Drole de dames

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poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…

poster The Crystal Ball

The Crystal Ball

A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.

poster A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

78mn - Drama, Romance

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is …

poster Never the Dames Shall Meet

Never the Dames Shall Meet

Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

poster Here Come the Girls

Here Come the Girls

78mn - Comedy, Music

Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.

poster The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion

78mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

poster An Old-Fashioned Girl

An Old-Fashioned Girl

A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.

poster Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse

Nonemn - Drama, Comedy

A young woman teaches her timid husband about love and politics when he tries to convince her to support Abraham Lincoln for President.

poster Game of Cards

Game of Cards

1mn - Comedy, History

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

poster The King and the Jester

The King and the Jester

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

poster Never Say Die

Never Say Die

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined…

poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

poster Café Metropole

Café Metropole

83mn - Comedy, Drama

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

poster Tango Tangles

Tango Tangles

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

poster Daring Daughters

Daring Daughters

Terry Cummings, a savvy and cynical city girl working at a hotel cigar counter, tries to protect her naive younger sister Betty from the predatory men and temptations of big-city life. When Betty arrives …

poster The Stork Club

The Stork Club

90mn - Comedy, Music

When Judy Peabody, a spirited hat-check girl at New York's prestigious Stork Club, rescues an elderly man from drowning, she has no idea he's actually a millionaire in disguise. As a token of gratitude, h…

poster The Rounders

The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

poster The Vanishing Lady

The Vanishing Lady

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

poster Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on …

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