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Child of Manhattan (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Child of Manhattan
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Nancy Carroll / John Boles
other title: Taxi Girls
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
Make Way for a Lady (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Make Way for a Lady
director: David Burton actor: Herbert Marshall / Anne Shirley
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Paris Underground (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Paris Underground
other title: 地下巴黎 / Paris--Underground
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.
The Witness Chair (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Witness Chair
director: George Nichols Jr. actor: Ann Harding / Walter Abel
other title: La silla del testigo
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
Follow the Leader (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Follow the Leader
director: Norman Taurog actor: Ed Wynn / Ginger Rogers
other title: Manhattan Mary
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
Palooka (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Palooka
director: Benjamin Stoloff actor: Jimmy Durante / Lupe Vélez
other title: 頓間パルーカ
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Love Before Breakfast (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love Before Breakfast
director: Walter Lang actor: Carole Lombard / Preston Foster
other title: A Ceias das Donzelas / Ce que femme veut ?
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
First Love (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
First Love
director: Henry Koster actor: Deanna Durbin / Robert Stack
other title: Premier Amour / 初恋
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
If You Could Only Cook (1935) [Movie] Douban
If You Could Only Cook
director: 威廉·A·塞特尔 actor: 赫伯特·马歇尔 / 琪恩·亚瑟
other title: 巧遇佳偶 / 臨時夫人(港)
吉姆(赫伯特·马歇尔 Herbert Marshall 饰)即将和未婚妻携手步入婚姻的殿堂,但他始终觉得,自己对未婚妻更多的是责任而不是感情。一次偶然中,失意的吉姆在公园里散步,邂逅了名叫琼(琪恩·亚瑟 Jean Arthur 饰)的女孩。琼正在找工作,她烧得一手好菜,可是,所有招聘厨师的广告都要求招聘厨师和管家的夫妻组合,没有人要单打独斗的琼。
看到了同样形单影只的吉姆,琼灵机一动,她说服了吉姆和自己假扮夫妻,并且最终顺利的获得了一份工作。在相处的过程中,吉姆和琼之间渐渐产生了真挚的感情,可是吉姆一直对琼隐瞒着自己的真实情况,眼看着琼对自己越来越信赖,吉姆该何去何从呢?
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Royal Family of Broadway
director: George Cukor / 西里尔·加德纳 actor: 艾娜·克莱尔 / 弗雷德里克·马奇
other title: 百老汇的皇宫 / 优伶世家(港)
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
The Invisible Woman (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Invisible Woman
other title: 隐身女人 / 인비저블 우먼
Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. Complications arise when three comic gangsters steal the machine to use on their boss. But they fail to reckon with the Revenge of the Invisible Woman!