Hal K. Dawson

A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Melissa grow closer as Melissa begins to reveal the strange, dark history of her family.

На пути к славе и успеху, Фанни Брайс пришлось пройти от гадкого утенка до прекрасного лебедя. На сцене она — звезда, охапки роз падают к ногам, зал взрывается овациями. Но за эти упоительные, волшебные секунды ей приходится расплачиваться горькими, одинокими ночами, полными слез и ревности.

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.

Романтическая комедия о взаимоотношениях многообещающего музыканта, приехавшего в Нью-Йорк в поисках денег и славы, и профессиональной танцовщицы…

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

Стоун просит Гэннона выступить перед студентами вечернего отделения журналистики. Он отказывается, но его главный редактор приказывает ему присутствовать на занятии, которое проводит Стоун. Еще до того, как он успевает представиться, она дразнит его и выставляет на посмешище перед всем классом. Он решает в отместку стать студентом, выдав себя за торговца Джима Гэллахера. Этот студент, обладающий незаурядными талантами для начинающего журналиста, производит впечатление на Эрику Стоун. Между ними развиваются романтические взаимоотношения.

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

Опытный «охотник за головами» Морг Хикман приезжает в город, в котором только что был убит шериф. Его временной заменой назначен молодой неопытный Бен. Он хочет остаться в этой должности, но для этого ему надо произвести впечатление на жителей города. Когда Бен узнает, что Морг в свое время был шерифом, то просит его обучить его. И хотя Морг считает, что быть шерифом не лучшее занятие в жизни, он все же соглашается передать свои навыки Бену, считая при этом, что главное для шерифа не умение обращаться с оружием, а умение обращаться с людьми…

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

Пит Менло владеет некоторыми золотыми приисками в Неваде, где к нему присоединяется его старый друг Энди Мартин. Другой владелец шахты Бэннон хочет объединить интересы, чтобы они могли создать монополию, но Менло отказывается. Пит интересуется «Невадой» Рэй, дочерью владельца шахты Фифти-фифти «Джекпот» Рэй, но ей нравится только Энди. Отвергнутый Пит объединяет силы с Бэнноном, и они узнают, что из-за расположения шахты Фифти-фифти «Джекпот» Рей может быть владельцем всего золота. Бэннон и его люди пытаются избавиться от Энди.

Великолепный музыкальный фильм – биография, в котором Гленн Миллер и его биг-бенд вновь исполнят для вас свои бесподобные хиты. Захватывающая картина, посвященная легендарному американскому музыканту, рассказывает о его восхождении в начале сороковых годов XX века от бедности и безвестности к славе и богатству. В фильме играют великие Джимми Стюарт и Джун Эллисон, звучит оригинальная музыка Миллера в исполнении оркестра Гленна Миллера и таких выдающихся музыкантов, как Луи Армстронг, Джин Крупа, Фрэнсис Лэнгфорд и The Modernaries. Дополняют великолепный состав исполнителей любимцы публики – Генри Морган (M*A*S*H), Чарльз Дрейк и Джордж Тобиас. Благодаря дирижерскому искусству Энтони Мана динамический свинг Гленна Миллера оживает вновь!

In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

Кларк Кент и Лоис Лэйн приезжают в городок Силсби, чтобы сделать репортаж о прокладке самой глубокой в мире нефтяной шахты, и находят жителей городка напуганными и взбудораженными. Наведя справки, парочка выясняет, что нефтяники умудрились добуриться до странного подземного мира, многие тысячи лет находившегося в изоляции. Мир этот оказывается населён маленькими, лысыми и светящимися в темноте существами, которые начали по ночам вылезать на поверхность и тем самым наводить ужас на всю округу. Вооружившись, жители решают силой загнать любопытных пришельцев обратно под землю, и восстановить спокойствие и порядок теперь под силу только Супермену.

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

Блэндингзы живут в Нью-Йорке в крошечной квартире. Они решают переехать в пригород и построить свой дом. Но сказать гораздо проще чем сделать.

Blondie #21: Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series based on the popular comic strip. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.

Романтическая комедия, события которой разворачиваются в небольшом американском городке. Простой банковский служающий Кристофер Прайс боготворит своего друга детства Джозефа Джефферсона Паркера. Он – знаменитый военный корреспондент, работающий за рубежом. Известности и талантам Джозефа может позавидовать каждый. Только жена Криса, Мэри, не разделяет страсть супруга. Приезд Джо портит их второй медовый месяц в Нью-Йорке, более того, репортер врет своему боссу, что женился во время отпуска, чтобы погулять подольше. Он просит Мэри сыграть роль его супруги. Крис охотно «одалживает» свою возлюбленную, и приходящая жена приступает к своим обязанностям.

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.

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.

Олсен и Джонсон, пара сценических комиков, пытаются превратить свою пьесу в фильм и объединить влюбленную пару, одновременно разбивая четвертую стену на каждом шагу.

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

Джей Уильямс - сотрудник корабельной компании, которая получает известие о судне, налетевшем на риф во Флориде. Все пассажиры отказываются от круиза , за исключением Нэн Спенсер, продавщицы универмага, которая хочет провести свой «отпуск» сейчас, а не потом. Джей берется за ее досуг и развлечения, и вскоре влюбляется.

Лидия МакМиллан, красивая, независимая, пожилая женщина, которая никогда не была замужем, через сорок лет встречается со своими тремя поклонниками, с которыми когда-то её связывали романтические отношения. В воспоминаниях они возвращаются в своё прошлое, которое казалось прекрасным. Все эти годы мужчины задавали себе вопрос: почему она не выбрала никого из них. А разгадка была в четвёртом, единственном, кого она любила по-настоящему....

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

A man violates company policy by getting married.

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Этот фильм рассказывает об истории жизни одной из самых популярных актрис и певицы конца 19-ого и начала 20-ого столетия, известной своей красотой, стилем и голосом Лиллиан Расселл, урожденной Элен Луиза Леонард. Она родилась в городе Клинтон, штат Айова в семье Чарли Леонарда — владельца газетного бизнеса и Синтии Леонард. В восемнадцать лет она с матерью переезжает в Нью-Йорк, где мать возглавляет движение феминисток и начинает вести активную борьбу за пост мэра города, но терпит неудачу на выборах. Тем временем карьера дочери идет в гору. Благодаря стараниям бабушки девушка берет уроки у известного преподавателя пения Леопольде Дамроше. Однажды ее голос услышал знаменитый импресарио Тони Пастор, пораженный ее голосом и красотой, он немедленно приглашает ее играть в свой театр на Бродвее под новым именем Лиллиан Расселл.

Джун Кэмерон является автором бестселлера о женских проблемах. Тимоти Стерлинг – врач, чье отношение к женщинам можно мягко назвать покровительственным. В результате серии недоразумений эту странную пару все ошибочно принимают за молодоженов. Тимоти и Джун скоро обнаруживают, что им выгодно поддерживать эту видимость.

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.

When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

По мнению доктора Клиттерхауса, уважаемого врача с Парк-авеню, лучший способ изучить поведение преступника — стать преступником самому. Он начинает с того, что обворовывает нескольких своих знакомых, тщательно измеряя при этом свое давление, температуру и пульс. Однако результаты не удовлетворяют Клиттерхауса, и он принимает решение познакомиться с криминальным миром поближе.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

История из времен создания знаменитой банковской компании "Уэллс Фарго" в 1850-х годах: погонщик дилижансов, период от "золотой лихорадки" в Калифорнии до Гражданской войны, разумеется, немного авторских домыслов, и всё в одном флаконе. "Вместе они покорят континент! Его жизнь - в череде увлекательных приключений, которые в результате соединят в одно целое страну, а она готова разделить эти приключения с человеком, которого любит!

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

Бил Чандлер один из самых мастеровитых рыболовов Америки, по технике ему нет равных, любая форель попадется к нему на удочку. Но Чандлер рассказывает нам не только рыболовную историю. Все начинается, когда светская дива предъявляет репортеру Трейси иск по делу о клевете. Трейси привлекает невесту Харлоу и неудачливого Пауела к встречному маневру, включающему в себя фальсифицированную свадьбу, подстроенное насилие, необычайно смешную сцену на рыбалке, драку, обманутые обещания и разбитые сердца, и, конечно же, настоящую любовь.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds (Pinky Tomlin) and a beautiful Russian singer (Rita Hayworth) provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child (Jane Withers) who has arrived illegally in New York. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 comedy, with numerous songs, also features Jane Darwell, George Givot, Robert Dudley, Vera Lewis, Louise Carter, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson and Clarence Wilson.

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.