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The Mad Miss Manton
New YorkOut of the social register and into the police blotter! — When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Having Wonderful Time
New YorkThe play that captured Broadway is on the screen at last! — Teddy, an overworked New York office girl, seeks 2 weeks of rest and relaxation at a camp in the Catskills. She is definitely not a happy camper because of the crowded and noisy conditions. She tries her best to fit in and, after an initial dislike, falls for college educated Chick, a waiter at the camp. Teddy becomes suspicious of his motives, however, and he becomes alarmed when she spends an innocent night in the cabin of a rival suitor. All ends happily, however, as their love proves true enough and trust triumphs over suspicions.
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The Baroness and the Butler
🇭🇺 HungaryA Butler (Powell) gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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Topper Takes a Trip
New YorkA merry romance packed with fun! — Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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Quadrille
🇫🇷 FranceThe battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
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Spawn of the North
AlaskaThrills, intrigue and drama at sea ! — Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
New YorkTHREE TOP STARS TO THRILL YOU! — A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
FloridaMERLE ropes Gary! GARY brands Merle! — Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Fast Company
New York1938's PRIZE Mystery Novel! Now a Picture with twice the laughs and excitement! — Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Blond Cheat
EnglandSocially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Der Blaufuchs
🇭🇺 HungaryIlona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after her husband shows an interest in a co-worker is it possible for a happy ending to take place for the two new couples.
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Love Is a Headache
New YorkRoars. Romance. Thrills. — A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Kentucky Moonshine
KentuckyThe Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Hold That Kiss
New YorkTwo young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Hard to Get
New YorkWhen spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Spring Madness
The 1930sFive gorgeous girls on a man hunt! — Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Three Blind Mice
California Kansas The 1930sThree bright-eyed girls look for love . . . and a man with a million dollars ! — Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
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The Four Companions
🇩🇪 GermanyFour graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
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Lassie from Lancashire
EnglandStruggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
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Second Best Bed
England 🇲🇨 MonacoA newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
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Topper
New York90 ROARING MINUTES OF LAUGHS! — Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Nothing Sacred
New York VermontSEE THE BIG FIGHT! — When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
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Hollywood Hotel
CaliforniaDIRECT TO YOU...FROM THE ORCHID ROOM OF THE AIR! — Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.
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Personal Property
EnglandSee Bob as a butler! See Jean as the adventuress who hires him! Thrill to 'em both-as rowdy "snuggle-pups," who can't give each other anything but love! — Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
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Thin Ice
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSwiss hotel ski instructor (Henie) falls in love with a man (Power) who goes skiing every morning.
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Quality Street
England The 1810sIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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The Toast of New York
New York The 1860sThe terror of Wall Street was a chump for this girl! — 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 struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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Storm in a Teacup
ScotlandA local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Mister Max
🇮🇹 ItalyVittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
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Tovarich
🇫🇷 FranceTHEY PLAY and you laugh — When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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Waikiki Wedding
HawaiiTony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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Hitting a New High
New YorkThrill to the Voice that makes Swing Song Sounds..Hear Her Trilling Those Golden Arias! — A Paris singer's (Lily Pons) press agent (Jack Oakie) arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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Easy Living
New YorkIt's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy! — J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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When You're in Love
🇲🇽 MexicoFrom "Minnie the Moocher" to "Shubert's Serenade"...She's terrific! In a mad, merry yarn from the writer of "Mr. Deeds" — When You're in Love is a 1937 musical film starring Grace Moore, Cary Grant, and Thomas Mitchell. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene. She also sings the wonderful Ernesto Lecuono classic "Siboney" (though her Spanish is not perfection) drooled over by Cary Grant
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Thunder in the City
EnglandA visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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Swing High, Swing Low
New York 🇵🇦 PanamaFred blows a hot trumpet but he's cold in love! — In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship Maggie and his career.
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The Bride Wore Red
🇮🇹 Italy2 weeks to be a lady! 2 weeks to feather her nest! 2 weeks to make one man say "I do!" — A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Stand-In
California New YorkHail! The conquering hero comes! — An east coast efficiency expert who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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One in a Million
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sAmerican theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
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I Met Him in Paris
🇫🇷 France 🇨🇭 SwitzerlandClaudette as you love her best in a love-making frolic that tops everything she's ever done for fun! — Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
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The Great Garrick
England 🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyHE'S WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT! (Just ask Olivia!) — A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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The King and the Chorus Girl
🇫🇷 FranceReign, Reign go away! His Royal Highness wants to play! — A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
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Ready, Willing and Able
New YorkSing! Swing Youth Has Its Fling! — Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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Second Honeymoon
FloridaLove is better the second time around. — Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
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The Go-Getter
California"The Go Getter" was made for Go Getters! — A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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We Have Our Moments
IowaA trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Die göttliche Jette
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sCheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.
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