branca para todos. Já Susie se sente rejeitada pela mãe e acaba encontrando conforto nos braços de um homem mais velho (John Gavin).
Cynthia Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Co-Producer
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
Sara Scott
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
Maggie Colby
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
Constance MacKenzie
Enquanto Constance e os outros pais da arrumadinha e perfeita cidade de New Hampshire lutam para manter seus filhos adolescentes na linha, escândalos acontecem ao seu redor, resultando na revelação de que nada nesta pequena cidade realmente é o que parece ser.
Diane de Poitiers - Countess de Breze
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Lady Edwina Esketh
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Elsa Keller
No começo da Segunda Guerra Mundial o capitão de cargueiro alemão Karl Ehrlich tenta levar seu navio para a Alemanha em meio a um cerco de navios de guerra Aliados.
Quando a Segunda Guerra Mundial explodiu, o capitão alemão Karl Ehrlich estava prestes a deixar Sydney, Austrália com seu navio cargueiro, o Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, um alemão anti-nazista mas orgulhoso, espera conseguir escapar do navio de guerra britânico que o persegue. A bordo de seu navio está Elsa Keller, uma mulher que Ehrlich convidou a retornar à Alemanha com segurança, com qualquer segredo que ela carregue. Quando o feroz oficial nazista Kirchner comete uma atrocidade, a busca britânica torna-se mortal.
Samarra
70 A.C. Micah (Edmund Purdom), o filho de Eli (Walter Hampden), fica tão obcecado por Samarra (Lana Turner), uma sacerdotisa pagã, que pega parte da fortuna de seu pai e vai atrás dela, que foi para Damasco. Apesar de desejar muito Samarra ele se recusa a fazer qualquer oferenda aos deuses que ela adora, pois Micah jurou ser fiel apenas para Jeová. Mas Samarra planeja seduzir Micah e fazê-lo abandonar sua fé.
Carla Van Oven
Segunda Guerra Mundial. O official aliado Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) acaba se envolvendo com a bela Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner), uma suspeita de traição.
Madeline
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
Nora Taylor
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Georgia Lorrison
Narrado em flashback, o filme traça a ascensão e a queda de um produtor de Hollywood duro e ambicioso, Jonathan Shields, visto pelos olhos de vários conhecidos, incluindo o escritor James Lee Bartlow, a estrela Georgia Lorrison e o diretor Fred Amiel. Ele é um homem difícil e ambicioso que impiedosamente usa todos - incluindo o escritor, estrela e diretor - na escalada para se tornar um dos maiores de Hollywood. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Crystal Radek
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.
Actress in 'The Royal Rascal' (uncredited)
Em 1927, Hollywood, está um verdadeiro rebuliço com a transição do cinema mudo para o falado. Don Lockwood e Lina Lamont, o casal mais querido do cinema mudo, se prepara para rodar um musical. Mas, infelizmente, Lina não só não sabe cantar como tem uma voz horrível. A estreante, Kathy Selden, é chamada a emprestar sua voz à estrela. As gravações são uma confusão, mas tudo piora quando Don se apaixona pela doce Kathy. Ao lado de seu inseparável amigo, o compositor Cosmo Brown, ele tenta mostrar ao mundo o talento de Kathy.
Fredda Barlo
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
Lily Brannel James
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Lady De Winter
D'Artagnan, um jovem provinciano, chega à Paris com o intuito de se tornar um mosqueteiro. Ele encontrará muitos obstáculos, ação, amor, ódio, o rei e a rainha. E ainda Richelieu e sua impetuosidade, que deixará D'Artagnan envolvido em tramas políticas. Mas contra tudo e todos ele se junta a Athos, Porthos e Aramis. D'Artagnan terá, além do mais, que se desdobrar para manter seguro o seu amor pela encantadora Constance Bonacieux sem com isso indispor a apaixonada Milady De Winter, uma agente secreta do Cardeal.
Lt. Jane 'Snapshot' McCall
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
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.
Marianne Patourel
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
Cora Smith
Em suas andanças sem rumo, Arthur Keats acaba parando em Twin Oaks, um restaurante à beira da estrada, onde conhece Cora Smith. Cora cuida do lugar com seu marido, com quem vive um casamento medíocre. Arthur e Cora acabam envolvendo-se em um romance apaixonado, mas para conseguirem a felicidade deverão dar fim à pedra no caminho - o marido de Cora.
Bunny Smith
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Valerie Parks
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Theodora "Theo" Scoffield West
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Lana Turner (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.
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A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Herself - Guest Star
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
Self - Guest Star
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. This entry (Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 20) was broadcast and filmed at a live performance at Camp Roberts, California. Lana Turner, Betty Hutton, Judy Garland and Bob Hope star.
Paula Lane
Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II.
Lisbeth 'Liz' Bard
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Elizabeth Cotton
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Beatrix 'Bea' Emery
Na Londres do século XIX, o médico e pesquisador Harry Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) crê que bem e mal existam em todas as pessoas. Jekyll tem muita determinação para provar sua teoria, que é criticada por quase todos que conhece, inclusive Charles Emery (Donald Crisp), o pai de sua noiva Beatrix (Lana Turner). Após trabalhar incansavelmente em seu laboratório, Jekyll elabora uma fórmula. Não querendo colocar em risco a vida de ninguém, ele mesmo a bebe. Como resultado, seu lado demoníaco é revelado, que ele chama de Mr. Hyde. Mas o pior ainda estava por vir, pois inicialmente Jekyll acreditava poder controlar as aparições de Hyde e logo ele veria que estava completamente enganado.
Sheila Regan
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Douglas Shearer, engenheiro de som da MGM, nos leva num passeio pelos bastidores para apresentar a forma como a parte de som de um filme falado é criada. Usa o filme Divino Tormento ou Bitter Sweet (1940) (Com imagens de Jeanette MacDonald e Nelson Eddy) e o filme O Inimigo X ou Comrade X (1940) (Com imagens de Clark Gable e Hedy Lamarr) para ilustrar as técnicas. Partes deste curta estão em Technicolor, incluindo um impressionante teste de tela de Greer Garson para o filme Flores do Pó ou Blossoms in the Dust (1941). O resultado é um "desfile" de trailers dos próximos filmes da MGM que mostram quase toda a constelação de estrelas da MGM.
Marjorie White Brooks
A man violates company policy by getting married.
Pat Mahoney
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.
Patty Marlow
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Herself (uncredited)
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
Jane Thomas
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Rosalie Lewett
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Mado
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Helen
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Passerby (uncredited)
A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.
Cynthia Potter
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
Maid
Marco Polo (Cooper) cruza o mar em busca de tesouros e aventuras. Com a ajuda de seu fiel e covarde amigo Binguccio (Ernest Truex), encontra na China, como primeiro visitante do país europeu, várias inovações práticas como massas e explosivos. Ele é também apresentado a Kublai Khan (George Barbier), o imperador sábio e benevolente da China, e sua adorável filha, a Princesa Kukachin (Sigrid Gurie). O romance começa a florescer entre Marco e a princesa, mas Ahmed (Basil Rathbone), o dissimulado assistente do Imperador, também tem seus olhos sobre a princesa e ele está determinado a conquistar a mão dela e assim usurpar o trono de Kublai Khan.
Mlle. Auber
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Mary Clay
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
