Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for…
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which causes problems for her…
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom’s life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an…
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a…
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are “bum newspapermen”. When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of…
A husband makes fun of his wife’s theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also…
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the…
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining…
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
