Charlot è un cameriere particolarmente originale che si rivela particolarmente bravo anche sulla pista di pattinaggio a rotelle.
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.
A man pursues the vice lord who killed his daughter, but his journey leads to self-discovery and the desire for a better life.
Jakie, un ragazzo ebreo, sconvolge le tradizioni di famiglia perché non vuole cantare in Sinagoga, come hanno fatto tutti i maschi di famiglia prima di lui per cinque generazioni. Infatti ama il jazz e a questo vorrebbe dedicare la sua carriera. Il padre, il cantore Rabinowitz, lo osteggia apertamente finché dopo un'aspra discussione Jakie lascia casa e se ne va per la sua strada. Cambia il nome in Jack Robin e si dipinge la faccia di nero per seguire le sue aspirazioni, finché non gli si presenta la grande occasione con l'aiuto di Mary Dale, famosa cantante, con cui ha una relazione. Arrivato a questo punto Jack dovrà riconsiderare le sue scelte, anche nei confronti della sua famiglia.
Stanlio e Ollio in duplice versione: come due bambini terribili, impegnatissimi nel combinarne di tutti i colori e come papà dei due piccoli sciagurati.
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Eetu, a wealthy homeowner, attempts to seduce Leena Kosken. But when austere log boy Erkki meets her at midsummer dances, Leena falls in love with him instead. Jealous, Eetu turns the men of the village against Erkki and the Tukki people.
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
La vecchia Annie, venditrice di mele negli ambienti equivoci di Broadway, mantiene sua figlia in un aristocratico collegio in Spagna. La fanciulla riceve un'offerta di matrimonio dal conte Romero. Annie si trova allora in una situazione imbarazzantissima perché la figlia Louise, dalla quale lei si è sempre fatta credere una signora dell'alta società, le ha annunciato una prossima visita con il fidanzato ed i genitori di lui. Ma uno dei suoi assidui compratori di mele, un avventuriero soprannominato "il Damerino", decide di aiutarla. La fa trasformare in una dama di gran classe, affitta per lei un appartamento e le mette accanto un marito di parata. Tutto è a posto e l'incontro si svolge senza incidenti. Tutto si conclude a meraviglia con la festa del fidanzamento ufficiale.
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.