Constance Bennett

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at...

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant,...

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old...

A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears...

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst...

Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her...

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.

A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

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?

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she...

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's...

In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial...

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two...

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes...

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but...

A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.

Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for...

Constance Bennett demonstrates her morning skin care and make-up regimen.

When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of...

Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.

Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an...

Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves...

An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found...

The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a...

Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire...

A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive.

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...

A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her...

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A couple endure 365 days of marriage in order to inherit money.

The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Code of the West (1925)

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon...

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.

A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about...

A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita...

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.

Connie Hayden (Constance Bennett) faces a dilemma; will she choose the rich guy or the ordinary Joe? Naturally, Connie has the answer in time for the...

A young woman, victim of a scandal involving her lover believed killed in France during war, is loved by another man who urges her to marry him....

Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob,...

Having a municipal position, Bernard Ingals has almost bankrupted himself sending his three children to college. The youngsters all arrive home for...

Men try to understand the women in their lives.

Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's...

In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young...