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- A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
- Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.
- The teenage girl is first seen confessing and warned about having any impure thoughts or feelings. Her family has boarders and one day a young man moves in and they fall in love.
- A young man joins the revolutionary movement in 1905, aimed at Tsarist occupiers of Poland. The members of the secret organization conspire to take the life of a noted Russian general.
- Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Toni's reputation with women equals his fame as composer, so they keep their sister Hedi away from him. Wanting to know him, she calls at his house in the middle of the night not revealing her identity, helps him write the main waltz theme and disappears, leaving him incapable of remembering his greatest melody. Music by Robert Stolz.
- A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
- A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
- Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
- Musical comedy full of funny gags. The song written by a poor musician, suddenly becomes a hit. It's his opportunity to make a career, and win the hand of his beloved.
- An example of an original Polish pre-war melodrama set in the Hutsul region. In the 1930s, the eastern regions of the multinational Republic of Poland, and in particular the areas located among the picturesque Eastern Carpathians at that time, became the object of interest not only to ethnographers and tourists, but also to artists. Documentaries were made about this region and books were written. In the end, a melodrama was shot, part of which became the customs of the Hutsul village.
- Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthralls the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
- Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
- Two rival sports equipment companies and their heirs, Jadzia and Jan, whose meeting will become a source of funny misunderstandings.
- An opera singer,restless in her marriage to an elderly Scottish lord, longs to return to the limelight of the stage in Paris.
- Three friends - Adam, Zygmunt and Jerzy - serve in the seaplane squadron of the Polish Navy in Gdynia. Years ago, Adam Halny fell in love with a young girl, not knowing that she was the fiancée of his friend from officer school, Zygmunt Zatorski. Loyalty then forced him to leave... Years later, they meet again. Ewa is already Zygmunt's wife, but Adam cannot forget her... While flying over the sea during a strong storm, the plane crashes and Adam and Zygmunt are in mortal danger. This dramatic situation not only allows them to survive, but also strengthens their friendship and removes all misunderstandings between them once and for all.
- After divorcing a ballet student who was too young for him, Johann Strauss Jr. now in his mid fifties finds consolation in a German operetta star who has left America to support the Fatherland.