Dagmar Oakland

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.

Après avoir fait fortune, le vieux Vanderhof est devenu un sage en pensant que l'argent ne fait pas le bonheur. Il vit entouré de ses petits-enfants et de ses domestiques, pour le moins originaux. Mais voila que sa petite-fille Alice s'éprend de Tony Kirby, le fils d'un homme d'affaires. Si Alice et Tony s'aiment, ce n'est pas le cas des Vanderhof et des Kirby, qui n'ont pas réellement la même conception de la vie.

Frances Trellis est mariée par simple intérêt à Job Skeffington, homme d'affaire juif plus âgé qu'elle. Elle s'abîme dans la mélancolie lorsqu'elle perd son frère à la guerre, le seul être qu'elle ait jamais aimé. Bientôt son mari la quitte. Esseulée, Frances se met à multiplier les soirées mondaines et les amants.

The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.

Un soldat de retour de la seconde guerre mondiale tombe amoureux d'une nageuse...

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.