An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a…

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and…

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…

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.

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at…

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet…

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate…

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight….

A young woman’s ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired…

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other–they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks…

Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the…

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman’s gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker…

Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A…

In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George’s owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her…

Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with…

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor’s product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample…