A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of.

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields.

Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr.

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt.

Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister.

A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr.

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur.

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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