Jobyna Ralston

Hollywood on Parade was a series of short subjects produced by Paramount Pictures between 1932 and 1934. They showcased the studio's stars both in newsreel-type footage (glimpses of Hollywood figures at premieres, parties, the races, etc.) and in new material such as sketches or musical numbers.

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.

Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.

The Toilers (1928)

Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.

Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.

The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.

Два молодых человека Джек Пауэлл и Дэвид Армстронг из одного небольшого городка влюблены в Сильвию Льюис. Однако Сильвия отвечает взаимностью Дэвиду, а Джек не замечает влюбленную в него соседскую девчонку Мэри Престон. После вступления США в Первую Мировую войну юноши попадают в авиационный корпус и становятся не только асами, но и друзьями. Стараясь быть ближе к Джеку, Мэри присоединяется к женскому механизированному корпусу, но война охватила большие расстояния и они почти не встречаются. Один единственный раз Мэри находит Джека в увольнении, но в таком виде, что он ее не узнает и встреча печально заканчивается для самой Мэри. Меж тем, между друзьями произошла размолвка, и они улетают в бой, не примирившись, что в итоге приводит к трагической развязке — это война…

A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.

The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.

Гарольд Ллойд в роли обыкновенного парня, живущего в небольшом городке вместе с отцом и двумя старшими братьями. Отцу Гарольда, местному шерифу, в знак уважения, городская община поручила сохранить крупную сумму денег, собранную на строительство дамбы. Случилось так, что деньги из сейфа таинственным образом исчезают. В воровстве обвиняют отца, но Гарольд полон решимости во что бы то ни стало спасти честь семьи и разыскать пропавшие деньги, за одно стремясь доказать, что отношение к нему, как к незрелой личности, является несправедливым.

The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....

Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events.

Молодой миллионер-бездельник Гарольд Мэннерс, живёт беспечно и совсем не знает жизни без денег. Но всё меняется, когда он, случайно оказавшись в бедной части города, влюбляется в красавицу-простушку.

James Parrott doing all kinds of handy work.

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

Гарольд Лэмб мечтает поступить в колледж. Он не догадывается, что там всё далеко не так, как в фильме "Герой колледжа", а потому с первого же дня Гарольд со своими "старомодными манерами" становится объектом насмешек. Чтобы добиться популярности, нужно не только устраивать вечеринки на последние деньги, но и играть в футбольной команде колледжа, а американский футбол - игра не для слабаков! Гарольда берут в команду, но, как оказывается, в качестве "мальчика для битья". Зато какого боевого игрока из него воспитали!

Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!

Гарольд Мидоуз - застенчивый, заикающийся холостяк, работающий портным. Он пишет пособие для других застенчивых молодых людей «Секрет любви». Однажды он встречает богатую девушку Мэри, и они влюбляются. Но проблема в том, что она вынуждена выйти замуж за другого мужчину. Гарольд всячески пытается предотвратить свадьбу.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Банда ведёт войну, используя гнилые овощи как боеприпасы. Позже они портят снимающийся фильм двойным разрывом плёнки.

SHOOT STRAIGHT - starring Paul Parrott, with Jobyna Ralston, Eddie Baker and George Rowe. A rarely-seen comedy short. Parrott is a hapless hunter in this predecessor to Tex Avery toons of the 1940s, and in a series of inventive gag sequences fails to capture squirrel, rabbit, chinchilla, bobcat, duck, and bear all in one reel.

The setting is a shoe store and the action is pretty frenetic. You get to see Paul lose the store's money, catch a shoe thief, knock down a bunch of shelves and more.

A silent comedy short starring Jobyna Ralston and James Parrott.

A James Parrott comedy short.

Paul is practicing the art of being a cowboy. He consults a book before firing his gun, climbing onto a saddle on top of a chair and then falling off and dressing his wounds. He then gets back on his 'saddle' and fires his gun again, this time in the direction of another man who has just entered the room. Paul leaves abruptly and rides into town on a horse, and straight through a crowded saloon. A town marshal sees this as act act of bravery and rewards Paul with a sheriff's badge immediately. A fearful rival makes his mark when he lights his cigarette by tossing it into the air and shooting at it to ignite it!

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train station he proves his worth.

The Golf Bug,1922, directed by James D. Davis, starring James "Paul" Parrott and Jobyna Ralston, is a short silent comedy film.

A landlord is attending his new tenants' rollicking and well-attended housewarming party. As midnight arrives, a ghostly apparition appears outside the window--and our frightened hero immediately breaks out the shotgun to fend off the phantom menace.

Paul Parrott comedy produced by Hal Roach.

In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".

In this 1922 Pathe-distributed, Hal Roach silent-era comedy, the owner of a local streetcar business is in danger of losing his franchise, but the streetcar operator (played by Paul Parrott) and his girl friend (who happens to be the boss's daughter; portrayed by Jobyna Ralston) try to save the day.

Harpo played the hero, a detective named Watson who "made his entrance in a high hat, sliding down a coal chute into the basement". Groucho played an "old movie" villain, who "sported a long moustache and was clad in black", while Chico was probably his "chuckling [Italian] henchman". Zeppo portrayed a playboy who was the owner of a nightclub in which most of the action took place, including "a cabaret, [which allowed] the inclusion of a dance number". The final shot showed Groucho "in ball and chain, trudging slowly off into the gloaming". Harpo, in a rare moment of romantic glory, gets the girl in the end.