Known for Acting
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia."
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
In this "Miniature Musical Comedy," a factory worker keeps pining away for her Prince Charming to rescue her, unaware that her co-worker is a nobleman in disguise. M-G-M seems to have set up Jean Chatburn and Gregory Gaye in this as an alternate Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
