Gertrude Short

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

У телефонистки Джейни, девушки мечтательной, но практичной, появляются одновременно три кандидата на руку и сердце. Джейни приходится делать нелегкий выбор между амбиционным менеджером, романтичным и безалаберным автомехаником и обаятельным миллионером. Помочь принять единственно правильное решение и не совершить роковую ошибку могут только высшие силы...

Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog.

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.

Эллен Гарфилд отказывается выйти замуж за корреспондента из конкурирующей газеты Курта Девлина, пока он не признает, что она также хороша в своем ремесле как любой другой мужчина. Он старается отговорить Эллен от участия присутствовать вместе с другими журналистами при исполнении смертного приговора в тюрьме, но она настаивает на своем. Когда она падает в обморок, Девлин диктует свою статью в свою редакцию, а затем слово в слово и в ее редакцию. Утром вышли одинаковые статьи в разных газетах и конечно же редакторы обоих в бешенстве…

Джеймс Дэвис по прозвищу «Кирпич» рос фактически на улице и наверняка оказался бы в команде гангстера МакКэя. Однажды Эд Бьюкенен, старый приятель «Кирпича», предлагает Джеймсу поступить на работу в ФБР, в только что организованный отряд «джи-менов». Джеймс гневно отвергает предложение друга, но вскоре узнает о гибели Эда, убитого при исполнении служебных обязанностей. И тогда «Кирпич» идет в ФБР, чтобы, во-первых, завязать со своим прошлым, и во-вторых, иметь возможность отомстить за смерть друга…

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

В канун рождества убита секретарша богатого изобретателя Ваната. Все подозрения падают на него потому, что полиция не может найти профессора в городе. Девушка по имени Дороти Винант приходит в дом к сыщику Нику Чарльзу, человеку, который уже четвертый год отошел от дел. Дороти рассказывает, что это она убила секретаршу, но детектив не верит ей. Он понимает, что девушка пробует взять всю вину на себя. Решив помочь несчастной, он, бросив все дела, начинает раскручивать очень запутанный клубок фактов и обстоятельств.

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)

История начинается спустя приблизительно месяц после драматического финала предыдущего фильма и повествует о дальнейших приключениями режиссера Карла Денхема, который вовлечен в многочисленные судебные процессы после разрушений, вызванных Конгом. Денхем с Капитаном Энглхорном, который уверен, что это — только вопрос времени прежде, чем они разбогатеют, оставляют Нью-Йорк. Они занимаются не очень успешным бизнесом — перевозят груз на восток. В голландском порту Da Kang, они сталкиваются с прежним шкипером, который продал Денхаму карту Острова Черепа, который говорит им, что на острове есть сокровище. Ослепленные мыслью о богатстве, они верят ему. Фактически, он им лжет, для того чтобы они взяли его с собой, потомучто он только что убил человека и ему нужно смыться.

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

Американский химик Нед Фарадей во время путешествия по Германии влюбляется в певицу варьете Элен. Они переезжают в Америку, рождается сын, Элен оставляет эстраду и все вроде бы идет благополучно, но Нед во время экспериментов облучен радием и вынужден уехать на лечение в Европу…

Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.

Официантка престижного ресторана, который часто посещают работники кино, Мэри Эванс мечтает стать актрисой. Однажды вечером, обслуживая подвыпившего знаменитого режиссера Макса Кэрри, она его очаровывает и он приглашает ее на премьеру своего фильма в китайский кинотеатр Граумон. Купив за 50 долларов «драндулет», он с эпатажем подъезжает к кинотеатру и отдает его в качестве «чаевых» парковщику стоянки, а Мэри представляет зрителям графиней. Прокутив всю ночь, он ничего не помнит на следующее утро. Доставившая его домой Мэри напоминает ему, что он обещал ей пробные съемки. Первое экранное испытание показывает, что девушка имеет гораздо больше амбиций, чем таланта и ей готовы отказать, но Мэри кроме амбиций еще и упорна…

Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.

In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.

Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.

Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

Хью "Бульдог" Драммонд, британский ветеран Первой Мировой, в мирной жизни не находит себе место - ему слишком скучно среди повседневной, обывательской рутины. Но в тот момент, когда он занят поисками чего-то нового и волнующего, к нему обращается молодая девушка с просьбой спасти ее отца - того, без чьего-бы то ни было согласия, упекли в частную лечебницу, где пытаются силой отнять все его состояние. "Бульдог" Драммонд просто не может остаться в стороне...

A pair of youthful lovers are separated by war and misunderstanding.

Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.

A wealthy society wife discovers her husband's long-hidden secret--he has a brother, who is not only his twin but his "evil" twin. The long-lost brother shows up at the couple's doorstep one day and proceeds to turn their life upside down, especially when he begins to impersonate his newfound wealthy brother.

Polly (Pauline Garon) and Gert (Gertrude Short) are a pair of lingerie models, ever on the prowl for boyfriends. When the girls "steal" the sweethearts of vaudeville's Dotty Sisters (Lillian Hackett, Jean Van Vliet), the Dottys retaliate by getting our heroines fired.

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.

Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite charity, a children's home, in hope of gaining her favor. When Delatour is called away, Tolento inveigles Diane into attending a party at his house. There he threatens to ruin her husband if she does not submit to his demands within three months. Diane retaliates by showing him a letter proving that Tolento has only three months to live, according to a specialist. Delatour learns of his wife's presence at the party from one of the baron's women, and when Tolento makes Diane heir to his fortune, he becomes convinced of her infidelity.

Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.

A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?

Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.

Code of the West (1925)

Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Agnes Ayres. Powell produced the picture and distributed through Producers Distributing Corporation.

Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfairly named “other woman” (Helen Lee Worthing) sets out to prove his innocence.

Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.

Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.

Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.

After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his literary juices to flow. Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargained for.

Стенли, наследник состояния своего дяди, влюблён в медсестру. Но она считает его слишком ветреным. Чтобы выйти из этой ситуации, Стенли решает, что ему нужен совет женщины. Но все девушки, к которым он обращается за помощью, неверно истолковывают его откровенность, как признание в любви.

The Man Life Passed By (1923)

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....

While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.

Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to disembark via parachute when he arrives at a familiar spot. He lands in the midst of a cattlemen's dispute, gets a job as a dishwasher, and learns of a conspiracy to steal the ranch from its absent heir.

A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.

When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.

Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of poor ranch workers, but she is actually the daughter of Clara Hawkins, a wealthy neighbour who was stolen at birth and presumed dead. (NFA Catalogue)

Бедная ирландка Амарилли, дочь уборщицы, знакомится с Гордоном Филипсом, человеком из высшего общества. Несмотря на социальное неравенство, молодые люди влюбляются друг в друга. Однако богатая тетя Филипса настроена против их отношений…

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kemper, the leader of the militaristic Lowlanders, is held hostage by the Highlanders until his father's army has retreated to its own boundaries. Much to his surprise, the lieutenant is treated with kindness and consideration by his captors, especially by Boyadi and his beautiful daughter Nathalia, whom he learns to love. Thus, instead of obeying his father's command to escape at an appointed time when the Lowlanders plan to violate their pledge and storm the fortress, he keeps his promise to his captors and remains a prisoner.

A young disabled girl invites a poor family, that she often watches playing in the street, over for Christmas dinner.

A courtship results in animals running away and being kidnapped by a tramp on a train. Don't worry, fat Skinny is coming to the rescue!

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.

The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple.

The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves to be harmless.

The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and distressed because she has been discharged from the store. Her crippled sister hangs up her stocking and prays for the morrow. It is too much for Dot. She goes out to secure money for a present at any cost. Passing the window of a mansion, she observes a man give a woman a necklace. In the hurried departure, it is left behind. The temptation is too strong: she gets through the window and secures the necklace, only to be confronted by the cracksman, who has entered another way and pretends to be the owner. She tells her sad tale.

A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.