Rockabye 1932
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
This RKO-Pathe Screenliner short looks at the duties of the modern nurse. The story tracks the education of a student nurse as she works toward graduation and shows the earning of her cap during her student days, in retrospect. At the beginning, she wears the Student Nurse uniform dress and apron only, with no cap. She appears later in the movie as a more experienced Senior student with her cap already wearing a stripe. This was frequently done in the three year hospital programs to differentiate the Junior level students from the Seniors, more experienced and closer to Graduation. The capping ceremony illustrated shows the bare headed students receiving their plain white cap, and addressing it as something from her past that she will remember fondly.
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.
Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
Superstitions are examined in the context of mid-20th century America. Walking under ladders, spilt salt, stepping on cracks, haunted houses, voodoo dolls, and such are used to illustrate the widespread belief in the supernatural.
This short shows the important role played by members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in the USA's defense against enemy attack.
This Sportscope short focuses on the sport of kayaking.
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, undoctored with any faked plot or contrivance.
This short film takes the viewer on a tour through the world of harness racing and show horses.
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.