Artists & Models
Aug 04, 1937An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Comedy
Virginia Dabney
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Vie facile
Jul 16, 1937JB Ball, un financier milliardaire, en a assez de sa famille et plus particulièrement de son épouse dispendieuse. Au cours d'une dispute conjugale, excessivement violente, il s'empare du manteau de vison, très cher et juste acquis, de sa femme et le lance par-dessus le balcon de sa luxueuse demeure. Il atterrit sur la jeune Mary Smith, qui passait par là. Pauvre, travaillant dur, Mary n'hésite guère devant ce don du ciel. Elle s'en revêt et constate qu'on la prend dorénavant pour la moitié du milliardaire. Décidant de vivre conformément à son statut elle se rend à la Bourse, où elle réussit à provoquer un krach. D'aventures catastrophiques en soirées mondaines, Mary rencontre le fils du milliardaire. Le coup de foudre est immédiat...
Comedy
Les Pirates de la mode
Feb 14, 1934Sherwood Nash est un couturier New-Yorkais peu scrupuleux qui copie les modèles de la haute-couture parisienne et les signes pour son propre compte. Avec la complicité de son assistante, Lynn Mason, il se rend à Paris au défilé du plus célèbre couturier, Réginald Owen, dans le but de voler des dessins de sa dernière collection...
Comedy
Le Dernier Round
May 29, 1937Le manager de boxe Nick Donati pense avoir trouvé un futur champion en la personne du « Kid Galahad ». Il déchante quand ce dernier tombe amoureux de sa sœur.
Crime
Femmes sans nom
Mar 14, 1940La lune de miel de Joyce et Fred MacNeil est un arrêt brutal et peu satisfaisant lorsque Fred est accusé d'assassiner. Railroaded en prison grâce aux efforts d'aide politique ambitieux DA Marlin (John Miljan), Fred attend son sort malheureux sur Death Row, alors que Joyce travaille des heures supplémentaires à l'extérieur pour effacer le nom de son mari
Crime
Ready, Willing and Able
Mar 06, 1937Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Romance
College Holiday
Dec 19, 1936
Broadway Hostess
Dec 07, 1935Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Drama
Colleen
Mar 21, 1936
Blondie Meets the Boss
Mar 08, 1939Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Comedy
Professor Beware
Jul 29, 1938Egyptologist, 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.
Comedy
Easy to Love
Jan 13, 1934Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Romance
The Payoff
Jan 09, 1935L'épouse avide d'un chroniqueur sportif honnête le persuade de faire preuve de douceur sur un tricheur, célèbre pour ses offres sportives véreuses.
Romance
Scarface
Apr 09, 1932Chicago, au temps de la prohibition. Un petit malfrat, l'ambitieux Tony Camonte, tue son patron et devient le garde du corps de Lovo, chef du gang rival. Amoureux de Poppy, la petite amie de Lovo, il veille jalousement sur sa soeur Cesca, lui interdisant toute liaison sentimentale. Avec son complice Guido Rinaldo, Tony prend peu à peu le pouvoir au sein du gang de Lovo.
Crime
Chercheuses d'or
May 27, 1933Premier film d'une série de trois ayant pour héroïnes de jeunes artistes de music-hall à la recherche d'un travail, de la fortune et de l'amour durant la dépression.
Comedy
Freshman Love
Jan 18, 1936A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Comedy
Prison Farm
Jun 17, 1938Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Drama
Bright Lights
Jul 27, 1935
You're a Sweetheart
Dec 26, 1937A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Romance
Hotel Imperial
May 11, 1939It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Drama
In Caliente
May 25, 1935At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Comedy
Disbarred
Jan 06, 1939The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.
Crime
Daughter of Shanghai
Dec 17, 1937A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Crime
Boss of Lonely Valley
Nov 14, 1937A rancher attempts to find the villain behind a land-stealing operation.
Western
King of Alcatraz
Sep 30, 1938A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Crime
The Magnificent Fraud
Jul 19, 1939A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Drama
Le Mystère de la chambre close
Oct 28, 1933Le corps d'un riche collectionneur d'objets d'art chinois est retrouvé dans sa propre chambre, une balle dans la tête. La police conclut à un suicide. La présence de l'arme dans sa main confirme cette thèse. Le détective Philo Vance est persuadé que le collectionneur a été victime d'un assassinat. Avec l'aide d'un policier et du procureur, il décide de mener l'enquête. Peu à peu, il reconstitue les faits.
Crime
Guerre au crime
Jun 06, 1936Al Kruger règne à la tête des gangs et sème la terreur dans la cité. Johnny Blake, un policier intègre, décide de réagir et s'introduit dans le cercle de Kruger...
Crime
Fog Over Frisco
Jun 02, 1934Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Thriller
Miss Manton est folle
Oct 21, 1938Melsa Manton, jeune fille riche et extravagante, découvre un cadavre dans son appartement. Elle prévient la police mais à son arrivée le cadavre a disparu. L’inspecteur de police Brent met en doute le sérieux de la jeune fille qui sera la proie des quolibets de la presse et particulièrement du journaliste Peter Ames qui la qualifie même de folle. Piquée au vif, Melsa décide de retrouver elle-même, avec l’aide d’un groupe d’amies, l’assassin et le cadavre. Son enquête la mènera avec ses amies, suivies de Peter Ames qui ne les lâche pas d’un pouce, dans une maison isolée où se trouve l’assassin prêt à tuer de nouveau…
Comedy
Smarty
May 19, 1934Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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