Dorothy Bennett

Филип Марлоу ввязывается в историю, когда хромой жулик Лесли Мёрдок крадёт редкий дублон у своей матери, чтобы обменять его у фотографа киножурнала на фильм, необходимый в целях шантажа. Причастность Марлоу к этому делу столкнула его с девушкой, которая впадает в истерику от прикосновения мужчины; с женщиной, убившей своего мужа; с тремя трупами; с несколькими драками, в которых он теряет свои часы; с секретарем, которая уверена, что она убила своего босса, и с сыном (его можно назвать «сукиным сыном» по двум определениям), который шантажирует свою овдовевшую мать.

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Таинственная женщина стреляет в звезду Бродвея Джинни Уокер, после чего загадочным образом исчезает. Джинни не пострадала и вскоре признается друзьям, что это был рекламный трюк, а роль незнакомки сыграла ее подруга. Гас Крейн (глава рекламного агентства, с которым сотрудничает Джинни) в восхищении от ее поступка, но его сын не одобряет подобных методов. Но вскоре Гас уезжает в отпуск и, к негодованию своего сына, оставляет Джинни распоряжаться фирмой, и теперь молодым людям приходится вместе осуществлять безрассудные идеи обворожительной звезды...

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.

Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.