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Where's Charley? (1957)
Character: Col. Sir Francis Chesney
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
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The Best Man (1964)
Character: Don Cantwell
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
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Smilin' Through (1941)
Character: Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
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The Life of the Party (1937)
Character: Barry Saunders
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Character: William Magee
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Stolen Heaven (1938)
Character: Carl
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the home of an aged concert pianist (Lewis Stone). To cover their tracks and keep the old man from turning them in, the thieves pretend to arrange his comeback concert. The artifice becomes reality, the pianist makes a triumphant return, and the thieves reform. This 1938 film is not a remake of 1932's Stolen Heaven, which wove an entirely different story about a suicide pact.
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Personal Maid (1931)
Character: Dick Gary
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
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Million Dollar Weekend (1948)
Character: Nicholas Lawrence
A stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of obstacles stands in his path, however.
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Hooray for Love (1935)
Character: Douglas Tyler
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
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The House on 56th Street (1933)
Character: Monte Van Tyle
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Character: Jeff
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
Character: Jimmy Brett
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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Love on a Bet (1936)
Character: Michael MacCreigh
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
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Cross-Country Romance (1940)
Character: Lawrence Smith
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
Character: Bill
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Ex-Lady (1933)
Character: Don Peterson
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
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Complicated Women (2003)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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Red Dust (1932)
Character: Gary Willis
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
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The Night of June 13 (1932)
Character: Herbert Morrow
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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That Girl from Paris (1936)
Character: Windy McLean
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 American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Character: John Wallace (uncredited)
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.
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Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Character: Roger Bond
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
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Walking on Air (1936)
Character: Pete Quinlan / Count Pierre Louis de Marsac
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
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Sofia (1948)
Character: Steve Roark
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
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The Locket (1946)
Character: John Willis
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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Behold My Wife! (1934)
Character: Michael Carter
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
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Sadie McKee (1934)
Character: Tommy
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Coming Out Party (1934)
Character: Chris Hansen
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
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There Goes My Girl (1937)
Character: Jerry Martin
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
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The Woman in Red (1935)
Character: John 'Johnny' Wyatt
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.
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Five Bloody Graves (1969)
Character: The Voice of Death
A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
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Brief Moment (1933)
Character: Rodney Deane
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
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Transient Lady (1935)
Character: Carey Marshall
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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The Bride Walks Out (1936)
Character: Michael Martin
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
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The Hanged Man (1964)
Character: Whitey Devlin
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
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Hit the Deck (1955)
Character: Wendell Craig
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
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Plunder Road (1957)
Character: Eddie Harris
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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She's Got Everything (1937)
Character: Fuller Partridge
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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I Am Suzanne! (1933)
Character: Tony Malatini
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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Forgotten Commandments (1932)
Character: Paul Ossipoff
A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.
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I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)
Character: Martin Wood
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
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Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
Character: Richard Stuyvesant Smith
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
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Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Character: Standish McNeil
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Character: Zani
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
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