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Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Society Woman (uncredited)
Howard Roark é um jovem arquiteto idealista e individualista, que deseja realizar um trabalho inovador e sem interferências, mas encontra resistência por parte do articulista do jornal "The Banner" Elsworth Toohey, que prefere apoiar medíocres e manipuláveis como Peter Keating. Roark fica sem clientes e para não contrariar seus princípios, fecha seu escritório e vai trabalhar como operário em uma pedreira, onde conhece a rica Dominique. (Gerigato)
Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
Uma jovem e ambiciosa modelo de loja de departamentos de Los Angeles tem o sonho de se casar com um milionário, mas descobre que a vida na riqueza nem sempre é feliz. E o sonho de infância de Leonora Eames se torna realidade. Se casa com Smith Ohlrig, um homem que vale milhões. Mas seu sonho inocente torna-se um pesadelo, quando percebe a verdade sobre seu marido - ele é louco por poder e insano! Como ele não lhe dará o divórcio, ela deixa sua vida de luxo em Long Island e vai trabalhar como recepcionista em um pobre consultório médico no Lower East Side de Nova York. Depois que Smith a engana em uma reconciliação temporária, Leonora fica grávida. Quando ela percebe que está esperando, ela e um dos médicos, Larry Quinada (James Mason), se apaixonaram. Mas ela é novamente atraída para seu marido rico em busca de segurança financeira para seu filho. Seu marido sádico está empenhado em manter ela e seu filho prisioneiros. O que vai acontecer com Leonora? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Martha Higby
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Grace
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
Mrs. Freedley
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Secretary (uncredited)
Quando um velhinho agradável que afirma ser Papai Noel é acusado de insanidade, um jovem advogado decide defendê-lo, argumentando no tribunal que ele de fato é Papai Noel. No desfile do Dia Ação de Graças da Loja de Departamentos Macy's, o ator que interpreta Papai Noel é flagrado por ter bebido por um homem velho bigodudo. Doris Walker, o maluco diretor de eventos especiais da loja, convence o velhinho a assumir o trabalho. O velhinho revela-se uma sensação e é rapidamente recrutado para ser o Papai Noel da saída da principal Macy's. Embora bem sucedido, Walker investiga e descobre que ele se chama Kris Kringle e que ele afirma ser o verdadeiro Papai Noel. Apesar das garantias do médico de que Kringle é inofensivo, Doris ainda tem dúvidas, especialmente porque ele tem cinicamente convencido à si mesmo e especialmente à sua filha, Susan, para rejeitar todas as noções de crença e fantasia.
Nell Brown
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Clerk
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Jim's wife (uncredited)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Mrs. Cummings
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Mother Bronson
Duke se apaixona por Flaxen, na costa de Barbary, na San Francisco da virada do século. Ele perde dinheiro para o tio jogador Tito, volta para casa e aprende a jogar. E retorna. Depois que faz uma fortuna, ele abre seu próprio lugar com Flaxen como a artista.
Mme. Celeste
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Woman (uncredited)
Baseado em um conto de Vera Caspary, este mistério sobre o assassinato da personagem principal mostra um detetive se apaixonando pelo retrato dessa bela vítima. Ele investiga três suspeitos para tentar solucionar o crime: um jornalista, o noivo de Laura, a vítima, e sua tia.
Lulubelle
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.
Leon's Wife
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
Mrs. Arlene Errol
As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help of a friend, Leon's wife writes a fake letter to a marital advice show that airs on Leon's station. Little does she realize that her letter will set off a chain of complicated misunderstandings.
Mrs. Arlene Errol
Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.
Mrs. Taylor
Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia.
3rd Woman
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Committee Woman
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
Mrs. Updyke
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Verebel Featherstone
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until the Larabee ranch is reached. When Larrabee refuses to allow the equipment on his land, Gene has it sprayed by airplane. Cattle must stay off recently sprayed land and when a Larrabee man shoots down the plane, the crash sends the cattle stampeding toward the newly sprayed land.
Blonde Woman (uncredited)
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Queen Tika
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Woman on Phone
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Rusty's Dancing Partner
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
McPeek's Girl
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)
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.
Mrs. Morton
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Blonde
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...
Blonde
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
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.
Nurse
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Helen Kay
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Girl
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Queen Tika
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Anita Smythe
Em um filme escrito e produzido especialmente para ela, Shirley Temple vive Shirley Blake, uma menina cujo pai morreu em um acidente de avião. Enquanto sonha em ser aviadora, passa grande parte do tempo com seu padrinho num aeroporto enquanto a mãe trabalha na casa de uma família rica. Após ficar órfã de mãe também, seu padrinho luta para conseguir a guarda da menina.
Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
Mrs. Knut Johnson
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Woman with Earrings
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
Gwen (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Kitten
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
Mrs. Betty Laurel
Dois homens enganam suas esposas para participarem de uma convenção. Um deles finge estar doente e consegue uma prescrição médica de um veterinário para poder viajar num “cruzeiro medicinal” ao Havaí.
Rena (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Marjorie Reynolds
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Mrs. Crimp
Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
Mrs. Myrtle Welling
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Evelyn Smythe
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Dolores Quincy
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
Gwen Maynard
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Constance Forbes
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Ethel Wynn Merle
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Mabel Guthrie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Mrs. Emery
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
Mrs. LaSalle
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
Angelica Embrey
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
Tessie
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
Leila
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Mlle. Berengere
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Esther Hamilton
Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.
Lady Amy Ducksworth
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly distastes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
Wife
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.