The Hollywood Gad-About 1934
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price -- by dancing and juggling!
This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.
City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academy Awards in 1935 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2007.
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, which is proving to be a harder task than he anticipated.
A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Sally Newton is in love with Lee Sullivan, a young tenor singer with Johnny Johnson's Orchestra, but her father prefers a stuffy young clerk as her suitor. She makes him taker her to the nightclub where Lee sings. Lee has arranged for Sally to elope with him, his song "Let's Take It on the Chin" being the signal for her. But the clerk has hired a tough gangster to keep Lee from singing.
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
Moran and Mack ends up house watching a potentially haunted house.
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
Two criminals hear about a woman who has won a prize in the lottery, and decide to kidnap her to force her to give them the money. Unfortunately, they don't know that the prize she won amounted to $50.