Screenplay: Ben Markson

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Aline MacMahon · Ruby Keeler

Synopsis Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Lupe Velez · Lee Tracy · Eugene Pallette · Frank Morgan

Synopsis A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · Margaret Lindsay · Leslie Fenton

Synopsis When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Constance Bennett · Lowell Sherman · Neil Hamilton · Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans befriends seldom-sober director Max Carey and is soon in the big-time. She hooks eastern millionaire Lonnie Borden but he soon tires of the Hollywood lifestyle and of playing second fiddle to a star. Carey looks...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Ann Sothern · Jack Haley · Mary Boland · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Cornel Wilde · Victoria Shaw · Mickey Shaughnessy · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Tom Conway · Rita Corday · Edward Brophy · Sharyn Moffett

Synopsis On vacation, Tom Lawrence--The Falcon--and his Brooklyn-born sidekick 'Goldie' Locke meet cute with a little girl named Annie whose nurse has just been murdered. Accompanying Annie home, The Falcon is arrested for kidnapping, but bailed out of jail by a...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Warren William · Joan Blondell · Genevieve Tobin · Hugh Herbert

Synopsis Anne Rogers is the secretary to Kenneth Bixby, the author of many best-selling novels. On a lecture tour, he meets Julie Wilson, an old girl friend, who believes that she is the inspiration for the heroine of Bixby's latest novel....

Direction Ralph Ince

Cast William Boyd · Dorothy Wilson · William Gargan · Bob Rose

Synopsis A group of stuntmen at one studio in Hollywood call themselves "Lucky Devils," and regularly chant "A stuntman makes a bad husband and a husband makes a bad stuntman." It rings true when Slugger Jones is killed doing his last...

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Eddie Albert · Joan Leslie · Jane Darwell · Alan Hale

Synopsis Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Helen Twelvetrees · Ricardo Cortez · Jill Esmond · Robert Armstrong

Synopsis Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a showgirl. When Bill sees...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Rochelle Hudson · Michael Whalen · Thomas Beck · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis Tracey Browne (Michael Whalen), sports editor of the "Globe", leanrs that fight promoter Richards (Alan Dinehart) and Stevens (Douglas Fowley), sports editor of the "Dispatch", are conducting a boxing racket that victimizes down-and-out, has-been fighters, and he denounces them in...

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Glenda Farrell · Ben Lyon · Mary Brian · Lyle Talbot

Synopsis Two sassy gold-diggers stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who goes missing on her wedding night.

Direction William Keighley

Cast Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee · Patricia Ellis · Helen Lowell

Synopsis Herbert Kalness (Guy Kibbee) is an opinionated man and a huge grouch, but his loving family puts up with him. Herbert is upset when daughter Alice (Patricia Ellis) becomes engaged to Andrew Goodrich (Phillip Reed). Andrew is a Harvard man,...

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Eddie Albert · Joan Leslie · Alan Hale · William Lundigan

Synopsis Perpetual-optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspires against him. Not only does the car he intends using as the boat's downpayment roll into the bay, but his...

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Jean Muir · Ricardo Cortez · Ruth Donnelly · Minna Gombell

Synopsis Sue Tally waits for a brother she hasn't seen in twenty years to meet her in a French hotel. By proving her identity, she'll share in a $2,000,000 inheritance. But others are anxious to get a share of the money...

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Neil Hamilton · Sheila Terry · Arthur Byron · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis One can count on one hand, nay, one finger, the number of Hollywood movies that deal with the importation of silk from Asia. This may be the only one and it goes way back to the beginning of talkies. Using...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Victor McLaglen · Lois Moran · Nick Stuart · Earle Foxe

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Warren William · Mary Astor · Ginger Rogers · Andy Devine

Synopsis A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. This are going OK until the girl's manager/boyfriend, seeing his chance...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Rochelle Hudson · Robert Kent · J. Edward Bromberg · Jack La Rue

Synopsis Dick Mannion serves three years in prison for using his safe-cracking skills, and comes out determined to go straight. But the gang forces him to get involved again. He falls in love with a waitress, Irene Howard, and they take...