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Comedy
A wealthy financer, Chester Hamilton is sent to "alimony jail" for non-payment of alimony to Sandra. Hamilton's valet, Oswald Groggs, uses his boss’s reservations at an exclusive resort to go on vacation under the assumed identity of wealthy eccentric "Sir Oswald". Hamilton's fiancée Phyllis Van Kamp tries to marry "Sir Oswald" for his money.
Comedy
While Wilbur Todd is content with his middle class life, his wife Jessie aspires to a higher social standing. She insists he wear fine clothes because she believes that clothes make the man. When his strange new clothes bring derision rather than admiration, and tired of his wife's constant nagging, Wilbur goes off on a drunken spree and innocently becomes involved with the village vamp, Mrs.
Comedy
An ageing widow finally finds new love and happiness; but matters are complicated when her two convict sons escape from prison and beg her to hide them.
Drama, musical film, romance film
A down-on-her-luck would-be singer keeps encountering roadblocks on her way to stardom. Judy Alvin has a fine voice but is no match for the politics of a musical producer pushing his girlfriend, the amazingly untalented Phoebe who has obtained employment by using a record of Judy's voice rather than hers. Living at a theatrical boarding house with a variety of eccentric entertainers, Judy's best friend Marge is determined to find Judy a job to pay her bills that has something, anything, to do with music.
Comedy
Comedy
Entertainer Joseph Miller is desperately in need of money. Recently all of his equipment for his job burned in a fire. His daughter Julie’s Bat Mitzvah is only a month away.
Comedy, independent film
Scotty Pelk is a socially inept film geek who works at a video store called Video Connections in Portland, Oregon. His pet project is his website, www.scottysfilmpage.com (which has yet to receive a hit). He is a hard worker, but eventually gets fired for being too much of an annoyance to the customers.
Comedy drama
Years ago, John Harrison, then the office boy for wealthy Banker Mervin, fell in love with his employer's daughter, Irene Mervin Hughes. Parental objections won, and Irene married another man and moved abroad. Now grown and serving as mayor, Harrison wages a bitter and cunning political battle against Banker Mervin, demonstrating how politics can level wealth and prestige.
Comedy
Slip's cousin Jimmy is released from prison for good behavior and comes to live with him and his mother. Unfortunately the only job he can get is stealing cars for a local mobster, Tony Locarno. Slip learns about this and sets out to stop Jimmy from ruining his life.
Comedy
Taking place during World War II, Dixie Dugan becomes a taxi driver in hopes of helping the war effort, but her bad driving leads her to crash with businessman Roger Hudson in the car. In order to further help the war effort, Dixie takes a civil service exam, but ends up becoming Roger's secretary. To get her out of the office, Roger has Dixie survey women about what is preventing them from doing defense work.
Comedy
George Harper leaving the forces and becomesa village pub owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current boss, a rival pub owner. Harper falls in love with the waitress, and various battles ensue between the pub rivals.
Comedy
Despite his initial reluctance, Alfalfa invites his cousin Wilbur to join the All 4 One Club. Wilbur quickly boosts membership by offering cash compensation (usually a penny or two) for every black eye and bruised nose inflicted by Butch and Woim. When two tough guys attempt to intimidate the club, Wilbur surprises everyone by proving himself to be the best bare-knuckle fighter in the neighborhood.
Comedy
Two ambitious guys from Brooklyn, Tommy Jones and Eddie Dolan, get the idea of buying a tropical island in the South Pacific to exploit as a tourist paradise. They go there and start rounding up customers on the beach, to bring to native shows they set up with the help of the locals. The plan is to turn the idea into a tourist trap so they can sell it for a good profit, go back to the U.S., and pay back the $500 they borrowed from Eddie's fiancée, Susie Dugan.
Comedy
The newlywed country bumpkins from Connecticut, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jason (John Beal and Wanda McKay), check into the Hotel Clarke in New York City, prepared to spend their first night together as a married couple.
Comedy, silent film
Merton is an aspiring movie actor. He is a terrible actor but when the movie executives see how funny his overacting is, they cast him in a comedy, but tell him that he's acting in a drama.
romantic comedy
Film buff David moves to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter, but struggles to complete his scripts and is relegated to working as a storyboard artist. He forms a friendship with fellow writer Nicole through workshops, only for their friendship to abruptly end when he makes a romantic pass at her. David's life changes when a young woman named Kat forces herself into his car.
Comedy
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in day-dreaming romantic fantasies about a girl they see.
Comedy
A glamorous smuggler, Diana De Corro, has a valuable gem hidden inside an elephant-shaped onyx figurine. Anxious to get it past customs inspectors, she plants the figurine on the foggy Lord Epping, just arrived from England. Advertising representative Dennis Lindsay and his wife Carmelita are Epping's hosts in America.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Comedy, Drama
musical film, musical comedy
A wealthy man (Bob Hope) makes a bet with his friends that he could win a girl (Dorothy Stone) without her knowing of his riches.
Comedy
Hollywood's Sunrise Studios is producing a film about a heartbroken composer who creates a modern rhapsody. The head of the music department, Hugo Meyerhold, and his young secretary Angela Jones engage jive clarinetist Ding Dong Williams. However, Ding Dong's musical skills are limited to improvisation; he can't read or write music and just plays music the way he feels at the moment.
Comedy drama
Gerald Andrews was dropped on his head at birth. 30 years later, the man-child Gerald works at the local bowling alley and lives with his mother in a mobile home park. When his mother suddenly dies, he finds himself still needing her close, and has her ashes placed inside her favorite ceramic doll, which he carries with him everywhere.
Comedy
The wealthy Ferguson family are planning a quiet Christmas at their home in the countryside of southern England. A series of disruptions begin with the arrival of the married elder daughter Brenda, who has fled her London home after a row with her husband. This is followed successively by Millie, a WAAF NAAFI girl who used to be a servant in the house, now being billeted there, and then Bill, a Canadian soldier Bill from a nearby base, who is sent by his Colonel as a punishment for getting into fights with British troops in answer to a goodwill invitation from Mrs Ferguson.