Kay Francis

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia...

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife...

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a...

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell...

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The...

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay...

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect...

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his...

A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of...

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them...

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in...

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow...

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

A biography on the life of William Powell narrated by Michael York.

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...