On With the Show!

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?

Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew’s snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talking-picture…

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips’ accidental death. Joe goes…

A young Jewish man works in his father’s jewelry business, but he doesn’t like it at all–he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put…

Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.

George and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they’re looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she’s smart, not…

Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.