Winnie Lightner

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

Dans les années 1930, à l'heure de la Grande dépression économique, Sol Glass pense à un moyen de redynamiser son entreprise: pourquoi ne pas demander à toutes les secrétaires de distraire les clients? L'idée lui semble d'autant meilleure que chacun peut y trouver son compte. Les clients seront plus détendus, donc plus enclins à signer des contrats, et les employées auront plus fréquemment l'occasion d'aller au restaurant et d'être invitées au spectacle. Surtout, les affaires redémarreront. Mais cette brillante idée n'est pas du goût de tout le monde. Tommy Nelson, refuse que sa fiancée, Florence Denny, s'adonne à ce petit jeu dangereux pour leur couple. Mais la signature d'un gros contrat vient compliquer la donne ....

Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S. Hagney). Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced that his wife has been fooling around with JoJo. JoJo is knocked out early in the proceedings, whereupon he dreams he's a sultan surrounded by harem girls. A romantic subplot involves Paul Gregory and Claudia Dell. Gregory works for Dell's father and Dell asks her father to give Gregory a promotion so that she can spend more time with him. When Gregory refuses to be promoted without earning the position, she threatens to have him fired and Gregory quits his job. Gregory attempts to start a new career as a championship wrestler and is trained by Lightner and Brown. When Dell finds out about this, she attempts to stop him and asks for his forgiveness. She pleads with him to not fight but he has already promised...

A night club singer falls for a gangster.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).

Dans un poste de police de Los Angeles, il est rapporté que les perles de Norma Shearer ont été volés. Un détective est envoyé à la maison de l'actrice pour interroger les invités du parti, dont la plupart sont célèbres stars d'Hollywood. Le détective finit par chasser conduit dans toute la ville, de se retrouver dans un studio de cinéma, où il apprend la vérité derrière « les perles glissantes ».

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!

A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

Une jeune fille se produisant dans les shows burlesques de Park Avenue rencontre lors d'une représentation celui qui l'aidera à accéder aux projecteurs de Broadway. Janie travaille sous la direction de Patch Gallagher, le chorégraphe, qui en fera la star du spectacle. Leurs relations, tout d'abord houleuses en raison du caractère difficile de Patch deviennent de plus en plus ambiguës à mesure que la première approche...

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.