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.
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
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?
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 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.
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.
In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
This Sportscope short focuses on sailboat racing in Bermuda.
Si Jenks and Bob Carney go to one of those colleges where there are no classes -- although there is one befuddled, elderly professor who shows up for thirty seconds -- but there is lots of dancing, ukulele-playing, upper class men tormenting freshmen, and competition over Sally Starr, who seems to be the only student less than 30 years old.
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.
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.
This RKO Sportscope entry introduces the viewer to the sport of speedway, a type of motorcycle racing, in post-World War II Vienna.
A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900 Bathing Beauties fron Venice, California 2. Goodness Gracious with Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew 3. A Drunkard's Reformation Directed by D.W. Griffith
Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....
This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of radar stations built across Alaska and the Canadian north as part of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. These are isolated outposts, many of which are only accessible by air. Buildings, roads and landing strips had to be built from scratch. There's a visit to Barrow Village, Alaska the most northern point of US territory.
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities.