Cinematography: William Steiner

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Barbara Hale · Bobby Driscoll · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Plot Young Tommy Woodry gets used to telling fantastic but harmless lies to his family and friends because he's bored. They get used to it. That's unfortunate for Tommy, because almost...

Direction Edward Montagne

Cast John Miles · Patricia Barry · Walter Kinsella · Frank Tweddell

Plot The body of an unknown woman turns up in a stolen car abandoned in a New York park, and the only clue the detectives on the case have to work...

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Sidney Fox · O.P. Heggie · Henry Hull · Margaret Wycherly

Plot Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Gar Boni, just as Saxon was...

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Clive Brook · H. Reeves-Smith · Betty Lawford · Charles Hay

Plot Doctor Watson's daughter(!) Mary is engaged to Roger Longmore, played by neurotic-looking effeminate actor Phillips Holmes, who can't act but certainly knows how to flare his nostrils. Roger is a...

Direction Hobart Henley

Cast Walter Huston · Claudette Colbert · Charles Ruggles · Patricia Deering

Plot Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Helen Kane · Margaret Breen · Victor Moore

Direction Leslie M. Roush

Cast Robert Benchley · Ruth Lee

Plot Joe Doakes humorously demonstrates the cornerstone components of staying in shape: adhering to a healthy diet, an exercise regimen, and conscientious dental hygiene.

Direction Don Appell · Louis Brandt

Cast Moe Howard · Larry Fine · Curly Howard · Paul Winchell

Plot Paul Winchell plays a father to Jerry Mahoney who is avoiding going to school at all costs where he is failing his subjects. Mahoney's tricks range from painting the window...

Direction Fred Waller

Cast Duke Ellington

Plot A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musical landmark, which features Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his symphonic jazz piece...

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Charles Ruggles · Frank Morgan · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith

Plot The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve...

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Carole Lombard · Frank Morgan · Charles Starrett

Plot A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Direction Edward Sloman

Cast Gary Cooper · Claudette Colbert · Averell Harris · Richard Spiro

Plot Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New...

Direction Fred Waller

Cast Duke Ellington · Ivie Anderson · Florence Hill · Bessie Dudley

Plot Duke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus 'Stormy Weather' (sung by Ivy Anderson).

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Nancy Carroll · Fredric March · Phoebe Foster · Alison Skipworth

Direction Fyodor Otsep

Cast Paul Lukas · Mary Anderson · Helmut Dantine · John Pratt

Plot A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the...

Direction Fred Waller

Cast Cab Calloway

Plot This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.