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.
Mrs. Williams
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
Liz Eckhart
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Duchess
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Molly Higgins
O xerife Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) da cidade de Medicine Bent, está cansado de matar e de fugir das balas de seus inimigos. Para manter a paz na cidade, suas atividades em nome da lei e ordem destruíram sua vida pessoal. Agora, ele espera poder reconciliar-se com sua ex-esposa, Tally Dickinson (Ângela Lansburry), que agora é a estrela de um show musical itinerante. Mas, logo quando Tally chega à cidade, Ware é forçado a enfrentar uma grande quadrilha de bandidos liderada pelos terríveis Thorne (Warner Anderson) e Clark (John Emery). Assim, Ware precisa decidir entre cumprir seu dever e livrar a cidade dos bandidos enfrentando Baskam (Michael Pate), um pistoleiro de aluguel, ou abandonar as armas e se reconciliar com Tally. Desta vez, o xerife terá que enfrentar mais de um duelo...
Maj. Ida Winton
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
Mary Fancher
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Glory White
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Martha
O Sargento Detetive Mark Dixon quer ser algo que seu velho pai não era: um cara do lado certo da lei. Será que a natureza cruel de Dixon vai extrair dele a melhor?
Ruth
Uma crônica detalhada da estadia de uma mulher em uma instituição mental. Virginia Cunningham se encontra em um asilo de loucos... E não consegue se lembrar de como chegou lá. Em flashback, seu marido Robert relata seu namoro, casamento e seus sintomas em desenvolvimento. O pessoal do asilo não é demonizado, mas o medo, a ignorância e os preconceitos mantêm a Virgínia em um estado de miséria, enquanto o Dr. Mark Kik luta para encontrar a raiz de seu problema. Mas uma recaída leva Virgínia de volta para a angustiante 'Cova da Serpente' ...
Kate Mulvey
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Utopia Mills
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Aunt Susan Beecher
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Minerva Van Dorn
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
Helen Reilly
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
Eve Harper
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
Zebby Booker
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
Cora Elliot
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Sister Michael
Numa escola católica da cidade grande, o padre O'Malley e a irmã Benedict começam uma rivalidade amigável, e são bem sucedidos em salvar a escola com o projeto de um novo edifício.
Padre O'Malley, o padre não convencional de "O Bom Pastor", continua o seu trabalho para a Igreja Católica. Desta vez, ele é enviado para St. Mary, uma escola paroquial decadente à beira da condenação. Ele e a irmã Benedict trabalham juntos em uma tentativa de salvar a escola, embora seus métodos diferentes muitas vezes levam a divergências bem intencionadas.
Mrs. Grace Wingate
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Self
The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1944.
Nurse Hamilton
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Sarah Rogers
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Mrs. O'Brien
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.
Biggy Biggsworth
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Mame Bacon
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Emma
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Aunt Navy
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Kate Dixon
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Mrs. Milo Everett
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Polly Hope
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Lil Higgins
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Lil Higgins
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Miss Stevens
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Aunt Lou
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Effie Perkins
The Amazing Mr. Williams é um filme de 1939 estrelado por Melvyn Douglas como o tenente de polícia Kenny Williams, que anda ocupado demais resolvendo crimes para passar um tempo com sua noiva Maxine Carroll, interpretada por Joan Blondell.
Emma Hopper
Ingênuo homem do interior (James Stewart) é convidado para preencher uma vaga no Senado dos Estados Unidos. Aos poucos vai descobrindo o mar de lama que é o ambiente político dos comandantes de seu país. Tudo em que acredita está ameaçado. Como enfrentar esses poderosos Senadores e dirigentes políticos?
Mrs. Rose Pierce
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Josephine
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
Daisy Watson
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
Grumpy
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Josephine
Decadente publicitário Lanny Morgan criou a que ele julga ser a maior estrela que um estúdio já teve, a bela Annabel Allison; porém ela se envolve sem querer com dois fugitivos, tornando tudo uma verdadeira salada mista.
Leila Kennett
Uma luta para impedir que cavalos de cavalaria sejam substituídos por tanques culmina em uma grande corrida entre máquina e fera.
Nora Marko
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Jane Wilkins
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
Aunt Mary
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Helen Davis
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Aunt Mimi
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Melba York
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Vi Johnson
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Mabel Dawson
O simplório e honesto Longfellow Deeds, de Mandrake Falls - Vermont, acaba herdando uma fortuna imensa. Ele precisará ir para a cidade grande, mas lidará com pessoas que só pensam em se aproveitar de sua fortuna e humildade. Uma delas é a repórter Babe Bennett, que fica amiga de Deeds somente porque está procurando uma boa história para seu jornal.
Patsy O'Madigan
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
Lizzie
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Laura
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Mrs. Edith Rooney
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
Bess
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Mrs. Twitchell
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Mrs. Byng
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Florrie Sands
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Anna
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Miss Sparks
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Dora Wilson
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Lois
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Emma Simpson
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Mrs. Ashton-Ashley
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Mrs. George Peters
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Mrs. Ellerbe
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Mrs. Emily Jones
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Miss Frothingham
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Lizzie
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Mrs. Harriet Gould
Um diretor da Broadway, vendo sua carreira em declínio, decide investir na criação de prólogos, pequenas apresentações musicais encenadas em cinemas antes dos filmes. Porém, os planos são atrapalhados por concorrentes que tentam roubar suas ideias. Sua grande chance ocorre quando seus produtores fazem um acordo com um eminente empresário teatral, mas para isso ele precisa correr contra o tempo para impressionar o homem. Entretanto, está tão envolvido com o seu trabalho que não percebe que sua secretária está apaixonada por ele.
Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Richview Hotel Maid
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Margaret 'Maggie' Flannigan
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Amy Moran
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
Edna Yokum
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Miss Hall
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Noonan
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Lil Waters
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Mrs. Sears
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.
Miss Stevens
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Berta, Teri's Maid (uncredited)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
The Countess
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Widow Abigail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Fanny
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Mrs. Wimbledon
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Fanny Pratt
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
