Spencer Charters

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.

Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.