365 Nights in Hollywood 1934  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: James Dunn, Alice Faye, Frank Mitchell, John Qualen, Jack Durant, John Bradford, Frank Melton, Grant Mitchell, Addison Richards, Ray Cooke, Lynn Bari, Tyler Brooke
Alice (Alice Faye) leaves Peoria, IL, and heads to Hollywood to make it big in the movies. She enrolls in a fraudulent acting school, but actually receives the lead in a movie when the school's owner gets money from a man looking for an investment. An alcoholic director, Jimmy (James Dunn), is hired to ensure the film will fail, and the fun begins.
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 The Cameraman 1928  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Harry Gribbon, Sidney Bracey, Edward Brophy, Richard Alexander, Bert Moorhouse, Ray Cooke
This was Buster Keaton's last classic comedy of the silent era. In this film, Keaton plays tintype photographer Luke Shannon who desperately wants to impress Sally (Marceline Day) and earn credit as a newsman in the process. Sally works as a secretary for MGM's newsreel department, and Luke decides that the way to impress her is to get a job with the newsreel department. Pitfalls lie ahead when Luke discovers that his lack of experience with the movie camera stands in the way of finding success with this method of photography, and the result is chaos.
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King of the Newsboys 1938 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Lew Ayres, Helen Mack, Alison Skipworth, Victor Varconi, Sheila Bromley, Alice White, Horace McMahon, William "Billy" Benedict, Ray Cooke, Jack Pennick, Mary Cornman, Gloria Rich, Oscar O'Shea, Marjorie Main
After Jerry Flynn's (Lew Ayres) girlfriend Mary Ellen Stephens (Helen Mack) gives in to her materialism and leaves him for gangster Wire Arno (Victor Varconi) who can give her all that she thinks she wants, Jerry pours his time and energy into a newspaper trucking business. His efforts pay off, Jerry obtains wealth, and sets out to regain Mary's affections. By story's end, Jerry has lost the business–but not Mary.
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Spite Marriage 1929  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, William Bechtel, John Byron, Hank Mann, Pat Harmon, Edward Brophy, Ray Cooke
Dry cleaner Elmer (Buster Keaton) is infatuated with stage star Trilby (Dorothy Sebastian) and attends all of her performances, elegantly dressed in different "borrowed" clothing for each performance. Thinking that Elmer is rich, after her boyfriend jilts her Trilby marries Elmer to get back at the boyfriend. And the fun begins in Keaton's last silent film.
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Taxi! 1932 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee, Leila Bennett, Dorothy Burgess, David Landau, Ray Cooke, Matt McHugh, George Raft
Tough Matt Nolan (James Cagney) leads the fight for independent cabbies on the streets of New York City–to the dismay of his girlfriend (later his wife), Sue (Loretta Young). Interesting view of life in the depression era.
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| 1. 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934)
2. The Cameraman (1928)
3. King of the Newsboys (1938)
4. Spite Marriage (1929)
5. Taxi! (1932)
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