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Director: Victor Heerman    More Info
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth, Robert Greig, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving

 Capt. Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is being honored upon his return from Africa. The party becomes the centerpiece for a scheme to substitute a forgery for a valuable painting. Uproariously funny film. Groucho Marx: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."

Director: Thornton Freeland    More Info
Starring: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, G. Pat Collins, Gertrude Astor, Budd Fine, Marjorie Kane, Rita Flynn, Anderson Lawler

 Down-on-his-luck boxer Jerry Moore (Robert Armstrong) is befriended by nightclub entertainer Fannie Field (Fanny Brice) who, with help from her brother Harry (Harry Green), turns Jerry into a prizefighter. But, in the process, Fannie's rival Lillian (Gertrude Astor) steals Jerry from her. Fannie solves the problem by setting up a rematch in which she tells Jerry's opponent (G. Pat Collins) to attack Jerry's newly straightened nose. The ploy works, Jerry loses the fight but realizes how important it is to win Fannie.

Director: Melville W. Brown    More Info
Starring: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Ralf Harolde, Charles Morton, Edward Martindel, Rita La Roy, Russ Powell, Roscoe Ates

 In this, their only film appearance, the White comedians of radio fame, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, bring their Black characters of Amos 'n' Andy to the screen. Although their radio show had been a hit, seeing them in blackface was a different matter. Years later, the characters were brought to TV and were readily accepted when Black men took on the roles of Amos 'n' Andy.

Director: George Fitzmaurice    More Info
Starring: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, David Torrence, Mary Forbes, Paul Cavanagh, Myrna Loy, Crauford Kent

 Willie Leeland (Ronald Colman) is a bon vivant returning to his London home in this early talkie film.

Director: Luther Reed    More Info
Starring: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Bill Robinson, Eddy Chandler

 The popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as Peewee and Gaylord bringing comedy relief to this musical starring Bebe Daniels as their sister who is about to marry a wealthy Southern plantation heir (Everett Marshall).

Director: Clyde Bruckman    More Info
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton, Barbara Kent, Alec B. Francis, Noah Young, Henry Hall, Arthur Housman, Willie Best, Noah Beery

 While on a cruise to Honolulu, shoe salesman Harold Horne (Harold Lloyd) falls in love with heiress Barbara Carson (Barbara Kent) who believes that Harold is a millionaire. While trying to hide the deceit, Harold becomes tied up in a mail sack and lands on a builder's hoist near a skyscraper. Now, he must find a way to climb down the building–and the acrobatic fun begins.

Director: Edward Sedgwick    More Info
Starring: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo, Edgar Dearing, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, Lionel Barrymore, William Haines

 Buster Keaton speaks for the first time in the movies. Elvira (Anita Page) wins the Gopher City, Kansas, beauty contest, and the prize is a trip to Hollywood that includes a screen test. She is accompanied by her mother (Trixie Friganza) and Elmer (Keaton), and it is Elmer who becomes the star after he crashes the MGM studio gates. But not all is lost for Elvira; she finds her true love (Robert Montgomery).

Director: Edward H. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Ann Harding, Robert Ames, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Hedda Hopper, William(2) Holden, Monroe Owsley, Creighton Hale, Mary Forbes, Elizabeth Forrester

 This is a film adaptation of Phillip Barry's play about John Case (Robert Ames) who is being coerced into changing his carefree life to join the business firm of his fiancee Julia's (Mary Astor) father. All ends well when Julia's sister Linda (Ann Harding) sees things for what they are, falls in love with John, and saves the day. Harding was nominated for an Oscar. Remade in 1938.

Director: Edward F. Cline    More Info
Starring: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Jobyna Howland, Natalie Moorhead, Hugh Herbert, George F. Marion, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields

 Wilbur and Addington (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) come to the aid of Mary (Dorothy Lee) by helping fix up her inherited, run-down hotel despite the objections of her mother who wants Mary to wed rich lawyer John (Ralf Harolde). The hotel becomes successful, but rival gangs find it as a place to do business, and John is associated with one of them. One of several films made by the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.

Director: Scott Pembroke    More Info
Starring: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, Eva Novak, E. Alyn Warren, Billy Butts, Adolph Milar, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan, Vadim Uraneff, Dorothea Wolbert

 The Medicine Man, Dr. John Harvey (Jack Benny), meets Mamie (Betty Bronson) and her brother, Buddy (Billy Butts), when they attend his medicine show as it passes through their town. Mamie's abusive father, Goltz (E. Alyn Warren), tries to force her into a marriage for money, and, when she asks Harvey for help, he comes to her aid.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch    More Info
Starring: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis

 Countess Vera von Conti (Jeanette MacDonald) is engaged to Prince Otto von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), but she does not love him. So, just before the scheduled wedding, Vera heads for Monte Carlo where she loses, time after time, at the casinos. She meets a mysterious man (Jack Buchanan) who asks if he may touch her hair for luck. He strokes her hair, but it is Vera's luck that changes, and she asks him to stay by her side. What Vera does not know is that he is actually the very wealthy Count Rudolph Falliere who is posing as a commoner in order to be near Vera. The Count plays his game until he ends up winning her heart, and they live happily ever after. Among the songs MacDonald sings is, "Beyond the Blue Horizon."

Director: Benjamin Stoloff    More Info
Starring: Ted Healy, Frances McCoy, Charles Winninger, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Stanley Smith, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Hallam Cooley, Freddie Sanborn

 In this slapstick comedy–which marks the movie debut of The Three Stooges–Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine play firemen who are friends of Ted (Ted Healy) who is an employee of Otto Schmidt's (Charles Winninger) costume store is then told not to tell Otto's niece, Louise (Lucile Browne), that the store is going bankrupt. Meanwhile, Richard Carlson (Stanley Smith) arrives to manage the store and falls for Louise who is not at all interested in him. Ted invites Queenie (Frances McCoy) and Louise to the Firemen's Ball during which Ted and Richard will wear identical costumes in an attempt to fool Louise, but she catches on. Matters come to a head when fires break out, and the zany firemen arrive in time to rescue both Richard and Louise.

Director: Frank Tuttle    More Info
Starring: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Sam Hardy, Eddie Fetherston, Jed Prouty, Rex Bell

 Fredric March plays a sailor who is infatuated with a young waitress (Clara Bow). Bow's dance number is worth watching.

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr., Steve Pendleton, Morgan Wallace, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Bob Burns, Pat Somerset

 In this very early Humphrey Bogart vehicle, he plays wrongly convicted Steve whose plight is noted by St. Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) who, in turn, escape from prison to help Steve. Spencer Tracy's film debut.

Director: Fred Niblo    More Info
Starring: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Cliff Edwards, Vera Marshe, Charles Middleton, Jack Pennick, Ann Dvorak

 Molly (Leila Hyams) and Windy (William Haines) finally find love and happiness after Windy is taught some lessons by cowboys on Molly's ranch.

Director: Sam Taylor    More Info
Starring: Will Rogers, Greta Nissen, Marguerite Churchill, Tad Alexander, Ray Milland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edwin Maxwell, Ben Turpin

 An Oklahoma rancher (Will Rogers) becomes a United States ambassador to a small country where his common sense overcomes protocol. He befriends the young monarch of a revolution-torn country and helps him grow to be a responsible leader.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard    More Info
Starring: Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Ray Milland, Doris Lloyd, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, David Torrence, Edgar Norton, Halliwell Hobbes

 In this film adaptation of Edward Childs Carpenter's Broadway play, C. Aubrey Smith repeats his role of Sir Basil Winterton who seeks to find his three illegitimate children who are now adults.

Director: Roy Del Ruth    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Ray Milland, Charles(1) Lane, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hopton

 Bert and Ann (James Cagney and Joan Blondell) are a couple of con artists who go from town to town cheating people out of their money. After being tricked out of their own money, they plot to get it back. This is sort of an early version of "The Sting."

Director: Mervyn LeRoy    More Info
Starring: Joe E. Brown, William Collier Jr., Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Bela Lugosi, Ona Munson, Holmes Herbert

 Wide-mouthed comedian Joe E. Brown stars in this comedy–watch for a very funny Bela Lugosi cameo.

Director: Charles Chaplin    More Info
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow, Al Ernest Garcia, T.S. Alexander, Henry Bergman, Eddie McAuliffe

 This highly entertaining film is classic Charlie Chaplin fare. The plot involves the Little Tramp's love for a blind, flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). The story involves a comedy of mistaken identities in which an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) only recognizes the Little Tramp when he has been drinking. After a night of drinking, the millionaire gives the Little Tramp $1,000 for the flower girl's rent. After a few misadventures involving burglars in the millionaire's home, the Little Tramp gives the flower girl the money to pay for her rent and an eye operation. The operation is performed, and, later, the Little Tramp sees her through her window and shyly smiles. She goes outside and gives him money and a flower. She recognizes him as her benefactor and all ends happily when she tells him, "I can see."

Director: Paul Sloane    More Info
Starring: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday, Myrna Loy, Matt Moore, Lester Vail

 A couple (Irene Dunne and Pat O'Brien) who found happiness with each other after former loves left them, are confronted with a threat to their wedded bliss when the former mates reappear, and emotional confusion reigns.

Director: Rene Clair    More Info
Starring: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Paul Ollivier, Andre Michaud, Rolla France, Germaine Aussey, Leon Lorin, William Burke, Vincent Hyspa, Alexander D'Arcy

 This famous anti-capitalist statement starts with two prisoners who become friends. Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes and becomes an executive at a phonograph factory. When his friend, Emile (Henri Marchand), gets out of jail, he ends up as an assembly-line worker at his friend's factory. The de-humanization of the workers is highlighted with comedic interludes. This is the first non-English speaking film to receive an Oscar nomination (Best Art Direction).

Director: William C. McGann    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker, Edmund Breon, Boris Karloff, Luis Alberni, Claud Allister, Paul Porcasi, Ivan F. Simpson, Herbert Bunston

 A bon vivant (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) changes to a more serious and directed persona when he spends time in Central America and falls in love with a young woman (Loretta Young).

Director: Marion Gering    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Lester Vail, David Landau, Clara Blandick, Frank Darien, Charles Trowbridge

 Love is in the air when Kay (Carole Lombard) visits her father's ranch and meets a cowboy (Gary Cooper).

Director: Leo McCarey    More Info
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Barbara Kent, Monroe Owsley, Arthur Lake, Maude Eburne, Henry Kolker, Nella Walker, Harry Watson

 Wealthy Jerry Trent (Gloria Swanson) tries to keep her past from current beau Tony (Ben Lyon). Enter sister with a former boyfriend of Jerry's, and the "fun" begins. Gloria got big bucks for this one, but even she couldn't bail it out from the weak script and songs.