Zasu Pitts
Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed. Based on her... Read full bio →
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Greed
1924
The Thrill of It All
Als Gattin des Frauenarztes Gerald Boyer (James Garner) und treu sorgende Mutter führt Beverly (Doris Day) ein zufriedenes Hausfrauendasein. Das ändert sich, als sie der Chef einer Seifenfabrik als neues Reklamegirl engagiert und Beverly über Nacht zum Star wird. Gerald reagiert eifersüchtig: Mit einer List will er Beverly an den Herd zurücklocken.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Disneyland '59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's fifth anniversary. Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers.
Francis Joins the WACS
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
Denver & Rio Grande
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Francis
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
Life with Father
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Breakfast in Hollywood
Based on a current (1946) radio series with a live audience. It is the story of some of the people who attend the show. Nat King Cole sings.
The Bashful Bachelor
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum, meanwhile, is too timid to propose to Geraldine.
So's Your Aunt Emma!
A drained old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders and is falsely accused of being notorious murderer "Ma Parker."
Uncle Joe
Young girl, sent to the country to avoid the amours of an artist, meets up with her backwards inventor uncle Joe and four country boys, who must all band together to keep the bank from foreclosing on a friend of the family.
No, No, Nanette
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her.
Forty Naughty Girls
Hildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) and Inspector Piper (James Gleason) try to solve a murder while attending the opening-night performance of a Broadway show. Comedy-mystery.
The Plot Thickens
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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 game to an uncouth American cattle baron.
Dames
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
Shopworn
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Broken Lullaby
Durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, un musicista francese uccide al fronte un soldato tedesco. Consumato dal rimorso, egli intende far visita alla famiglia del soldato, in Germania.
Back Street
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Bad Sister
Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
Sin Takes a Holiday
A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.
Monte Carlo
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
The Locked Door
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
The Honeymoon
"The Wedding March" ended with the marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place. Eberle swears to kills the prince unless Mitzi will agree to marry him. She relents, but at their service, Mitzi faints, which causes Eberle to take off for Nikki's honeymoon lodge to finish him off for good.
The Wedding March
Against the backdrop of Vienna's hidebound caste system, aristocrat and army officer Nicki is attracted to peasant Mitzi, although he knows it cannot last. Acquiescing to familial pressure, he ultimately gives her up to marry the more socially acceptable – albeit crippled – heiress Cecelia.
What Happened to Jones?
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
Lazybones
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Greed
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education.