Helen Broderick

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Le Danseur du dessus
7.3

Le Danseur du dessus

Aug 29, 1935
Jerry Travers, danseur américain, fait une démonstration à son producteur britannique. C'est ainsi qu'il réveille sa voisine du dessous. Celle-ci, Dale Tremont, descend d'un étage et proteste. Pour Jerry, c'est un coup de foudre...
Music
Sur les ailes de la danse
6.8
Pour protéger sa carrière de danseur, les amis de Lucky Garnett l'empèchent de se marier avec Margaret Watson en lui volant son pantalon. Arrivé à son mariage après que les invités sont rentrés chez eux, il parvient à se réconcilier avec son futur beau-père, le juge Watson, à condition qu'il aille à New York faire fortune et ne revienne qu'avec 25 000$. Accompagné de Pop, il se rend donc à New York, sans un sou en poche (il avait parié qu'il parviendrait à se marier). Il fait la rencontre de Penny Carroll, qui enseigne la danse. Pour la conquérir, il joue et gagne jusqu'au moment où il approche de la somme fatidique...
Romance
Nice Girl?
5.3

Nice Girl?

Feb 21, 1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
Comedy
La Coqueluche de Paris
6.1
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Comedy
Murder on a Bridle Path
5
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Comedy
Honeymoon in Bali
6.2

Honeymoon in Bali

Sep 29, 1939
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Comedy
The Bride Walks Out
5.3

The Bride Walks Out

Jul 10, 1936
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
Comedy
Love on a Bet
7

Love on a Bet

Mar 06, 1936
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
Comedy
She's Got Everything
5.3

She's Got Everything

Dec 31, 1937
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Comedy
3 Is a Family
1

3 Is a Family

Nov 23, 1944
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Comedy
Service de Luxe
6.5

Service de Luxe

Oct 12, 1938
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Comedy
Radio City Revels
8

Radio City Revels

Feb 11, 1938
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Virginia
1

Virginia

Jan 28, 1941
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Drama
Meet the Missus
4

Meet the Missus

Jun 04, 1937
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
Comedy
To Beat the Band
1

To Beat the Band

Nov 23, 1935
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Music
Naughty But Nice
6.2

Naughty But Nice

Jun 23, 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Comedy
Her Primitive Man
6

Her Primitive Man

May 29, 1944
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Comedy
Le Cabaret des étoiles
6.1
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, alors que les troupes américaines vont bientôt embarquer pour l'Europe, des vedettes américaines et des orchestres leur tiennent compagnie. Pendant ce temps, un flirt se noue entre un G.I. et une serveuse.
Comedy
Because of Him
6.2

Because of Him

Jan 18, 1946
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
Comedy
50 Million Frenchmen
6.3

50 Million Frenchmen

Feb 14, 1931
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.
Romance
The Captain Is a Lady
6

The Captain Is a Lady

Jun 21, 1940
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady". The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood!
Comedy
No, No, Nanette
6

No, No, Nanette

Dec 19, 1940
La jeune Nanette, guillerette, tente de sauver le mariage de son oncle et de sa tante en démêlant Oncle Jimmy de plusieurs flirts innocents mais captivants. Tentant un tel désenchevêtrement, Nanette fait appel au producteur de théâtre Bill Trainor, qui tombe rapidement amoureux d'elle. La même chose se produit lorsque l'artiste Tom Gillespie est sollicité. Mais bientôt les flirts de l'oncle Jimmy deviennent trop nombreux et les romances de Nanette avec Tom et Bill se heurtent à des problèmes. Le mariage de l'oncle Jimmy survivra-t-il et Nanette trouvera-t-elle le bonheur avec Tom, Bill ou quelqu'un d'autre?
Music