Directing
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
