Movies:

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist....

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician....

College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself....

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of...

In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay....

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Ha...

Men try to understand the women in their lives....

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs....

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the stu...

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her mem...

The singing stoker and the vamp....

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime....

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Jerry is determined to remain p...

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance....

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns....

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war....

Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin w...

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?...

Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death....