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- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsColleen MooreLawrence GrayAlan HaleA silent film version of the famed Gershwin musical.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsPauline FrederickBert LytellLois WilsonA court-room drama in which Robert Strickland (Bert Lytell) finds himself on trial for the murder of his friend.
- DirectorEdward LaemmleStarsGladys BrockwellRobert FrazerForrest StanleyGladys Brockwell's last performance is as a maid accused of killing the lady of the house.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWinnie LightnerChester MorrisSally EilersA night club entertainer loves a gangster.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsJack MulhallLila LeeNoah BeeryChinese gang blackmails businessman.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsMarie DresslerPolly MoranAnita PageLandladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter Genevieve and Polly's son William, just back from college, fall in love, but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort. In their efforts to outdo each other, Polly and Marie inevitably come together, and a reunion of the lovers becomes possible.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsColleen MooreJames HallRobert HomansA pretty young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloLouise DresserRockliffe FellowesCircus artist Alicia deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Alicia's deserted daughter Annie Martin is a trapeze performer in a Coney Island sideshow operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man--Underwood--to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsWarner BaxterBillie DoveMary BrianRuss Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through. Russ is forced to make an emergency landing near a ghost town, where he meets Alice Rendon and her invalid father, who is badly in need of medicine. Russ repairs his plane and promises to return on the following day with the elder Rendon's medicine. Making good on his promise, Russ returns, carrying with him a valuable mail shipment and his friend, Sandy. The plane is attacked by two planes belonging to a gang that smuggles dope and aliens across the Mexican border. Sandy makes a parachute jump with the mail sack, and Russ maneuvers his craft so that the pursuing planes are forced to crash. Russ then lands his plane, only to discover that the Rendons have been captured by three escaped convicts. Russ manages to bring the men to justice, winning the gratitude and love of Alice. Sandy realizes the crowning ambition of his young life and delivers the mail.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsRose HobartBen LyonFlorence BrittonPoor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
- DirectorArthur HurleyStarsRuth EttingHumphrey BogartJoan BlondellA girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsAileen PringleNorman KerryLionel BarrymoreA disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsLewis StoneLeila HyamsPeggy WoodA German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJoan BlondellAdolphe MenjouDick Powell
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsTim McCoyJoan CrawfordEdward ConnellyAble wilderness fighter Colonel O'Hara loves Rene, daughter of the commander of the French forces during the French and Indian War. The Indians, under Pontiac, kidnap Rene. O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsWilliam HainesJosephine DunnSam HardyPeggy goes Hollywood in an attempt to break into movies and marries a gullible soda jerk, who buys worthless stock from an assistant director who claims he can make the wife,who he has his own designs on,into a star.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloRalph GravesAudrey FerrisGlad Rag Doll is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
- DirectorWalter EdwardsStarsAlma RubensJohn LinceFrancis McDonaldFelice, a peasant girl who lives near Florence, Italy, is so beautiful that the villagers call her the "Passion Flower." Jules Mardon, a French artist traveling in Italy for his health, paints Felice, winning her love in the process. Upon the portrait's completion, however, he abandons Felice and returns to Paris, where the painting earns him wealth and fame. Millionaire Armand de Gautier falls in love with Felice's image, buys the portrait, and then seeks out and marries the model. Several years after the birth of the happy couple's child, Armand commissions Jules to paint his wife and son, whereupon the artist again tries to seduce her. When Felice learns that Armand, assuming she has abandoned her plague-stricken child to be with Jules, wants no more to do with her, she kisses her son and then, with the disease on her lips, searches for Jules and kisses him. The artist dies, but Felice and her son survive to be reunited with Armand.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsLon ChaneyPhyllis HaverJames Murray"Grumpy" Anderson is an old railroad engineer that is obsessed with keeping his train on schedule, no matter the cost. His two sons are also rail men, but don't share his single mindedness, which leads to one son's death and a fight with the other on the first son's funeral car leads to a crash, and demotion of Grumpy to mechanic in the yards. His redemption comes during the Mississippi flood, when he is again pressed into service to pilot a relief train along with his surviving son.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsJames GleasonLucile GleasonMary PhilbinThe Shannons, a vaudeville act, are performing in a New England town when the local hotel owner barges in and yanks his daughter Tessie, who is in the audience with her boyfriend Chuck, out of the theater. Young Mickey Shannon confronts the father, and the upshot is that Chuck's wealthy father threatens to foreclose on the hotel. The Shannons wind up buying the hotel, but it turns out not to be quite the deal they thought it was.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftOlga BaclanovaNancy CarrollA ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsMay McAvoyLouise FazendaEdward Everett HortonGuests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloGrant WithersDouglas GerrardMadonna of Avenue A is a 1929 talking drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.. It starred Dolores Costello in one of her last silent films. This is reportedly a lost film.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsH.B. WarnerLois WilsonJason Robards Sr.A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm's assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the District Attorney an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsGrant WithersBetty CompsonGertrude OlmsteadA musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player, Jim Crane(Grant Withers), whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss.
- DirectorKirby DickAmy ZieringStarsDylan O'Sullivan FarrowMia FarrowAlissa WilkinsonMia Farrow recounts her storied relationship with Woody Allen, once a beloved father figure to her seven children. While their adopted daughter Dylan speaks to the escalating discomfort she felt under the intensity of Woody's attention, which was a growing concern for Mia.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelMitchell LewisRose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's" in New York City's "Tenderloin" district, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another plaything. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime about which she knows nothing. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event that she might know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsCarl GoliathTopsyThe execution of Topsy, a female elephant, in a publicity stunt advertising the opening of Luna Park on Coney Island. Topsy was originally owned by Forepaugh Circus where she killed a drunken spectator who burned the tip of her trunk with a cigar. She was sold to Sea Lion Park in 1902 which was then sold to new owners who turned it into Luna Park. After they decided they could no longer handle her, the owners of Luna Park announced they would hang Topsy, leading to an outcry by the ASPCA. The owners then decided they would electrocute the elephant, with a backup plan of feeding her cyanide-laced carrots and strangling her with a cable.
- DirectorTheodore CaseStarsTheodore Case