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This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Mr. Pendergast
После смерти родителей девочку Поллианну забрала к себе ее тетя, известная своим суровым нравом и безраздельно властвующая в маленьком американском городке. Попав в мир строгих правил и запретов, оказавшись одна в чужом городе, в чужом доме, среди чужих людей, Поллианна не отчаивается. Ей помогает «Игра в радость», когда-то придуманная ее отцом. Все просто: в любой ситуации, при любых обстоятельствах надо найти что-то хорошее, то, чему можно порадоваться… и поделиться этой радостью с другими. Поначалу Полианна раздражает своим оптимизмом не только свою тетю, но и других жителей унылого города. Но «Игра в радость», которую дарит окружающим Поллианна, оказывается необычайно заразительной… и переворачивает жизнь всего сообщества…
Frederick W. Sutton
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Gen. George Broulard
Действие киноромана развертывается в 1916 году на Западном фронте. Полковник Дэкс командует пехотным полком французской армии. Уже два года союзники пытаются переломить ход войны с немцами. Начальник корпуса генерал Брулард приказывает дивизионному генералу Миро атаковать неприступную вражескую позицию, прозванную Муравьиным холмом. Провал операции был очевиден изначально, но когда атака закончилась полной неудачей, генерал приказал судить и расстрелять за трусость троих человек. Полковник Дэкс тщетно пытался защитить солдат, выбранных произвольно. Они отдали свои жизни, чтобы прикрыть глупость и амбиции начальства…
Arthur Martin
When a movie star is kidnapped, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not.
J. B. Merlin
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Senator Jonathan Carwright
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
'Sweetwater' Tilton
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
Fesker
Мечтающий выбраться за рубеж управляющий цирка из Чехословакии с установлением в его стране коммунистического режима решает взять судьбу в свои руки и вместе с цирком отправиться на Запад.
Frank Kafka
В центре внимания этого криминального фильма находится казалось бы нормальный молодой человек, который по какой-то необъяснённой причине испытывает безумную неприязнь по отношению к женщинам, с которыми пересекается случайно, стреляя в них сквозь окна или с крыш, когда они идут по улицам. В 1953 году сценаристы фильма Эдна и Эдвард Энхалт были удостоены номинации на Оскар за лучший сценарий.
Pierre
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Caleb Jeffers
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Gregg
Регина — популярная журналистка, обозреватель и радио-ведущая, которая пишет язвительные и резкие статьи на злободневные темы. Ее бояться, потому что она может разрушить и карьеру и бизнес любого человека, которого она считает недостойным. Ее последней жертвой стал Майк — водитель болида, участвующий в гонках. Она пытается у него взять интервью перед гонками, но он отказывается, а поскольку он стал участником нескольких аварий, произошедших на трассе, она посчитала возможным для себя взяться за эту тему и, походя, уничтожить его карьеру…
Melville Crossman
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Thomas Hutchins
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further is when Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Jim Conover
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Mr. Kimberly
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Craig Warren
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
J. Conrad Nelson
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Alexander Moody
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
Ambassador
Молодая девушка Арлетт, сбежавшая из исправительной школы, даже не представляла, что ждет ее впереди. Став лучшей ученицей в Академии карманников, она, тем не менее, терпит неудачу при первой же попытке кражи.
Ее несостоявшейся жертвой оказался посол, который, вместо того, чтобы отвести девушку в полицию, приводит ее на бал в посольство. Арлетт должна представиться племянницей барона, приятеля посла, и во время танца с молодым дипломатом вытащить у него из кармана часы и передать своему «покровителю». Таким образом посол надеется получить доказательства измены своей жены.
И все бы прошло успешно, если бы Арлетт не хотела покончить со своим прошлым, и если бы не красивый молодой человек, подаривший ей первый танец на первом балу, который, кажется, тоже ею заинтересовался…
Kismet
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Wagner
Веселый мюзикл о постановке мюзикла. Дела продюсера Гордона Мюллера находятся в таком плачевном состоянии, что он вынужден репетировать в гостинице, куда его поселил родственник, подкармливать актеров со шведского стола и постоянно прятаться от администрации. И вот к нему приходит начинающий сценарист Глен Рассел, который договорился с продюсером о постановке своей пьесы. Он оказывается талантливым и обаятельным «поющим Шекспиром» с голосом Фрэнка Синатры! Вот бы заполучить его в шоу в качестве певца! Но как? И спасет ли это ситуацию?......
Tom Moran
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Hector Phyffe
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Eduardo Acuña
В семействе Акунио дочери выходят замуж по старшинству, очередь за Марией. А та ждет прекрасного принца и не замечает никого. Любящий отец решил разбудить её чувства необычным способом: сам еженедельно пишет дочери анонимные любовные письма и отправляет вместе с букетами орхидей. О, ужас! Дочь неверно понимает источник ухаживаний и влюбляется в нищего танцора. Папаша в ярости.
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
George Latimer
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Billy Flynn
Чтобы запустить карьеру в шоу-бизнесе, Рокси Харт признается в совершении убийства в Чикаго…
Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
Col. Carleton Carroway
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Hilary Fairfield
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Phil Manning
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Stacey Delmore
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Deakon Maxwell
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Tom Moody
Джо Бонапарте, одаренный скрипач, из-за крайней бедности вынужден выступать на ринге. Он проявил себя талантливым боксером, хотя видно, что он бережет кулаки, опасаясь повредить руки музыканта и похоронить мечту, ради которой его отец-эмигрант многим пожертвовал. Том Муди, менеджер Джо, подговаривает свою подружку Лорну Мун убедить парня забыть о своих музыкальных стремлениях и возвратить его на ринг. Это приводит к трагедии…
Jim Mason
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
J. B. Harcourt
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.
John Mannering
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Oliver Merlin
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
Anthony Powell
История взлетов и падений группы молодых амбициозных актрис.
John Cardwell
Патриция — дочь безработного музыканта. Её отец когда-то играл в известном и популярном симфоническом оркестре, но пришли тяжелые времена, и он потерял работу и остался без средств. Патриция решает помочь. Она собирает оркестр из безработных музыкантов. Девушка находит мецената, который соглашается субсидировать оркестр, при условии, что она сможет уговорить знаменитого Леопольда Стоковски, стать руководителем нового коллектива. Патриция сумела убедить Стоковски, что работа с оркестром из ста мужчин и одной девушки это то, что нужно великому американскому дирижеру…
Monsieur Victor
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Oliver Niles
История теряющего популярность актера, предлагающего официантке сделать из нее знаменитость. Через некоторое время карьера девушки взлетает до небес, а его слава окончательно угасает.
Tad Spencer
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
J. Hugh Ramsey
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Bruce Farraday
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]).
Gabby Sloan
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Professor Eduardo de Vinci
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Nicolai Nicoleff
Скупая миллионерша Матильда Прентисс, ее угрюмая дочь Энн и, постоянно отвлекающейся на девушек, великовозрастный сынок, каждый год проводят лето в гостиничном комплексе на берегу красивого озера. В этом году к ним присоединяется помолвленный с Энн миллионер мистер Мосели Торп - мужчина средних лет пишущий монографию о табакерках. Обреченная на брак Энн, желая провести беспечное лето перед будущей свадьбой, просит мать нанять симпатичного клерка гостиницы Дика Куртиса сопровождать её в качестве кавалера, а иначе дочка откажется выходить за богача замуж. Алчная до денег мамаша соглашается, ведь слияние капиталов цель её жизни. Матильда Прентисс и не представляет, к чему приведут молодых людей прогулки при луне, катание на лодке и участие в постановке мюзикла на сцене местного театра...
Bailey Walsh
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
Gregory Sheldon
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Stephan Karpath
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Sorrowful Jones
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.
Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Paul Mollet
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
John
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
T.R. (Ted) Kent
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Adolphe Ballou
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
Louis Easton
Ева Лавлейс, желающая стать актрисой, приехала в Нью-Йорк из маленького городка штата Вермонт, имея при себе только письмо от Бернарда Шоу, в котором он пророчит ей большое будущее. Она пытается попасть на нью-йоркскую сцену театра и при этом настроена решительно и оптимистично.
Thatcher Colt
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Major Rinaldi
Первая мировая война. Австро-итальянский фронт. Американец Фредерик Генри добровольно вступает в ряды итальянской армии. Среди бесчеловечного хаоса боевых действий он встречает англичанку-медсестру Кэтрин Баркли, но война накладывает тяжелый, неизгладимый отпечаток на их любовь…
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Dan McQueen
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
Andrew Hoyt
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Maj. Carey Liston
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
Bob
Отправившись в круиз на Кубу Лулу Смит знакомится с адвокатом Бобом Гровером. Вернувшись домой, она разрывает романтические отношения, когда он рассказывает что женат, и не может на ней жениться, хотя и сильно любит ее, поскольку впереди у него — большая политическая карьера. Она умалчивает о своей беременности. Через несколько лет их пути пересекутся, и он узнает, что у них растет дочь, и что их любовь не угасла. Однако Боб уже стал мэром, а впереди выборы в Сенат.
Capt. Remy Bandoin
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
Captain Geoffrey Roberts
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Paurel
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Self
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Bob Brown
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
Walter Burns
Репортер Хилди Джонсон планирует перебраться в Нью-Йорк на более высокооплачиваемую работу. Он попадает в пресс-центр городской тюрьмы, где группа газетных репортеров праздно ждет оглашение приговора над преступником-коммунистом, обвиняемом в убийстве. Когда тот сбегает, в пресс-центре начинается настоящий переполох. Политика, система правосудия, коммунистическая истерия, любовь и брак — такие острые темы высмеивают авторы в этой картине.
Tony
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
William 'Will' Brockton
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
Governor Boris Brusiloff
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Monsieur La Bessiere
Марокко, конец 20-х. Певица Эми Жолли приезжает выступать в местное варьете. Богач и донжуан Ла Бессье предлагает ей своё покровительство, а спустя некоторое время — руку и сердце.
Но Эми влюбляется в легионера-американца Брауна. После недолгих колебаний она отказывается от обеспеченной жизни в доме жениха и уходит за любимым, отправляющимся в дальний поход в пустыню.
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a countess and become friendly with the Corbetts, a nouveau-riche American couple residing on the Costa Azul.
Jérôme Rocheville
Paul de Remy
Marquis d'Argenville
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
Georges St. Germain
Frank Tuttle silent romantic comedy about a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!
Henri
Self
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Marquis de Marignan
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't enough to keep him busy, the Marquis also has to cope with an unexpected visit from his fiancée and her father.
Albert Leroux
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
Lucien d'Artois
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Henri Martel
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Prince Lucio de Rimanez
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman.
Max Haber
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
Adolphe Menjou
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Albert Durant
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
The King
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Mr. Hazlitt
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
Walter Grenham
Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
Edmund Durverne
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
Arthur Merrill
Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery so that he may enjoy life again. Transformed, he attends a wild jazz party given by Penelope and persuades her to visit his apartment, but he finds that she is a "good girl" and only flirting. After he gives Penelope a scare and a lecture, her old beau, Brock Farley, enters with a letter to Arthur that reveals Brock to be his son. Arthur gladly steps aside, renounces his wild living, and returns to a simple life.
Tommy Kemp
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Ralph Norton
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
Georges de Croy
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
Professor Josef Stock
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are uhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity. Through a misunderstanding, Charlotte thinks that her husband is interested in Miss Hofer, and asks Mizzi to keep him occupied... around and around the circle goes in Lubitsch's refined comedy of mistaken infidelity.
Chancellor
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Don Salluste
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a gypsy girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her gypsy occupation, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
Pierre Revel
Мари Сент-Клер и Жан Миле решают уехать в Париж от родителей, которые противятся их союзу. Но внезапно отец Жана умирает. Мари решает ехать в Париж одна. Через год жизни в Париже Мари встречает Жана. Теперь ей предстоит сделать выбор между респектабельной жизнью с состоятельным мужчиной и настоящей любовью.
Mr. Chepstow
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
Robert Townsend
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married to Elsa (Williams), the sister of John Elliott (Stone), the producer responsible for Corinne's rise to fame. The young woman's head is turned by the praise she receives and, despite John's warning against Robert, she permits the latter to paint her portrait and pay her a good deal of attention. John himself loves Corinne and believes that wisdom will come to her with time.
Bliss Gordon
Singed Wings 1922
Hubert Stein
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler household is going through quite a bit of turmoil -- Mrs. Wheeler feels neglected by her husband and is jealous of Violet Pinney, the governess. Daughter Cora is planning to elope with her father's secretary, Hubert Stem. Son Bobby, meanwhile, has been making passes at the maid.
Duc de Langeais
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Cal Baldwin
The Fast Mail (1922)
Sterling
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Louis XIII
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
James Brewster
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
Dr. Littlefield
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
A 1917 film directed by Edward José.
Bit Part (uncredited)
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.
Country Club Patron (uncredited)
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.
Wilfred Carleton
Count Nicolai
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
Society Man (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party.
Baron
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
