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The Life of the Party (1930) Roy Del Ruth, Winnie Lightner, Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting
Broadway song-pluggers Flo and Dot, besieged with admirers, are fired; disgusted with men, they decide to become gold-diggers. Read More »
Upper World (1934) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him — she’s too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. Read More »
Taxi! (1932) Roy Del Ruth, James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Read More »
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball
In heaven, showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Read More »
The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Roy Del Ruth, Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens, Nigel Bruce
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Read More »
Employees Entrance (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Drama, Romance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical director of a New York department store in fiscal straits. Read More »
The First Auto (1927) Roy Del Ruth, Russell Simpson, Frank Campeau, Gibson Gowland, Comedy
Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. Read More »
Tail Spin (1939) Roy Del Ruth, Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Drama
Flyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) Roy Del Ruth, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Musical, Romance, Comedy
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. Read More »
Red Light (1949) Roy Del Ruth, George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. Read More »
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) Roy Del Ruth, Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Comedy, Drama
Kip Cooper, a successful comedy star, is the hit of the nation starring on his own television show. His agent, in flashback, tells a young, inexperienced comedian how Cooper rose to the top, mostly running over others on the way.
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The West Point Story (1950) Roy Del Ruth, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Comedy, Music
Broadway director Bix Bixby, down on his luck (thanks to gambling), is reluctantly persuaded to go to West Point military academy (with Eve, his gorgeous assistant and on-and-off love) to help the students put on a show. Ulterior motive: to recruit student star Tom Fletcher for Harry Eberhart’s new production (Eberhart just happens to be Tom’s uncle). Then, Bixby finds that he himself must live as a cadet. Of course, sundered hearts come into the story also…
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Born to Dance (1936) Roy Del Ruth, Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Musical, Comedy
Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny’s wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of Lucy James, a Broadway star during a public relations campaign on his submarine. Lucy falls in love with Ted, and Ted is ordered by his Captain to meet her in a night club, in spite of the fact that he has a date with Nora. Nora, who lives with Jenny and her and Gunny’s daughter, doesn’t want to hear anything from Ted, after she spotted a picture of Ted and Lucy in the morning paper. Lucy convinces her manager Dinehart to stop the press campaign and tells him that she would leave the production, if another photo or article of her and Ted is published. Nora has become her understudy, and she begins to think her behaviour to Ted over. Suddenly she is fired after Dinehart told her to dance a number Lucy James called undanceable. But when Ted is told the whole story, he knows what to do.
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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) Roy Del Ruth, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn’t love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he’s King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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