Celebrate the holidays with the I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, a new one-hour special featuring two back-to-back colorized classic episodes of the series. In "The Fashion Show," Lucy's lifelong dream of appearing in a motion picture seems to have come true when Ricky arranges for her to play a showgirl in a new musical. Unfortunately, the enormous feathered headdress she is expected to wear as she descends a staircase proves to be too cumbersome. After numerous mishaps on the stairs, the musical's frustrated director decides to make a change.
Bill Turner
A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Fred Mertz
The legendary Lucille Ball as you've never seen her before! Laugh along with Lucy and Desi in these extremely rare television appearances, beautifully restored! Includes a rare appearance of the I Love Lucy cast on the Bob Hope Show and the lost Lucy pilot. A must-have collection of gems from the first lady of comedy! - The I Love Lucy cast on the Bob Hope Show - Westinghouse special with Lucy and Desi - Segment with Lucy on the game show I've Got a Secret with panelist Johnny Carson - A rare lost Lucy pilot directed by Desi.
The Dirty Look is a 1954 comedy-short film, directed by Robert Altman, with Leonard Belove and William Frawley. Duration 24 minutes. This 1954 film was used by the Gulf Oil Company as a training film on keeping your Gulf Oil filling station clean.
Fred Mertz
The film plays out, with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: "The Benefit", "Breaking the Lease", and "The Ballet", with new footage included between episodes to help transition the episodes into one coherent storyline. As the series routinely took the format of filming scenes in chronological order, this adds to the "show within a show within a show" format of the film, as viewers watch the cast perform the episodes live. The film itself ends with a "curtain call", as the cast comes out and Arnaz thanks the audience for their support.
Baldy Gunder
Верн Хэскелл, вернувшись в городок после недолгой отлучки, узнает, что бандиты убили его любимую девушку во время ограбления магазина, в котором она работала. Верн бросается в погоню, одержимый жаждой мести и, в конце концов, настигает одного из убийц, которого смертельно ранили свои же подельники.
Len Sickles
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.
Det. Roberts
Лу Франсис и Бад Александер - начинающие частные детективы, только закончившие спецшколу. Боксёр Томми Нельсон становится их первым клиентом. Он сбежал из тюрьмы, куда его посадили по ложному обвинению в убийстве своего менеджера. Нельсон просит приятелей сопроводить его к своей невесте, Хелен. Дело в том, что её дядя, доктор Филип Грэй, изобрёл «сыворотку невидимости», которую боксёр хочет себе ввести, чтобы, воспользовавшись невидимостью, найти настоящего убийцу и доказать свою невиновность.
Gloomy Willie
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Corcoran
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Byers
Безжалостный гангстер Ральф Коттер совершает дерзкий побег из тюрьмы.
Jimmy O'Brien
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
Marty Greer
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Bill the Bartender
Брэндон и Джесси Бурн были женаты долгие годы. Несколько лет назад у Брэндона был роман с Изабель Лоррисон. Теперь она вернулась в Нью-Йорк, намереваясь возобновить их отношения. В то же время за Джесси начинает ухаживать Марк…
Oliver Harker
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.
Hotel Night Clerk
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Inspector Crane
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
O'Fleery
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
George Kirby
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
Mr. Bernouti
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Knobby Walsh
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Jack Dunn
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Tom
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Agent
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
William Scanlon
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Sharkey the Loen Shark
Blondie (Penny Singleton) finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood (Arthur Lake). She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife. The snowballing comedy of errors eventually involves criminals who hope to snatch the watch for themselves. Blondie's Anniversary was the 22nd in Columbia's Blondie series.
Jean La Salle
На этот раз гениальный лицедей открывает неожиданные стороны своего комического дара. Его герой завоевывает сердца и банковские счета богатых вдовушек и старых дев, а затем убивает своих несчастных жертв.
Police Lieutenant
Греческая богиня Терпсихора - муза всехтеатров и пьес, приведена в бешенство вульгарной постановкой на Бродвее мюзикла о девяти музах в ритмах джаза. Особенно задела ее трактовка роли Терпсихоры и она решила лично разобраться с режиссером-постановщиком Дэнни Миллером. Чтобы улучшить постановку Муза просит разрешения у богов спуститься вниз на землю. Получив согласие свыше, она обретает человеческое тело Китти Пендлитон, создает должный образ богини, и влюбляется в Дэнни.
Mr. Schneider
19 июня 1900 года. Окленд, штат Калифорния. Мертл МакКинли закончила среднюю школу и собирается поступать в колледж. Вместо этого она случайно устраивается на работу хористкой в гастролирующую труппу водевиля, где встречает певца-танцовщика Фрэнка Берта и влюбляется в него. Вскоре Фрэнк предлагает ей выступать дуэтом. Они женятся, их дуэт становится очень популярным, но после рождения дочерей Айрис и Майки Мертл уходит из шоу-бизнеса, а ее муж отправляется в турне с другой партнершей. Несколько лет спустя Фрэнк уговаривает свою жену вернуться на сцену...
Jim Mason
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Charlie Halloran
Во время парада, устроенного крупным магазином в канун Рождества, актер, который был должен играть Санта Клауса, обнаружен встельку пьяным. Режиссер парада уговаривает прохожего старика Криса Крингла занять место Санты. После успеха парада Крингл получает работу в магазине. Однако когда менеджер магазина говорит, чтобы Крис пытался продать детям залежавшиеся игрушки, тот приходит в негодование. Вместо этого он отсылает детей в другой магазин, принадлежащий их конкуренту. Это провоцирует большие неприятности. Но все усугубляется тем, что Крис настаивает, что он настоящий Санта-Клаус. Ему приходится доказывать это не только словом, но и делом, свидетелями чего становятся Дорис и ее скептически настроенная дочь Сюзан. Растущая без отца Сюзан пытается сделать так, чтобы ее мать и их сосед, юрист, жили вместе. Крис, считающий самым главным на свете счастье детей, пытается помочь Сюзан в достижении ее цели. Постепенно он преодолевает недоверчивость Сюзан в своем настоящем происхождении...
Police Inspector Harry B. Manning
A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.
Det. Lt. Webb
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
General Trent
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Honey Wiggen
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Martin (segment A Sweepstakes Ticket)
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Desk Sgt. Brennan
Никки, любительница тайн и криминальных романов, выглянув в окно поезда, становится свидетельницей убийства. Однако, прибывшая по её вызову полиция не находит никаких признаков случившегося.
Решительная девушка совместно с популярным автором детективных романов Уэйном Морганом начинает свое собственное расследование.
И хотя мисс Коллинз несравнимо моложе мисс Марпл, её острый ум заставляет вспомнить лучшие дела героини романов Агаты Кристи.
In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Wolf Wylie
Ковбой из штата Монтана Дюк Фергус приезжает в Сан-Франциско, чтобы получить долг в пятьсот долларов за черную лошадь. Его должником оказывается владелец казино "Эльдорадо" - Тито Морелл. Получив свои деньги, парень не спешит домой, он решает первый раз в жизни сыграть на деньги в карты, кости и рулетку, тем более учительницей в этих новых играх для него стала обворожительная Энн - певица из местного варьете. На удивление всей публике новичку начинает бешено везти: он выигрывает на всех столах и получает десять тысяч. Парню невдомек, что все игры подстроены, а Энн - лучшая подруга хозяина заведения. Жажда наживы и алкоголь делают свое дело, он проигрывает все и остается должен. Вернувшись в Монтану, Дюк продает стадо и берет уроки карточной игры у профессионального игрока по прозвищу "Вольф". Его цель - разорить Морелла...
Jiggers
On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
Max Dolan (Publisher) (uncredited)
Отец Фитзджиббон, пожилой священник округа. Он отслужил в старом районе города уже 45 лет, но его церковь бедна, плохо отапливается и имеет долги за аренду земли. Для поправки дел прихода к нему направлен молодой священник Чак О`Молли.
Eddie Powers
Эгоцентричный и трудолюбивый Уэдж Донован — владелец строительной компании, которая ведет реконструкции и строительство взлетных полос на островах Тихого океана во время Второй Мировой Войны. Однажды он узнает от лейтенанта Роберта Ярроу, что его безоружные рабочие убиты японцами. Решительно настроенные парни приезжают в Вашингтон с требованием получить оружие для обороны строек и организовать строительный батальон, который сможет не только строить, но и воевать. Правительственный чиновник отказывает быстро выдать оружие, мотивируя тем, что рабочие должны пройти годовой курс обучения. Раздосадованный Донован возвращается на остров, где продолжает свою опасную работу. Неожиданно на остров высаживается морской десант японцев. Агрессоры начинают теснить американские войска, обороняющие рубежи острова, и тогда Донован и его рабочие заводят моторы своих мощных тракторов, бульдозеров и экскаваторов, чтобы противостоять атаке «Самураев»…
Detective Ramsey
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
Mike Simms
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
Traveling Salesman
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
Billy Delaney
История Джима Корбетта, прозванного одним из «отцов современного бокса». В новую эру бокса он применил инновационные тренировки и отстаивал соблюдение джентльменских правил во время поединков.
Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect condition, are time capsules of their era. William Frawley was a vaudevillian and musical comedy performer decades before he played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.
Barney Crane
Allan Jones stars as hotshot baseball player Johnny Norton, in Havana for spring training. It turns out that Johnny has a beautiful singing voice, but only when he's suffering from a cold. Enterprising nightclub manager Barney Crane (William Frawley) attempts to inflict poor Johnny with cold germs, resulting in unchecked zaniness whenever our hero recovers sufficiently to lose his voice. The film's 63-minute running time manages to accommodate the drunken comedy relief of Hugh O'Connell and Jack Norton, and an abundance of musical numbers, courtesy of Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, the Horton Dancing Group, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills and Grace & Nicco.
Oliver Westbrook
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
Harrison
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
Sam Sloan
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
O'Malley
Чтобы запустить карьеру в шоу-бизнесе, Рокси Харт признается в совершении убийства в Чикаго…
'Hotfoot'
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
Bang
Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has frequently pestered her for a scoop. When Bill is dismissed for the phony item, Bonnie realizes that she carried the prank too far.....
Waldo Pincus
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
Sheriff McGee
Чтобы выбраться из долгов, пилот легкого пассажирского самолета Стив Коллинз соглашается разрушить скороспелый брак сумасбродной наследницы нефтяного магната и доставить ее отцу. Но самолет в пути неожиданно ломается, и «похититель» совершает вынужденную посадку в пустыне.
James Mitchell
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...
Det. 'Hoppy' Hopkins
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Chauncey Beheegan
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Roscoe
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
Police Chief J. A. O'Hara
A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
Mac
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Coach
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
Les Woodbury
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Mr. Westlake
Оливер Кортни — высокооплачиваемый автор музыки и слов ко многим шлягерам, тиражи его изданий растут с каждым днем, но на самом деле, но уже давно исписался и нанимает молодых авторов, которые пишут за него. В настоящее время он сотрудничает с Бобом Саммерсом, бедным музыкантом отшельником, который пишет весьма запоминающиеся мелодии. Для написания новых стихов он нанимает Черри Лэйн, симпатичную брюнетку, которая отправляется в загородную гостиницу, чтобы завершить очередной текст. Волей случая композитор и поэт встречаются, влюбляются и решают работать вместе под собственными именами, но издатели обвиняют их в копировании стиля Кортни....
Emory Balzar
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Prisoner
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.
Matt Kingsley
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Scoop Trimble
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Joe Haller
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
Bruiser Brown
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his grandson.
Bright Eyes
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Mushy Harrington
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Harry Long
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Alec Inglis
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
The 'Duke'
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
Major Martingale
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.
Inspector J.L. Weber
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Uncle Willie Lee
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
Jack Heffernan
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Snoop Donlan
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Dusty Turner
Знаменитая певица Гвен Тэйлор скрывает от всей мировой общественности не только свой возраст, но и взрослую дочь Глорию Хэнриксон, которая учится в закрытом пансионе в Швейцарии. Веселая проказница Глория придумала себе легенду семьи и рассказывает всем, что ее отец герой, путешественник и охотник на львов.
Девочка даже пишет сама себе письма от имени «папы». Подружки завидуют ей, а все мальчишки сразу влюбляются. И вдруг завистницы требуют предъявить отца, а то они уже перестают ей верить. Что же делать… Выдумщица идет на вокзал и решает вручить букет цветов первому встречному джентльмену, а вдруг все пройдет гладко, и ей поверят в очередной раз.
На ее счастье, этим «дядей» оказывается Ричард Тодд, известный в Америке композитор, мечтающий о тишине и покое и приехавший в Альпы подышать свежим воздухом, но не тут-то было, ведь теперь рядом новоявленная «дочка» Глория, а с ней не соскучишься.
Francis X. Rush
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Hank Mayers
Популярный музыкант из Нью-Йорка Терри Руни получает выгодный контракт в Голливуде. Вместе с женой Терри приезжает в Калифорнию, где встречается с директором киностудии. Увидев, что Руни совсем не стремится к славе, директор начинает его считать высокомерным выскочкой, и, когда фильм собирает большую кассу, решает скрыть это от музыканта…
John Pederson
Эксцентричный миллионер, меценат Аксель Кларк хотел доказать, что все люди, в основном, честные и хорошие. После смерти, согласно его воле, адвокаты разбрасывают в разных местах города 25 кошельков, в каждом из которых $ 100, и визитная карточка с телефонным номером и адресом адвокатов. Нашлось четыре порядочных человека, которые возвращают кошельки и неожиданно оказываются затянутыми, в своего рода, лотерею. Завещание гласило — первый человек, который сможет честным путем удвоить выданную сумму в размере $ 5 000 в течение одного месяца, унаследуют все имущество Кларка. В противном случае, все имущество пойдет жадному брату Кларка, который полон решимости сорвать этот план.
Mac
Пенсильвания, 1859 год. Железнодорожный магнат Уолт Бреннан хочет завладеть землями фермеров — нефтедобытчиков, во главе которых стоит Питер Кортландт. В это же время в городок приезжает на гастроли со своим шоу Салли Уоттерсон со своим отцом. Когда их вагончик сгорает, погорельцам даёт приют миссис Кортландт — бабушка Питера. Скоро Питер и Салли влюбляются друг в друга.
'Soapy' Moreland
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Brighton
Китай, начало тридцатых годов двадцатого века, страна разорвана революционными распрями и мятежами. Лидер одной из повстанческих групп китайский генерал Янг намерен захватить весь Китай и подчинить себе все двенадцать провинций. Американец О`Хара получает предложение от обессиливших властей одной из провинций закупить оружие у американских контрабандистов в Шанхае для борьбы с революционным генералом. Взяв деньги, О`Хара садится в поезд, идущий в Шанхай, где ему суждено встретить и влюбится в очаровательную Джуди Пери и пообщаться непосредственно с самим мятежным генералом, который совершит нападение на железнодорожный экспресс.
Bill Mullins
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
Benton
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Detective Rogan
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Mr. Gibson
Мадлен де Бюпре «вытягивает» у торговца камнями бесценную нитку жемчуга и бежит из Парижа, впутав в это дело психиатра. На огромной скорости она мчится на машине к испанской границе и чуть не сбивает Тома Брэдли, молодого американского инженера, находящегося в отпуске.
Его она использует как ничего не подозревающего соучастника для контрабандного вывоза жемчуга из страны. Успешно пройдя испанскую таможню, он уезжает вместе с ней от следующей по пятам погони. Отношения перерастают в любовь — с многочисленными осложнениями и комичными ситуациями.
Mr. Copple
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Briney O'Brien
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Edwin P. 'Ed' Christy
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Lt. McNulty
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
Painless
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Chief of Police Magoun
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
Cap
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Sunshine Joe
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Bartender
Александр Петрович Москович Войда - русский эмигрант и владелец парижского кафе «Русс» решил удивить своих посетителей пригласив из Америки джаз бэнд. И не простой, а «индейский», как он думал - это будет оркестр краснокожих индейцев в перьях. К сожалению, русского подвело знание языка - и вместо индейцев он выписал бледнолицый диксиленд из штата Индиана «Индианцы из Обыша». Обругав артистов во главе с солистом Хаком Хэйнсом ресторатор, расторгнув контракт, скрылся восвояси. Ребята, решив не сдаваться, поселились у тетушки Джона Кента, звезды американского футбола, который отправился вместе с ними в гастрольный тур. Тетушкой оказывается Монни, которая является владельцем одного из самых престижных ателье женского платья под вывеской «Роберта». Именно в этом ателье произойдут судьбоносные встречи главных героев, которые, пройдя через все испытания и курьёзные ситуации, смогут найти любовь и обрести счастье...
Training Sgt. Barrel
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
James Smith
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
William Dunhill aka The Professor
The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
Larry Hale
Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily (Dorothy Dell) to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
Jury Foreman
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
Fraser
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Mike DeBaere
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
Captain Murphy
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Mac
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
'Hoak' salesman
A street corner fast-pitch salesman for something called "Hoak" stops a girl walking by to give his spiel.
Beat Cop
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
