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Phoebe Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) é a dona de uma cadeia de lojas de departamentos que descobre que Barbara Tuttle (Jill St. John), sua filha, está apaixonada por Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), um rapaz pobre que ela não aprova. Phoebe decide então contratar o jovem para demonstrar que ele é um desmiolado, dando-lhe tarefas complicadas para humilha-lo, esperando assim que Barbara o deixe. Porém sua filha sai de casa, passando a trabalhar em uma das lojas da mãe usando o nome Fuller. Assim, Norman não imagina que se casará com uma rica herdeira, mas se souber disto desiste do casamento.

Phoebe Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) é a dona de uma cadeia de lojas de departamentos que descobre que Barbara Tuttle (Jill St. John), sua filha, está apaixonada por Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), um rapaz pobre que ela não aprova. Phoebe decide então contratar o jovem para demonstrar que ele é um desmiolado, dando-lhe tarefas complicadas para humilha-lo, esperando assim que Barbara o deixe. Porém sua filha sai de casa, passando a trabalhar em uma das lojas da mãe usando o nome Fuller. Assim, Norman não imagina que se casará com uma rica herdeira, mas se souber disto desiste do casamento.

Conto de fadas de Damon Runyon, carinhoso e engraçado, contado pelo diretor Frank Capra. A preciosa Annie das Maçãs, uma mendiga com uma cesta de maçãs, é tão parte do centro de Nova York quanto a própria Broadway. O contrabandista Dave Dude é um fã das suas maçãs, ele acha que elas dão sorte. Mas Dave e sua namorada Queenie Martin precisam de muito mais do que sorte quando se descobre que Annie está em uma enrascada e só eles podem ajudar: a filha de Annie, Louise, que viveu toda sua vida em um convento espanhol pago pela pobre Annie, está vindo para a América com um Conde e seu filho. O filho do conde quer se casar com Louise, que acha que sua mãe faz parte da alta sociedade de Nova York. Cabe a Dave e Queenie e seus peculiares companheiros transformar Annie em uma dama e convencer o conde e seu filho que eles estão se unindo a elite de Nova York.

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Tendo que sair de Melbourne com pressa para evitar várias propostas de casamento, dois homens cantam e dançam para trabalhar como mergulhadores. Isso os leva a uma ilha idílica a caminho de Bali, onde competem uns com os outros pelos favores da princesa Lala. O mergulho perigoso produz um baú de joias de valor inestimável, que desperta o interesse menos romântico de alguns locais obscuros.

Tendo que sair de Melbourne com pressa para evitar várias propostas de casamento, dois homens cantam e dançam para trabalhar como mergulhadores. Isso os leva a uma ilha idílica a caminho de Bali, onde competem uns com os outros pelos favores da princesa Lala. O mergulho perigoso produz um baú de joias de valor inestimável, que desperta o interesse menos romântico de alguns locais obscuros.

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.

O time de basebol Wolves fica cozinhado quando eles acham que foram comprados por um tal de KC Higgins, um provável "Cabeça de Bagre", que pretende ter uma atuação ativa na gestão da equipe. Mas KC se revela uma grande surpresa. É uma bela mulher que realmente entende de beisebol. O segunda base Dennis Ryan cai imediatamente de amores por ela. Mas seu companheiro de quarto e playboy Eddie O'Brien tem suas próprias ideias de como lidar com a nova senhora proprietária e alguns jogadores desagradáveis ​​têm suas próprias ideias sobre como lidar com Eddie.

Mel Swanson, namorada de um gangster, vai se esconder quando o namorado dela está sendo investigado pela polícia. Que lugar melhor para se esconder do que um instituto de pesquisa musical composto inteiramente por solteiros solitários? Ela acaba ficando mais do que esperava quando o chefe do Instituto, Professor Hobart Frisbee, começa a se apaixonar por ela.

Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.

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.

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.

A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer. Gwen tells Cindy that the director, Lloyd Lloyd, and composer, Dick Rayburn, have been sent to the South on a talent search for a classic Southern belle type to star in the show, although their shows usually feature Myra Stanhope, an actress whose style is hopelessly inappropriate for this show. Desperate for work, Cindy returns to her aunt Lily Lou and uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany's home in the South and schemes to get Lloyd and Rayburn to audition her.

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.

Betsy é uma órfã talentosa que passa a ficar sob os cuidados de seu tio Pop, gerente de uma casa teatral. Em pouco tempo a garota se transforma na queridinha da clientela, incluindo o maestro Jimmy Clayton. Mas a proprietária do edifício, Sarah Roger não está gostando nada da situação.

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Uma empresa de cinema está fazendo as Mil e Uma Noites quando um vagabundo entra em seu acampamento, adormece e sonha que voltou a Bagdá como assessor do sultão. Em uma paródia do New Deal de Rosevelt, ele organiza programas de trabalho, tributa os ricos e abole o exército.

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.

Shirley Temple canta, dança e encanta a todos num vilarejo pesqueiro da New England. Ela faz Star, garotinha de 4 anos de idade que vive com o Capitão January (Guy Kibbee) desde que foi salva por ele de um naufrágio quando era bebê. Mas sua alegre vida conjunta é inesperadamente ameaçada quando um fiscal da cidade resolve tirá-la do vigia do farol e mandá-la para um orfanato.

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.