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Drama, romance film
Famous Broadway singer Lulu Belle and Harry Randolph, her rich suitor, are found shot and severely wounded in her dressing room one night after the show. They are discovered by Lulu's best friend, Molly Benson, and taken unconscious to the hospital. Lulu's ex-husband, George Davis, is accused of the shooting, since he has been previously convicted of attempted murder of another man who got too close to Lulu.
Drama, romance film
Drama, romance film
Aloma and Prince Tanoa are promised by the islanders to wed from their childhood, though the two despise each other and fight. Tanoa is sent to the United States for his education and does not return for 15 years after the death of his father. Once crowned, Tanoa's treacherous cousin Revo who has plotted to rule in place of Tanoa since childhood, sees his chance by arming himself and his band with rifles and a light machine gun.
musical film, romantic comedy
Danny, an acclaimed singer and songwriter, falls in love with a socialite girl who he then overhears admitting that she is stringing him along just in time to avoid marriage. Danny is notably Jewish, and among the issues the film raises is his temptation to assimilate into the larger culture. The film is an adaptation of a play that riffed on the real-life relationship between songwriter Irving Berlin and Long Island socialite Ellin Mackay, which was all over the gossip columns in the late 1920s.
Drama, romance film
Slim, a farmer from southeastern Ohio, becomes fascinated by a crew of linemen erecting transmission towers across his uncle and aunt's property. He asks Pop for a job, but there are no openings. When a man is fired, however, Red, Pop's best lineman, takes a liking to Slim and persuades Pop to give him a chance as a "grunt", an assistant on the ground who sends up tools and parts.
Drama, romance film
A young Scotsman becomes a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming. He works his way up the firm, marries the boss's daughter, and revolutionises shipbuilding.
Drama, romance film
A wealthy Broadway producer tries to take advantage of a poor young seamstress who needs money to help her sister divorce her worthless husband.
Drama, romance film, silent film
In the quiet Alsatian village of Pré d'Or, just before the outbreak of the Great War, lives Marie Ducrot, a beautiful and virtuous young woman, the admired belle of the village. Despite the attentions of many local suitors, Marie remains unattached. Among her admirers is Le Bête, the wealthiest farmer in the region, whose clumsy courtship is favored by Grandfather Ducrot, Marie’s guardian.
musical film, romantic comedy
Upon learning that the Venetian archduke, Paul Gustave will attend her next performance, ballerina Fanni immediately plans to court the wealthy bachelor Willy Fitch, her sweetheart. Fanni assures her friend and fellow dancer Lisl Gluck that her pursuit will be conducted in the name of "patriotism." Lisl advises her to stick with Willy, a carriage driver. However, Paul becomes interested in Lisl instead.
musical film, romantic comedy
This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, an unlikeable actor who was once a major film star, but who has not worked in ten years. Slade tries to convince studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give the female lead in the film version of a Broadway musical to an unknown, rather than the actress he was sent to New York to sign.
romantic comedy, silent film
Kid Boots is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop. When Big Boyle storms in to buy a new suit, the service he receives is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots. Boots flees for his life, stopping only to make Clara McCoy's acquaintance.
Comedy, romance film
Eric travels from Chicago aiming to continue his late father's quest for St. John the Evangelist's mythical cup. The only hindrance is that it is located under a profitable tavern of Katarina- who wins his heart.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
romantic comedy
Henry MacMorrow, a junior partner in the law firm of Parsons, Hilton, Trent and MacMorrow, is assigned the task of obtaining the signatures of various members of the Pemberton family so that a piece of property they own can be sold. While en route by train to the Pemberton home in Aiken, South Carolina, he meets Junior Pemberton, an obnoxious ten-year-old prodigy whose behavior prompts Henry to kick him in the pants when they arrive at the station, much to the dismay of the boy's sister Toni. Henry arrives at the Pemberton home before Toni and Junior, and the rest of the family mistakes him for her fiancé Howard Rogers.
romantic comedy
Snobbish, quick-tempered Henry Greene and his fiancée Isabelle Perry stop into a New York speakeasy owned by Tomasso Antiovi for a drink. They meet retired Judge Dempsey, an amiable man who befriends the Southern belle, much to Henry's dismay. Famous opera singer Tino Caraffa, a charming but notorious playboy, whose real name is Gus Di Ruvo, is there as well, and while Henry is gone to move his illegally parked car, Gus and Isabelle, an opera fan, get acquainted.
Drama, romance film
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Charlie Mason and 'Rusty' Fleming are reporters for a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved. Charlie's mischievous shenanigans cause Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns his job and, along with gangster friend 'Smiles' Benson, he pursues Rusty to win her back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Drama, romance film
romantic comedy
On the instructions of their lawyer, the wealthy young daughter of divorcing parents is removed to a mountain resort, complete with a decoy mother, to protect her from the publicity. The situation is immediately complicated by persistent reporters, a romantic interest for the fake mother, and a convention of birdwatchers.
Biography, musical film, romance film
In her hometown of Grass Valley, vivacious teenager Lotta Crabtree is thrilled when the famed performer Lola Montez arrives in town in 1863. She wants to become a singer like Lola someday, although her parents Mary Ann and John Crabtree, who run a boarding house, do not approve. Lotta has two admirers: local boy Mart Taylor and older newcomer Tom Richmond, who is informed that Lotta is only 16.
romantic comedy
Lord Robert Brummell, an impecunious bachelor, is ordered by his wealthy uncle Lord George Hampton to settle down with a wife. Not wishing to tie himself down to any one girl, Brummell endeavors to prove that no woman is worthy of him by pretending to be a gigolo. When he meets the beautiful, wealthy Roxana Hartley, Lord Robert becomes increasingly frustrated when she deftly resists all his techniques of seduction.
romantic comedy
When two star-crossed lovers, set on eloping, are forced into having a big wedding, the bride develops a plan of her own. Unfortunately, the groom is not privy to the plan. Meanwhile, family and friends start to take sides at a reception for a wedding that never took place.
romance film
Around the table of a New England parlor are seated friends of the Widow Lawrence. What to do with Jenny, the only child, is the topic of the conversation. Several offer to take the little girl to live with them, when the lawyer announces that the last wish of her mother was that she be sent to her uncle John Lawrence, who left for the California gold mines two months previous.
Drama, romance film
Based on the novel and screenplay by Stephen Longstreet, this film depicts the romance which flowers between a breezy young veterinarian (Ronald Reagan), and a lady who runs a breeding farm (Alexis Smith). The two horse-loving characters appear to be bound for an inevitable love story. And a friend of the vet (Zachary Scott), who also fancies the lady, quite obviously hasn't a chance.