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"Sparkling as a June night; intimate as marriage. Something entirely new in screen entertainment."
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
"Sparkling as a June night; intimate as marriage. Something entirely new in screen entertainment."
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Jack Oakie
Himself / Master of Ceremonies / Fu Manchu's Victim (Murder Will Out) / Girls Gym Instructor (In a Girls' Gym)
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Himself / Master of Ceremonies
Leon Errol
Himself / Master of Ceremonies / (In a Hospital)
Maurice Chevalier
Apache
Jean Arthur
Dream Girl
George Bancroft
Mug
Clara Bow
Herself
Evelyn Brent
Apache Dancer
Clive Brook
Sherlock Holmes
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.