George Lessey

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.

Американская кавалерия сражается с племенем шайеннов. Прославленный скаут и друг индейцев Буффало Билл становится героем в схватке со своим бывшим краснокожим другом.

Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters oust a gambler from the Big Apple. In need of quick cash, he goes to Las Vegas and enters a casino owned by a tough but pretty young woman. Cheating like crazy, the gambler breaks the house back and takes his considerable winnings back to New York to open his own casino. The woman is in hot pursuit and eagerly plans to turn the tables in her favor.

Хроника впечатлений о Советском Союзе американского посла Дэвиса, его встреч со Сталиным, и его общая точка зрения на отношения Советского Союза и Соединенных Штатов.

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Шарлота Вэйл — поздний ребенок в семье, и как все поздние дети несет постоянную печать чрезмерной опеки; мать — Миссис Генри Уиндл Вэйл держала ее постоянно под контролем с детских лет. Прошли годы и этот контроль превратил Шарлоту в отрешенную и испуганную женщину, единственное, что приносило ей успокоение — резьба по кости. Супруга одного из братьев Шарлоты — Лиза пригласила в дом своей свекрови психиатра, который, посмотрев на затворницу, поставил ей диагноз: «нервный срыв» и предложил ей посетить свой санаторий отдохнуть и подлечить нервы. Несколько недель проведенные в санатории «Каскад» вернули Шарлоте надежду, а когда ее еще и отправили на теплоходе в круиз к берегам южной Америки, она обрела уверенность и впервые за многие годы бывшая покорная дочь смогла заявить матери, что имеет право на личную жизнь.

The eldest (Barbara Stanwyck) of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer (George Brent) she once married.

Это хроника жизни и карьеры легендарного первого игрока нью-йоркских Янки и многократного чемпиона Лу Герига. Он вошел в историю, сыграв в 2130 играх в течение 14-ти лет ни разу не взяв отпуск, тем самым поставив самый знаменитый из бейсбольных рекордов и получив прозвище «Железный человек». В 1932 году во встрече с командой Филадельфии Гериг стал первым игроком двадцатого столетия, совершившим четыре пробежки вокруг базы в одной игре. Спустя четыре года, когда уже казалось, что Лу Гериг навсегда останется единственным первым бейзменом «Нью-Йоркских Янки», судьба коснулась его своим корявым крюком.

Сьюзен Миллер и ее подруга Пегги работают продавщицами в дорогом универмаге. Девушки с тоской взирают на недоступные им роскошные наряды и украшения в соседних отделах, мечтая оказаться «по ту сторону прилавка». Однажды случай сводит Сьюзен с Мейбл и Уорреном. Эти двое выдают себя за респектабельную супружескую пару, а на самом деле являются мошенниками, обманывающими состоятельных людей. Когда Мейбл и Уоррен предлагают Сьюзен поработать с ними, выдавая себя за их дочь, та вначале с негодованием отказывается, но страсть к красивой жизни одерживает верх. Как то раз на морском курорте, мошенники встречают симпатичного и одинокого Джона Уилера, которого они принимают за миллионера…

Чтобы запустить карьеру в шоу-бизнесе, Рокси Харт признается в совершении убийства в Чикаго…

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

Why did the Governor want to resign?

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

Старый золотоискатель владеет участком, который не приносит золота. Однако даже пустая земля может дать прибыль — если продать её для строительства железной дороги. Но когда документ на владение землей попадает в руки недотёп, всем участникам сделки приходится несладко.

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Юный руководитель школьного оркестра из городка Ривервуд Джимми Коннорс мечтает попасть в Чикаго, где известный дирижер Пол Уайтмен проводит конкурс…

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.

Эта история началась в 1918 году, когда в Техасе произошёл нефтяной бум. Нефтяные участки появлялись повсюду, люди богатели на глазах, и именно сюда устремились два парня, в будущем известные как Большой Джон и Джон Справедливый. Эта парочка провернула немало успешных дел и смогла сколотить на нефти целое состояние. Двадцать лет всё шло как по маслу, пока в Техас не приехала Элизабет Бартлетт. С той поры словно черная кошка пробежала между некогда дружными компаньонами. Отныне миллионеры знать друг друга не хотят, делят бизнес и строят козни. И только женщина способна разрешить их спор.

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

Биографическая лента, рассказывающая об изобретателе Томасе Эдисоне. В 1869 году, в возрасте 22 лет, устав от бедной жизни и работе на телеграфе, он поехал в Нью-Йорк по совету старого друга. Томас приходит в телеграфную контору «Вестерн Юнион», рассчитывая найти там место. Он пытается убедить финансиста господина Таггарта профинансировать его изобретения. Президент компании Пауэлл соглашается дать Эдисону денег. За свою разработку — усовершенствование системы телеграфирования биржевых бюллетеней о курсе золота и акций — Томас Эдисон получает 40 000 долларов. Это становится началом новой жизни.

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can impede digestion include receiving bad news resulting in stress, being in love, and feeling scared. Snacking or nibbling between meals can ruins one's appetite at meal time. Having the correct posture while eating is important for digestion; finding the right posture can be difficult in certain circumstances, such as being on a picnic or eating in bed (specifically for men when using trays). Sharing tables with staring strangers may also impede digestion. And it's difficult to digest food when one can't get any of it. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.

A black Harvard graduate faces racism and discrimination after returning to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges.

A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem Allison and his henchman Pete Garson.

The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.

This silent mystery is considered a lost film.

A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.

Graft is a 1915 silent drama

Robert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice, a working-class girl, and weds her in secret.

A modern artist named Raphael dreams that he is the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, who has been commissioned by the wealthy Georgias to carve a number of statues. When Phidias refuses to give up his work, Diogenes appears and suggests that the sculptor ask the statues themselves whom they would prefer as their owner. After coming to life, the statues abandon the sculptor for the rich man. Awakening, Raphael continues his pursuit of the beautiful Marco, a society woman who has posed for him. Marco ultimately spurns his love in favor of a wealthy viscount, however, leaving Raphael to seek happiness with the humble but loving Marie.

A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.

Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by one, after each successive debauch.

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing jewellery. When the misunderstanding is cleared up, nothing more stands in the way of their romance.

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him.

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.

Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a young girl is searching for an important paper. All three are involved in a Tango which reaches a sensational climax in the death of the other crook.