Known for Costume & Make-Up
Adrian Adolph Greenberg, most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he designed costumes for over 250 films, and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.
Born
March 3, 1903
Died
September 13, 1959 (age 56)
Birthplace
Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA
Filmography
250 films


Lovely to Look At
1952 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Broadway producers Tony Naylor, Al Marsh, and Jerry Ralby are having difficulty securing funds for their latest show. Then Al learns he has inherited half of a salon in Paris from his Aunt Roberta. The three men travel to France, where they attempt to stage an extravagant fashion show to revitalize the struggling business, now run by Roberta's nieces, Stephanie and Clarisse.


Rope
1948 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.


The Bishop's Wife
1947 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.


Possessed
1947 · 1h 48m
country: United States
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.


Humoresque
1947 · 2h 5m
country: United States
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.


Hi Diddle Diddle
1943 · 1h 12m
country: United States
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.


Keeper of the Flame
1943 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.


They Got Me Covered
1943 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.


The Crystal Ball
1943 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.


Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · 1h 48m
country: United States
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.


Woman of the Year
1942 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.


Two-Faced Woman
1941 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.


Smilin' Through
1941 · 1h 40m
country: United States
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.


The Feminine Touch
1941 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.


When Ladies Meet
1941 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.


Blossoms in the Dust
1941 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.


A Woman's Face
1941 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.


Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · 2h 12m
country: United States
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.


Rage in Heaven
1941 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.


Come Live with Me
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.


Comrade X
1940 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.


The Philadelphia Story
1940 · 1h 53m
country: United States
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.


Gallant Sons
1940 · 1h 16m
country: United States
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.


Bitter Sweet
1940 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.


Escape
1940 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.


Dulcy
1940 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.


Pride and Prejudice
1940 · 1h 58m
country: United States
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.


New Moon
1940 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.


The Mortal Storm
1940 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.


Susan and God
1940 · 1h 57m
country: United States
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.


Florian
1940 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.


Waterloo Bridge
1940 · 1h 48m
country: United States
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.


Strange Cargo
1940 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.


Broadway Melody of 1940
1940 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.


I Take This Woman
1940 · 1h 38m
country: United States
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.


Balalaika
1939 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.


Ninotchka
1939 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.


The Women
1939 · 2h 13m
country: United States
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.


The Wizard of Oz
1939 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.


Broadway Serenade
1939 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.


The Ice Follies of 1939
1939 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.


Idiot's Delight
1939 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.


Sweethearts
1938 · 1h 54m
country: United States
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.


Dramatic School
1938 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.


The Shining Hour
1938 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.


The Great Waltz
1938 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.


Vacation from Love
1938 · 1h 6m
country: United States
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.


Three Loves Has Nancy
1938 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.


Marie Antoinette
1938 · 2h 29m
country: United States
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.


The Shopworn Angel
1938 · 1h 25m
country: United States
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.


The Toy Wife
1938 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.


Mannequin
1938 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.


Love Is a Headache
1938 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.


The Last Gangster
1937 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.


The Firefly
1937 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...


Conquest
1937 · 1h 53m
country: United States
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.


Double Wedding
1937 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.


The Bride Wore Red
1937 · 1h 43m
country: United States
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.


Broadway Melody of 1938
1937 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.


The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.


Parnell
1937 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.


Hollywood Party
1937 · 21m
country: United States
Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.


Maytime
1937 · 2h 12m
country: United States
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.


The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.


Camille
1936 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.


Born to Dance
1936 · 1h 45m
country: United States
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.


Love on the Run
1936 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.


Romeo and Juliet
1936 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.


The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · 1h 43m
country: United States
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.


San Francisco
1936 · 1h 55m
country: United States
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.


The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · 3h 5m
country: United States
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows


Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.


Rose Marie
1936 · 1h 53m
country: United States
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.


I Live My Life
1935 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.


Broadway Melody of 1936
1935 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!


China Seas
1935 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!


No More Ladies
1935 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.


Mark of the Vampire
1935 · 1h
country: United States
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.


Reckless
1935 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.


After Office Hours
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.


Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.


Forsaking All Others
1934 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.


What Every Woman Knows
1934 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.


Outcast Lady
1934 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.


The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.


Chained
1934 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.


The Girl from Missouri
1934 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.


Paris Interlude
1934 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...


Hollywood Party
1934 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.


Sadie McKee
1934 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.


Men in White
1934 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.


Riptide
1934 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.


The Mystery of Mr. X
1934 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.


The Cat and the Fiddle
1934 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.


Queen Christina
1934 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.


Nana
1934 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.


Going Hollywood
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lie ahead when Lili gets in the way.


Dinner at Eight
1933 · 1h 51m
country: United States
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.


The Women in His Life
1933 · 1h 15m
country: United States
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.


Should Ladies Behave
1933 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.


Dancing Lady
1933 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.


Bombshell
1933 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.


Stage Mother
1933 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.


The Solitaire Man
1933 · 1h 7m
country: United States
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.


Penthouse
1933 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.


Beauty for Sale
1933 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.


Turn Back the Clock
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.


The Stranger's Return
1933 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.


Another Language
1933 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.


Midnight Mary
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.


Hold Your Man
1933 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.


When Ladies Meet
1933 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.


Reunion in Vienna
1933 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).


Storm at Daybreak
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.


Peg o' My Heart
1933 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.


Made on Broadway
1933 · 1h 8m
country: Unknown
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.


The Barbarian
1933 · 1h 23m
country: United States
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.


Looking Forward
1933 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.


Gabriel Over the White House
1933 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.


The White Sister
1933 · 1h 45m
country: United States
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.


Today We Live
1933 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."


Men Must Fight
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.


The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.


Strange Interlude
1932 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.


The Son-Daughter
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.


Rasputin and the Empress
1932 · 2h 1m
country: United States
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.


The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932 · 1h 8m
country: United States
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.


Payment Deferred
1932 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.


Red Dust
1932 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.


Faithless
1932 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.


Smilin' Through
1932 · 1h 38m
country: United States
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.


Grand Hotel
1932 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.


Blondie of the Follies
1932 · 1h 31m
country: United States
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.


The Washington Masquerade
1932 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.


Unashamed
1932 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.


Red-Headed Woman
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.


As You Desire Me
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.


Huddle
1932 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.


Letty Lynton
1932 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.'s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.


But the Flesh Is Weak
1932 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.


The Wet Parade
1932 · 1h 57m
country: United States
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.


Polly of the Circus
1932 · 1h 9m
country: United States
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.


Arsène Lupin
1932 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.


The Beast of the City
1932 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned.


Lovers Courageous
1932 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.


Emma
1932 · 1h 12m
country: United States
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.


Mata Hari
1931 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.


Private Lives
1931 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.


Possessed
1931 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?


The Cuban Love Song
1931 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.


Flying High
1931 · 1h 20m
country: United States
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.


The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.


The Guardsman
1931 · 1h 22m
country: United States
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.


Susan Lenox
1931 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.


This Modern Age
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.


The Squaw Man
1931 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.


The Man in Possession
1931 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.


Five and Ten
1931 · 1h 29m
country: United States
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.


A Free Soul
1931 · 1h 33m
country: United States
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.


Laughing Sinners
1931 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.


Strangers May Kiss
1931 · 1h 21m
country: United States
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.


Dance, Fools, Dance
1931 · 1h 18m
country: United States
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, her naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.


Inspiration
1931 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.


The Bachelor Father
1931 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.


Paid
1930 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.


New Moon
1930 · 1h 18m
country: United States
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.


Anna Christie
1930 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)


Passion Flower
1930 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.


A Lady's Morals
1930 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.


Madam Satan
1930 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.


Our Blushing Brides
1930 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.


Let Us Be Gay
1930 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A housewife divorces her self-centered husband. Years later, she attends a party where her ex is pursuing another woman. Unbeknownst to him, she is the same ex-wife he'd neglected, now transformed into a fashionable socialite.


The Florodora Girl
1930 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.


The Lady of Scandal
1930 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.


In Gay Madrid
1930 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.


Every Woman's Longing
1930 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself. This film is the alternate German version of A Lady to Love (1930)


This Mad World
1930 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband. Victoria discovers that Paul is a spy and, although fascinated by him, plans to reveal his identity to her husband. When the latter is unable to visit her, she attempts to go to the German army headquarters.


Redemption
1930 · 1h 15m
country: United States
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.


Montana Moon
1930 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.


A Lady to Love
1930 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck. When she gets there she overlooks his duplicity and marries him. Then she falls in love with Buck.


Anna Christie
1930 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.


Not So Dumb
1930 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.


The Rogue Song
1930 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.


Devil-May-Care
1929 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.


Their Own Desire
1929 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.


Dynamite
1929 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.


Untamed
1929 · 1h 26m
country: United States
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.


The Kiss
1929 · 1h 2m
country: United States
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.


The Thirteenth Chair
1929 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.


The Unholy Night
1929 · 1h 33m
country: United States
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.


Our Modern Maidens
1929 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile, Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.


Marianne
1929 · 1h 51m
country: United States
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.


The Single Standard
1929 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.


The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1929 · 1h 34m
country: United States
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.


The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Broadway showgirl Mary Dugan is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly-licensed attorney, jumps into the case to defend his sister. Jimmy's courtroom style is unconventional, but he seems to be holding his own against the prosecuting attorney—until a surprise testimony changes the course of the trial...


The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929 · 1h 27m
country: United States
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.


Wild Orchids
1929 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.


A Lady of Chance
1928 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.


Dream of Love
1928 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.


The Masks of the Devil
1928 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).


Man-Made Women
1928 · 1h
country: United States
The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.


The Godless Girl
1928 · 1h 59m
country: United States
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.


Walking Back
1928 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.


Skyscraper
1928 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.


Midnight Madness
1928 · 1h 5m
country: United States
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.


The Blue Danube
1928 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.


Stand and Deliver
1928 · 57m
country: United States
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.


What Price Beauty?
1928 · 1h
country: United States
Wholesome country girl Mary works at the House of Magic beauty salon and pines for the owner Clay. Unfortunately Clay has also been targeted by experienced vamp Rita.


Let 'Er Go Gallegher
1928 · 1h
country: United States
Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.


A Ship Comes In
1928 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.


Almost Human
1927 · 1h
country: United States
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is broken-hearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human ", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his 'human', John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her.


Chicago
1927 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted.


My Friend from India
1927 · 1h
country: United States
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.


The Main Event
1927 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Nightclub dancer Glory Frayne falls in love with championship boxer Red Lucas . Luca's latest opponent is likeable young pugilist Johnny Regan . When Johnny meets Glory, he is instantly smitten.....


The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in his absence. Heartbroken and bitter, the captain, with his daughter, Gale, and second mate, Singapore Jack, returns to sea. He rescues from a burning vessel John Hazzard, Jr., son of his rival, and though he tries to keep the boy from Gale, a romance develops. ...


The Forbidden Woman
1927 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.


Dress Parade
1927 · 1h 12m
country: United States
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.


The Wise Wife
1927 · 1h
country: United States
John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domestic and conservative woman, invites Jenny Lou, a young southern girl, as her houseguest, and the girl flirts with John; she is conspicuously unsuccessful until she pretends to faint on the golf course and the unsuspecting victim finds her in his arms.


The Angel of Broadway
1927 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.


The Fighting Eagle
1927 · 54m
country: United States
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.


The Country Doctor
1927 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.


Vanity
1927 · 1h
country: United States
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.


The King of Kings
1927 · 2h 35m
country: United States
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.


The Little Adventuress
1927 · 1h 10m
country: United States
When Victoria’s husband Leonard leaves her for Helen , Victoria takes up with artist Antonio. However both couples end up on George La Fuente's dude ranch. Everybody begins arguing with the poor Senor Fuentes.


Gigolo
1926 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....


For Alimony Only
1926 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A stormy marriage of 6 months between Narcissa and Peter Williams ends in a bitter quarrel, and to gain his freedom Peter offers her more alimony than he can afford. Then he meets Mary Martin, who restores his faith in marriage. With business reverses, Peter falls behind in his alimony payments and neglects his new wife. Narcissa, however, manages to support Bertie Waring, a young sofa-hound; but she protests the delayed alimony and Mary is forced to take a job with an interior decorating establishment. Peter goes to Narcissa to appeal to her generosity, at the moment when Mary (unaware of Narcissa's identity as her husband's first wife) is working in Narcissa's apartment; seeing them together, Mary leaves in humiliation and accepts an invitation from Bertie....


Fig Leaves
1926 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.


The Volga Boatman
1926 · 2h
country: United States
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.


The Road to Yesterday
1925 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.


The Eagle
1925 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.


Her Sister from Paris
1925 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Helen has a twin sister, who is a famous actress named "La Perry". Helen and her sister decide to trick Helen's husband to prove his love.


Cobra
1925 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife looks to make a date with him.