Monte Carlo 1930  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis, Billy Bevan, Sidney Bracey, Frances Dee, Rolfe Sedan
Countess Vera von Conti (Jeanette MacDonald) is engaged to Prince Otto von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), but she does not love him. So, just before the scheduled wedding, Vera heads for Monte Carlo where she loses, time after time, at the casinos. She meets a mysterious man (Jack Buchanan) who asks if he may touch her hair for luck. He strokes her hair, but it is Vera's luck that changes, and she asks him to stay by her side. What Vera does not know is that he is actually the very wealthy Count Rudolph Falliere who is posing as a commoner in order to be near Vera. The Count plays his game until he ends up winning her heart, and they live happily ever after. Among the songs MacDonald sings is, "Beyond the Blue Horizon."
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Sin Takes a Holiday 1930  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul L. Stein
Cast: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Zasu Pitts, Rita La Roy, Louis John Bartels, John Roche, Kendall Lee, Muriel Finley, Judith Wood
After agreeing to a marriage of convenience, a young woman (Constance Bennett) is taught some lessons about the value of being true to oneself and must make some real decisions.
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This Thing Called Love 1929  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul L. Stein
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Roscoe Karns, Zasu Pitts, Carmelita Geraghty, John Roche, Stuart Erwin, Ruth Taylor, Wilson Benge, Jean Harlow
Robert Collings (Edmund Lowe) returns home after making a fortune in Peru with the intent of buying a house and finding a wife. But when he goes to his real estate agent's house for dinner and sees the bickering, he decides that marriage is out but still would like to share his house with someone. He meets Ann (Constance Bennett), she moves in, and fulfills the duties of a wife in most respects–except they can each date others. Of course they fall in love. Jean Harlow makes an early film appearance in a bit part.
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Winner Take All 1932 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Clarence Muse, Virginia Bruce, Dickie Moore, Allan Lane, Ralf Harolde, John Roche, Alan Mowbray
Prizefighter Jim Kane (James Cagney) recuperates from tuberculosis and regains success in the ring and the love of Peggy (Marian Nixon).
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| 1. Monte Carlo (1930)
2. Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
3. This Thing Called Love (1929)
4. Winner Take All (1932)
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