Dorothy Burgess

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Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.

A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.

A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.

Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.

A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.

Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.

Авантюрист и прощелыга Шервуд Нэш, разорившись на инвестиционном бизнесе, встречает модельера — дизайнера Линн Мэйсон. Её рисунки одежды дают ему идею для новой аферы. Он начинает нагло копировать последние модели одежды, которые поступают в престижные бутики и продавать их большими партиями в дешевых магазинах по бросовым ценам. Когда владельцы дорогих магазинов обнаруживают его жульничество, Шервуд предлагает им интересный компромисс: они должны послать его в Париж, чтобы он инкогнито сделал копии европейских дизайнов. Получив согласие, Шервуд и его партнеры следуют в Париж на встречу приключениям…

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Малоизвестный фильм, рассказывающий простую историю летчиков, доставляющих почту из Южной Америки. Они летят на большой скорости, не взирая на ужасные погодные условия и предательство босса компании. Один из пилотов должен доставить в больницу умирающего ребенка, потому что только с помощью самолета можно успеть спасти его.

Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.

An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.

Мошенник Эдди (Кларк Гейбл), скрываясь от полиции и своей очередной жертвы, забирается в первую же квартиру, что попадается на его пути. Как оказывается, обитательница этой квартиры — привлекательная блондинка по имени Руби Адамс (Джин Харлоу). Руби соглашается на какое-то время приютить Эдди и вскоре понимает, что испытывает к обаятельному преступнику чувства. Однако, к сожалению, новая преступная схема, которую разрабатывает подельник Эдди - Слим, затрагивает женатого ухажера Руби: Слим предлагает шантажом вымогать из него деньги. Эдди понимает, что не может позволить любимой девушке стать косвенной жертвой его преступной деятельности, и прямо у нее в квартире устраивает разборки, случайно убивая предполагаемую жертву....

Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.

In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."

Привлекательная Нэн, участница банды грабителей банков, пытается исправить свою жизнь, поддавшись влиянию влюбленного в неё евангелиста Дэйва Слэйда.

An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.

The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.

While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.

A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

Действие фильма рассказывает о временах войны, развязанной таксомоторными компаниями против независимых извозчиков. Сью остается одна, когда ее пожилого отца сажают в тюрьму за убийство водителя грузовика, который по наущению таксомоторной компании намеренно разбивает его такси. В тюрьме отец умирает, а Сью приглашают на собрание водителей, на котором Мэтт призывает друзей к активному сопротивлению…

A Masquers Club comedy short

In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.

Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.

Несомненная классика мирового кино. Кинокартина, во время съемок которой режиссер Рауль Уолш лишился глаза. Первый в истории мирового кинематографа вестерн, со звуком записанным не в интерьерах студии, а на натуре. Кассовый хит, снятый по мотивам рассказа классика американской прозы О'Генри. Фильм послуживший началом в длинном ряду лент о приключениях благородного бандита Циско Кида. Кинолента, за участие в которой Уорнер Бакстер получил золотую статуэтку на второй церемонии премии "Оскар" в номинации лучшая мужская роль.

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