Lillian Roth

Alice Spages, vivant avec sa mère et sa sœur est une jeune fille d'une douzaine d'années un peu perturbée psychologiquement. Affublée d'un masque et portant un ciré jaune, elle aime terroriser sa sœur Karen, la petite fille modèle, favorite de sa mère et du prêtre exerçant dans la paroisse avoisinante. Ses autres passe-temps favoris : embêter le voisin obèse et jouer dans la cave où elle s'est aménagée tout un petit univers fétichiste constitué d'objets chapardés ici et là aux gens de son entourage. Tout bascule pour elle le jour où sa sœur est assassinée à l'église pendant sa communion. Là, commence alors un enchaînement d'évènements amenant la police à la suspecter fortement. Les soupçons sont d'autant plus grands que peu de temps après la tragédie de l'église, sa tante qui la déteste ouvertement, est agressée par une personne masquée et vêtue d'une parka jaune. Qui est donc le mystérieux tueur ? Est-ce Alice ou bien quelqu'un qui est proche d'elle ?

Le célèbre capitaine Spaulding revient d'une exploration en Afrique. La riche Mrs Rittenhouse l'invite à passer le week-end dans sa belle demeure. Elle exhibera à cette occasion une toile célèbre, "la chasse", qui lui fut donnée par le philanthrope Chandler. D'autres invités assistent à l'événement dont le maestro Ravelli et un énigmatique "professeur". Naturellement, la toile sera volée au cours de la soirée et remplacée par une pâle copie... Dès lors, Spaulding et Ravelli se mettent en chasse. Après de nombreuses péripéties la toile sera retrouvée par l'astucieux capitaine Spaulding.

Une ravissante jeune femme blonde, Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck), complice d’un gang de casseurs, fait ouvrir une agence bancaire pour permettre à ses complices de dévaliser la banque. Elle est reconnue par le policier qui dévoile, sous sa perruque platine (« Not so hot as a blonde ! »), une délinquante bien connue de la justice,

Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequences.

En Sylvanie, la Reine Louise épouse le Prince Renard, diplomate rappelé de France où sa vie amoureuse a fait scandale…

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

A movie producer announces that Lillian Roth has been signed to do a movie and he calls a story conference with a director and writers to come up with an idea for the film. As they work through some ideas, performers act out those possibilities via song and dance numbers.

This one is set at a college picnic by the lake, with three musical numbers. "We've Got It Bad but It Don't Do Us No Good" is by a quartet of college men, with ukulele, pennywhistle, and ocarinas. "Sort of Lonesome" is a romantic song, sung straight by Roth. "Me and the Boyfriend" is sung more uptempo by Roth, made comic by her actions as she manhandles her geeky boyfriend.

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.

Le film se déroule dans la France médiévale. Le poète François Villon, condamné à être pendu par le roi Louis XI pour avoir écrit des vers désobligeants à son sujet, se voit offrir un sursis temporaire. Sa pendaison sera reportée de 24 heures et, pendant ce temps, il devra vaincre les envahisseurs bourguignons et gagner l'amour de la belle Catherine.

Mike Wallace est le journaliste qui a inventé les interviews télévisées sans compromis et est devenu une icône de l'émission d'investigation d'actualité 60 minutes. Après presque un demi-siècle d'interviews, il prend la place de l'interviewé. Le film raconte l’histoire personnelle et professionnelle de Wallace - des montagnes russes abruptes - à travers des archives fascinantes de ses célèbres entretiens approfondis avec Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Barbara Streisand, Vladimir Poutine et beaucoup d’autres, ainsi que de certains de ses entretiens. Brillant et très drôle, Wallace n’a pas peur de l’honnêteté. Le film est un miroir intelligent et inquiétant du journalisme d’aujourd’hui.

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.

Plusieurs épisodes de music-hall mis en scène par 11 réalisateurs hollywoodiens.

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios’ delightful “Screen Songs” added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics.

Last Mentone short to be produced in New York

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Le 1er octobre 1962, Groucho Marx accueillit Johnny Carson comme le nouveau présentateur du The Tonight Show. L’émission a été filmée à New York pendant pratiquement les dix premières années, avec Johnny Carson en tant que présentateur. Puis à partir de mai 1972, le plateau déménagea au Studio One à Burbank en Californie pour le reste de son « mandat » .

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.