Tammany Young

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Raft

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae West

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: W.C. Fields

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Smith

Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hal Skelly

Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mae Marsh

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind),...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Brady

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Morgan

Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tammany Young

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sybil Jason

Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Thomas Carrigan

This 1915 film was completed in August and reviewed by trade papers, but was destroyed by fire in a studio accident. It was immediately remade with a...

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Cast: Mary Pickford

Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a...

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Cast: Mary Pickford

Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society. A lost film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Clark

The Highbinders

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter T. Tilden

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara La Marr

World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Alexander

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials...

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dean Jagger

Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edwards Davis

Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Huff

Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Theda Bara

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eugene O'Brien

When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: E.K. Lincoln

Philanthropical druggist Daniel Abbott, occasionally robs the rich to take care of the poor, goes to court with his young ward, Jimmy Nolan. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

An insight into the gossip among window mannequins as they come to life when no one's watching.

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Cast: Eddie Roberts

While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Hull

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara La Marr

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Barrios