The Fighting Pilot 1935  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Noel M. Smith
Cast: Richard Talmadge, Gertrude Messinger, Robert Frazer, Eddie Davis, Victor Metzetti, William Humphrey, Rafael Storm, Jack Cheatham, Otto Metzetti, Roger Williams, Douglas Ross, Frank Phillips, Ben Hall
Corrupt businessman Cardigan (Robert Frazer) sends in henchman Robert R. Jones (Rafael Storm) to steal both the blueprints and the experimental plane of inventor F.S. Reynolds (William Humphrey). Only ace pilot Hal Foster (Richard Talmadge) has the ability to retrieve the stolen goods, and, with Berty (Eddie Davis) as his sidekick, Hal sets off in pursuit. Lots of good aerial stunts in this film.
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Footlight Glamour 1943  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Cast: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Ann Savage, Jonathan Hale, Irving Bacon, Danny Mummert, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft, James Flavin, Marjorie Ann Mutchie, Stanley Brown, Grace Hall, Rafael Storm
One of Dagwood's (Arthur Lake) clients has a daughter who is more than a little stage-struck. So, of course, the Bumstead family –Blondie (Penny Singleton), Alexander (Larry Simms), and Cookie (Marjorie Ann Mutchie)–gets involved with predictable results.
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Kiss and Make Up 1934 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Harlan Thompson
Cast: Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack, Edward Everett Horton, Lucien Littlefield, Mona Maris, Katherine Williams, Lucille Lund, Rafael Storm, Doris Lloyd, Sam Ash, Helena Phillips Evans, Toby Wing, Henry Armetta, George Beranger
When Eve Caron (Genevieve Tobin) becomes obsessed with her physical attributes, her husband Marcel (Edward Everett Horton) loses all romantic interest in Eve and divorces her. Eve has been a patient of Dr. Maurice Lamar (Cary Grant) who runs a clinic for wealthy clients and turns them into beautiful women. Maurice falls for Eve, and Eve marries him on the rebound. It doesn't take long for Maurice to suffer from Eve's vanity, and he leaves her with hopes of finding love with his faithful, unadorned secretary Anne (Helen Mack), but she has married Marcel. By story's end, Anne has learned that Marcel is also self-absorbed, and she looks for love with Maurice.
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Sophie Lang Goes West 1937  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe, Barlowe Borland, Jed Prouty, C. Henry Gordon, Rafael Storm, Fred Miller, Guy Usher, Herbert Ransom, Nick Lukats, Archie Twitchell, Robert Cummings, Daisy Bufford
There have been one too many in this series, and the writers didn't seem to figure out what they wanted Sophie to do next. So, Sophie (Gertrude Michael) goes off to the West Coast, still avoiding the law. There she helps finish a screenplay and then helps the writer find a valuable stolen necklace.
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Submarine Base 1943 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert H. Kelley
Cast: Eric Blore, Luis Alberni, Iris Adrian, Fifi D'Orsay, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Jacqueline Dalya, Georges Metaxa, George Flaherty, Rafael Storm, Iris Adrian, Lucien Prival, Frederic Brunn, Maurice Cass
An ex-gangster, Joe Morgan (Alan Baxter) works with the Allies from a small island–until the Nazis catch on to his double-crossing activities.
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When Ladies Meet 1941 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
aka: Strange Skirts
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington, Rafael Storm, Mona Barrie, Max Willenz, Leslie Francis, Florence Shirley, Olaf Hytten, Barbara Bedford, Gayne Whitman
In this remake of the 1933 film, a publisher and authoress, along with their spouses, spend a weekend together. While there, the two women discuss the problems of upper-class society, some of which is not relevant today.
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Wise Girl 1937 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson, Alec Craig, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Margaret Dumont, Gregory Gaye, Ivan Lebedeff, Rafael Storm
Susan Fletcher (Miriam Hopkins) falls in love with a struggling artist, John O'Halloran (Ray Milland), AFTER she tries to get custody of his two children.
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| 1. The Fighting Pilot (1935)
2. Footlight Glamour (1943)
3. Kiss and Make Up (1934)
4. Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
5. Submarine Base (1943)
6. When Ladies Meet (1941)
aka: Strange Skirts
7. Wise Girl (1937)
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