Frances Moffett

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.

Déçu par sa progéniture et sentant sa fin prochaine, le milliardaire John Glidden décide de donner un million de dollars à des personnes dont il aura, au hasard, choisi le nom dans l'annuaire. C'est l'occasion de plusieurs sketches mystérieux quant à leurs auteurs.

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

Jeff et Lee Millet sont mécontents que leur mère Jackie, qui a déjà plusieurs fois divorcé, soit en instance de divorce de leur beau-père, Robert. Jackie est considérée comme une femme moderne, dont l'apparence jeune amène les gens à croire qu'elle est la soeur de sa fille. Lee accompagne Jackie à Reno, où elle a l'intention d'obtenir le divorce et célébrer cela avec d'autres femmes divorcées. Dans le train elle fait connaissance de Tom Wood, un jeune ingénieur de la classe ouvrière, sérieux qui va à San Francisco pour son premier emploi.

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.