Robert E. Hopkins
Рождение : 1886-09-21, Ottawa, Kansas, USA
Смерть : 1966-12-21
Writer
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Story
Блейк Нортон высокомерный щеголь - хозяин ночного клуба, пользующегося дурной славой. К нему в бар приходит девушка Мэри Блэйк, приехавшая из провинции, которая отчаялась найти работу. Он соглашается взять ее в качестве певицы, а услышав, как она поет, заключает с ней контракт. Но девушка мечтает о другой карьере, она хочет петь в опере Сан-Франциско и вдохновлять прихожан пением в хоре священника Тима Муллина. Нортон делает все, чтобы Мэри работала только у него. Он требует монопольного выполнения контракта от девушки. К негодованию Нортона закон на стороне Мэри, она в праве самостоятельно решать, как жить. Несмотря на вспыхнувшее взаимное чувство и приготовления к свадьбе, они ссорятся из-за желания Мери выступать в опере.
Writer
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Story
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Dialogue
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Writer
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Additional Dialogue
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
Dialogue
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
Writer
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Dialogue
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Additional Dialogue
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.
Dialogue
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Additional Dialogue
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Screenplay
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Dialogue
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Dialogue
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Additional Dialogue
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Dialogue
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.
Dialogue
Child entertainers perform several song and dance numbers in this musical short.
Story
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Dialogue
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Writer
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
Title Designer
Жоржетта Лалль живёт в Париже со своим довольно неинтересным и изнеженным мужем. Супружеская пара на дому репетирует балет в восточном стиле. В то же время через улицу, в доме с окнами напротив, живёт Сюзанна, читающая любовные романы и мечтающая о ком-то более захватывающем, чем её собственный тусклый супруг доктор Жиру. Муж Жоржетты, переодетый в шейха и голый по пояс, попадается в окне на глаза Сюзанне. Дама одновременно поражена и рассержена, она просит мужа проучить наглеца. Доктор вынужден уступить и отправиться к соседу…