Jack Oakie

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Dick Powell

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Conte

Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura La Plante

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his...

Genre: Western

Cast: Robert Mitchum

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charlotte Henry

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rock Hudson

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Van Heflin

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Genre: Western

Cast: Fred MacMurray

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the...

Genre: War

Cast: Fredric March

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Arnold

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

Genre: Music

Cast: Carl Brisson

A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lily Pons

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Arlen

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Betty Compson

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Genre: Music

Cast: Don Ameche

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Powell

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Spencer Tracy

After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid...

Genre: Music

Cast: Benny Goodman

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Oakie

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear...

Genre: Music

Cast: Betty Grable

The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

Genre: Action

Cast: Bing Crosby

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Henreid

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sheridan

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.

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Cast: Jack Oakie

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Boles

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Oakie

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Grable

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joan Leslie

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lily Pons

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce...

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Cast: Jack Oakie

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Carroll

A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joe Penner

Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jack Oakie

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Montez

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.

Genre: Music

Cast: Leo Carrillo

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Niven

Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Arlen

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sonja Henie

A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.

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Cast: Joe Penner

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Cast: Phil Baker

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bebe Daniels

This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie "College Rhythm" and shows the audience how they were written and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mack Gordon

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bing Crosby

Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeffrey Vance

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Baxter

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an...

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Cast: Evelyn Brent

The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version...

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Cast: Barry Norton

Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Alba

When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Moore

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mae West

In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil McCaul

Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved...

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Cast: Warren Berlinger

A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill