O marido de Ingeborg Hold abre uma mercearia e a vida está cada vez melhor para eles e seus três filhos. Mas seu marido adoece e morre. Ingeborg tenta manter o negócio, mas por causa de seus empregados inúteis e preguiçosos, ela acaba tendo de fechá-lo. Sem dinheiro, ela tem de se mudar para um abrigo e é separado de seus filhos. As crianças são levadas por pais adotivos, mas ela precisa conseguir alguma forma de sair do abrigo e reaver seus filhos.
Widow makes son pose as boy to appear younger to professor, but he is to wed professor's daughter.
A wealthy man takes a grieving widow as his wife, buying her from her father-in-law, although the widow wants to remain true to her late husband's memory. Fortunately, the rich man's daughter admires and sympathizes with the filial widow, helps her hide in the countryside and then covertly gives her enough money to flee elsewhere and maintain her chastity.
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
An easy-going cowboy is forced to work on the ranch of a bossy 'able-minded' three-time widow who has designs on him.
When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in the morning the police arrive to arrest him, accusing the man of having murdered the old banker who'd made advances towards his girlfriend. Jean's mother is eager to aid her son, whom she believes is innocent. Said Epstein of his film: "I shot small landscapes in Livilliers which seemed to me-- in their reality, I mean-- very large".
A novelist has to chose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
O professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) acaba de ser nomeado o Diretor da Faculdade Huxley. Seu filho Frank (Zeppo Marx), que está mais interessado em namorar do que estudar, sugere que ele incentive o time de futebol americano da escola. Tentando ajudar, o filho diz ao pai que os melhores jogadores do país costumam se encontrar num bar próximo à faculdade. Quando o professor chega lá, contrata dois esquisitões (Chico e Harpo Marx) achando que são ótimos esportistas. Essa dupla fará de tudo - menos jogar futebol.
Um ladrão cavalheiro e uma senhora batedora de carteiras unem forças contra a bela proprietário de uma empresa de perfumes. Envolvimentos românticos e ciúmes atrapalham o esquema. O ladrão europeu de Alta Classe, Gaston Monescu, encontra sua alma gêmea Lily, uma batedora de carteiras travestida de condessa. Os dois juntam forças e arrumam emprego com Madame Colet, a bela proprietária da empresa de perfume Colet. Gaston funciona como secretário pessoal de Madame Colet sob o pseudônimo Monsieur La Valle. Rumores começam a circular dizendo que Monsieur La Valle está "roubando" Madame Colet de seus outros pretendentes. Quando o segredo de sua verdadeira identidade começa a ameaçá-lo, Gaston fica preso entre as duas bonitas mulheres.
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Rufus T. Firefly é nomeado presidente/ditador da corrupta Freedonia e declara guerra à sua vizinha, Sylvania, disputando o amor da rica Sra. Teasdale.