Mr. Toad (voice) (archive footage)
Criado para o 100º aniversário da Disney, o curta mostra Mickey Mouse encurralando uma galeria de personagens lendários da Disney para uma foto de grupo.
Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Self (from Love Happy [1949]) (archive footage)
Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.
(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
The Genie
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Lionel Boswell / Sir Wimbley
Arthur Tyler (Bob Hope), um ator americano na Inglaterra representando um mordomo Inglês, é contratado por Effie Floud, uma mulher nouveau riche do Novo México, para refinar o marido e Aggie (Lucille Ball)), a filha teimosa. As complicações aumentam quando a cidade acredita que Arthur é um Conde, e o presidente Teddy Roosevelt decide fazer uma visita para conhece-lo.
Mackinaw
Mike Johnson, um empresário e dançarino, tenta produzir um show musical, ensaiando em um teatro com a dançarina Maggie Phillips, o Grande Faustino e a cantora Bunny Dolan. Para sustentar o grupo, o mudo Harpo rouba comida. Certo dia, ao roubar uma lata de sardinha, ele encontra diamantes contrabandeados por Madame Egelichi e seus comparsas, que farão de tudo para reavê-los. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Mr. Toad (voice)
Prepare-se para um passeio frenético a bordo da carroça de J. T. Sapo, com seus encantadores amigos Verruga, Rato e MacBadger. E depois conheça a emocionante trama do esguio Ichabod, que, para conquistar a bela Katrina, terá que disputa-la com Brom Bones, o malfeitor da cidade.
J. Thaddeus Toad (voice)
O filme conta a história de “O Sapo Maluco”, baseado na obra “The Wind In The Willows” de Kenneth Grahame. J. Thaddeus Toad é o milionário dono da mansão Toad Hall, mas suas manias e costumes extravagantes o têm enchido de dívidas. Seus amigos Mole, Rat e Badger são os que tentam manter a situação instável, pois ao contrário o Sapo corre o risco de perder sua mansão. Quando J. Thaddeus fica obcecado por sua mais nova mania – um automóvel motorizado – ele é injustamente acusado de roubar um carro. Agora resta aos seus amigos salvarem o Sr. Sapo e recuperar Toad Hall das mãos das doninhas.
Ship's Doctor
Desentendimentos românticas abundam quando os cônjuges suspeitam um do outro e uma cantora de boate vai num cruzeiro sob identidade falsa. A socialite Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) desconfia de seu marido Michael Kent (Don DeFore) está paquerando outras mulheres. Quando ele anuncia que não pode acompanhá-la em sua programada viagem de cruzeiro, ela contrata a cantora de boate Georgia Garrett (Doris Day), para fingir ser ela no cruzeiro. Elvira fica em um hotel perto de casa para que possa espionar seu marido. No entanto ela não sabe que seu marido contratou um detetive, Peter Virgil (Jack Carson), para ficar de olho nela no mar. Claro que Peter não percebe que a Geórgia não é a Sra. Kent e aí...
Claudius Augustus Lucius Jamison
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.
Jamison
In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
Stubbins, Asst. Hotel Manager
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Luddington
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Jameson
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
Dobson
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Florist
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
Ferdy Pelham
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Billings
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
Obermueller, the Mayor
In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
Nelson, Butler
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Henry Leek
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Llewellyn Jameson
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
Spike, Morgan's Aide
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Jackson - Phil's Butler (uncredited)
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
Mr. Frisbie
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
Jamison
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
Charles
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Betsman
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Capt. Nichols
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Jameson
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
Caesar Hawkins
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Mr. Hobbs, Regency Hotel
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Sullivan's Valet
Acostumado a dirigir filmes simples e sem grandes implicações, o cineasta John L. Sullivan decide fazer um filme sobre os problemas sociais, mas é desencorajado por seus produtores, que o acham incapaz para tal. Para provar o contrário, ele se traveste de mendigo e vai para as ruas, para viver a experiência de perto e ter contato com a realidade.
Jamison
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
Vivian
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Charlemagne, looking for Charlie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Mr. Hartford
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Digby
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.
Charles Kimble
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)
Jamison
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
Depois de um ano estudando ofídios amazônicos, o rico - porém rústico - Charles Pike conhece em um navio Jean Harrington, uma golpista. Eles se apaixonam, mas um engano os separa. Para reconquistá-lo, Jean se disfarça como uma senhora inglesa e volta para atormentá-lo.
Harold 'Limey' Wemsley
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
Jamison
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Horatio Bottomley
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Pinch
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Jamison
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Sir Harold Pinchard
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Jamison
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Horace Parker
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Griggs
Uma jovem (Rita Hayworth) noiva de um milionário (Alan Mowbray) se apaixona pelo professor (Tony Martin) em um musical da Broadway. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Himself
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Henry
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Herbert
A Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.
Heppelwhite
A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.
Trump
In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited.
Edward
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
Potter
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Cedric Cosmo
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Butch
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Digges
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
Eric Blore
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Cecil Flintridge
Linda Keene é uma louvada dançarina de balé. Petrov é um exímio sapateador. O sonho dele é realizar uma apresentação artística ao lado dela e, após espalhar um rumor de que ele era casado com Linda, as coisas ficam confusas entre os dois.
Henry Blount
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Recruiting Sergeant
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Lucius Philbean
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Gordon
Um dançarino e apostador viaja a Nova York para levantar a quantia necessária para poder se casar com sua noiva. Chegando lá, ele acaba se envolvendo com uma bela dançarina novata.
Bayliss, Jim's Butler
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Hobson
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Stokes, Bradford's Butler
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Edmund Fish
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Prof. Harrison Boulton
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Roger Briggs
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
Hawkins
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Grove, Bentley's Butler
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Sampson Fox
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Bates
Um dançarino americano ensaia um número de sapateado em seu quarto de hotel em Londres e acaba incomodando a vizinha do quarto de baixo. Logo ambos começam a se apaixonar. Mas um certo mal-entendido pode colocar tudo a perder...
'Phil' Phillips
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Currie
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Francois
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
Dr. Metz
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Slummer (uncredited)
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
Benson
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Waiter
O filme conta a história de Guy Holden, um célebre bailarino estadunidense, que está viajando pela Europa com seu amigo, o advogado Egbert. No meio do caminho para a Inglaterra, conhece Mimi Glossop, que viaja com sua tia. Em Londres, os dois se encontram casualmente e Guy se apaixona por Mimi, mas sem saber que se trata de uma mulher casada em processo de divórcio. Mimi e sua tia voltam a se encontrar num hotel e começam os equívocos.
Head Waiter
Roger Bond e sua orquestra se apresentam em Miami; Honey Hale é a vocalista e Fred Ayres é um dos instrumentistas. Roger vê a bela Belinha entre o público, encontro que provoca paixão à primeira vista no líder do grupo. Por isso, ele e sua orquestra a perseguem no Rio de Janeiro, onde vivem aventuras musicais.
Complaining Club Member (uncredited)
Durante a Depressão americana, três atrizes (Polly, Carol, e Trixie) se vêm sem trabalho quando o show do qual participariam é cancelado devido a dívidas de impostos. Quando convidam Barney Hopkins, o produtor da peça, para seu apartamento para discutir novas possibilidades, Barney ouve o vizinho e amigo de Polly, Brad, tocando piano e cantando. Brad é um talentoso compositor que se oferece para bancar a peça, mas se recusa a atuar na mesma, apesar da bela voz. As três amigas começam a desconfiar que Brad pode estar escondendo algo muito ruim...
Jewelry Counter Clerk
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.
Party Guest in Angel Costume (Uncredited)
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.
Lord Digby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
